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"These are for everyone's healing." Area 23a has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary titled Music For Mushrooms, set for a limited theatrical release this fall. The film follows the personal journey of the musician / psychonaut known as East Forest from Portland, Oregon. The film documents Trevor Oswalt's personal journey as he explores the intersection of music & psychedelics, using this very powerful combo to facilitate transformative healing in a world increasingly in need. Through deeply intimate encounters with individuals whose lives have been profoundly altered by these experiences, the doc film serves as a poignant exploration (and hopefully conversation starter) of the true healing potential of art, spirituality, nature, and psychedelics. It is a resonant ode to the great power of introspection and transformation in an era marked by widespread anxiety and disconnection. The cast includes a diverse array of subjects from across the globe including spiritual leader Ram Dass,...

The following article contains discussions of depression, death, chronic illness, and near-death experiences.

In the quest for documentaries like Survivng Death, viewers are likely looking for a series that will explore the mysteries of life, existence, and how exactly people fit into this place known as planet Earth. The existential Netflix docuseries Surviving Death has remained a morbid curiosity among the most rabid viewers of the streaming service. Directed by Ricki Stern, the six-part series joins a long line of nonfiction films and TV shows exploring death, the afterlife, and what possibly lies ahead in the next life, if anything. While the themes can be a bit heavy and anxiety-inducing at times, the series also offers unexpected glimpses of hope and optimism.

Viewers may later want more eye-opening documentaries on similar subjects, and therefore are seeking out documentaries like Surviving Death. There are countless other documentaries on Netflix that delve...

The island was the primary setting of the TV series Lost, and it had a long and fascinating timeline before the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 ever arrived. So much more than just a simple deserted island, the location was something of a character on the show, and its complicated history involved ancient civilizations, fantastical magic, and science fiction technology. Though the show never revealed all the answers about the island's origins and past, it was clear from the outset that it was a truly unusual place with its own mystical qualities that defied logic.

Lost gave viewers many glimpses of the island throughout time, and it never failed to inspire intrigue and a fair amount of suspense as well. As the cancelation of 1899 has proven, Lost was a one-of-a-kind show that warped viewers' minds and delivered an experience that cannot be replicated. Because a lot of the island's history was fleshed out,...

Exclusive: Olivia Culpo (I Feel Pretty), Nestor Carbonell (The Morning Show), and Oliver Cooper (Project X) have joined the cast of Yale Entertainment’s Clawfoot.

In the film penned by April Wolfe, an upper-class suburban housewife (Francesca Eastwood) is psychologically terrorized by a manipulative contractor (Milo Gibson), leading to a twisted battle of wits with deliciously unexpected results.

Production on the film recently wrapped in Los Angeles.

The film’s director Michael Day is producing alongside Yale’s Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman, with Kade Thomas, Scott Levenson, Jason Kringstein, Lee Broda, and Colby Cote serving as executive producers. Yale’s recently launched sales banner Great Escape, led by Nick Donnermeyer, will handle worldwide sales.

Culpo most recently appeared in Amy Schumer’s I Feel Pretty and the Bruce Willis-led Reprisal. Other credits include The Other Woman, The Swing of Things, and Venus as a Boy.

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Karen Zelermyer is the co-host and creator of I Was Never There, a podcast made in collaboration with Wonder Media Network, about the mystery surrounding the 34-year-old disappearance of her best friend, Marsha “Mudd” Ferber. Ferber had been a larger-than-life character, the owner of a West Virginia rock club, and a loving friend whose charm and gregarious nature covered up a mysterious dark side. The podcast — which Zelermyer, 73, produced with her daughter Jamie — has had a great reception, even being picked as an official selection by the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.

Russian Doll Season 2 introduces a new time bending aspect to the Netflix comedy, which also speaks Nadia’s (Natasha Lyonne) new life crisis. Lyonne and co-creator/EP Amy Poehler spoke about the upcoming season on a Deadline Contenders panel on Saturday.

In season 1, Nadia repeated her birthday every time she died. In season 2, she travels back in time.

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“Season 1 is very much about a character who moves from nihilism and [being] a lone wolf, finds a connection and therefore a way out,” Lyonne said. “Season 2 is sort of a deeper level, a smaller doll in which the question is: now that I’ve figured out that catch, how do I go about living? What does it mean to have a meaningful life where you show up and are a participating member of society?”

Lyonne, who also co-created the show and executive produces, wrote and directed many season 2 episodes.

The Shift Network (Tsn), known for transformational media, is proud to announce the lineup for its second annual Shift Your World Film Festival. Running from February 17-20, 2022, the festival program includes opening remarks from actor and activist Jeff Bridges.

18 feature-length and six short films focused on wellness, sustainability, social justice, and spirituality. More than a dozen panels with filmmakers and thought-leaders…and the Culture Shift Legacy Awards. The full 2022 festival program and trailer can be found here.

Access to film screenings, panels and conversations with filmmakers, along with official festival voting, is free and open to the general public. An optional VIP Pass ($49) includes online, on-demand access to most of the festival films and filmmaker interviews, as well as admission to the Psychedelic Sunday program of films and panels devoted to the psychedelic renaissance.

“The themes of this year’s Shift Your World Film Festival — health, sustainability, social justice, and...

Exclusive: After landing the life rights to Being Ram Dass, Elijah Allan-Blitz, Brie Larson and Brian Grazer are producing a limited series based on the late American spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author, Ram Dass. His “Love, Serve, Remember” Foundation leaders Raghu Markus and Rameshwar Das will both take on executive producer roles. “Elijah Allan-Blitz and his family have been front and center of my relationship with my ‘Bio-Dad’”, Peter Reichard (Ram Dass’ son) explained. “I was thrilled when Elijah told me about the television series being planned about Rd’s life. To have Elijah, Brie Larson and the Oscar winning film producer Brian Grazer spearheading this project is an incredible acknowledgement of the life, times and impact Ram Dass had on our world.” Dass (then Richard Alpert) was a Harvard professor whose own self-image was shattered after his first mushroom trip. This experience propelled him to lead a study with...

After the spiritual teacher Ram Dass suffered a stroke in 1997, he said, “Up until now my life has been dedicated to helping people. I even wrote a book called How Can I Help?, but now I’m confined to a wheelchair and my life is filled with people taking care of me. If I wrote it now it would have to be called, How Can You Help Me?” I love Ram Dass for his brilliance and vulnerability. His teachings on acceptance and loving awareness have been a lifesaver for me and so many. But in the wake of his stroke, it […]

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After the spiritual teacher Ram Dass suffered a stroke in 1997, he said, “Up until now my life has been dedicated to helping people. I even wrote a book called How Can I Help?, but now I’m confined to a wheelchair and my life is filled with people taking care of me. If I wrote it now it would have to be called, How Can You Help Me?” I love Ram Dass for his brilliance and vulnerability. His teachings on acceptance and loving awareness have been a lifesaver for me and so many. But in the wake of his stroke, it […]

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Parker Millsap has earned a reputation as a spiritually minded, if not outright spiritual, songwriter. The Oklahoma native described his last record as “gospel sex music” and riffed on yogi Ram Dass’s influential book Be Here Now for the title of his new album: Be Here Instead.

“Stop looking ahead/be here instead/this is the prayer,” Millsap sings in the hypnotic album track “Now, Here,” a song he wrote before the pandemic. When he revisited the lyrics during pre-production for Be Here Instead, it revealed a new meaning.

“Do you remember Limited Too?” Pearl Charles asks. She’s trying to trace just how far back her love of Abba goes, which brings her to the Nineties pre-teen clothing store. “Everything was flower power and bell-bottoms, and I feel like ‘Dancing Queen’ was huge at all the birthday parties. All of that stuff steeped into my brain when I was a little kid, and now it’s all coming out.”

“Only For Tonight,” the opening track to Charles’ recent album Magic Mirror, drips in disco. Its layers of sunny production mask bleak lyrics,...

WME has launched a new division called WME Legends, which will focus on managing estates and brands.

Among the signings announced with the new unit’s formation are the estates of comedian and actor Andy Kaufman and singers Eartha Kitt and Peter Tosh. WME Legends will also oversee the brand of famed punk-rock venue Cbgb and the group that manages the intellectual property of spiritualist and philosopher Ram Dass.

Phil Sandhaus, a music and entertainment veteran, will run WME Legends. During a nearly four-decade run as an artist manager, record label executive, estate manager and consultant, he has worked with Buddy Holly, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Whitney Houston.

The new initiative builds on WME’s existing estate work across theater, books, music and other categories. That roster includes Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Donna Summer, August Wilson, Isaac Asimov, Edward Albee,...

This column is a collaboration with DoubleBlind, a print magazine and media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement.

Would you care for a drop of LSD in your morning tea? A capsule of psilocybin-mushroom dust with your daily vitamins? Such is the daily regimen for those who’ve taken up microdosing, reporting anecdotally just how much this new psychedelic trend has changed their lives. Over the past decade, researchers have delved into how taking small amounts of psychedelics help people combat depression, trauma, attention deficit disorder, and even physical pain.

Actress Anushka Sharma on Monday treated fans with a new picture. In the Instagram image, Anushka, who is pregnant with her first child, flaunts her baby bump in black swimwear standing in a pool.

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"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance" - Eckhart Tolle Gratitude to all those who showed me kindness and made me believe in goodness in this world , opening my heart enough to practice the same with the hope to pay it forward...

David Foster, the prolific Hollywood producer whose credits included “The Getaway,” “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” two versions of “The Thing” and “The Mask of Zorro,” died on Monday, his family told TheWrap. He was 90.

Foster’s entertainment career spanned six decades.

He started as a publicist at Rogers and Cowan, representing top tier talent including Steve McQueen, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers and Sonny and Cher. He then became a partner at Allan, Foster, Ingersoll and Weber.

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In 1968, Foster moved to producing, partnering with Mitchell Brower to produce the Warren Beatty and Julie Christie film “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.” He produced McQueen’s 1971 hit “The Getaway.”

Additionally, he produced the 1981 comedy “Caveman” starring Ringo Starr, the heartwarming 1986 family sci-fi film “Short Circuit” and its 1988 sequel and two versions of the horror film “The Thing” (1982 and 2011). His other...

This story was originally published in the April 22nd, 1976, issue of “Rolling Stone.”

You’D Think That Baba Ram Dass, who had been a Harvard psychology professor and psychedelic drug researcher in his former incarnation as Dr. Richard Alpert, Ph.D., would know all about mind games by now. And yet the toothache had felt real enough, building until the nerve seemed a snaking electric wire, making it all but impossible for him to fix his attention on the tip of his nose and watch his breath go in and out,...

Ram Dass — an early proponent of LSD and a spiritual icon of the Seventies who notably inspired George Harrison — died Sunday at his home in Maui, Hawaii. He was 88.

Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation confirmed his death in a statement, although did not reveal a cause. On Dass’ personal Instagram, it was revealed that a memorial service would be announced shortly.

Born Richard Alpert, Dass was a trained psychologist who taught at Harvard University in the Sixties, which is how he linked up with psychologist and writer Timothy Leary and...

Ram Dass, a pioneer in popularizing psychedelic drugs in the 1960s and ’70s who later became an inspirational guru, died Sunday in Maui, Hawaii, according to his verified Instagram page. He was 88.

Dass, who was born Richard Alpert but adopted the name Ram Dass after meeting with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba (a.k.a. Maharaji) in 1967, “was a guide for thousands seeking to discover or reclaim their spiritual identity beyond or within institutional religion,” according to his Instagram tribute.

Dass became a leading guru for the American counterculture, beginning with his first best-selling book, 1971’s “Be Here Now,” which advocated helping others to achieve enlightenment.

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He was also an early advocate for LSD and psychedelic drugs, after meeting Timothy Leary when they were both young professors at Harvard in the 1960s.

The two lectured on the healing effects of psychedelics at...

"Each of us must be true to ourselves to hear, 'what is our unique way through?' Because if you get phony-holy, it ends up kicking you in the butt." Love Serve Remember Films with Google Empathy Lab present the official trailer for a documentary titled Becoming Nobody, from musician / director Jamie Catto. This is the quintessential portal to Ram Dass' life and teachings, taking us through his history and into his mind. "In Becoming Nobody, historic clips balance an engaging conversation with director Jamie Catto. We come to understand how our old roles and disguises become increasingly burdensome. The film captures a loving man full of joy, wit, honesty and wisdom, at ease in conversation while sharing his considerable pains and pleasures. These life experiences that have freed him from the attachments of his 'somebody-ness' have transformed him into the radiant soul." Looks like a vital film for all those exploring alternative spirituality.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jackson Browne, multi-Grammy award-winner Bonnie Raitt, Grammy award-winning blues artist Joan Osborne, Mickey Hart and Friends and Pura Fe & Cary Morin plus host Wavy Gravy, will celebrate the Berkeley-based Seva Foundation on January 12th at a benefit concert at the Fox Theatre in Oakland called Sing Out for Seva.

Sing Out For Seva

This event marks four decades of benefit concerts performed by celebrity artists since Seva was founded forty years ago. By expanding access to eye care in developing nations, Seva is leading the global charge to eliminate avoidable blindness within our lifetime.

Bonnie Raitt to Perform at Sing Out for Seva

Credit/Copyright: Seva Foundation

Seva’s first benefit concert was in 1979, with the Grateful Dead at the Oakland Auditorium. At that same time Seva organized the first nationwide assessment of blindness in Nepal.

Jackson Browne to Perform at Sing Out...

A new month means new shows and movies hitting streaming services, with April bringing both classics and contemporary hits to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime.

Netflix will welcome some family-friendly entertainment with “The Iron Giant, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” and “Despicable Me 3,” along with “Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity” comedy event and a new episode of David Letterman’s “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” featuring Jay-z.

The highly anticipated second season of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” debuts April 25 on Hulu. Also this month, Hulu will see the Season 7 premiere of “New Girl,” as well as horror films including “Paranormal Activity” and “Friday the 13th.”

Amazon Prime adds the Oscar-nominated “The Florida Project,” as well as fan-favorites like “Steel Magnolias” and “The Karate Kid.”

Check out the full list of titles coming to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime below.

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April 1

A Sort of...

Netflix has confirmed that a slew of new original series will be debuting on the streaming service in April. There will also be new to Netflix seasons of some of your favorites from other networks. Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Netflix appearances including the animated classic “The Iron Giant” and several films in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Despicable Me” series.

Of the new Netflix originals, several stand out as particularly binge-worthy, including the freshman seasons of the remake of “Lost in Space” and the TV version of the Oscar-nominated animated film “The Boss Baby.” And there are episodes of both the new David Letterman and Joel McHale talk shows as well as a comedy special from Kevin James.

Available April 1

A Sort of Family

Along Came Polly

Bad Boys

Battlefield Earth

Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure

Big Time

Body of Lies

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever...

A few classic television shows and family movies are headed to Netflix this April.

Right on schedule with the robot’s cameo in “Ready Player One,” the ’90s animated movie “The Iron Giant” will be added to the streaming service at the start of April. Other movies adults and children can add to their queues are “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” “The Flintstones,” and “Despicable Me 3.”

“My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: Jay-z,” the next installment in the comedian’s show, as well as the latest episodes of “The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale” will also be available on Netflix. McHale’s comedy series streams every Sunday. Slapstick enthusiasts can also view “Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity” event on April 6.

Football fans can watch “Friday Night Lights,” but don’t be fooled — it’s the movie that is being added to the platform,...

Netflix has announced the full list of films and TV shows that are coming to the streaming service in April 2018 along with everything that will be leaving. There's actually a lot of great things to look forward to such as The Iron Giant, Bad Boys, Along Came Polly, Mortal Kombat, Speed Racer, Seven, Sin City, The Lost Boys, Lost in Space, and more. Check out the promo spot and a full list of titles below. Look through them and let us know what you're excited about!

Available April 1

A Sort of Family

Along Came Polly

Bad Boys

Battlefield Earth

Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure

Big Time

Body of Lies

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever

Cats & Dogs

Cold Mountain

Dare to Be Wild

Deep Blue Sea

Fish People

Friday Night Lights

Jackass 2.5

Life Is Beautiful

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Mortal Kombat

Nancy Drew

Disney’s Pirates of the...

April showers might bring May flowers, but what to do during the rainy season? Why, modern movie-lover does when the weather outside is frightful, curl up with some Netflix. (Maybe get some chill in there, if you’re lucky). While not the most romantic of movies, classic crime lovers can enjoy Brian De Palma’s “Scarface,” which lands on the platform next month. After you get your fix of an infinitely quotable and smoldering Al Pacino, you can jump ahead to the equally as disturbing David Fincher classic, “Seven.”

A few tear-jerking Oscar winners also head to Netflix in April, including the Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger-starring “Cold Mountain,” and Roberto Benigni’s WWII drama “Life Is Beautiful.” For lighter fare, check out “The Iron Giant,” or both live-action “The Flinstones” movies (for my Rosie O’Donnell die-hards).

Hopefully, that’s enough to keep you busy until May. Check out...

Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.

Bridey Elliott: Columbo, the tv show.

Orange Juice, the band

Ram Dass, the guru

Lavallee: Being well-versed in different shades/grades of funny, I’d like to know how you decided on the film’s comedic tone for Clara’s Ghost — did you borrow, adhere to certain tropes from specific genre film items, or is this derived from or an extension from what we imagine could be an Elliott family funny bone.

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Netflix unveiled its line-up of documentary shorts for its first quarter 2018 slate, which includes a doc on Ram Dass, a psychedelic pioneer and author of Be Here Now. Ram Dass, Going Home is about the cultural figure from the 1960s and ’70s who is considered a spiritual teacher as well as an outspoken advocate for death-and-dying awareness. Since suffering a life-changing stroke 20 years ago, Ram Dass has been living at his home on Maui and deepening his spiritual…...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected 10 films as contenders for the documentary short subject category for the 90th Academy Awards.

The 10 titles were chosen by voters from the Academy’s documentary branch, who viewed this year’s 77 eligible entries and submitted ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers for tabulation. Members of the branch will vote again to select five of the 10 films to be announced as nominees on Jan. 23.

Among the 10 is Ram Dass, Going Home, directed by Derek Peck and executive produced by Lucy Walker.

Ram Dass

Ram Dass, Going Home finds spiritual teacher and 60s icon, Ram Dass, at his home on Maui, twenty years after suffering a life-altering stroke. Psychedelic pioneer, author, and outspoken advocate for death-and-dying awareness, Ram Dass is now himself approaching the end of life. This is a meditation on life and death which begins with his exhortation to make friends with change; change with age,...

The Academy Documentary branch has winnowed down the eligible Short Subject contenders from 77 to ten films vying for five Oscar nominations. They have played countless film festivals, but had to win an award at a qualifying festival to be eligible.

The New York Times Op-Docs scored three entries, all viewable in full below: moving “116 Cameras” introduces a holocaust survivor willing to give testimony; “Alone” tells the story of a woman left behind when her fiancé goes to prison; and “Ten Meter Tower” hilariously reveals the reactions of a series of people trying to make themselves jump.

Last year Netflix won the Oscar for Syria documentary “White Helmets,” which was easily viewed on the site. This year’s entry, opioid epidemic expose “Heroine(e),” is also strong enough to win. “Edith + Eddie” is a heart-tugger about a bi-racial elderly couple struggling to stay together.

The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title,...

Most movies produced independently hit theaters after they find a distributor, unless they’re self-released. But “Dying to Know,” a documentary narrated by Robert Redford,” is going to have it both ways. Abramorama has acquired the U.S. theatrical rights to the film after its initial grassroots screenings.

The doc focuses on former Harvard psychology professors Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary. A historical biopic that director-producer Gay Dillingham first began working on in 1995, the film chronicles the lives of the longtime friends and icons of the U.S. counterculture movement, both of whom were dismissed from Harvard in 1963 for researching and experimenting with psychedelic drugs including LSD.

After being fired, Alpert traveled to India to become a renowned spiritual teacher, changing his name to Ram Dass and writing the hugely popular book “Be Here Now” about spirituality, yoga and meditation. Leary became an LSD advocate who was famously called “the...

To help sift through the increasing number of new releases (independent or otherwise), the Weekly Film Guide is here! Below you’ll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.

Starting this month, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list here, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.

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Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, June 17. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.

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Central Intelligence

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Aaron Paul, Amy Ryan, Danielle Nicolet, Ryan Hansen, Bobby Brown, Megan Park, Timothy John Smith

Synopsis: “After he reunites with an old pal through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage.

The unexpected and untimely death of Paul Walker came as a shock to fans. But it truly devastated his Fast and Furious franchise co-stars. Vin Diesel has been quite vocal about expressing his grief, and will still post the random music video in Paul Walker's honor. Now, for the first time, Michelle Rodriguez is opening up about the actor's death. And in turn, she's said some seemingly crazy things. Particularly the fact that she's not so much sad as she is jealous, because Paul Walker died first.

Paul Walker unexpectedly died in a car accident that happened over the Thanksgiving holiday back in 2013. He was in the midst of shooting his final scenes for the sequel Furious 7, which co-starred Michelle Rodriguez. The movie was halted at that time, and reworked so that Paul Walker's Brian O'Conner character could be written out of the franchise without having to cancel the movie altogether.

"Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth." -- Louis (Danny Aiello) in "Jacob's Ladder" I first viewed "Jacob's Ladder" on VHS several years after its release in theaters, when it received a lukewarm response from audiences (it grossed around $26 million by the end of its run) and received a polarizing response from critics: Roger Ebert called it "powerfully written, directed and acted" while The Washington Post's Hal Hinson charged it with being "garbled and cliched."  My initial reaction to...

DVD & Digital Release Date: Sept. 24, 2013

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Studio: Zeitgeist

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The music-filled documentary One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das chronicles the life of Jeffrey Kagel…and how his life path ultimately resulted in his emergence as Krishna Das—the world-renowned spiritual teacher, chant master and Grammy-nominated recording artist.

It begins in 1970, when young musician Kagel turned down the lead singer slot in the band that would become Blue Oyster Cult. He sold all his possessions and moved from the New York suburbs to the Himalayan foothills in search of happiness and a little-known saint named Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji).

One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das follows Kagel’s journey to India and back, his struggles with depression and drug abuse, and his eventual “return” as Krishna Das.

Directed by Jeremy Frindel, the movie features interviews with Be Here Now author Ram Dass,...

Tune in alert for Own's .Super Soul Sunday. as upcoming guests include Gary Zukav (3/11), Ram Dass (3/18), and Wayne Dyer. This Sunday, February 19 at 11am Et/Pt on Own - a very special .Super Soul Sunday. exclusive interview, Debbie Ford will sit down one-on-one with Oprah and reveal a shocking secret she.s been keeping for more than eleven years. From Own In this very intimate heart-to-heart, Debbie shares her most painful shadow-- the one that she has never talked about until now. Oprah's interview takes place under the oaks at her Santa Barbara home, a location Oprah says is her most spiritual and favorite place in the world. Oprah.com/SuperSoulSunday Feel free to use hash tag #SuperSoulSunday...

By Steve Rabey

Religion News Service

(Rns) As the lead guitarist of the world's biggest rock band and a prolific song writer, the Beatles' George Harrison has secured his place in pop culture history. But his greatest legacy may be the way his decades-long spiritual quest shaped the ways the West looks at God, gurus and life.

Harrison, who died of cancer in 2001 at age 58, was an intensely private global superstar. He's now in the spotlight again, thanks to a coffee-table book by his widow Olivia and a new Martin Scorsese documentary on HBO.

Both projects are titled "Living in the Material World," a Hindu-inspired phrase Harrison chose for a 1973 song that illuminates his theology and sense of artistic vocation:

"Got a lot of work to do / Try to get a message through / And get back out of this material world."

Harrison discovered Eastern religion through his love for Eastern music,...

Few actors are as well-trained in the art of keeping secrets as Nestor Carbonell.

Most recently playing eternally youthful Richard Alpert on "Lost" and Mayor Anthony Garcia in Christopher Nolan's "Batman" trilogy, the 43-year-old TV veteran has found a fitting home on the spoiler-free set of the CW's "Ringer."

"Between 'Lost' and the 'Dark Knight,' I've learned to take a deep breath before answering a question in case I give something away," Carbonell tells Zap2it. He's finding it easier to stay quiet on "Ringer," though -- mostly because he doesn't have many answers yet. "Every time I crack open a script, I have no idea where it's going."

Carbonell says he's in a very similar place as the fans, slowly putting the pieces together. And unlike co-star Kris Polaha, he says producers didn't even give him much of a background his character, Agent Victor Machado.

[1] Want to see Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Bacon on the set of R.I.P.D.? How excited is Nestor Carbonell for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises? What did Rhys Ifans have to wear to become the Lizard on the set of The Amazing Spider-Man? How will Stellan Skarsgard's performance change from Thor to The Avengers? And is it a bird or a plane on the set of Man of Steel? Read about all of this and more in today's Superhero Bits. Yahoo [2] is giving away copies of the Thor Blu-ray signed by Chris Hemsworth. Head to their site to enter. Wolverine might be indestructible but he's not a perfect superhero. Thanks to Nerd Approved [3]. Superhero Hype [4] has a great, in depth interview with Stellan Skarsgard in which they talk Thor, The Avengers and even Thor 2. Here's one of the highlights: We shot a lot in the desert and...

It’s likely that most folks became aware of the hippie movement because of the Woodstock music festival in the late 1960′s. Surely these peace-loving flower children didn’t spring from that mushy, muddy ground fully formed. Did they emerge earlier in the decade? Perhaps they were an off-shoot of the espresso-drinking, bongo-playing beatniks of the 1950′s. Well, a brand new documentary culled from some very old ( about fifty years ) home movie footage directed by Alex Gibney ( Enron:the Smartest Guys In The Room ) and Alison Eastwood attempts to answer some of those questions. For a groovy history lesson hop about the Merry Pranksters’ bus and take a Magic Trip.

The film begins with a look at celebrated author Ken Kesey. Old high school yearbook photos paint him as a real straight arrow jock type. But then he decided to become a writer and penned the classic novel “One Flew Over...

Or we could have gone with “A Zombie with Anthrax.” Ah well. the important thing is that guitarist/comic book author Scott Ian has a new credit to add to his already impressively cool cv: zombie. Technically, “walker” – he’ll be playing a member of the undead in the new season of The Walking Dead, as he recently announced on Twitter:

Scott_Ian Scott Ian

What have I wanted to do since 1978? Be a Zombie!!! Full story on my day on Walking Dead coming later!!!

and he attached this photo:

Add this to his tweets about seeing Richard Alpert at Lax (he’s a Lost fan), starting out his day with Vivaldi and Mozart, and not yet blogging about The Walking Dead on his new site http://scott-ian.com/ because he didn’t know “the Dr. Who thing was on tonight” and it becomes even more obvious why the man is so popular.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Because I have a "thing" for Sarah Michelle Gellar, I must admit that I came into the Ringer panel at Comic Con as a biased spectator. While I obviously don't harbor any sexual longing for her, during her years as a '90s teen icon I still developed something of a platonic crush, first during her run on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and later with roles in films like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Cruel Intentions.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to make the Comic-Con screening of the pilot, so I have no idea whether or not it was any good (though I've heard raves from the rest of the AfterElton.com staff). However, the plot, which has Gellar playing a dual role as estranged twin sisters Bridget/Siobhan, sounds intriguing enough.

Bridget is the recovering alcoholic on the run from the mob, who takes over wealthy,...

Sarah Michelle Gellar’s return to series television for the first time since Buffy the Vampire Slayer creates extra-high expectations for Ringer, a noir thriller that will debut on The CW on Sept. 13. But that’s okay with her costar Nestor Carbonell. “They should be,” says the actor, who knows a little something about successful serialized dramas thanks to his role as Lost‘s Richard Alpert.

Ringer @ Comic-Con: Sarah Michelle Gellar Slays Us, Plus a Hot New Promo!

Carbonell and his costars Kristoffer Polaha (Life Unexpected) and Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four) sat down with TVLine’s Michael Ausiello at our...

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At Thursday's 'Ringer' panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Sarah Michelle Gellar said the surprises in the show were what drew her back to TV.

"I realized it was the first time in a really long time that I had been surprised [by something I'd read]," Gellar said of the drama-thriller, in which she plays twin sisters with double the secrets.

[Read our full recap of the 'Ringer' panel &

watch the Comic-Con show preview here]

We caught up with the cast -- including Gellar, Nestor Carbonell (who plays a cop), Ioan Gruffud (who plays the husband of one of the sisters) and Kristoffer Polaha (a man with a romantic interest in that same sister) -- before their panel to hear more about the show.

Check out our video interviews to hear more about their characters (including Carbonnel comparing his 'Ringer' character to 'Lost''s Richard Alpert), suspending disbelief,...

Well, we finally made it!  Hours of waiting on line for Ballroom 20 (and a quick glimpse of Nestor Carbonell peeking his head out of the press room), but we'd brave anything for Sarah Michelle Gellar.

That's right; we're at the Ringer panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2011, on hand to give you everything we caught from the new serie

Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none Sarah Michelle Gellar is thrilled to be back partying at comic-con, but Ioan Gruffudd's favorite moment as a newbie is seeing other people in blue spandex. Eric Charmelo says that three seasons of the series have been conceived, and Bridget will "maybe" know more about what happened to Siobahn by the end of Season One. The first season focuses heavily on Bridget's story, but plays with time and perspective in that you see Siobahn and Bridget in flashbacks quite a bit. Ioan Gruffudd's...

Entertainment Weekly have just debuted Comic Con promotional artwork for CW’s new show Ringer, the first network series from Sarah Michelle Gellar since she retired her stake as Buffy the Vampire Slayer eight years ago. Time just flies doesn’t it?

After a brief flirtation with what looked like it could blossom into a successful film career (2004′s horror The Grudge was her biggest hit), she quickly became typecast as the horror victim (yes… despite kicking vampire and monster ass for so many years!!) and the desperate attempts to re-capture The Grudge’s success mostly fell flat on their face. The last few years you would be mistaken for presuming she had all but retired from the industry.

But Buffy’s back with a duel role as two identical twin sisters in the murderous crime show from Supernatural writer-producers Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder premiering September 13th which carries...

That which TVLine first told you about way back in February has come to fruition: Modern Family is pulling the trigger on a Lily recast, as Cam and Mitch’s bambino gets aged up a bit for Season 3. The casting call (cited by E! Online) seeks tykes to play “Asian, 3- to 4-year-old” Lily, but if you ask us, when dealing with a hit like Modern Family, there’s a primo opportunity here to widen the net and go big. For example….

Jason Dohring | Nary a single Armchair Casting Director session comes up where the name of this beloved Veronica Mars...

Here's a random and jest fer fun round up of some dudes rocking my favorite accessory: Guyliner. Some a fictional, some are not. Some are gay/trans/bi, some are straight as the proverbial arrow. But all look fantastic. Yes, yes, even old Captain Jack.

Alan Cumming

Billie Joe

Lafayette Reynolds

Rudolph Valentino

Richard Alpert (Many have claimed this is just what Nestor Carbonell's eyes naturally look like. I will remain unconvinced until I wake up next to him some morning. So, Nestor, if you want to set the record straight, you know my number.)

Noel Fielding

Khal Drogo

Eddie Izzard

Jack Sparrow (In the first film, before he became so entirely cartoonish.)

Brian Slade

Ewan McGregor (No, not just as Curt Wild. Man loves his recreational Guyliner.)

Nizam (Worst movie, best liquid liner.)

Spike

Bowie

Alex (This is really more Manscara than Guyliner.)

Azazeal (Inarticulate noises.)

Joanna Robinson...

The one show I watch on the CW is "America's Next Top Model" and I would never admit that in public. Well, what I mean is, I only watch it to make fun of Tyra and the whole idea that anyone who wins her show will be a model anywhere near the top. Ever heard of any of them? Exactly. But, guilty pleasure that it is, there are always a bunch of crazy girls who think they're the shit, someone with a sob story about a broken home and another one crying about how her life will be nothing if she can't be a top model. There's a whole lot of "fierce" posing and arguing while "smizing," as J-1 and J-2 mock and berate the contestants (both behind their backs and to their faces.) Tyra wears bad clothes, strange hair and speaks in her best affected voice as she declares the girls worthy or not.

The casting news for "The Dark Knight Rises" continues to develop this week, with two more actors joining the cast of the much-anticipated third — and final — installment of Christopher Nolan's gritty Batman franchise.

According to Variety, actors Brett Cullen (pictured) and Chris Ellis have been added to the cast of "The Dark Knight Rises." The report indicates that Cullen and Ellis will play a judge and a priest, respectively.

"Lost" fans will likely remember Cullen as Goodwin Stanhope, one of the mysterious Others that the survivors of Oceanic Flight 813 encounter early in the series. He also played Johnny Blaze's father, stunt rider Barton Blaze, in the 2007 film "Ghost Rider."

As for Ellis, he played Admiral Brigham in "Transformers" and has appeared in a long list of other genre film and television projects, including "Planet of the Apes" and "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," among others.

The pair join recently announced cast members Matthew Modine,...