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Throughout the early 2000s, the rock ‘n’ roll film festival “Don’t Knock the Rock” was one of the highlights of any L.A.-based cinephile’s year, an impeccably assembled program of movies, live performances, and panels celebrating the intersection between rock ‘n’ roll and cinema. Created by writer-director Allison Anders and music supervisor Tiffany Anders, “Don’t Knock the Rock” was beloved for its determination to showcase difficult-to-see music documentaries and for the breadth and depth of its programming.

The festival last graced L.A. screens in 2016, but now it’s returning to Hollywood via the American Cinematheque with a line-up that’s one of the best ever. From May 23-27, “Don’t Knock the Rock” will screen an eclectic mix of documentaries, music-themed narrative films, and essential retrospective programs at the Cinematheque’s Los Feliz venue, with an added virtual component that will stream from May 23-July 31. Among the...

The opening credits of Jersey Shore featured taglines from each cast member that gave fans a glimpse of their personalities. Those taglines changed when Jersey Shore: Family Vacation came around, but the quotes still describe each roommate perfectly. With the return of Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola, we’re speculating what her updated tagline will become. Will she recycle “I’m the sweetest b**** you’ll ever meet?” or will she have an updated motto like the rest of her roomies?

Sammi ‘Sweetheart’ Giancola | MTV ‘Jersey Shore’ taglines from the original series

Lmfao’s song “Get Crazy” is the theme music for the original Jersey Shore. As the song plays, each roommate was shown with their tagline dubbed over the electronic dance hit. Jenni “JWoww” Farley’s slogan was: “After I have sex with a guy I will rip their heads off.” When she was part of Jersey Shore in seasons 1 and...

After her marriage to Chris Larangeira ended, Angelina Pivarnick explored the single life. The Jersey Shore star previously had ties to a man from “Old Bridge” and later, her All Star Shore co-star. But now, the MTV star is allegedly spending time with a man named Vinny from Staten Island.

For clarity, this Vinny isn’t the same Vinny fans know and love from Jersey Shore: Family Vacation. At publication, it’s unclear who this Vinny is, but he will appear in future episodes of Jsfv Season 6. Until then, fans have a lot to say about what they’ve seen of Angelina’s new man on social media. Here’s everything Angelina has said about the new Vinny thus far, plus why fans think he gives off “Chris energy.”

Angelina Pivarnick | Presley Ann/Getty Images for MTV Angelina Pivarnick’s Instagram Live featuring the new Vinny

In February 2022, Angelina went live on her Instagram.

Director/Tfh Guru Allan Arkush discusses his favorite year in film, 1975, with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Rules of the Game (1939)

Le Boucher (1970)

Last Year At Marienbad (1961)

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)

Topaz (1969)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976) – Jon Davison’s trailer commentary

The Innocents (1961) – Joe Dante’s trailer commentary

The Earrings of Madame De… (1953)

Rope (1948) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary

Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)

The Awful Truth (1937) – Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Duck Soup (1933) – John Landis’s trailer commentary

Going My Way (1944)

Nashville (1975) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Dan Perri’s trailer commentary

M*A*S*H (1970)

Shampoo (1975) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Bonnie And Clyde (1967) – John Landis’s trailer commentary

The Nada Gang (1975)

Get Crazy (1983) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Night Moves (1975) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) – Katt Shea’s trailer...

It’s a very musical episode! Director and Tfh Guru, Allan Arkush, returns to talk about his favorite rock and roll movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

No Nukes (1980)

Amazing Grace (2018) – Dennis Cozzalio’s Oscar nominee reactions

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Get Crazy (1983) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) – Eli Roth’s trailer commentary

Blackboard Jungle (1955) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) – ​​Jesus Treviño’s trailer commentary

Mister Rock And Roll (1957)

Go, Johnny, Go! (1959) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Hail Hail Rock And Roll! (1987) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary

Hellzapoppin’ (1941)

Innerspace (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Almost Famous (2000) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Wayne’s World (1992)

The Graduate (1967) – Neil Labute’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

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After a hiatus where New York’s theaters closed during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings are taking place.

Bam

Recently rediscovered and restored, Wendell B. Harris’ Chameleon Street is now playing. Read our interview with Harris here.

Film Forum

4K restorations of North by Northwest starts up and Ed Lachman’s Songs for Drella have started; Ponyo screens on Sunday.

Roxy Cinema

Three by John Carpenter—The Thing, Halloween, and The Fog—screen this Friday, while prints of Poltergeist and Phantom of the Paradise show on Saturday.

Metrograph

“Get Crazy” offers Cold Water, a 4K restoration of Possession continues, and to celebrate Sisters with Transistors, the series “With Music By…” offers A Clockwork Orange and Forbidden Planet.

Film...

After a hiatus where New York’s theaters closed during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings are taking place.

Bam

Rarely screened and fully restored, Jacques Rivette’s masterpieces Duelle and Noroît are now playing.

Roxy Cinema

A 35mm double-feature of Demonlover and Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce is running this weekend.

Metrograph

“Get Crazy” includes Buñuel, Assayas, Visconti, and Minnelli, while a 4K restoration of Possession continues.

Film at Lincoln Center

A restoration of Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song has begun running.

IFC Center

While the 4K restoration of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s masterpiece Cure continues and World of Wong Kar-wai keeps going, Arrebato, Crash, and Mulholland Dr. have showings.

Anthology Film Archives

Restorations of the experimental filmmaker Marjorie Keller run this weekend.

Herbert F. Solow, a longtime television executive who pitched the original “Star Trek” series to NBC while he was at Desilu Studios, along with “Mission Impossible” and “Mannix,” died on Thursday, his wife, Dr. Harrison Solow, confirmed. He was 89.

In later years, he and his wife wrote several books on the “Star Trek” series, including “Inside Star Trek: The Real Story” and “The Star Trek Sketchbook.”

Solow was brought in by Lucille Ball after her divorce from Desi Arnaz to help revive Desilu Studios, where he helped develop and sell “Star Trek” to NBC — after CBS originally turned it down because it already had “Lost in Space” — as well as “Mission: Impossible” and “Mannix” to CBS.

Solow helped guide “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry on their pitch to the network, and continued to champion the series until Ball herself got behind the effort.

Solow told the publication Carpe Articulum that...

Looking back at some of the strangest cameos in film and TV history, we were struck by how many of them were by musicians. It makes sense. After all, musicians are already out of place among actors on a TV or film set. What they bring to the table is different from what actors bring, in terms of star quality, charisma, self-expression and established personae. If you’re familiar with both the musician’s work and the characters in a movie or TV show (and the actors who play them...

Forget the cabs, the opening credits are heaaa! Jersey Shore Family Vacation is finally upon us, with iconic MTV reality hit's Og cast (minus Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola) returning to our TV screens tonight, ready to fist-bump and Gtl like it's 2009. To celebrate the return of our favorite guidos and guidettes, E! News is exclusively debuting Jersey Shore Family Vacation's new opening credits, and we're pleased to report that the iconic theme song—Lmfao's "Get Crazy"—is still the same. However, the same cannot be said for the cast's opening lines. Jenni "JWoww" Farley's infamous "After I have sex with a guy I will rip their heads...

Get crazy, get wild, the Jersey Shore crew is back!

That's right, Snooki, Pauly D, JWoww, The

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Everyone needs an escape from time to time. A place apart from reality, where the strange whisper with the miraculous, and cheap trinkets are bartered with greasy denizens of the night. What better place to set a horror film than the carnival, where the potential for mystery awaits around every crimson tent and distorted mirror? If you’re so inclined, step right up and buy a ticket to The Funhouse (1981), the late Tobe Hooper’s wonderful tribute to the seedy shadowed world of carnies, caramel apples, and Universal monsters.

Released in March by Universal, The Funhouse underperformed at the box office, but critics (including Gene Siskel) admired it for focusing on suspense and thrills rather than gruesome mayhem. In a landscape littered with severed limbs and phallically inclined urban legends, Mr. Hooper used his genius to once again showcase the underbelly of the American psyche, this time with a major studio’s dollars.

Get crazy(-ish), get wild(-ish): Party’s here (again … kinda)!

Jersey Shore‘s Reunion Road Trip played out like a long overdue meet-up with all your friends from high school — only if every trace of your time together had burnt down in a fire. Though slightly less than five years have passed since the MTV juggernaut ended, the once-raging guidos and guidettes have all coupled up and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, touted as the biggest partier of them all, is 18 months sober. Now that‘s a Situation. (Or at least so we were told, as if mandated by...

It's T-shirt time again!

Jersey Shore stars Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Jenni "JWoww" Farley, Paul "Pauly D" DelVecchio, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola are reuniting on the small screen come Aug. 20, and they're ready to fist pump like it's 2009. After saying goodbye to the beach house they shared five years ago, the rambunctious crew are together once again on E!'s Reunion Road Trip: Return to the Jersey Shore.

Watch: Jersey Shore Cast Reunites For Sammi 'Sweetheart' Giancola's 30th Birthday Bash

The special will have the friends -- and sometimes frenemies -- rehashing what went on in the house that viewers didn't see as well as updating each other on their current relationships. If Reunion Road Trip is anything like what Snooki posted to Instagram Friday, Jersey Shore fans will not be disappointed.

All in a car together, the reality stars are seen jamming out to Lmfao's song, "Get Crazy," which...

It’s official: The Jersey Shore guidos are back.

On Friday, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi took to Instagram to reveal the premiere date for their upcoming reunion-centered docu-series, which is set to premiere Aug. 20 on E!

“Its Happening Guys! August 20 on E! with my Best Friends! Love my roomies forever,” gushed Polizzi, 29, alongside a video of her, Sorrentino, Sammi “Sweatheart” Giancola, Jenni “JWoww” Farley and Pauly “DJ Pauly D” Delvecchio jamming out to “Get Crazy” by Lmfao, the beloved MTV reality show’s theme song. (She also added our new favorite hashtag, #Jerzdayishere.)

And while much...

Get crazy, get loud: Snooki is totally down for a Jersey Shore reboot! The wild child reality star and entrepreneur caught up with E! News' Sibley Scoles, where she revealed that a return to the shore isn't completely out of the question (with one major exception, of course).  "Yes!" Snooki (real name Nicole Polizzi) dished, "but not for a long time because I have kids. Like for a week."  Jersey Shore aired on MTV for six seasons between 2009-2012, documenting Snooki and the rest of her outspoken roommates partying their summers away by the beach. Earlier this year, co-stars JWoww, Deena Cortese, Vinny Guadagnino and Roger...

Genes have been getting a bad rap lately on Dick Wolf shows.

On Law & Order: Svu Season 18 Episode 13, a rapist tried to use the "rape gene" defense while another worried about inheriting a predisposition to rape women.

And on Chicago Justice Season 1 Episode 7, a murderer tried using the same argument to claim she was not responsible for a brutal double homicide because she inherited irresistible urges to kill from her serial killer father.

I'm glad the defendant didn't get away with this ridiculous defense. I hope it's the last we hear of it for a long time.

Having David Zachariah's DNA turn up at a new crime scene could have gone in so many different directions instead of rehashing the bad genes defense to indefensible crimes.

Stone's story of the bad plea deal he made with Zachariah to give the victims' families closure was rich with dramatic possibilities. Maybe the...

The Pippen Pack! Scottie and Larsa Pippen took their four kids, Sophia, Preston, Scotty Jr., and Justin, on a tropical getaway for Valentine’s Day.

Watch: Scottie and Larsa Pippen 'Working on Their Marriage' After Filing for Divorce: Check Out Her Massive New Ring

The formerly estranged spouses seem to be in-sync, posing together on the beach.

“#TeamPippen stronger than ever!” the former NBA star captioned a group shot with his wife.

Larsa posted the same photo and also shared lots of pictures of her adorable kids.

The bikini-clad mom also shared a shot of herself posing by the pool.

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear,” she captioned the photo.

Though Scottie filed for divorce three months ago, the case is still pending. A source recently told Et that the couple is "working on their marriage."

Lately they’ve been spotted out together and Larsa is rocking a new diamond sparkler on that finger...

Looks like Scottie and Larsa Pippen aren't quite ready to quit one another.

The 51-year-old NBA star filed for divorce from his wife, 42-year-old Larsa Pippen, three months ago after nearly 20 years of marriage, though a source close to the pair tells Et that they're now "working on their marriage." According to court records, their divorce is still pending.

Scottie also "never moved out" of their Miami home, our source says, and instead, was "working in Chicago."

Et has reached out to both of their attorneys.

Watch: Cops Called to Scottie and Larsa Pippen's Home Twice in One Month

If we're judging by their social media accounts, Scottie and Larsa -- a former Real Housewives of Miami cast member and a good friend of the Kardashians -- definitely appear to be reconciling. The pair was at celeb hot spot The Nice Guy in West Hollywood, California, on Monday night, posing for a pic with Kourtney Kardashian, rapper...

Kourtney Kardashian and Kylie Jenner are showing off their curves!

The sisters both took to Snapchat on Friday to work what their mama gave them.

Exclusive: Kourtney Kardashian Is Not Hooking Up With Justin Bieber or Dating Scott Disick, Source Says

Kourtney was first to share a sexy snap on the app, posting an aerial pic of her cleavage.

"Makeup view," she captioned the racy pic, before climbing into a helicopter.

Watch: Kourtney Kardashian Posts Selfie With Deep Lyric by The Weeknd in Caption: ‘Tell Me How to Love’

The mother of three also posted a sexy bikini-clad shot on Instagram.

"Island ting," she wrote alongside the black-and-white photo.

Related: Larsa Pippen and Kourtney Kardashian 'Get Crazy,' Pose With Stingrays in Bikinis -- See the Pic!

Kylie, meanwhile, sported nude undies as she showed off her toned tummy on Snapchat.

Watch: Kylie Jenner Shares Funny Eye Roll Pic of Herself in a Bra Top With...

Get crazy, get loud because Deena Cortese is officially engaged! The former Jersey Shore star took to Instagram Saturday and shared the fist-pumping good news with her fans. "I always knew I would spend the rest of my life with Christopher Buckner... but last night while we were walking on the Beach in Mexico he made it official!!" she wrote on Instagram. "We're engaged!!!!! @cbuckner_." A few hours later, the reality star decided to give fans a few more angles of her ring. After all, any bride-to-be loves some diamonds. "I felt like the other pictures didn't show how beautiful the ring was. The pic on the left was me a little after he proposed after I was finished...

“There is no more studio system,” director Paul Schrader told us this spring in the south of France, where he unveiled his latest film, “Dog Eat Dog,” in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. And while that posit might be up for debate, the filmmaker has certainly stepped completely out on his own in the latter portion […]

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“Lazer Team” fans can rejoice because a sequel is on the way. YouTube announced Friday morning, during its first Television Critics Association summer press tour, that the sci-fi comedy has been given the greenlight for a second part.

The record-setting film hails from Fullscreen Films and Rooster Teeth which launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the project. After raising $2.4 million, it was released in theaters on January 27, 2016, and on YouTube Red a month later.

“Lazer Team,” directed by Matt Hullum and starring Burnie Burns, Gavin Free, Michael Jones and Colton Dunn, follows four small-town misfits, who after stumbling across an alien crash site, must use an extraterrestrial battle suit to save mankind.

Read More: Why Rooster Teeth Chose CGI Over A Real Helmet In ‘Lazer Team’ (Exclusive Clip)

“Lazer Team 2″ will see return of its characters Hagan, Woody, and Zach. Pre-production for the sequel is underway and the film is...

The first trailer has been released for what promises to be one of the more unique films of 2016. Elvis & Nixon tells the story of the unlikely meeting and subsequent partnership between the music legend and the 37th President of the United States. Now, those seeking only the most historically accurate fair will likely want […]

The post Kevin Spacey And Michael Shannon Get Crazy In Elvis & Nixon Trailer appeared first on FilmReview.com.

Missed the new trailer for Furious 7 during the Big Game? Check it out below.

Continuing the global exploits in the unstoppable franchise built on speed, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of Furious 7.

James Wan directs this chapter of the hugely successful series that also welcomes back favorites Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Elsa Pataky and Lucas Black.

They are joined by international action stars new to the franchise including Jason Statham, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Jaa, Ronda Rousey, Nathalie Emmanuel and Kurt Russell. Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel and Michael Fottrell return to produce the film written by Chris Morgan.

Furious 7 opens in theaters and IMAX April 3, 2015.

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Charles Manson. His name will live in infamy long after we're all dead and gone, and with good reason... the evil that this man is responsible for is as brutal as it is reprehensible. Apparently some of that negative energy is still lingering...

Seance goers early Saturday morning, August 9th - the 45th anniversary of the Sharon Tate murders - experienced a rather bizarre happening when just after midnight, as the seance was in full swing, a fire alarm went off for no apparent reason. There was no evidence of fire or smoke, although two candles on the table lit up the scene.

The seance was held 200 feet from 10050 Cielo Drive, the site where Manson Family members slaughtered five people, including Tate. (Two other victims, Leno and Rosemary Labianca, were killed the next night in a different location.) The Cielo Drive house is no longer there, and the address has been changed,...

You want to talk about a perfect match? Then dig on this... Rob Zombie is teaming with American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis to tell the story of one of the most infamous homicides the world has ever known.

According to Variety, Easton Ellis and director Zombie have teamed with Alcon Television to develop a project for Fox that will revisit the people and events connected to the Manson Family murder spree in August 1969.

The project is envisioned as a limited series, but it is in the very early stages of development with Fox. Ellis is set to write the script and some additional materials. Zombie is on board to direct.

Zombie has long had a fascination with the Manson Family slayings, which left seven people dead in the Los Angeles area. Among the victims were actress Sharon Tate, who was eight and a half months pregnant at the time...

There are few people in the world more infamous than Charles Manson. The dude is the embodiment of evil, and as a result the fascination with him continues to grow and maintain. Another film chronicling his madness is on its way, and we have your details right here.

From the Press Release

Micro Bay Features is pleased to announce that its newest feature film, House of Manson, a Charles Manson biographical thriller, is now in production.

Brandon Slagle (Dead Sea) is attached to write and direct the bio picture. Award-winning actors Ryan Kiser (Truth or Dare) and Devanny Pinn (The Black Dahlia Haunting) are set to star as Charles Manson and Susan Atkins.

Principal photography is scheduled to begin in March.

Synopsis:

A dark biopic from the annals of American history that focuses on how one man came to charm and manipulate people from all walks of life while on...

Tonight: Bette Midler talks about the time she brought Harry Hamlin onstage at one of her shows without recognizing him. Later, Midler reveals her plans for the holidays. Michael Bublé discusses being married and having a baby. . Later, Bublé shows his support for embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Michael Bublé performs. Jay Leno’S Monologue Monday, November 25, 2013 I Had Something Strange Happen Over The Weekend; I Called The Butterball Hotline And The Mayor Of Toronto Answered. A Report Issued Today Says That Half Of All Americans Will Be Facing Diabetes By The Year 2020. The Other Half Will Have Diabetes By Friday Morning. That’S Even Worse. It’S Starting To Get Crazy; They Got Three Feet...

Word of Lou Reed’s death spread across the Internet on Sunday. For me, it was Sunday afternoon, so I can’t make this allusion. Nor will I call it a perfect day.

That’s what Lou Reed was to me. From the time his first album came out, he provided not only a soundtrack for my life, but a running commentary. His New York-inflected nasal vocals seemed to perfectly capture my own yearning for something I couldn’t define, but wanted desperately.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, this made me unusual, especially in Ohio, where I lived. Lou had a hit in the mid-1970s, but there still weren’t a lot of people who would admit to liking him. I can only believe that people bought “Walk on the Wild Side” without acknowledging that they knew it was about drag queens.

He wrote about drag queens,...

When I first came to Los Angeles in my 20s I worked on the sets of a few movies as a unit publicist, among them director Allan Arkush's 1983 rock musical "Get Crazy," which starred Malcolm McDowell and Lou Reed. I was in awe of the taciturn legendary rocker, who turned up on the Wiltern Theatre set in beat-up jeans, boots and leather jacket, knew his lines and was a total pro. Arkush ("Heroes," "Crossing Jordan") sent me a remembrance of working with Reed after his death at age 71 on Sunday: I vividly remember this conversation with Lou Reed on the set of 'Get Crazy' in 1982. I asked Lou when it first struck him that he was indeed 'Lou Reed.' He told me that starting with "Transformer" in 1972, people came up to him on the street all the time and shared drug experiences or stories of being on the...

As you may have heard, singer/songwriter/occasional actor Lou Reed died last Sunday.

This didn’t come as much of a surprise. Several months ago, ComicMix’s own Martha Thomases had a swell birthday party at a wonderful-yet-foo-foo West Village Manhattan restaurant. As we left we walked through the massive line waiting to get in and I passed by a guy I thought I knew or recognized. Embarrassed, I waited until we were outside before I asked Martha if she knew who that was. She stopped, stared for a second, and said “Oh my god, that’s Lou Reed.”

Lou looked like shit – well-coiffed shit, but still… A week later we heard he was in for a liver transplant. Ultimately, it was that transplant that led to his death.

Martha and I share another Lou Reed moment, this one with fellow ComicMixer John Ostrander. You see, there is this...

On this week's Voice Film Club podcast, our critics discuss the upcoming Dallas Buyers Club, the late Lou Reed, 1983's Get Crazy, 1979's The Visitor, and 2008's In Bruges. Matthew McConaughey extends his streak of taking on challenging roles in Dallas Buyers Club (out November 1), playing AIDS victim, entrepreneur, and ad-hoc activist Ron Woodruff. "I used to hate [McConaughey] with an unholy passion and partly because I hated the characters he played who were just so smarmy and so certain they were so good looking and so charming," says the Village Voice's Zacharek. "And on one hand, you don't want to hold that against an actor, but it's li...

Even though his impact in front of the camera was rarely felt, the music and mood of Lou Reed has had a staggering influence on film soundtracks through the years. So it’s with heavy hearts that we report the rock pioneer has died at the age of 71.Born in Brooklyn in 1942, he got into song writing early, kicking off his career after university working at novelty records label Pickwick. After befriending John Cale, he formed a band called the Primitives, which would mutate into the Warlocks and then the incredibly influential Velvet Underground, with whom he would have some of his earliest hits.Reed split from the band in 1970 and struck out on his own as a solo singer, producing such memorable albums as Transformer, Berlin and Metal Machine Music.Film-wise, he’s cropped up in movies such as 1980’s One Trick Pony (written by and starring) Paul Simon,...

While I have learned to put up with people talking during trailers, I still don't like it. I want to see and hear about the great movies that are coming out. And I know many people who love to look at old commercials that have found their way onto YouTube. So why not make a night of it, of trailers and ads, and throw in strange 80s music comedy Get Crazy starring Daniel Stern, Malcolm McDowell and Lou Reed? This is all happening next Wednesday, April 10th, at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square. Details and a trailer for the trailers below: 96 Normal 0 false false false En-us Ja X-none /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt...

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We watch them every day but do they always get the recognition they deserve as an art form in their own right? Well, Night Of The Trailers Presents, An evening of original vintage 35Mm trailers to put all that right. At The Prince Charles Cinema, London, 9pm, Wed 10th April, 2013 Night Of The Trailers 35Mm Edition bring madness, mayhem and cinematic nostalgia back to the big screen at London’s home of cult films: The Prince Charles Cinema. Presented by Alex Kidd, this 40-minute compilation of 35Mm vintage trailers and rarely-seen adverts from the 70s and 80s includes Get Crazy (1983), a chaotic music comedy, unlike anything else you’ve ever seen before. Alex Kidd said today: “As Night Of the Trailers, I’ve been bringing London the best in obscure film trailers over the last few years, including providing trailer mayhem at Film4 FrightFest, and my own trailer events at venues throughout London.

Night Of The Trailers 35mm Edition bring madness, mayhem and cinematic nostalgia back to the big screen at London’s home of cult films: The Prince Charles Cinema. Presented by Alex Kidd, this 40-minute compilation of 35mm vintage trailers and rarely-seen adverts from the 70s and 80s includes Get Crazy (1983), a chaotic music comedy, unlike anything else you’ve ever seen before starring Daniel Stern, Malcolm McDowell, Lou Reed and many more…

This looks to be one hell of a wild and crazy evening! Check out the promo video:

Night Of The Trailers 35mm Edition takes place at The Prince Charles Cinema, London on Wednesday 10th April starting at 9pm.

Austin, Texas — Green Day isn't talking about the recent rocky past, but they're playing like the old days.

An upbeat Billie Joe Armstrong whipped the Grammy-winning punk trio through an ear-splitting two-hour show Friday night at the South by Southwest Music Festival, returning to the stage for only the second time since Armstrong emerged from a rehab stint that caused the band to postpone an arena tour.

The 41-year-old Armstrong made no mention of his problems with substance abuse while playfully bantering with a nearly sold-out crowd Moody Theater and ripping through a 25-song marathon. The energetic set mixed new rockers from the "Uno!" "Dos!" "Tre!" trilogy the band rolled out last winter and old favorites like "Longview" and "American Idiot."

"This ain't no (expletive) cafe!" Armstrong told the crowd right out of the gate. "Get crazy!"

Armstrong's good spirits were a sharp contrast to his profane meltdown at the...

Vampire Diaries season 4 Elena and the gang get crazy stalked & more in episode 13. Recently, TV Line dished new spoilery details for Vampire Diaries episode 13 of season 4 in their latest spoiler chat session,and it looks like we'll see Elena and the gang get crazy stalked by a creature or something mysterious when they venture out to find the cure with creepy Professor Shane. Also,we may see the arrival of a new,mystery woman ,named Caitlin,who has close ties to Shane. Their spoilery statement went like this: "The search for a cure will take the gang straight into… an episode of Lost? In the Feb. 7 episode, Shane leads the gang to a spooky deserted island, and faster than you can say “Smoke Monster, Bitches!” something or someone starts stalking them. In possibly related news, this is the same episode we meet this woman." In the "meet this woman" part,...

Let’s be honest: Everyone you know is already going as Honey Boo Boo. They got the Honey Boo Boos covered. What they don’t know (and what you and I know) is that the true star of Reality TV 2012 isn’t that little Mountain Dew-swilling moppet, but her larger than life mother, “Mama” June Shannon.

Which of course is why you’re going to be dressed as Mama come next week (or probably this Saturday. This mid-day holiday is throwing everybody off.) To be honest, I hesitated to suggest a budget Mama costume, as I didn’t want it to be insulting towards a human I genuinely like and respect. I want to pay her homage, not make her feel bad. You know what I mean? Then I realized: how many of us will ever be Halloween costumes? I don’t mean characters we spawned or memes we created.

Barry White’s got nothing on New Girl‘s Nick – and here’s a little sumthin’-sumthin’ to show you why.

At the end of the October 2 episode “Fluffer,” you’ll recall that Nick gives Jess a CD guaranteed to help her get over the (ahem) hump with new boy toy Sam. And at the end of the half hour, we see the pair getting it on to one of Nick’s carefully selected tracks… which Sam asks her to immediately turn off when they’re done.

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My thanks to Martha Thomases for her column this week. In it she confessed to having a fondness for the 1980 Flash Gordon film that started the immortal Sam Jones and Max Van Sydow. It’s bad film and she knows it but she has legit reasons for her fondness of it. Martha, just so you know, the 2007 SyFy TV series is much worse, not even having space ships, for crying out loud! Flash Gordon without space ships?! Talk about not getting the concept!

I say thank you because I had no idea what I was going to do for my column this week and now I do. There are bad films and one CD that I know are horrible but I felt a compulsion to go out and buy a copy of them. This isn’t the same as the weird films of which I own a copy and that...

For no reasons that are indefensible intellectually, I went to see Rock of Ages the other day. I like Alec Baldwin, okay? It’s loud and it’s fun, and while hair metal was never my genre, I kind of like the power ballads that dominate the soundtrack.

The main plot is almost identical to Get Crazy, one of the greatest movies ever made. A sincere rock club on the Sunset Strip (in this case, The Bourbon Room), run by Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand, is in the rapacious site of greedy real estate developers. Our heroes must put on a show that will sell enough tickets to raise money and thwart the evil plans. Meanwhile, a sweet young girl (Julianne Hough) from the heartland comes to Los Angeles with dreams of rock stardom, and falls in love with a boy with similar dreams (Diego Benota).

Mixed up in all...

Party rockers take a shot at 'How The F--- We Gettin' Home?!' on YouTube.

By Gil Kaufman

Lmfao at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards

Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images

DJ Pauly D isn't the only member of the "Jersey Shore" crew obsessed with beats. The vibe has clearly rubbed off on pal Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, who is prepping for the release on Tuesday (June 5) of his debut single, "How The F--- We Gettin' Home?!"

And just like Pauly D made sure to get a co-sign from his label boss, 50 Cent, on his musical adventures, Ronnie has lined up some famous friends to help him get the word out. The song has been circulating online for several weeks and when Ronnie recently visited a New Jersey club Lmfao's RedFoo and SkyBlu were in the house and they treated the crowd at Mur Mur to a live performance of the track, which also features Modo and Jaylyn Ducati.

"Get crazy/ get wild/ Let's party/ get loud…" Yes! Finally the theme song we've waited a whole two months for! The guidos and guidettes from the Jersey Shore are back for a fifth season of what we can assume will be full of alcohol, grenades, kooka dances and hookups. So let's jump right in! Ciao, Italia! Florence was amazing, we're sure, but the roommates were more than ready to head back home. After their flight landed and rooming arrangements were settled (it stayed the same as before, which meant The Situation is with Ron and Sam again. Should be interesting), all six of the not-as-tanned reality stars ran up those stairs to the Jersey house. So how'd they celebrate...

He's back! Fan-favorite, famed director Edgar Wright is returning to present a new week-long film festival at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Wright is hosting The Wright Stuff III, a fest which kicks off December 9th with Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can’t Help It and Allan Arkush's Get Crazy. If you haven't been following his updates throughout the fall, Wright has been asking to collect a list of the best film he hasn't seen, so he can experience them all in the cinema together with everyone. His final selection includes 18 films over a week showing as double & triple bills at the New Beverly. Find his complete line-up below. Here we go. "For my next programming stint, why not screen classic or cult movies that I have yet to see and always wanted to see on a big screen," he says. For the full rundown head...

[1] Last month, we tipped you off [2] to an unusual project by director Edgar Wright. In his third round of programming for the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, California, Wright decided to make the theme "Movies Edgar Has Never Seen" -- and enlisted the help of famous filmmaker pals and fans alike to guide him in picking films he'd never seen, but had always wanted to watch on the big screen. He's now made his selections, with suggestions from people like Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Judd Apatow, and Harry Knowles, and they represent a great mix of genres, tones, eras, and so on. Get the schedule for the program, which runs December 9-16, and read some of Wright's comments after the jump. In his blog, Wright wrote a bit about why he was inspired to fill a schedule with movies that were new to him. I hope in my...

Humbly submitting himself to his own cinematic blindspots!

A smart man knows things; a wise man is smart enough to know that there are things he does not know*.

Or something like that.

For a few weeks now, Edgar Wright has proved himself a wise man, laying bare his cinematic soul, openly confessing to the classics he’s yet to see. (Unless you’re Our Fearless Leader Joe Dante, you have these.) He’s put together lists. He’s pared down lists. And he’s teased us with acronyms, all in anticipation of a special select season of programming at Los Angeles’ finest repertory house, The New Beverly.

And now, Mr. Wright has finally announced the full slate of a new Wright Stuff season at the New Beverly (his third!) full of great gems that have heretofore been left unseen by his eyes. When most people (especially in this town...

Below you will find a list of movie that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright has never seen. Not long ago Wright went out and asked his friends and fans to recommend some movies they thought he may have missed over the last thirty years of his life. He got recommendations from Quentin Tarantino, Daniel Waters, Bill Hader, John Landis, Guillermo Del Toro, Joe Dante, Judd Apatow, Joss Whedon, Greg Mottola, Schwartzman, Doug Benson, Rian Johnson, Larry Karaszeski, Josh Olson, Harry Knowles and hundreds of fans on this blog.

From these recommendations, Wright created a master list of recommended films that were frequently mentioned. The director now wants the fans to choose which of the films on the list he should watch on the big screen.

Wright is holding a film event at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles called Films Edgar Has Never Seen.

Edgar Wright's latest epic project [1] has him partnering with Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, Joss Whedon, Bill Hader, Guillermo Del Toro, Joe Dante, Greg Mottola, Harry Knowles, Rian Johnson and, probably, several of you. Like all of us, Wright has a bunch of classic and cult films he's never seen. Unlike all of us, he has the means to see them for the first time on the big screen and will do just that in December [2] at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles during Films Edgar Has Never Seen. The director of Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World asked both his famous friends (some of which are listed above) and fans to send in their personal must see lists and, from those titles, Wright came up with one mega list from which he'll pick a few movies to watch December 9-16. After the jump check...