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Can't kill his vibe! After nabbing the Grammy for best rap album - one of the 11 categories he was nominated in - Kendrick Lamar brought the audience to their feet with a medley of hits starting with "The Blacker The Berry". Taking the stage with a backdrop of a prison cell, chains and fire, Lamar celebrated his victories with the To Pimp A Butterfly track fusing rap and jazz. .@kendricklamar on fire! #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/ITZV526YK2— The GRAMMYs (@TheGRAMMYs) February 16, 2016 Already winning 5 Grammys before he took the stage, the Compton, California, native then performed "Alright," which honoree Rev Run...

Kendrick Lamar is having a moment - and it's bound to get bigger in 2016. On Feb. 15, the rapper will attend the Grammy Awards as the frontrunner. With 11 nominations, Lamar comes one short of tying with Michael Jackson for scoring the most nominations in one night. (Thriller helped the Gloved One nab 12 nods in 1984.) "I'm still soaking that all in," Lamar, 28, tells The New York Times in a far-reaching interview. "Michael will forever be the greatest. I'm glad it was at 11. I would never want to even think about putting myself on the same level as Michael, simply because I haven't...

Kendrick Lamar is having a moment - and it's bound to get bigger in 2016. On Feb. 15, the rapper will attend the Grammy Awards as the frontrunner. With 11 nominations, Lamar comes one short of tying with Michael Jackson for scoring the most nominations in one night. (Thriller helped the Gloved One nab 12 nods in 1984.) "I'm still soaking that all in," Lamar, 28, tells The New York Times in a far-reaching interview. "Michael will forever be the greatest. I'm glad it was at 11. I would never want to even think about putting myself on the same level as Michael, simply because I haven't...

Filmmaker John Singleton has put his long-in-the-works Tupac Shakur biopic "on hold," at least on his end. "I'm putting my involvement on hold right now because we're trying to figure out some things," he recently told Xxl. "I got a script and I got the blessings from his family. We'll see.... We've got to get it right." The movie was originally supposed to go into production in June.

The director, whose credits include Boyz N the Hood and the Shakur-starring Poetic Justice, did not expound on the logistics stymying his involvement in the movie,...

The 2011 PollyGrind Film Festival recently wrapped up in Las Vegas, and the madman behind the scenes, Chad Clinton Freeman, checked in with Dread Central to share with us exclusively the winners of this year's fest.

Reveling in everything from arthouse to grindhouse to everything in between, PollyGrind has quickly made a name for itself as one of the up-and-coming premiere genre fests out there due to the success of each year of programming. This year's big winners (and flicks that will no doubt go on to find audiences soon) include the highly controversial The Bunny Game, The Super, Dear God No!, The Gruesome Death of Tommy Pistol and Ratline.

"I was very happy with the quantity of quality films and the diversity I was able to program this year," Freeman said. "Being able to world premiere films like Mondo Sexxxx: The Terry Kobrah Story and The Gruesome Death of Tommy Pistol,...

The 2nd annual PollyGrind assaults Las Vegas during an epic length film festival that runs Oct. 8-17 at Theatre 7 with enough sleaze and violence to make Sin City residents feel right at home.

Actually, the fest does open up on the 7th with a concert at Neon Venus with local acts like Monster Zero, Creepersin and many more.

However, the film portion of the fest opens on the 8th with Stuart Simpson‘s acclaimed Australian gorefest El Monstro Del Mar!, one of the best Russ Meyer/Roger Corman mash-ups with a Down Under twist. Read the Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film review of this gem here.

Other Bad Lit favorites in the lineup are Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson‘s The Taint, which is still completely grossing out audiences on the festival circuit, and The Uh-Oh Show, the splatter-filled horror comedy by the Godfather of Gore himself Herschell Gordon Lewis.

We recently told you about the upcoming PollyGrind Film Festival, one of the premiere grindhouse film festivals, that's set to celebrate all-things B-Movie style in Las Vegas this October. The madman behind the festival, Chad Clinton Freeman, announced today this year's PollyGrind line-up and it looks pretty sweet!

And not only is PollyGrind celebrating films, the fest is also celebrating several indie music acts slated to perform during the fest, a Zombiepalooza celebration and a whole lot more! Read on for all the details for the Second Annual PollyGrind Film Festival!

From the Press Release:

It's been called "the key festival for indie cult filmmakers to land distribution deals." Its founder and programmer has been called the "new champion of unabashed B-movie sleaze." Those praises might seem a bit outlandish, but with the official announcement of the PollyGrind Film Festival's schedule, it's easy to see where they come from.

Chad Clinton Freeman...

This Friday, August 26th, at Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood, California, there will be a "farewell" midnight screening of writer/director Edward E. Romero's Butterfly in advance of the film's appearance at the upcoming American Film Market in November. Read on for the details.

Butterfly, written and directed by Edward E. Romero, stars Mandi Kreisher, Jay Laisne, Ron Roggé, Garrett Penwell, Jeff Linnartz, Sky Kelley, Zachary Wharton, Wendy Kelley, and Eileen Dietz. It was produced by Margo Romero for Blank Page Entertainment, Inc., with executive producers Martin Cummins and Jeff Linnartz.

Synopsis:

What's the difference between an image of real death and one that you fake? Nick Cole (Laisne) is a straight-to-dvd horror director with a questionable past. Laney (Kreisher) is an over-zealous fan with a flare for the macabre. When Laney kidnaps Cole to show him her latest project -- a series of artistic snuff films -- it...

Last year I began covering the Oscar Contenders in September, which was about three months earlier than I ever had in the past. It brought a lot of conversation and made predicting the Oscars, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards that much more fun. So, this year we will start even earlier. While I haven't had the chance to update the RopeofSilicon Contenders section with this year's crop, I will be getting to that very soon. For now, let's get into this. It's been less than three months since Slumdog Millionaire took home 8 Oscars and we are now ready to see what film will stand above the rest in 2009 and the Cannes Film Festival has offered up our first topics of conversation. We will begin with a title not included in the headline in Pixar's Up, a movie I may be seeing this Wednesday, but the screening is in 2-D,...