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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2025 class of inductees, and it includes seminal hip-hop duo OutKast, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” singer Cyndi Lauper and leading indie rock band The White Stripes.

The Performer Category inductee class also includes English rock supergroup Bad Company, “King of the Twist” Chubby Checker, English rock-blues singer Joe Cocker and grunge band Soundgarden.

Meanwhile, other inductees made it into the Hall via special committee categories, including the Musical Influence Award, which honors hip-hop group Salt-n-Pepa and singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. The Musical Excellence Award was bestowed upon Thom Bell, Nicky Hopkins and Carol Kaye, while the Ahmet Ertegun Award (in honor of the Atlantic Records co-founder) was given to Lenny Waronker.

“Each of these inductees created their own sound and attitude that had a profound impact on culture and helped to change the course of Rock & Roll forever,” John Sykes, chairman...

Just four days after his surprise reunion with R.E.M. at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia, Michael Stipe performed at the annual Tibet House benefit at New York’s Carnegie Hall on a packed bill that also included Patti Smith, Jackson Browne, Laurie Anderson, Gogol Bordello, Orville Peck, Allison Russell, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Angélique Kidjo, and Tenzin Choegyal.

Stipe delivered stunning renditions of David Bowie’s 1970 classic “The Man Who Sold the World” and “No Time for Love Like Now,” which he co-wrote with the National’s Aaron Dessner...

Luca Guadagnino was a lonely boy living in Palermo when he first read William S. Burroughs’ novella “Queer.” He would’ve been 14 when the book first came out in 1985, when gay liberation was already on its cultural downward slope because of AIDS, and the book was written in the early 1950s. But Burroughs’ story of American-expat-in-Mexico Lee and his obsessive romance with a lithe expat American soldier, Allerton, still emerged as an influential text for the queer literary canon but especially for Guadagnino’s imagination education.

Now, nearly four decades after first reading the book at 17, Guadagnino, one of the hottest filmmakers currently working — especially because of his other film this year “Challengers” — has finally realized the dream of bringing Burroughs’ world to the screen. Those men, Lee and Allerton, are played by Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in respectively career-reinventing and career-inventing performances. And the film, as Guadagnino said...

The Match Factory has officially launched sales on Michel Franco’s upcoming movie Dreams at the AFM in Las Vegas, having been attached to the film for the past year.

The second collaboration between Franco and Jessica Chastain, the film is in post-production and Tmf is sharing a first promo with buyers.

Chastain plays socialite and philanthropist Jennifer, whose young ballet dancer lover Fernando leaves everything behind in Mexico to join her in the U.S., narrowly escaping death in the process.

He believes she will support him in his dreams of being internationally recognized and living in the U.S. His arrival disrupts Jennifer’s world, and she will do anything to protect both their futures—and the carefully curated life she’s built.

Isaac Hernández co-stars as the young dancer. He is currently a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre,...

Jack White has joined the 2024 lineup for Corona Capital in Mexico City, where he’ll appear alongside the Paul McCartney, Green Day, New Order, Iggy Pop, Beck, Empire of the Sun, Melanie Martinez, and Shawn Mendes, and more.

The three-day music festival will take place November 15th-17th, 2024 at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. White joins the lineup on Sunday, the 17th, in place of Queens of the Stone Age, who recently canceled the remainder of their 2024 tour so that Josh Homme could “receive essential medical care.” White will presumably take the stage prior to McCartney’s Sunday night headlining set.

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Corona Capital’s 2024 lineup also boasts Primal Scream, St. Vincent, Toto, Zedd, Kim Gordon, Cage the Elephant, The Mars Volta, Explosions in the Sky, American Football, Warpaint, Badbadnotgood, Tyla, Travis, Blonde Redhead, Leon Bridges, Huray For the Riff Raff, Mannequin Pussy, Sophie Ellis-Bextor,...

Warning: Spoilers For My Hero Academia Season 7

Star and Stripe wields an overpowered Quirk called New Order, feared even by All For One. Her ability allows her to set rules for nearly anything within its vicinity, surpassing All Might. Shigaraki attempts to figure out New Order's limitations as it showcases both its strengths and weaknesses.

My Hero Academia's season 7 finally debuted America's strongest hero, Star and Stripe, along with her incredibly overpowered Quirk that will be tough to beat. The newest season of Mha begins with an epic confrontation between the number #1 hero from the United States, Cathleen Bate (Star and Stripe), and the hybrid between All For One and Shigaraki. Still, her Quirk New Order is so strong that even the series' ultimate villain feared it.

Star and Stripe was a young girl rescued and inspired by All Might while he visited the United States during the events...

Exclusive: Brian Volk-Weiss’ Nacelle Company on Wednesday announced Billy Corgan’s Adventures in Carnyland, an eight-episode unscripted series that’s set to premiere on The CW app and cwtv.com on May 14th.

Directed by Volk-Weis and Ian Roumain, the series pulls back the curtain on how the legendary frontman of alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins takes on the world. When he isn’t churning out albums and touring the world with his band, Corgan works as a wrestling promoter through his storied National Wrestling Alliance, which he intends to restore to its former glory. As if being a rock star navigating the demanding politics of running both a band (Pumpkinworld) and a group of eccentric wrestlers (Carnyland) isn’t tricky enough, he’s also a father of two — and he’s planning a wedding to his longtime partner, Chloe Mendel. Can he possibly keep all these balls in the air?...

Alain Attal and Hugo Selignac have formed a producing duo known for delivering original, starry French films that probe uneasy subjects that earn B.O. gold and critical laurels. Attal is in Cannes with Un Certain Regard title “Rosalie,” while Selignac has “Omar à la Fraise” in Critics’ Week.

The pair is now about to hit a new milestone in 2024, starting with Gilles Lellouche’s epic romance drama “L’Amour Ouf,” which boasts a budget of €32 million ($34 million) and marks Studiocanal’s biggest investment in a French-language film to date. They also have “And Their Children After Them,” an adaptation of Nicolas Mathieu’s Goncourt Prize-winning novel to be directed by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma (“Teddy”), which has been boarded by Warner Bros. France and HBO Max and France Televisions, the first French movie to bring together these three partners.

“L’Amour Ouf” also marks the first film co-acquired by Canal Plus,...

Sofia Coppola has begun production on Priscilla, her Priscilla Presley biopic starring Cailee Spaeny and, filling Elvis’ massive shoes, Jacob Elordi. Adapting Presley’s memoir Elvis and Me would suggest a much greater centering of the lesser-known spouse and a far thornier depiction than Baz Luhrmann’s abysmal biopic—a troubled, drug-dependent, jealous, unfaithful man.

Saying music matters to Sofia Coppola is like revealing Spike Lee knows a dolly shot, but even still we’re pleasantly surprised she—via her new Instagram—shared a playlist made for production’s commencement. If one of American cinema’s few great needle-droppers says it’s “nice to have music in the morning while we’re setting up,” who’s to argue?

You will, probably pointedly, find no Elvis, but this selection—at turns swoony, love-struck, melancholic, heartbroken—is très Coppola: Cocteau Twins, New Order, Bryan Ferry, Prince, Elvis Costello, and (I think it’s sweet) Phoenix.

Road trip movies certainly aren’t new but some have come to define cinema and so it takes something special to stand out from a crowded marketplace. Don’t Make Me Go, the latest from Actor/Director Hannah Marks is a Road Trip movie with a difference, it stars John Cho as Max Park, a single dad who discovers he has a terminal disease and intends to make the most of the time he has left with his daughter Wally, played by Mia Isaac, with whom he has a fractious relationship.

The bulk of the film is dedicated to the pair’s journey across the States to his college reunion, making stops along the way to visit Casinos, dance and bond in both bizarre and heartwarming fashion. As the film unwinds we get to know why Max is perhaps so uptight and protective with his ex-wife Nicole running off with a...

Michel Franco's New Order is showing exclusively on Mubi in the United Kingdom starting September 10, 2021.After six features in ten years, Michel Franco’s filmography is now large enough for his latest to court comparisons to his previous works. But both thematically and visually, New Order is something of an outlier. Set in a dystopian present-day Mexico, it’s a chronicle of a revolution gone wrong. Widespread inequalities trigger a mass uprising; the poor turn against the rich, and as the rebellion grows violent, the armed forces seize the opportunity to reinstate their own order, and the uprising turns into a bloodbath. Entry point into the nightmare is Marianne (Naian González Norvind), a young woman from a wealthy family in Mexico City. New Order opens on her wedding day, and for a while Franco lets us hobnob with the crème de la crème partying at her family’s sumptuous villa,...

How to introduce an entity as mercurial as Sparks, the band that forms the subject of Edgar Wright’s fantastic, fond, fizzy documentary portrait, to those who don’t know them? With over five decades and 25 albums’ worth of music, sibling frontmen Ron and Russell Mael have been virtually the only constant in a group whose lineup has changed with roughly the frequency of iPhone updates, and whose sound pinballs around the pop-musical map, from glam-rock to prog-rock to electro to disco to techno. So maybe, given their fondness for the French New Wave, we’ll just say: one sings, the other doesn’t. Or, as suggested by a great clip of an aghast Shelley Winters on a 1981 talk show: One sings, the other looks a bit like Hitler.

In any case, after the 140 minutes of “The Sparks Brothers” zip by like a tight half-hour, even the previously uninitiated may...

He also helmed Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate and Rachel Getting Married.

Filmmaker Jonathan Demme has died aged 73, his publicist has confirmed.

In a statement to Screen International they said:

“I would like to correct and clarify reports on Jonathan Demme’s death.

“Sadly, I can confirm that Jonathan passed away early this morning in his Manhattan apartment, surrounded by his wife, Joanne Howard, and three children. He died from complications from esophageal cancer and is survived by his children Ramona, age 29, and her husband James Molloy, Brooklyn, age 26, and Jos, age 21.

“There will be a private family funeral. Any possible further plans will be announce later. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to Americans For Immigrant Justice in Miami, Fl. www.aijustice.org”

Demme’s most famous film was Silence Of The Lambs in 1991. It won five Oscars, including best picture and best director for Demme.

He also directed...

Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning director behind The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, died Wednesday morning, People confirms. He was 73 years old.

A representative for Demme said he died at his apartment in New York City due to complications from esophageal cancer.

The family plans to hold a private funeral and asked that donations be made to Americans For Immigrant Justice in Miami, Florida, in lieu of flowers.

Demme first made his debut with the 1971 biker film Angels Hard as They Come.

He gained fame in Hollywood in the 1980s with comedy films such as Melvin and Howard (1980), Swing Shift...

Scarlett Johansson has one of the most easily recognizable voices in Hollywood, and she’s once again setting it to music.

The 32-year-old actress lends her voice to the upcoming animated feature Sing, in which she plays a porcupine named Ash. Although the movie doesn’t hit theaters until Dec. 21, fans can hear Johansson rock out to a song from the soundtrack called “Set It All Free,” which was released Friday. The spirited anthem is about letting loose and being able to do anything.

“Set It All Free” is the second track released from the movie soundtrack, following after Stevie Wonder...

Scarlett Johansson does a good Bernard Sumner.

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The actress and sometimes singer recently recorded a cover of New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle” with her four-person band Sugar for Sugar, which includes Julia Haltigan, Holly Miranda, and Kendra Morris. The song will be featured on a charity album due out on October 7 called “The Time Is Now” for amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. Co-written by Sumner, New Order’s lead singer, “Bizarre Love Triangle” was released in 1986.

Republic Records and Mass Appeal Records will release the album, which will include new versions of 80s songs by several other artists, including Phantogram covering Phil Collins’ “Take Me Home”, Lower Dens covering Hall & Oates’ “Maneater,” and Aloe Blacc covering Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.”

Johansson covered The Pretenders’s “Brass in Pocket” during a...

When Scarlett Johansson isn't busy starring in box-office hits, she's lending her famously sultry voice to the music industry - and for a good cause. Johansson's all-girl band Sugar for Sugar covers New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" in the latest track off of the charity compilation album The Time Is Now, and People has an exclusive first listen. Johansson performs the classic '80s track - set for release this Friday - alongside bandmates Julia Haltigan, Holly Miranda and Kendra Morris. The Time Is Now is a 14-track album of reimagined 1980s hits created specifically for amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.

Last week, fellow columnist Molly Jackson and I had a conversation about binge watching on Netflix. Specifically about Young Justice, which she wrote about here. The reason it came up was because people have been encouraged to binge watch Young Justice in order to convince Netflix to pick up the show to give it another season. Young Justice is far from the only example of this at the most popular streaming service around.

Netflix has been breaking new ground lately by not breaking any new ground at all. By that I mean they’ve been at the forefront of offering people a whole hell of a lot of what we already know we like, but, technically, it’s new now! Even when they give us something “new” it’s almost always a vehicle for an already well established, accomplished actor, comedian, or creator with a long resume. I understand that this is an arguable point,...

Thirty years have passed since the release of "Pretty in Pink" (on February 28, 1986), and yet we're still bewildered by the teen romance's climax.

Maybe we need to think of the John Hughes-scripted film as Gen X's own "Casablanca." The ending makes more sense if you think of Duckie (Jon Cryer) as Humphrey Bogart, letting the woman he loves (Molly Ringwald's Andie) go off with the dull-but-decent guy (Andrew McCarthy's Blane) because he's finally admitted to himself that he's a chivalrous romantic who values her happiness above his own. Yeah, it's a stretch, but it's just one of many interpretations to spin out of this Hughes classic.

In honor of the film turning the big three-0, here are 15 surprising facts about the best movie ever named after a Psychedelic Furs song.

1. Hughes wrote the role of Andie Walsh for Ringwald, but even though she'd starred in his...

As one-third of fun., Jack Antonoff gets to explore many facets of his pop sensibilities. On “Strange Desire,” the debut album from his side project, Bleachers,” out Tuesday (15), he gets to indulge his quirkier side, and sing lead. Even though Antonoff wasn’t born until 1984, “Strange Desire” is so awash in ‘80s sounds, from big, echo-y drums, to funky, jangly guitars, that it’s almost possible to take each song and come up with its ‘80s analog. Squiggly guitar riffs crash into each other, layered vocals soar over synths, and it feels like a dance party could break out on the street where you live at any moment. Bleachers could share a bill with Modern English, Omd, Oingo Boingo, The Cult, The Cure, and New Order. Opening track “Wild Heart” has a light-hearted, skipping keyboard similar to The Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star,” before it gives way to walls of synths.

From There To Here reaches a dramatic climax this week, tying up all its loose threads into a tidy bow

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“Families have stories, that’s what keeps them together,” says Samuel Cotton (Bernard Hill should be given British national treasure status) midway through tonight’s final trip to Manchester, this time on the dawn of a new millennium. Peter Bowker’s flawed but overall tender family rigmarole concluded with a fitting final chapter. From There to Here has always been about family right from the beginning and here it reached a peak with the Cottons, secrets spilling out of every aperture.

Continuing directly on from last week’s midpoint, From There to Here picked up with Daniel awakening in his hospital bed to the unity of both his lives – wealthy confectioner Daniel and industrial cleaner Daniel. Claire glowered at him, Joanne was a mixture of confusion,...

The 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards is expected to be a hell of a show with some great films going head to head. Leading the way with nominations is The Grand Master with 14, followed by Unbeatable (Dante Lam).

There were complaints last year, that the show didn’t live up to expectations, mainly due to the fact the movie Cold Wars, won nearly every award. Best actor award see the likes of these guys going head to head, Tony Leung (The Grandmaster), Louis Koo (The White Storm) and also Anthony Wong (Ip Man: The Final Fight).

Take a look at the list and comment who you think will win. The winners will be announced on April 13.

Best Film:

- The Grandmaster

- Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

- The Way We Dance

- The White Storm

- Unbeatable

Best Director:

- Wong Kar Wai (The Grandmaster)

- Johnnie To...

The holiday shopping season is officially upon us, and that means it's time to take a look back at the last year of Blu-ray releases to help you decide which packages will have the horror fans on your list grinning from ear-to-ear!

With the Xbox One, the PlayStation 4, the PlayStation 3, and really cheap standalone players all Blu-ray ready, there's never been a better time to make that jump into high definition. If you've been holding out, throw caution to the wind, kids! Blu is where it's at! If you already own the DVD of your favorite flick, is there a need to replace it with a Blu-ray? I'm here to answer all of your questions in the annual...

Before we get into my picks, let's take a second to explain how I rated them. They're broken down into three categories:

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When you grow up, your heart dies – or so they say. Here's the proof: from Heathers to Juno, the Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best teen movies

• Top 10 action movies

• Top 10 crime movies

• Top 10 arthouse movies

• Top 10 family movies

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10. Blackboard Jungle

Billed as "a brass-knuckle punch in its startling revelation of teenage savages" and based on the book of the same name by Evan Hunter – aka crime writer Ed McBain – who drew on his own experiences as a teacher in the Bronx – Blackboard Jungle ushered in the age of the teenage delinquent. In London, Brooks's film attracted crowds of Teddy Boys, who slashed cinema seats, danced in the aisles and actually started a riot.

The reason for such shocking behaviour wasn't so much the film's content, which today garners a more sober 12 rating, but because of the use of...

Coachella is finally here and all the stars are headed to Indio, CA for the music festival, including Joe Jonas! The Jo Bro tweeted this envy-worthy photo of where he’s staying during the festival!

Joe Jonas is back in Indio, CA for the second year in a row to attend the Coachella music festival!

On April 12, Joe tweeted a picture of his awesome pad for the weekend and wrote, “#coachella.”

Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson Also Attending Coachella

Joe isn’t the only star in Indio this weekend, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson will be there too! The music-filled weekend will top of a perfect birthday week for Kristen.

As we previously reported, a source told HollywoodLife.com exclusively, “[Rob and Kristen] have both been given tickets to Coachella.” The pair also plans to spend the weekend in a rented house where they will throw a huge bash to celebrate Kristen’s birthday!

Are you excited about Coachella, yet for some reason, have no idea where it is, when it is, or who’s playing? Never fear, HollywoodLife.com is here you answer all your questions. Even the dumb ones!

Some of Hollywood’s hottest hipsters — along with the regular folk who actually care about music — are heading to the California desert this weekend for the start of the 14th annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. There will be good music, there will be bad outfits, and HollywoodLife.com has your complete breakdown of what to expect. (As well as where and when to expect it!)

Where Is The Coachella Music Festival Being Held?

As always, Coachella will go down at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., in the Inland Empire’s Coachella Valley

When Is Coachella 2013?

Coachella takes place over two weekends, from April 12 to 14, and from April 19 to 21.

What Is The 2013 Coachella Lineup?...

Music lovers will want to be in Grant Park this August because the Lollapalooza line up has been leaked and it’s awesome! Ellie Goulding, Kendrick Lamar, Mumford & Sons, and The Killers are just some of the many acts who will be gracing the Chicago stage this summer.

On March 29 the line up for the music festival Lollapalooza was leaked! Ellie Goulding, Kendrick Lamar, The Killers, Mumford & Sons, Vampire Weekend, Lana Del Ray, The Cure, 2 Chainz, and Icona Pop are just some of the many acts who will be playing according to a leaked poster obtained by Windy City Edm. How cool! Read on to see the full line up!

Lollapalooza 2030 Lineup — Full List

The Cure

Mumford And Sons

The Killers

Nine Inch Nails

Phoenix

Vampire Weekend

New Order

Queens Of The Stone Age

The Lumineers

The National

Kendrick Lamar

Eric Church

Knife Party

Steve Aoki

Steve Angello

Ellie Goulding...

The countdown has begun. Tickets for the 2013 Coachella Music Festival officially go on sale Tuesday, January 29 at 10 a.m. Pst on the Coachella website.

The festival will be broken up into two identical weekends like it was last year. Weekend 1 runs April 12-14 and Weekend 2 is April 19-21. While many took to the internet to complain about this year's lineup, there is no doubt that tickets will go fast on Tuesday. Last year's passes sold out online in less than two hours.

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Weekend 1 General Admission passes already sold out in the advance sale, however, those who are still vying for Weekend 1 passes can purchase them Tuesday when tickets go on sale -- but must do so in either a car camping package or a shuttle pass package. General Admission Weekend 2 passes will be available Tuesday starting at 10 a.m. Pst.

This year...

Coachella is back for a 14th year, splitting the festival into two identical weekends for the second time to accomodate the huge crowd that is expected! The festival will kick off on April 12 and run through April 21 in Indio, California.

Coachella Music Festival released their official 2013 lineup in a tweet on Jan. 24. The headliners for each day are Blur, The Stone Roses, Phoenix. Plus, the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be the closing night act on April 14 and 21. Maybe Robert Pattinson will make an appearance this year as he did in 2012!

Coachella Full 2013 Lineup:

Friday, April 12 & 19

The Stone Roses, Blur, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, Lou Reed, Jurassic 5, Grinderman, Bassnectar, Dog Blood, How to Destroy Angels, Passion Pit, Tegan and Sara, Band of Horses, Beach House, Metric, Local Natives, Of Monsters and Men, Infected Mushroom, Japandroids, Divine Fits, Stars, Johnny Marr, Luciano, Wolfgang Gartner, Nicky Romero, Modestep, Tommy Trash,...

Coachella Music Festival released their official 2013 lineup in a tweet on Thursday evening, and the headliners for each day are Blur, The Stone Roses, Phoenix and Red Hot Chili Peppers as the closing night act.

This will be Coachella's 14th hurrah and its second year of splitting the festival into two identical weekends in order to accomodate their vastly multiplying audience. Weekend 1 will take place April 12-14 and Weekend 2 will be April 19-21.

Festival passes for both weekends go on sale Tuesday, January 29th at 10Am Pst. Festival passes for Weekend 1 must be purchased with a shuttle pass or a car camping pass. New for 2013, the price you see is the price you pay — $349 for a Ga ticket and $799 for VIP. Prices reflect all fees included. Layaway is no longer an option for either weekend. Last year's tickets sold out online in under two hours.

Friday, April 12 & 19

Blur, The Stone Roses,...

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Website: www.sennen.org.uk

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sennen

Released: April 16th, 2012

Since their first record, Widows, was released in 2005, Sennen have been formulating and building their quietly gigantic sound from the bottom of the structure until they got to the penthouse suite at the top, today. Unlike the more traditional craftsmen, though, the four-piece didn’t need hammers and nails, hardhats and bricks, scaffolding and ladders. All they needed was a bit of inspiration, creativity, judgement and a concise idea of what they wanted to achieve. They had these. Now all they needed was a studio, paper and pen/laptop, a bit of belief from labels and fans alike and luck. They had these, also. The result of all these aspects is a band who can produce the most melancholic of tracks yet still elevate you to someplace new, a place reserved for music...

If there are any filmmakers who’ve worked their way through record stores as much as folks like Quentin Tarantino or even Wes Anderson, it would have to be John Hughes and Allan Moyle. So perhaps it’s no real surprise that on annual Record Store Day, where you can come out and support your local independent record stores on April 21st this year, there will be soundtrack reissues from both filmmakers.

First is Hughes’ “The Breakfast Club,” which will surely find many record enthusiasts doing some Judd Hirsch-style fist pumping as they pick up their all-white 12-inch vinyl pressing of the album. It’s hard to capture an entire mood of a film with a single soundtrack, especially when that film lingers on a dreary Saturday spent in detention with a few high school students looking to find themselves like in “The Breakfast Club,” but between the seminal...

New Order have been confirmed as headliners at this year's Bestival. The band will headline Saturday's programme on the Main Stage at the Isle of Wight event, a slot which has previously been occupied by acts including Kraftwerk, The Cure and Amy Winehouse. Organiser Rob da Bank said in a statement on Tuesday morning (February 14): "So I've got 'Blue Monday' blaring out of the Bestival HQ office speakers as we unveil our iconic Saturday night headliner New Order. It doesn't get better than that... but it does! "'True Faith', 'Bizarre Love Triangle', 'Fine Time', 'Regret' - so many amazing records I grew up listening to and still listen to now and they (more)...

Hey Toronto! The Twitch-presented tour of 1980's teen films continues tonight at the Tiff Bell Lightbox with a screening of the John Hughes written and produced Pretty In Pink.One of the best of the Hughes bunch (though he handed directing duties to his go-to substitute Howard Deutch), Pretty in Pink stars Molly Ringwald as Andie, a blue-collar girl with a unique fashion sense who falls hard for upper-class, feathery-haired, linen blazer-wearing heartthrob Blane (Andrew McCarthy), much to the dismay of her childhood friend Duckie (Jon Cryer), who has been in love with her for years. Featuring a fantastic soundtrack--including the title track by the Psychedelic Furs and songs by Echo and the Bunnymen, The Smiths and New Order--and great supporting turns by Harry Dean...

Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Agent 8 3/4 (1964)

Directed by: Ralph Thomas

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Unemployed Czech-speaking writer Nicholas Whistler thinks he’s got a job visiting Prague for a bit of industrial espionage. In fact he is now in the employ of British Intelligence. His pretty chauffeuse on arrival behind the Iron Curtain, Comrade Simonova, is herself a Czech agent. Just as well she’s immediately attracted to 007′s unwitting replacement. [highdefdigest.com]

Special Features: Unknown.

Armed And Dangerous (1986)

Directed by: Mark L. Lester

Starring: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Dooley, a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defense lawyer in their new careers… as security guards. When the two are made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair begin to investigate corruption within the company and their union.

AudioPlayer.setup("http://www.nerve.com/files/players/audio/player.swf", { width: 350 }); Graceland: Pop Classic or Boring Dinner-Party Soundtrack? On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Paul Simon's biggest success, we settle the debate, once and for all.  By Michael Edison Hayden and Stephen Deusner Graceland is a terrible album By Michael Edison Hayden, GQ 1986 was a good year for pop music. In England, New Order's Brotherhood gave birth to the spiritual club anthem "Bizarre Love Triangle," The Pet Shop Boys released the lush, satirical Please, and The Smiths released their romantic masterpiece, The Queen is Dead. In America, dead-end white communities found a voice for Reagan-era feelings of neglect with Slayer's Reign in Blood, Janet Jackson tangled pop airwaves with black female eroticism and feminism in Control, and Run-d.M.C. infused a sense of moral urgency into rap with the near-perfect Raising [...]...

Unknown

Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra

Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones

Running Time: 1 hr 49 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: February 18, 2011

Plot: A doctor (Neeson) is set to speak at a bio-tech conference that could change the world, but he gets into an accident. Suddenly, his wife (Jones) doesn’t recognize him and he must try to prove he’s really Dr. Martin Harris.

Who’S It For? It’s your basic run-of-the-mill thriller with a good mystery brewing. Spoiler Alert — there will be some things that are discussed in this review. Don’t worry, I do my best when it comes to spoilers so if you aren’t already out the door buying your ticket to Unknown you should be safe. Don’t trust other critics with spoilers though … ever.

Expectations: I thought I was getting an amnesia movie, I also figured that if you’re going down that path again in a movie,...

I’m not one to talk up a movie more than once, especially when there isn’t any pressing reason to do so, but I was playing around with some images, and find myself moved to throw out another mention of Easy A.

I’m going to tell you straight out – if a movie critic tells you they’re excited, interested, anticipating, or otherwise positively moved by a film release more than once or twice a year, move on. They’re either clueless, bandying about hype recklessly, haven’t seen nearly enough films, or all of the above.

That said, I’m pretty interested in getting the chance to view Easy A, and I’m the first to admit that it’s a strange title to follow up such remarks with.

Why does something like this pique my interest, even following up my statement that you should be wary of interested movie critics?...

Time has not been kind to post-rock, a mostly instrumental brand of indie that combined prog, noise, electronic and jam elements for a swirling brew that ruled the underground for a few minutes at the turn of the millennium. Still, one of the key groups from that scene is back, as Canadian collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor is back after a seven year hiatus. In an online statement, they announced that not only will they be curating the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in the U.K. but they'll also play a handful of other dates in Europe as well as nine American cities. It's an exciting time for anybody who loves fuzz and volume.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor don't have a ton of recorded material, though their 2000 album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven is largely considered a cornerstone of the whole genre (along with the likes of...

The Hot Tub Time Machine soundtrack. That mere title alone is so communicative of both the tone and ambition of this new John Cusack-toplined comedy that the simple sight of those four little words is all you need in order to make the call as to whether you want to see the movie or whether you think it likely to be as seismic a catastrophe for modern cinema as Michael Haneke slipping while getting out of the shower and fatally cracking his skull on the Palme d’Or he keeps on the shelf behind the toilet. Essentially it would appear that Steve Pink’s film is the episode of Family Guy where Peter and Brian journey back to the ‘80s and piss off the chicken while simultaneously inventing Rick Astley, only elongated to feature length and with Chevy Chase’s hot tub repairman supplanting the Grim Reaper as gatekeeper...

'I haven't been overly excited to go back into the studio,' singer says of post-Danity Kane career.

By Jocelyn Vena

Aubrey O'Day

Photo: Akshay Bhansali/MTV News

For anyone wondering when Aubrey O'Day will be releasing a solo album — you will have to wait a little bit longer. The singer may be hitting the studio here and there to guest on tracks, but she is not quite ready to work full-time on her post-Danity Kane audio output.

"I had a very traumatic experience on and off working with Bad Boy and the cameras constantly in there. There was never vibes ... a lot of that matters when you're making music," she told MTV News. "When we made music, it was two to three cameras, two to three inches from our face, waiting to catch a bad note so they could have a show. So I haven't been overly...

Putting together a proper motion picture soundtrack is something of a lost art. Often thought of as a final step in packaging a film for it's final release, many films suffer from a lack of care when it comes to a proper sonic counterpart. While original scores can set the mood and tone of a film, working brilliantly for epics that require no "pop" or "rock" enhancement, in some cases the latter works better and that's usually where the problems start to show. When done correctly, a proper soundtrack should conjure images of the film for listeners long after the last flicker of the projector, or the final screen of the DVD.

The first decade of the "new millennium" has been overtly devoid of memorable soundtracks for the horror genre (sans a few exceptions), as if the music supervisor was brought on-board last-minute and given a tiny budget to work with.

'I haven't been overly excited to go back into the studio,' singer says of post-Danity Kane career.

By Jocelyn Vena

Aubrey O'Day

Photo: Akshay Bhansali/MTV News

For anyone wondering when Aubrey O'Day will be releasing a solo album — you will have to wait a little bit longer. The singer may be hitting the studio here and there to guest on tracks, but she is not quite ready to work full-time on her post-Danity Kane audio output.

"I had a very traumatic experience on and off working with Bad Boy and the cameras constantly in there. There was never vibes ... a lot of that matters when you're making music," she told MTV News. "When we made music, it was two to three cameras, two to three inches from our face, waiting to catch a bad note so they could have a show. So I haven't been overly...

'Never Fallin' ' samples New Order's classic 'Bizarre Love Triangle.'

By Jocelyn Vena

Aubrey O'Day

Photo: Kristian Dowling/ Getty Images

When Aubrey O'Day isn't busy stirring up controversy around Playboy pictorials or prepping for her run in the Las Vegas stage production of "Peepshow," she is busy in the studio, working on new music in a post-Danity Kane world.

Recently, she released a cover of Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time" with Young Money's Shanell Woodgette, and now MTV News has a preview of O'Day's latest musical venture, a song that samples the New Order classic "Bizarre Love Triangle." The version MTV News has obtained is a "version three remix" of the track that was leaked to some blogs late last week.

The song, "Never Fallin'," features Roscoe Umali rapping on the track. O'Day changed the lyrics of the song's chorus to address people who criticize her,...