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Nickelback have announced a new live album, Nickelback: Live in Nashville, arriving November 15th. The opening track “San Quentin” can be streamed now.

The 18-song set was recorded at a sold-out Bridgestone Arena in Nashville during the band’s 2023 “Get Rollin’ Tour.” Numerous guests took the stage that night, including Chris Daughtry for a rendition of “Savin’ Me.”

Other highlights include a cover of Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road” with Brantley Gilbert and Josh Ross, “Rockstar” with Bailey Zimmerman, and “Sold Out” with Hardy. Of course, the band touched on their most well-known tracks such as “How You Remind Me” and “Photograph,” as well.

While Nickelback have three official live video DVD releases, the upcoming live album marks only the second official live audio release from the band following the 2021 release of the digital-only Live from Red Rocks. Additionally, Live in Nashville will mark the first Nickelback live recording to...

More than half a century after the release of the last MC5 album, 1971’s High Time, a new album masterminded by the group’s guitarist Wayne Kramer, who died in February, will come out this fall. The record, Heavy Lifting, includes two songs that feature original MC5 drummer Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson, who died in May, alongside guest appearances by Slash, Tom Morello, Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, and Don Was, among others.

The new single, “Can’t Be Found,” begins with a muscular bass line that leads a typically powerful guitar riff.

A new song by legendary Detroit rockers MC5 titled “Can’t Be Found,” featuring Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid, has just been released.

It’s the latest single from Heavy Lifting, the first MC5 album in 53 years. The late Wayne Kramer, the band’s founding guitarist and vocalist, recorded much of the album prior to his passing earlier this year and co-wrote 12 of the 13 songs with Brad Brooks (who performed with MC5 in the years prior to Kramer’s death).

On “Can’t Be Found,” Kramer handled lead vocals and was also joined by classic MC5 drummer Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson, who sadly passed away earlier this year, as well. Reid’s guitar playing shines beginning at the 1:40 mark, where he delivers a blistering solo.

The LP was produced by Bob Ezrin and also features guest spots from Slash, Tom Morello, Alice in Chains’ William Duvall, and more. It...

Proto-punk legends MC5 will release their first album in over 53 years this October, with Heavy Lifting arriving just months after the deaths of guitarist Wayne Kramer and drummer Dennis Thompson, MC5’s last surviving original members.

Back in 2022, Kramer first revealed that the band, along with producer Bob Ezrin, were working on an all-star album that would serve as the first MC5 LP since their High Time was released in 1971.

Many of those guests ended up on Heavy Lifting, including Slash, Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, Alice in Chains’ William Duvall,...

The first album in 53 years from legendary proto-punk band MC5 will arrive in October, sadly after classic members Wayne Kramer and Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson both passed away earlier this year.

The LP, titled Heavy Lifting, was originally announced back in 2022. It will finally see the light of day on October 18th, one day before MC5 get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame via the Musical Excellence Award.

Kramer co-wrote 12 of the album’s 13 songs with Brad Brooks, who served as the band’s singer during their final years before Kramer’s passing. First single “Boys Who Play With Matches” can be streamed below.

The album features a number of prominent guests, including Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Alice in Chains’ William DuVall, Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath, and Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, among others.

Thompson, the band’s classic drummer,...

MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, the last surviving original member of the influential group, died Thursday morning at MediLodge of Taylor, where he had been rehabilitating following a heart attack in April. He was 75.

His death comes a little over three months since fellow MC5 cofounder Wayne Kramer died. Other key figures in the band’s history, all deceased, included singer Rob Tyner, guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith, bassist Michael Davis and guitarist Kramer. The group’s former manager, John Sinclair, died April 2.

The group was just voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. The induction ceremony will be held in October in Cleveland.

After leaving the MC5, Thompson continued to perform locally with various Detroit bands, and went on to participate in a series of reunion projects with Kramer during the 2000s.

The MC5 formed in 1965. Thompson credited the band’s rise to its blue-collar work ethic and hard work.

MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson has died after complications from a heart attack. He was 75 years old.

As reported by the Detroit Free Press, Thompson passed away at a nursing home in Taylor, Michigan on Wednesday (May 8th), where he had been rehabilitating from a heart attack he suffered in April.

Nicknamed “Machine Gun” due to his fast, hard-hitting style of drumming, Thompson was the last surviving member of MC5, which will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Excellence category this fall.

Born in the Detroit area, Thompson picked up the drums when he was just nine years old. While still in high school, he joined a garage band called the Bounty Hunters alongside his friend and future MC5 bandmate Wayne Kramer on guitar.

Kramer co-founded MC5 with fellow guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith in 1963, with Thompson joining the group a few years later to fill...

Wayne Kramer, founding member of the legendary Detroit proto-punk outfit MC5 and one of rock’s greatest guitarists, has died at the age of 75.

The singer-songwriter-political activist’s death was announced Friday via his official social media accounts. Kramer died at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles from pancreatic cancer, Jason Heath, an executive director of the artist’s nonprofit Jail Guitar Doors, told Billboard.

On Rolling Stone’s 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list — with Kramer sharing placement alongside Fred “Sonic” Smith — we wrote, “Forged in Detroit during the 1960s,...

Wayne Kramer, the cofounder and guitarist-vocalist of the iconic Detroit punk band MC5, has died at age 75. The news was shared on Kramer and MC5’s official social media pages today, but a cause of death was not disclosed.

Born Wayne Kambes on April 30, 1948, the guitarist formed the MC5 (for Motor City 5) as a teenager with his friend, Fred “Sonic” Smith. They played locally, eventually becoming the house band at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit.

John Sinclair, a left-wing activist, became the band’s manager, and they soon were a staple of the late-’60s political movements, aligning with the White Panther Party, the anti-racist group that Sinclair cofounded.

The group’s sound was hard to define, but it was defiant, and was widely credited with sparking what was to come in punk. The group performed at the protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention and at other rallies before signing...

Wayne Kramer, co-founder, guitarist, and singer of the influential Detroit rock band MC5, has died at the age of 75. Kramer’s passing was announced on Friday (February 2nd) in a post shared to Instagram, revealing that the legendary musician died of pancreatic cancer.

“Wayne Kramer passed away today peacefully from pancreatic cancer. He will be remembered for starting a revolution in music, culture, and kindness,” read the statement on his official Instagram account.

MC5’s history dates back to 1963, when Kramer started a band with fellow guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith. After a couple years, the classic lineup of Kramer, Smith, singer Rob Tyner, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson was in place.

While MC5 never reached mainstream success and only released two studio albums — 1970’s Back in the USA and 1971’s High Time — they remain one of the most influential rock bands of all time, paving the way for...

Gavin MacLeod, the veteran television actor known for his roles on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Love Boat” has died, his nephew Mark See confirms. The five-time Golden Globe nominee was 90 years old.

MacLeod passed away early Saturday morning at his home in Palm Desert, California. According to TMZ, the actor had been in and out of the hospital with various illnesses for the last few months, although Covid was not one of them.

MacLeod found his breakout role on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” where he played Murray Slaughter, the head writer at Mary’s fictional television station. He appeared in all 168 episodes of the sitcom’s seven-year run. Betty White and Ed Asner are now the only surviving cast members of the classic series. The latter star has already posted a sweet tribute to the actor in which he describes him as “my brother, my partner...

Gavin MacLeod, who was the Love Boat captain and played Murray on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, two of the top television shows of the 1970s and 1980s, died today at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. MacLeod was 90 and his death was confirmed by his nephew, Mark See.

No cause of death was revealed, but MacLeod had been in ill health over the last few months.

The affable actor played head writer Murray Slaughter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show and appeared in all 168 episodes over seven years, ending in 1977. He then pulled off a rarity, moving from one long-running hit show to another.

As Captain Stubing on The Love Boat, he appeared in 249 episodes, and later returned in the role for the TV movie The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage in 1990 and for the “Reunion” episode of the rebooted series Love Boat: The Next Wave in 1998.

MacLeod was...

Gavin MacLeod, a sitcom veteran who played seaman “Happy” Haines on “McHale’s Navy,” Murray on “Mary Tyler Moore” and the very different, vaguely patrician Captain Stubing on “The Love Boat,” has died. He was 90.

MacLeod’s nephew, Mark See, confirmed his death to Variety. MacLeod died in the early morning on May 29. No cause of death was given, but MacLeod’s health had declined in recent months.

MacLeod played a relatively minor character on ABC hit “McHale’s Navy,” starring Ernest Borgnine, but as newswriter Murray Slaughter, he was certainly one of the stars of “Mary Tyler Moore,” appearing in every one of the classic comedy’s 168 episodes during its 1970-77 run on CBS. Murray was married to Marie (Joyce Bulifant) but was in love with Moore’s Mary Richards. His desk was right next to Mary’s in the Wjm newsroom, so MacLeod was frequently in the shot during the sitcom,...

Twenty five years ago this week, the world of the Grateful Dead was forever changed when Jerry Garcia died of a heart attack at 53. From band employees to Deadheads, many were shaken, but few more so than Garcia’s fellow bandmates. Drummer Mickey Hart, who joined the Dead in 1967 and is currently part of Dead & Company, spoke with Rolling Stone about his memories of that day and what followed.

I always remember where I was when I heard. You never forget those kinds of things. Jerry wasn’t well to begin with,...

The Grateful Dead announced a massive box set titled June 1976 on Thursday. They’ve also shared a nine-minute version of “Friend of the Devil,” recorded live at New York’s Beacon Theatre.

Produced by Dead archivist David Lemieux, the 15-cd set contains complete performances from June 1976: Boston Music Hall (June 10th and 11th), the Beacon Theatre (June 14th and 15th) and an evening at New Jersey’s Capitol Theatre (June 19th). Author Jesse Jarnow wrote the liner notes.

June of 1976 marks a pivotal time in Dead history — the band...

Blake Edwards. Courtesy of Paramount.“[Blake] Edwards has become a stylistic influence in the cinema,” Andrew Sarris would write of the filmmaker in 1968, “And his personality and script dominate Ralph Nelson’s Soldier in the Rain the way Lubitsch’s personality once dominated Cukor’s One Hour With You.” Sarris would dub himself an “Edwardian”in his support of the film director and the inclusion of Edwards in his foundational book, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968, still remains the most serious scholarship on him. Edwards’ distinction in the book included him in “The Far Side of Paradise,” the category that “falls short of Pantheon,” the highest distinction. Edwards would be categorized alongside the likes of Capra, Cukor, Minnelli, Preminger, and Fuller—strong company, but characterized as such for Sarris because there is fragmentation or disruption within their careers. This high distinction by Sarris would have the great film critic come...

Fay McKenzie, who starred alongside Gene Autry in five Westerns and appeared in five films for director Blake Edwards, has died. She was 101.

McKenzie died in her sleep on April 16 in Los Angeles, a relative, Bryan Cooper, announced.

After a brief marriage to tough-guy actor Steve Cochran in the 1940s, McKenzie wed screenwriter Tom Waldman, who worked on the screenplays for the Edwards films High Time (1960), The Party (1968) and Trail of the Pink Panther (1982).

In The Party, McKenzie played Alice Clutterbuck, the hostess of the film's chaotic bash, and she also appeared for the ...

Fay McKenzie, who starred alongside Gene Autry in five Westerns and appeared in five films for director Blake Edwards, has died. She was 101.

McKenzie died in her sleep on April 16 in Los Angeles, a relative, Bryan Cooper, announced.

After a brief marriage to tough-guy actor Steve Cochran in the 1940s, McKenzie wed screenwriter Tom Waldman, who worked on the screenplays for the Edwards films High Time (1960), The Party (1968) and Trail of the Pink Panther (1982).

In The Party, McKenzie played Alice Clutterbuck, the hostess of the film's chaotic bash, and she also appeared for the ...

This article marks Part 8 of the Gold Derby series analyzing 84 years of Best Original Song at the Oscars. Join us as we look back at the timeless tunes recognized in this category, the results of each race and the overall rankings of the Academy Awards winners.

The 1960 Oscar nominees in Best Original Song were:

“The Green Leaves of Summer” from “The Alamo”

“The Facts of Life” from “The Facts of Life”

“The Second Time Around” from “High Time”

“Never on Sunday” from “Never on Sunday”

“Faraway Part of Town” from “Pepe”

Won: “Never on Sunday” from “Never on Sunday”

Should’ve won: “The Green Leaves of Summer” from “The Alamo”

1960 Best Original Song is a mostly enjoyable affair and remarkable in at least one regard – it produced the first winner to hail from a foreign language film, the Melina Mercouri vehicle “Never on Sunday,” which also garnered a boatload of other nominations that year,...

Randy Houser has announced plans to release his new album Magnolia this fall, and with the news comes another song from the singer-songwriter, the thoughtful ballad “No Stone Unturned.”

The 12-track album, which was produced by Keith Gattis and recorded at his studio in East Nashville, derives its title from the nickname of Houser’s home state, Mississippi. Houser, who began his career penning hits like Trace Adkins’ “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” co-wrote all the songs on Magnolia, with “No Stone Unturned” following “What Whiskey Does” as the second release from the album.

The morning after Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton for the presidency, twins Jenna and Barbara Bush, 35, woke up together in Jenna’s bed (her husband, Henry Hager, was away), “filled with gratitude that we had each other for comfort,” they write in their upcoming joint memoir.

The divisiveness that marred the 2016 election—and how their profound connection as sisters was a force to lean on through that and other milestones in their lives—were key inspirations for the former first daughters’ book, Sisters First, out Oct. 24.

In the deeply personal, emotional and often funny book, the sisters, who called the...

First Lady Melania Trump gave a shoutout to former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton on Twitter this week, thanking her for sticking up for her son Barron Trump. “Thank you @ChelseaClinton – so important to support all of our children in being themselves! #StopChildhoodBullying,” Flotus tweeted Tuesday night. Thank you @ChelseaClinton – so important to support all of our children in being themselves! #StopChildhoodBullying https://t.co/UCUpFc5ZjR — Melania Trump (@Flotus) August 23, 2017 An article on the website The Daily Caller titled “It’s High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He’s In the White House” criticized the youngest son of President Donald Trump,...

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton defended 11-year-old Barron Trump after Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller ran an article headlined, “It’s High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He’s In the White House.” “It’s high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let him have the private childhood he deserves,” Clinton tweeted Monday afternoon. It's high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let him have the private childhood he deserves https://t.co/Wxq51TvgDX — Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) August 21, 2017 The Caller story criticized the youngest son of President Donald Trump, and his only child with first lady Melania.

Chelsea Clinton has Barron Trump‘s back.

On Monday, the former First Daughter, 37, took a stand for President Donald Trump‘s 11-year-old son after a publication printed a story titled, “It’s High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He’s In the White House.”

“It’s high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let him have the private childhood he deserves,” Clinton responded in a tweet.

This is not the first time Bill and Hillary Clinton’s daughter has stood up for Trump’s youngest child.

It's high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let...

It came as no surprise in October that Michael Moore’s secret documentary “Michael Moore in Trumpland” was a pro-Hillary Clinton film urging Americans to vote for the democratic presidential nominee on November 8. Moore has been one of the most vocal and politically active filmmakers of his generation, if not the most active, and he felt that too much of the election conversation was dominated by negativity.

Read More: Michael Moore’s Plan to Show ‘TrumpLand’ to ‘Millions of People’ Before the Election

“I just thought, I’m going to do something here and give people positive reasons to think about voting for her,” Moore said at the film’s premiere in New York on October 18. “What the country doesn’t need is to be told that Trump is crazy, dangerous, a psychopath and sociopath. He has written and produced that movie, and it appears daily.”

While most filmmakers...

The teapot pose is 10 years old. Even if you don’t know what that means, you’ve seen it. High time we had a new pose? Then meet the raptor arm

The teapot arm is 10 years old, more or less. That’s ten years of turning one arm into a handle and one into a spout, and 10 years of looking great not stout. Its maturation is impossible to trace given it has been used as both an exercise in arm-thinning and something for ex-smokers to do with their hands, but according to Jezebel (which specialises in red-carpet kinesics) at the Oscars in 2006 around 60% of the actors were doing it, so here we are.

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Billy Wilder directed Sunset Blvd. with Gloria Swanson and William Holden. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett movies Below is a list of movies on which Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder worked together as screenwriters, including efforts for which they did not receive screen credit. The Wilder-Brackett screenwriting partnership lasted from 1938 to 1949. During that time, they shared two Academy Awards for their work on The Lost Weekend (1945) and, with D.M. Marshman Jr., Sunset Blvd. (1950). More detailed information further below. Post-split years Billy Wilder would later join forces with screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond in movies such as the classic comedy Some Like It Hot (1959), the Best Picture Oscar winner The Apartment (1960), and One Two Three (1961), notable as James Cagney's last film (until a brief comeback in Milos Forman's Ragtime two decades later). Although some of these movies were quite well received, Wilder's later efforts – which also included The Seven Year Itch...

Rip our beloved Bat Beauty! A punch in the gut to Batfans. A first crush for men of a certain age, the beautiful Yvonne Craig has died at the age of 78.

Yvonne was born on the 16th of May 1937. In her early life before her television career she trained to be a ballet teacher. She gradually moved into acting during the 1950s. Before appearing on television she starred in a few films including; The Young Land, The Gene Krupa Story, Ski Party, and High Time. She even played alongside Elvis Presley in Kissin’ Cousins and briefly dated the King. During the mid-1960s Yvonne moved from film into television, where she appeared in many shows including Man With a Camera, Wagon Train, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. More famously she played “Marta” (a green skinned Orion) in the third series Star Trek episode entitled “Whom Gods Destroy” in 1968.

1967 she was...

While we're used to seeing them working together (on Saturday Night Live or presenting the Golden Globes, for example), it's a long six years since Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's last movie double-act, Baby Mama. High time for Sisters then, the first trailer for which has just arrived online.Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect) directed the film, which, as you'll have just seen, finds siblings Jane and Maura (Fey and Poehler) coming home to discover that their parents (James Brolin and Dianne Wiest) are selling the family home and moving to a small condo. The ladies need to find alternative lodgings now that The Nest (actually the film's former title) is no longer open to them. As a last hurrah at the old homestead, they decide to spend a final weekend there together, throwing a party like they're Andrew Wk. Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project, Eastbound And Down) plays amorous neighbour James,...

Twilight Time is celebrating its 4th anniversary with a major promotion that sees some of their limited edition titles reduced in price through April 3. These are the titles on sale.

Group 1

Retail price point: $24.95

Picnic

Pal Joey

Bite The Bullet

Bell, Book, And Candle

Bye Bye Birdie

In Like Flint

Major Dundee

The Blue Max

Crimes And Misdemeanors

Used Cars

Thunderbirds Are Go / Thunderbird 6

Group 2

Retail price point: $19.95

Rapture

Roots Of Heaven

Swamp Water

Demetrius And The Gladiators

Desiree

The Wayward Bus

Cover Girl

High Time

The Sound And The Fury

The Rains Of Ranchipur

Bonjour Tristesse

Beloved Infidel

Lost Horizon

The Blue Lagoon

Experiment In Terror

Nicholas And Alexandra

Pony Soldier

The Song Of Bernadette

Philadelphia

The Only Game In Town

Love Is A Many Splendored Thing

Sleepless In Seattle

The Disappearance

Sexy Beast

Drums Along The Mohawk

Alamo Bay

The Other

Mindwarp

Jane Eyre

Oliver

The Way We Were...

Update: Hit the break to see an update on this piece! If you’re still reeling from this week’s reminder that there’s still a major gender gap at play in Hollywood, Twitter might have the antidote for your pain. The #HireTheseWomen hashtag has steadily been gaining steam over the past few days, and it’s not only proving that social media can be used for good, but that people really, really want to see more films from women. Even better? There are plenty of women who can make them. Film critic Miriam Bale got the ball rolling earlier this week, as she began tweeting lists of talented women for Hollywood to hire, as inspired by that Women and Hollywood infographic that so simply and wrenchingly detailed the major gap that still exists between male and female directors in Hollywood. The thing has taken on a life of its own, with...

If you’ve finally managed to catch your breath after a couple of notably bloody weeks across some of television’s best shows (hell, someone even got stabbed, twice, on Mad Men last week, and we won’t even comment on Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding in this space), it might be high time to start thinking ahead to what will undoubtedly be a bloody end of summer. High time? Get it? We’re talking about Vince Gilligan‘s Breaking Bad on AMC here. With the second half of the show’s fifth season (season 5.5?) finally hitting the small screen with a Bryan Cranston-directed premiere episode on August 11th, marketing has started to slowly waft out across the internet like so many meth fumes through your friendly neighborhood cook house. Sure, the first look at the show’s newest poster (and a very brief ten-second teaser trailer, which you can check out over at The Wrap...

The trailer for the new Jeff Buckley film, Dan Algrant's "Greetings from Tim Buckley," has finally arrived on YouTube, showing a flannel-clad Penn Badgley belting it out on stage.

The movie, which lands at Tribeca Film Festival this month, centers on the younger Buckley's breakout 1991 performance -- a tribute show to his father and American avant-garde musician, Tim Buckley. The concert is widely viewed as the start of the younger Buckley's stint in show business, a career tragically cut short by his death at the age of 30.

So what do we think of Badgley, the former "Gossip Girl" actor, as the leading man? Well, he has received surprisingly positive reviews since clips of him singing signature Buckley tunes surfaced online last year. Spin went so far as to call the impersonator "decent" while Fuse noted, "Badgley's voice does Jeff Buckley justice, and that's no small feat." He did seem to nail "Once I was,...

By Lee Pfeiffer

Twilight Time has released the 1960 comedy High Time  starring Bing Crosby as a limited edition (3,000 units) Blu-ray. Crosby's career as an actor has largely been neglected over the decades despite the fact that he was one of the most enduring boxoffice giants of his time. Perhaps the reason is that, unlike Frank Sinatra, who took on dramatic and challenging roles, Crosby was largely content to stick with playing amiable crooners in glossy, feel-good musicals. One such film is High Time, which was originally developed as a comedy titled Big Daddy for Gary Cooper. However, when Cooper became terminally ill, Crosby's production company picked up the option as a starring vehicle for Crosby himself. Der Bingle plays Harvey Howard, a 51-year-old self-made businessman who owns a national chain of popular smokehouse restaurants. Harvey decides to fulfill his dream of becoming the first family member to obtain a college degree.

With his latest film Savages, the acclaimed Us director turns his vision to the murderous narcotics-fuelled conflict in Mexico

A man steps across the floor of what seems to be a basement or dungeon, on a film shot by a wobbly, handheld camera. Blood, sticky underfoot, runs beneath his boots – and the camera catches what seems to be a severed head. The scene is being played on a computer screen, watched by an intense young man, transfixed. A beautiful girl looks also, over his shoulder. "Is that Iraq?", she asks, squirming at the degenerate and apparently gratuitous cruelty. "Mexico," replies the man with a grunt, clearly terrified himself. Welcome to the latest film by Hollywood's – even America's – heretic-in-chief, Oliver Stone. Unsurprisingly, this brief exchange is charged with greater meaning than it appears at first sight, and the film's director has come to elaborate.

The physical presence of Oliver Stone is...

Moviefone's New Release Pick of the Week "The Hunger Games" -- Available on Saturday, August 18 What's It About? The best-selling book series about a deadly society where children compete against each other, gets its first of four adaptations. In the opening salvo, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to enter the fatal playing field, in hopes of sparing her younger sister, and struggles to stay alive amongst friends and enemies. See It Because: As far as adaptations of young adult novels go, this is one of the best. Director Gary Ross takes the subject matter seriously and imbues the project with some real drama, while Lawrence is pitch-perfect as the heroic but fallible Katniss. Watch an Exclusive Clip from "The Hunger Games" - (Also Available on Redbox DVD & Blu-ray | Amazon Instant Video) Moviefone's Blu-ray Pick of the Week "Jaws" What's It About? You go inside the cage? Cage goes in the water,...

Didn't get an invite to this year's Oscars? Neither did Xan Brooks, but he stoically blogged the red carpet and then the ceremony anyway

10.57pm: And so it begins ....

11.25pm: Roll carpet, roll cameras: it's the 84th annual Academy Awards, live and lurid from Hollywood. The Guardian film team will be covering the event throughout the night, weeping with the winners and wailing with the losers as this season's awards circus clatters exhaustedly towards the finish line. This is where it ends, inside the Hollywood and Highland Centre (reputedly the winner of the 2007 "Ugliest Building in La" award). Inside, the victors shall be encased in gold, the vanquished shown the door and all manner of movies laid tenderly to rest.

But wait, kick back, and keep the war horses tethered: the actual ceremony does not officially commence until 5pm (Pacific time). Time enough to cast an eye back over some late-breaking Oscar news.

Marthe Keller in Black Sunday (1977)

Catherine Grant's post-holiday return to blogging and tweeting has reminded me that some of her invaluable pointers to online resources over the past couple of weeks slipped right on past me during the year-end crunch. High time to catch up:

The new World Picture, #6, bears the ominous title "Wrong."

"The Disgust Issue" of Film-Philosophy. In her introduction, guest editor Tina Kendall notes an increasing interdisciplinary "concern with thinking through the relations between bodily sensation, emotion, and cognition (especially as these are mediated by films and other cultural forms), and with probing the political, moral, and ethical implications that arise from those particular conditions of embodiment."

The second issue of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image.

Stoffel Debuysere has collected and posted hours of video from Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia, an event that took place in October in Brussels. The talks and discussions are led by Adrian Martin,...

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High time to round up the films at this year's Cannes Film Festival that never saw entries of their own and send them on their way. Today: Un Certain Regard.

"Bakur Bakuradze's The Hunter seems like a ficticious version of Raymond Depardon's Modern Life, a trilogy on farming that was screened in Cannes in 2008," finds Moritz Pfeifer, who also interviews the director for the East European Film Bulletin. "With no soundtrack, no professional actors, little dialogue and a minimalist plot, the film depicts the daily life of Ivan (Mikhail Barskovich) as he peacefully runs his pig farm in one of the less populous areas of northwestern Russia…. Clearly, Bakuradze wants to depict an alternative world, and the spirit of his film is more utopian than its hyper-realistic images suggest."

Grumbles the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt: "There is maybe 10 to 15 minutes of actual story located within this 124 minute slog,...

This Monday's episode of 90210 is titled "It's High Time."

But it will Really be high time on February 28, when Snoop Dogg makes a cameo on The CW drama. Look for him to interact with Dixon, as that character makes a slight fool of himself upon first meeting the hip hop legend.

Snoop will show up on the same episode that also features Naomi going all Avatar in order to impress Max. Get your first look at the Dogg stopping by Beverly Hills in this spoiler pic:...

On this Monday's all-new episode of 90210, it will totally be on between Annie and Emily. See what we mean via the official preview for "It's High Time."

But while these two cousins slug it out, Naomi will be dealing with a different kind of obstacle: in a meeting with her guidance counselor, most viewers' favorite character will receive disappointing news.

It may even alter her future. To what are we referring? Find out in the following sneak peek.

It's High Time Clip...

Annie beats the crap out of cousin Emily & more in CW's '90210' episode 16 of season 3. We've got spoilers for the show,along with a promo clip after the jump. The episode is entitled, "It's High Time," and things get real crazy when Annie finally beats the ever-living crap out of Emily when she finds out the evil things she's been doing to her,and more. In "It's High Time" episode,Emily (guest star Abbie Cobb, "Jonas") will get back to her old tricks by messing with Annie's internship at the playhouse and her boyfriend. Silver will convince Navid to sign the release for Adrianna's reality show to help distract her and throw her off track.

Next week on 90210, it... is... so... on.

On "Revenge of the Nerd," the feud between Annie and Emily escalated, but that's nothing compared to what's in store on "It's High Time." How so? Find out via the following preview:

It's High Time Promo

Elsewhere on the upcoming 90210 installment:

Silver tells Navid to sign the release for Adrianna's reality show. Naomi struggles with her feelings for Max. Ivy meets a new guy. Dixon, Navid and Liam take Teddy out of town.

It's Katie Couric realness in the next episode of "RuPaul's Drag Race" as the queens give us the day's fierce.

High time the contestants knew how to handle themselves in the press and who better to judge them for how they manage the media spotlight than "Big Love's" Chloë Sevigny? 

The paparazzi have been following her since she starred in the controversial film, "Kids," and she has definitely had a few run-ins with the media over the years.

In Zap2it's exclusive sneak peek, we discover that RuPaul and Sevigny have something in common. And for once, someone does something bigger than Ru.

Watch our exclusive preview below:

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Also, the contestants are taking the news industry by storm. They're producing their own morning news show and one of the original "The View" co-hosts, Debbie Matenopoulos, drops by to give them some pointers.

CW released new '90210' episode 16,season 3 spoilers. The CW recently released new spoilers for the upcoming "90210" episode 16 of season 3. The episode is entitled, "It's High Time," and things will get crazy with Annie's weird couin Emily when she tries to screw with Annie's internship,and more. In "It's High Time" episode, Emily will get back to her old tricks by messing with Annie‘s internship at the playhouse and with Annie‘s boyfriend. Silver will convince Navid to sign the release for Adrianna‘s reality show to distract her and throw her off the track.

Film director best known for the Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany's and 10

The film-maker Blake Edwards, who has died aged 88, will be best remembered as the creator of the Pink Panther films, and as the husband of the entertainer Julie Andrews. But Edwards was a third-generation show-business figure whose complex and controversial career spanned more than 50 years, initially as an actor and writer and subsequently as one of America's most prolific producer-directors, primarily concerned with the popular genres of comedy and musicals and with creating television series.

Despite working in mainstream cinema, his maverick spirit and ego made him an uneasy partner with Hollywood studios. He famously savaged the hand that had fed him so well with S.O.B. (1981), a raucous, vitriolic attack on Tinseltown. His sophisticated work drew strongly on his love of early cinema (his stepgrandfather had directed silent films), and on his own life and psychological problems (he...

Welcome to the latest in our all-new regular feature here at Blogomatic3000, where – in association with the folks at Sky Movies HD – we take a look at some of the films premiering on Sky Movies and Sky Box-Office this month.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Stars (the voices of): George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky, Eric Chase Anderson | Written and Directed by Wes Anderson

Based on the story by Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox is the story of one Mr. Fox who bites off more than he can chew when, after a 14 year hiatus, he returns to his farm raiding ways and crosses Boggis, Bunce and Bean, the meanest farmers in England. When they retaliate, Mr. Fox must help his community survive.

The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus

Stars: Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer, Colin Farrell | Written and Directed by Terry Gilliam

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus...