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Bleecker Street has released the first trailer for its music mockumentary sequel, “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.”

Forty-one years in the making, “The End Continues” is the follow-up to the 1984 classic comedy, “This Is Spinal Tap.” In the original film, director Rob Reiner — playing a fictional version of himself — follows the fictional British metal band across its North American tour. Though the film is scripted, it follows the visual language and conventions of the era’s iconic music documentaries like Led Zeppelin’s “The Song Remains the Same” and The Band’s “The Last Waltz,” satirizing the dramatic, eccentric and wild behaviors of rock-and-roll musicians.

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer reprise their roles as Spinal Tap bandmates Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls in “The End Continues.” Reiner also returns, both in front of and behind the camera.

The sequel shows the band recruiting a...

When Rob Reiner‘s directorial debut, “This Is Spinal Tap,” opened in theaters in early 1984, it quickly became a cult classic beloved by music fans and cinephiles alike for its hilarious portrayal of the title band, a heavy metal group plagued by mishaps while on tour promoting its latest album. Told in a documentary style in which Reiner riffed on films like D.A. Pennebaker’s “Don’t Look Back” and Martin Scorsese‘s “The Last Waltz” to tell Spinal Tap’s story, the film was incredibly influential, spawning a whole series of mockumentaries by “Spinal Tap” band member Christopher Guest and television series like “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation.”

Yet, when Reiner tried to raise money for the movie, no one was interested — even after he shot a 20-minute reel of scenes to demonstrate what he was going for. “We went to every single studio and got turned down everywhere,...

The Supernatural spinoff series, The Winchesters, paid off a prophecy about the Impala 13 years after it was made in Supernatural. After 15 successful seasons, Supernatural came to an end in 2020, much to the disappointment of its dedicated fanbase. However, in 2021, a Supernatural spinoff series called The Winchesters was released, following the story of John Winchester and Mary Campbell in an alternate continuity, as they fall in love while fighting monsters in the search for their missing fathers. Unfortunately, The Winchesters was canceled after just one season, following a disappointing trend seen with other canceled Supernatural spinoffs.

As a series based on traveling across America to hunt monsters, Supernatural had to have an iconic car, which turned out to be a black 1967 Chevrolet Impala affectionately called Baby. The Impala was bought by John Winchester in 1973, and eventually passed down to Dean sometime before season 1s pilot. Dean uses the Impala throughout Supernatural...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of July titles. The Tubi July 2024 slate features new Tubi Originals, as well as numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library: over 200,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of Tubi Originals, and nearly 250 Fast channels.

You can watch the Tubi July 2024 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

Tubi Originals

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The chance for the public to see the long-awaited documentary “Becoming Led Zeppelin” is finally becoming a reality for fans of the classic rock band. The film has been acquired for release by Sony Classics Pictures, and will get a big-screen theatrical rollout, the company announced Wednesday.

The rights picked up by Sony Classics are for North America, Latin America, Southeast Asia (except for Japan), the Middle East and Benelux. Negotiations for the deal took place between Sony Classics, director Bernard MacMahon and Altitude Film Sales.

No time frame was given for the film’s release, but Zeppelin fans have waited for years, so a possible matter of months may come as good news at this point. A rough version of the film premiered at and was reviewed out of the Venice Film Festival in September 2021, before it seemed to slip into limbo, as far as the general public knew.

Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has acquired all rights for North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Benelux and Southeast Asia excluding Japan to documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin.

Directed by Bernard MacMahon and written by MacMahon and producer Allison McGourty, the film explores the origin and rise of seventies rock giant Led Zeppelin. Paradise Pictures produced in association with Big Beach, and Michael Clark, Alex Turtletaub, Duke Erikson, Cynthia Heusing, David Kistenbroker, Simon Moran and Ged Doherty served as executive producers.

According to SPC, Becoming Led Zeppelin is the first officially sanctioned film on the group (though the band’s 1973 concert...

Over 15 seasons, the Winchesters faced a seemingly endless array of powerful villains on Supernatural, so it only made sense that, at a certain point, they would come up with a team name. Unfortunately, looking back at the Winchesters' final battle against God and how the series ended, Team Free Will has become a much darker and ironic reference. Supernatural follows brothers and demon hunters Sam and Dean Winchester who reunite to investigate the disappearance of their father and continue fighting evil long after that.

The Team Free Will nickname first originated in Supernatural season 5, episode 13 entitled "The Song Remains The Same." In the episode, angel Anna goes back in time to 1978 to kill John and Mary, so Sam will never be born, and in turn, Sam, Dean, and Castiel follow her to stop her plans. However, their great rescue plan has a rough start as the time travel weakens Castiel...

Joe Massot’s vivid 1981 film about the British ska scene brims with life, sweat and the faces of ecstatic fans

US director Joe Massot, known for the psychedelic 60s curiosity Wonderwall and Led Zeppelin concert movie The Song Remains the Same, directed this tremendously vivid 1981 documentary about the British 2 Tone movement, this vital music being a kind of evolutionary product of reggae’s coexistence with punk the decade before.

Working with producer Gavrik Losey, son of Joseph, Massot gives us live footage, whimsically interspersed with Pathé newsreels from the early 60s (not so long before the present-day material) with plummy-voiced chaps earnestly intoning about “young people”. The movie is a madeleine for people of my generation: summoning up the sweat of venues such as London’s Lyceum Ballroom in the Strand, it shudders with the bands’ inexhaustible jogging-on-the-spot energy, the kind of live show where the singer lets rip directly...

Alamo Drafthouse is partnering with distributor FilmRise to bring Prince’s concert film Sign O’ The Times back to the big screen for its 35th anniversary.

The new 4K presentation will run at 24 locations in New York, LA and nationwide starting April 1. (See trailer below.)

“Sign O’ The Times is, without a doubt, one of Prince’s greatest achievements as an artist,” says Alamo Drafthouse film programmer Jake Isgar. “We’re thrilled at the opportunity to be a part of preserving and presenting his musical legacy.”

The film captures the late singer songwriter at the height of his most prolific period, following the platinum-selling double album of the same name.

The screening is part of Austin-based Alamo Drafthouse’s ‘Play It Loud’ limited series, running through March and into April with classic rock/pop performance films including Josie and the Pussycats, A Hard Day’s Night, and Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same.

Rarely one finds a friend on the Criterion Channel—discounting the parasitic relationship we form with filmmakers, I mean—but it’s great seeing their March lineup give light to Sophy Romvari, the <bias>exceptionally talented</bias> filmmaker and curator whose work has perhaps earned comparisons to Agnès Varda and Chantal Akerman but charts its own path of history and reflection. It’s a good way to lead into an exceptionally strong month, featuring as it does numerous films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the great Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara, newfound cult classic Arrebato, and a number of Criterion editions.

On the last front we have The Age of Innocence, Bull Durham, A Raisin in the Sun, The Celebration, Merrily We Go to Hell, and Design for Living. There’s always something lingering on the watchlist, but it might have to wait a second longer—March is an opened floodgate.

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Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page didn’t hold back in detailing why the band has refused to participate in a single documentary until now.

Bernard MacMahon’s “Becoming Led Zeppelin” premieres at the Venice Film Festival Saturday afternoon, and tickets for all 12 press and public screenings of the film have sold out — easily making it one of the most sought-after movies at the fest. Part of the film’s appeal is its rarity, given the band has never taken part in a film apart from “The Song Remains the Same” (1976), which was more of a concert movie.

Page, the only band member to attend the Venice press conference, told reporters at a press conference that there had been requests to make a documentary in the past “but they’d been pretty miserable.”

“Yes. Miserable,” he reiterated when chuckles went up around the room, “and also to the point where they...

The summer movie season may be winding down, but HBO Max is keeping the movie ball rolling in September 2021. HBO Max’s list of new releases this month is heavy on the film side of things – both in library and original offerings.

Two Warner Bros. films of note arrive this month. The James Wan-directed horror tale Malignant premieres on Sept. 10 and is followed by Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho on Sept. 17. The next installment in Adventure Time: Distant Lands (which is kind of like a film series!) is titled Wizard City and opens the month on Sept. 2

Of course, it wouldn’t be a new month of HBO Max releases without some interesting evergreen Warner movie titles. Sept. 1 finds all eight Harry Potter movies returning to WarnerMedia’s streaming service. They will be accompanied by The Goonies, The Evil Dead, Cloverfield, and more. Later on in the month, Mortal Kombat (Sept.

“Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the first fully fledged documentary portrait of rock gods Led Zeppelin, has been added to the Venice Film Festival lineup and will play out of competition.

Bernard MacMahon (“American Epic”) directed the film, which is the first time the band had participated in a documentary in 50 years, telling the story of Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham and Robert Plant and how they would bring a whole lotta love to the world.

MacMahon stages it not as a concert doc in the vein of the iconic 1976 film “The Song Remains The Same” but almost as a fantastical musical, which he says was in part inspired by “Singin’ in the Rain.”

“Becoming Led Zeppelin” starts its focus on each member of the band individually and how they went from playing small clubs throughout Britain in the ’60s until they met in the summer of 1968 for a rehearsal...

“American Epic” director Bernard MacMahon has revealed the title of his long-awaited and recently completed Led Zeppelin feature documentary: “Becoming Led Zeppelin.”

The project, which was first announced in 2019, has unprecedented access to the band, marking the first and only time the group has participated in a documentary in 50 years. Though 1976 doc “The Song Remains the Same” centred on the band, that was largely a concert film of a series of Madison Square Garden performances in 1973.

“’Becoming Led Zeppelin’ is a film that no one thought could be made,” said MacMahon. “The band’s meteoric rise to stardom was swift and virtually undocumented. Through an intense search across the globe and years of restoration of the visual and audio archive found, this story is finally able to be told.”

A release date hasn’t yet been set for the pic. Altitude Film Sales and Submarine Entertainment will be co-repping sales.

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Originally formed in the late 1960s under the name the New Yardbirds, the band later changed their name to to Led Zeppelin and are considered by some to be one of the greatest rock groups of all time. In fact, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Led Zeppelin — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul...

Akio Sakurai grew up idolizing Led Zeppelin in his small hometown in Japan and would eventually move to Tokyo and become “Mr. Jimmy,” adopting the guitar chops and persona of guitar virtuoso Jimmy Page. For the better part of three decades, he recreated vintage Zeppelin concerts note-for-note in small Tokyo clubs, until the “real” Jimmy Page stopped by one night, and Akio’s life changed forever. That story is the subject of a new documentary called “Mr. Jimmy,” which debuted at SXSW this week. Variety caught up with the Tokyoite who offered his top 5 favorite Zeppelin songs.

“Stairway to Heaven”

(BBC Sessions Live Version)

April 1, 1971, Paris Theatre, London

This early version moves me deeply. Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin capture the spiritual atmosphere of the studio version live on stage. It’s remarkably faithful to the brilliant recorded version (still not released at this point), at the same time it...

Tony Sokol Mar 4, 2019

The Queen of Soul laid down a night of spiritual music for the Gospel classic Amazing Grace, now we can see the show.

Aretha Franklin wasn't only the Queen of Soul. She was part of a legendary legacy which raised racial consciousness through that old time religion. One of the most spiritual performers on stage, her voice and her piano were possessed of the gift of happy telepathy, even on the saddest of songs. Her live gospel album from 1972 Amazing Grace, revealed the holy spirit of soul music. It is the highest-selling gospel album of all time. The long-suppressed documentary the concert, Amazing Grace gets a nationwide release on April 5th, 2019.

Filmmaker Sydney Pollack caught Aretha performing the live album Amazing Grace. She played The New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles backed by the Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir, along with some Atlantic Records musicians,...

Christopher Guest revealed the initial inspiration for This is Spinal Tap at the A.V. Club comedy festival. Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap is the legendary mockumentary on the fictional hard rock band Spinal Tap that has spawned countless imitators and has even been turned into a descriptive term to poke fun at musicians and the entire music business as a whole. Many bands have spoken up to claim that they were the inspiration for This is Spinal Tap and there have been a few confirmed stories that made it into the movie, but the original inspiration for the cult-favorite mockumentary has never been revealed.

After taking part in the School of Film live event for A.V. Club's comedy festival, Guest took questions from the audience. One audience member stood up and asked Guest if any of the characters that he has portrayed over the yeas were autobiographical.

Blockbuster season starts earlier and earlier every year – in 2017, we have made it three whole days into March before those studio tentpoles start to break ground. Heavy hitters Logan, Kong: Skull Island, Power Rangers and Ghost in the Shell will get the blockbuster year off to a roaring start. Meanwhile, those in search of smaller-scale entertainment can enjoy Terence Malick's latest dreamy drama, a cannibalism flick with a reputation that precedes it and a festival favorite featuring a career-best performance from Kristen Stewart. Here's what you need to see over the next month.

Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.

In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.

Raisin’ Cain: The History of Cain’s Ballroom

Logline: “Raisin’ Cain” will be a cinematic journey told through the music and artists that have made this Tulsa music venue legendary. It will celebrate its 92 years, exploring the ties between Cain’s, the Tulsa Sound, and a myriad of musical genres.

Elevator Pitch:

We hope to preserve the storied history of the legendary Honky-Tonk, Cain’s Ballroom. “The Home of Bob Wills” has hosted 3 generations of Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Wanda Jackson to the Sex Pistols, The Police, U2 and many others. The film will tell...

If you are excited by the prospect of a Lonely Island movie, I have good news for you. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a Lonely Island movie in every way, packed with music and jokes. At 90 minutes, it moves fast, and it offers up some laser-sharp satire. If there’s any overall problem with the film, it is that they’ve made a very specific satire of a target that is so ridiculous it almost resists parody. It’s easy to just make the comparison to This Is Spinal Tap, the mockumentary that launched Rob Reiner’s career as a director, but Popstar is a reaction to a very different kind of film than Spinal Tap was. You have to go back and look at films like The Song Remains The Same or The Kids Are Alright to understand what the culture was that Spinal Tap targeted, while modern...

This Damned Band #1

Written by Paul Cornell

Art by Tony Parker

Colors by Lovern Kindzierski

Published by Dark Horse Comics

This Damned Band #1 starts to answer this question, “What if the Satanic connection that fundamentalist Christians said rock ‘n’ roll bands had was actually true?” The comic follows a British five piece called Motherfather as they play a show in Japan, get laid backstage, say all kinds of supernatural mumbo jumbo, and keep forgetting that they’re in a documentary. Sadly, writer Paul Cornell doesn’t go beyond rock star excesses for most of the issue with the exception of Kev trying to have a wife and four kids while his bandmates have an impromptu drug filled orgy. There is also Clive, who calls himself the “creator” of Motherfather, and starts out as a posturing, mane sporting frontman a la Robert Plant, but becomes more twisted as the story progresses.

Held last month on March 24-29, the Ann Arbor Film Festival handed out awards to a gaggle of experimental films and filmmakers.

The big winner of the fest was Sicilian filmmaker Simone Rapisarda Casanova for his fiction/documentary hybrid film The Creation of Meaning, which won the overall Best of the Festival award. The film tells the story of a WWII survivor who lives as a shepherd in the Tuscan Alps.

The Best Narrative Film award went to Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan’s Episode of the Sea, a neo-realist drama focused on the struggles of a tiny inland fishing community in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, the Best Documentary Film award went to longtime collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat for their Speculation Nation, which examines the current housing crisis in Spain.

Other winners include Alexandre Larose (Most Technically Innovative Film); Jenni Olson (Best Lgbt Film); Kevin Jerome Everson (Handcrafted...

The Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrates its epic 53rd annual edition on March 24-29 with a colossal selection of experimental short films and features.

Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.

Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.

Special...

Been meaning to catch up with Sam and Dean Winchester, but just haven't found the time? Our Supernatural tips for beginners may help...

Maps To TV Shows: Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then Maps To TV Shows is for you!

In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to...

You take the good, you take the bad, you take the rest and there you have last night's installment of Monday Night Raw.

With the Authority finally usurped, fans got some much-needed relief from Hhh and Stephanie's omnipresence (at least after the opening segment) and were rewarded for their patience with the return of one-night Gm Daniel Bryan. And after a rather lengthy series of monologues and mandates, grown men and women tussled and toiled, belts were defended and retained and Kane ended his night covered in a hellacious combination of condiments.

I generally pay as much attention to the broadcast network development season as I do to the baseball draft. Though the shows that actually survive development are much closer to airing chronologically than most baseball draftees are to the majors, the winnowing process is just as brutal in both cases. On average, a given network will hear 3-400 pitches a year, order scripts for 60-70 of them, make 8-12 pilots and put roughly between a half dozen and a dozen of them on the air. So I’ve usually found development not worth worrying about until shows are actually ordered to series and scheduled. That said, it’s been tough to ignore this fall’s development season, where it seems like every day for the past few weeks, my Twitter feed has blown up a few times an afternoon with news of a familiar movie or TV property being adapted...

“I think this is a song of hope!”

The Song Remains The Same will screen Thursday August 28th at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood

The 1976 concert film The Song Remains The Same captures Led Zeppelin in all their hedonistic glory, swaggering their way through their greatest hits. It’s the chronicle of a quartet of metal geniuses, showing them in real life as themselves, doing what they do best. We also get a glimpse into their minds eye in trippy fantasy sequences with the guys as Medieval knights and sorcerers, Masqueraded party guests, and race car drivers……and in seventies tradition, each band member receives a ridiculously long solo (the film runs 137 minutes!) and that’s the way it should be!

The Song Remains The Same is an odd combination of some music video-type fantasy sequences and a bit of 1970s documentary to boot. While it is true that the non-concert...

Rock out Thursday June 5th when Sound City screens at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood at 7pm.

I’ve never seen Sound City. I’ve seen hardly any rock docs (unless you count Spinal Tap), not even Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. I did enjoy Anvil! The Story Of Anvil a couple of years ago. I saw the Led Zep film The Song Remains The Same when it was new and recall a midnight show of Black And Blue, a Black Sabbath/Blue Oyster Cult concert film around 1980 that I can’t imagine sitting through today. Anyway, A Film Series is kicking off a new Rockumentary film series with Sound City next Thursday, June 5th, at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Avenue, Maplewood, Missouri 63143). The movie begins at 7pm

Sound City Studios is a recording complex that opened in 1969 in Van Nuys, CA. While the studio looked utilitarian on the outside...

As season finale season kicks into high gear, Entertainment Weekly reached out to some of your favorite shows for some unconventional teases. Check out the latest installment of our Season Finale Survey below:

Show name/our names, title: Once Upon a Time/Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz/Executive Producers, Creators

Airdate: 5/11/14

Finale Title: “There’s No Place Like Home”

Number of deaths: Depends on how you define death… does the obliteration of a soul count?

One-word tease, presented in any language other than English: Shalom

Song I jammed to while writing the episode: “The Song Remains the Same” — Led Zeppelin (live...

Most music docs chop up concert footage, edit in screaming fans and call it a day. Far too often, it feels like you're watching the exact same film, only recast with different bands. But Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's 20,000 Days on Earth, about apocalyptic rock poet Nick Cave, is something very different. The filmmakers and Cave create staged scenarios, in which Cave improvises naturally, that explain his creative process. He's shot driving in a car three times: with tough-guy English actor Ray Winstone in the passenger seat, Australian singer Kylie Minogue in the backseat,...

They say never meet your idols, and I can appreciate the underlying wisdom in that, though it has always struck me as being a bit of a joyless and dour belief. Definitely a very British one, as well.

Statements like this tend to make my hackles rise. I know within my heart of hearts that even if my hero spat on my shoe, stole my girlfriend and then drop-kicked me into moving traffic, I would still rather take the chance than fear that they would not live up to my expectations. I don’t mind my bubble being burst every now and again, and – more to the point – what if “they” are wrong? What if by some stratospheric twist of fate the person you have revered for countless years actually proves to be every bit the legend you believed he or she was all along?

Following the Metallica: Through The...

No matter what you might think of their music now (pretty tepid), there's no denying that Metallica have always thought big and loud. And while at first glance the idea of them doing a 3D concert movie might seem a bit odd, it actually does fit their longtime goal of illustrating bold visions through their music. But does "Metallica: Through The Never" actually look good? Well, not really, but certainly there has been so expense spared. Slighty reminiscent of Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains The Same" (though we doubt Lars Ulrich will go down in a hail of bullets), in mixing fantasy with concert footage, the movie finds Dane DeHaan playing Trip, a roadie sent on an urgent mission during a live sold out arena show for Metallica. But he winds up getting caught up in the apocalypse? A Stanley Cup riot? At either rate, if you ever wondering,...

20,000 Days on Earth, a documentary about the singer by the artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, creates a fictionalised 24 hours in his life in which he watches Scarface with his 12-year-old sons and drives Ray Winstone along Brighton seafront

I am sitting in a small estate car, which is tailing a black 1980s Jaguar Xj, in which Nick Cave is pretending to chauffeur Ray Winstone along Brighton seafront, eavesdropping on their conversation via a listening device. They are supposed to be discussing the transformative possibilities offered a rock star as opposed to those offered an actor – Cave has previously expressed the opinion that, unlike an actor, a rock star can never truly remove the mask they have created for themselves, even when offstage – but the conversation seems to have gone slightly off-piste. It has shifted from Cave's early career in Melbourne ("You never wrote a song on the beach? But you're an Australian!

Review Billy Grifter 25 Apr 2013 - 07:30

Billy wishes the lights would go out in Revolution, but they stubbornly remain on. Here's his review of the latest episode...

This review contains spoilers.

1.14 The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

It's a great title, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, or it might have been had the lights been on in the first place. That said, I did notice a change this week, with Revolution moving from the mostly stupid to the generally boring. 

What the writers of Revolution are entirely rubbish at doing is adding a plot element in that doesn't have an obvious use. That's well demonstrated by the appearance of the knife early in this one, where you know once Miles picks it up, and announces it's his, that it will end up killing someone before we're done. Once the story is told a few minutes...

Review Billy Grifter 10 Apr 2013 - 11:18

Billy actually finds parts of this week's Revolution to enjoy, though admittedly, they're few and far between...

This review contains spoilers.

1.13 The Song Remains the Same

In an oddly disconcerting way, there were small parts of this episode I liked, mostly because they focused on character interaction, and not highly improbably sword fights. I'll talk about them later, but first the writers have their first serious stab at explaining the loss of power, and come up very short indeed.

Electricity doesn't work because bad people have designed nano-robots, which only have two modes, one of which is to absorb power, and the other is to replicate. It doesn't take much analysis to realise that virus-sized machines couldn't absorb much power, even if there were 'quadrillions', and the laws of energy conservation mean that they'd have to convert it into heat or light, which we've not seen.

Revolution, Season 1, Episode 13: “The Song Remains the Same”

Written by Monica Owusu-Breen and Matt Pitts

Directed by John F. Showalter

Airs Mondays at 10 pm (Et) on NBC

“What’s a boyband?” — Jason

Every now and then, Revolution offers a reminder that this is a world unfamiliar to us. Miles, Rachel, and Aaron may know our existence in 2013, but the world has changed immeasurably.

This is the future, one where tiny robots with devastating power permeate the air. Yet for all the science-fiction elements, the plot is still very much driven by the oldest of dramatic tensions, that within and between families.

The inter- and intra-family dynamics are the most pronounced they’ve been to date. Save for a brief firefight and a brief sojourn to Monroe HQ, we spend our time here with various combinations of the Mathesons and Nevilles.

Miles and Rachel are battling for Charlie’s affections,...

The cause of the blackout, it’s an answer we’ve all been waiting for since Revolution’s premiere - and "The Song Remains the Same" provided it.

The Virus Flynn unleashed on the terrorist encampment is to blame, as these tiny, self-replicating devices float in the air and only absorb electricity. It’s slightly disconcerting that an answer of such magnitude wasn’t treated with any kind of grandeur, but the reveal was also indicative of Revolution as a series: instead of posing supposed answers that are really just masked questions, actual answers are given. It’s a refreshing take on the usual genre staples.

It turns out the biggest story was just how much everyone hates Neville. It’s, chilling just how far Tom is willing to go to save his own hide. He’s okay using Jason’s feelings toward his mother against him and it’s...

Last week on Revolution, Team Charlie gained a new member and Randall put power back in Monroe's hands. In tonight's thirteenth episode, "The Song Remains the Same", Rachel finally reveals the cause of the black-out and leaves on a dangerous mission to restore power to the world. But why would Rachel abandon Charlie again? Read on to find out what revelations the Revolution writers have in store for us this week.

If "Breaking Bad" has taught us anything, it's that Giancarlo Esposito is awesome, and that opponents should never underestimate any character he plays, whether it's the machiavellian Gus Fring or the steely Major Tom Neville, Sebastian Monroe's (David Lyons) right-hand man on "Revolution." Sadly, it seems that the slimy Randall Flynn (Colm Feore) has not yet learned that lesson, as demonstrated in The Huffington Post's exclusive clip above.

Flynn has intimate knowledge of both the blackout and the pendants that can be used to power Monroe's vast array of destructive machinery, so he seems eager to put Neville in his place -- but Neville is more than capable of holding his own in a battle, verbal or otherwise.

Check out the exclusive clip above and tune into "Revolution," Mondays at 10 p.m. Et on NBC, to see who ultimately comes out on top in this war of words.

Here's how...

Review Billy Grifter 3 Apr 2013 - 11:00

Revolution continues to wend its merry way down the path of science-free fiction. Here's Billy's review of Ghosts...

This review contains spoilers.

1.12 Ghosts

The opening scene of Ghosts sums up where Revolution is in the greater scheme of things. The cast stand around burying the plot point known as 'Danny' knowing that they're just as expendable. There isn't any emotion because he never really made it to character status, and so they just pay their respect by making the blank expression previously copyrighted by Tracy Spiridakos.

From this point onwards it degenerates into the same story we've seen at least eight times where they split up and go to meet people who aren't expecting them, and whom they've upset in the past, only to ask for their help.

This week the annoyed previous acquaintance was the really competent actor, Malik Yoba, who I personally...

New Revolution episode 13,season 1 intense spoilers & clips hit the net. Last night,NBC dropped the new spoilers and sneak peek,clip (below) for their upcoming "Revolution" episode 13 of season 1. The episode is titled, "The Song Remains The Same," and it appears that it will be quite intense and intriguing as Miles gets passionate with Rachel,the crew captures Captain Neville,and more. In the new ""The Song Remains The Same" episode, Neville will end up, facing major danger and hard choices. As Monroe doubts his loyalty, he will disown his own son ,Jason, and gets captured by Miles. Rachel and Charlie will start to slowly patch up their relationship only to be pulled apart again as Rachel suddenly has to embark on a quest to restore the power and her self-respect. Rachel will have to make a dangerous journey to the Mysterious Tower as it holds her only chance at redemption.

Sneak Peek new images and footage from the action drama series "Revolution" and the episode "The Song Remains The Same", airing April 8, 2013 on NBC, starring Tracy Spiridakos, Giancarlo Esposito, David Lyons, Jd Pardo, Billy Burke, and Elizabeth Mitchell:

"...'Neville' (Esposito) faces danger and hard choices as 'Monroe' (Lyons) doubts his loyalty, disowning his son 'Jason' (Pardo) and getting captured by 'Miles' (Burke).

"'Rachel' (Mitchell) and 'Charlie' (Spiridakos) begin slowly patching their relationship only to be pulled apart again as Rachel suddenly embarks on a quest to restore the power and her self-respect.

"She must make a dangerous journey to the mysterious 'Tower' as it holds her only chance at redemption..."

Cast also includes Zak Orth, Daniella Alonso, Colm Feore, Kim Raver, Malik Yobaand and Derek Webster.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Revolution: The Song Remains The Same"...

New Revolution episode 13,season 1 official spoilers,plotline revealed by NBC. Recently, NBC revealed the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Revolution" episode 13 of season 1. The episode is entitled, "The Song Remains The Same," and it sounds like it'll be pretty interesting as Rachel and Charlie try to patch up their relationship,Rachel takes off for the Mysterious Tower,and more. In the new,13th episode press release, Neville will face danger and hard choices. As Monroe doubts his loyalty, he is going to disown his son ,Jason, and gets captured by Miles. Rachel and Charlie will begin slowly patching up their relationship only to be pulled apart again as Rachel suddenly embarks on a quest to restore the power and her self-respect. Rachel is going to have to make a dangerous journey to the Mysterious Tower as it holds her only chance at redemption. Actors Zak Orth, Daniella Alonso,...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Led Zeppelin's pivotal album, "Houses of the Holy." Led Heads, this is your permission to crank it up to 11 today.

The eight-song LP was released in 1973 and was the legendary rock band's fifth studio project, but it represented the first compilation of entirely original Zeppelin music. Including tunes like "The Song Remains the Same" and "Dancing Days," the album was recorded at the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio on Mick Jagger's country estate, featuring more complicated guitar contributions from Page and less of the blues twang heard on other tunes. The result was released to mixed reviews; since then, however, the record has gone down in history as one of Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time (along with "Led Zeppelin," "Led Zeppelin II," "Led Zeppelin IV," and "Physical Graffiti").

The cover art of "Houses of the Holy" (featured below) was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's novel,...

Back story! Angst! Time travel! Creative and grotesque ways to take down super-powerful demons! Tonight’s episode of Supernatural had it all, harking back to fan-favorite episodes like “In the Beginning” and “The Song Remains the Same” that brought Sam and Dean face-to-face with younger versions of their parents.

Spoiler Alert: Read no further if you haven’t seen the Jan. 30 episode, “As Time Goes By,” and if you want to stay away from teases about the rest of season 8.

“As Time Goes By” took us to the past with some new back story about John Winchester and his father,...

With only the fond memories of my elders and the constant viewing of The Song Remains the Same, I’ve no real concept of what it’s like to be in the presence of the legendary rock band, Led Zeppelin. Yet, they remain arguably the greatest rock band of all time. Their music: an amalgamation of blues, rock, and psychedelic awe. Their notoriety compared to Gods or mythological creatures, just like the lyrics to some of their songs. Of the dozens of hits within the ten albums released, hardly any of them are forgettable. If only they’d reunite (in the flesh) for a new generation to appreciate…

On December 10, 2007, Led Zeppelin did just that. The remaining band members took the stage, with the addition of the late drummer’s son, ...

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London -- The song remains the same, as Led Zeppelin once observed. But Zeppelin fans can visit the band's music anew thanks to a film of the rock titans' last show together in 2007.

That was the band's first full show in 27 years. Singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones got together again Friday to promote the film – but that may be as close as fans will get to a new reunion.

At a news conference, the members flatly declined to answer when asked if they were tempted to perform together as Led Zeppelin.

Plant said that even lining up onstage to answer questions – "like a bunch of soccer managers being interviewed after a match" – was not his idea of fun.

The band members have moved on, with Plant in particular finding success in other genres. He has played with musicians from Mali and won a Grammy...

Legendary rockers announce the release of Celebration Day, a film of their one-off reunion show in 2007

The Led Zeppelin countdown is over – and, as expected, the legendary rock band are not reuniting. Instead they are releasing a film of the one-off reunion show they played at the O2 arena in London in 2007.

The band announced that Celebration Day will get a worldwide theatrical release on 17 October, followed by "multiple video and audio" formats on 19 November.

An estimated 20 million people applied for tickets for Led Zeppelin's O2 show. Their 16-song set is included in its entirety in Celebration Day.

Led Zeppelin split in 1980, following the death of drummer John Bonham. During the 80s, their critical reputation sank, but the last 20 years have seen them rehabilitated as guitarist Jimmy Page has led a charge to bolster their legacy with a series of reissues and remasters that have cemented their position as...

The concert documentary is nothing new. Massive acts like The Rolling Stones (1970’s Gimmie Shelter) and Led Zeppelin (1976’s The Song Remains the Same) offered fans a rare peek behind the touring curtain while also providing live versions of hit songs. The process has been fine-tuned over the years by bands like U2 (Rattle and Hum), Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense) and Pearl Jam (Pearl Jam Twenty), to name just a few. This weekend, Katy Perry joins the list of pop artists who have brought their live act to movie theaters for an immersive 3D experience. Perry’s Part of Me 3D features the California Girl performing most of her chart-topping hits as part of her recent global tour. Fans wearing special Katy Perry 3D glasses...

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