New Jack Swing pioneer Teddy Riley — who produced iconic hits including Doug E. Fresh’s “The Show” and Bobby Brown’s “My Prerogative” — has announced his new memoir, Remember the Times, published by Simon & Schuster’s 13A / Gallery Books imprint.
Riley tapped music biographer Jake Brown to collaborate on the tome, which will chronicle his five decades of hits and trace the past 40 years of his influential impact on hip-hop and R&b for generations. Beyond helming earlier classics, including Kool Moe Dee’s “Wild Wild West” and Keith Sweat...
Riley tapped music biographer Jake Brown to collaborate on the tome, which will chronicle his five decades of hits and trace the past 40 years of his influential impact on hip-hop and R&b for generations. Beyond helming earlier classics, including Kool Moe Dee’s “Wild Wild West” and Keith Sweat...
- 1/30/2024
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the sci-fi fantasy film Galaxy Games, which you can watch over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Written and directed by Ben Carland Galaxy Games has the following synopsis: A group of young adults are sent to a faraway planet to compete in the prestigious Sol Invictus games. When disaster strikes and the teams are stranded without equipment or communication, they must work together to survive long enough to be rescued.
The film stars Jake Brown, Sky King, Jake White, Colin Conners, Caleb Courtney, Aaron Kuban, Spenser Pollard, and Tyler Thomas.
Also known by the title Sol Invictus,...
Written and directed by Ben Carland Galaxy Games has the following synopsis: A group of young adults are sent to a faraway planet to compete in the prestigious Sol Invictus games. When disaster strikes and the teams are stranded without equipment or communication, they must work together to survive long enough to be rescued.
The film stars Jake Brown, Sky King, Jake White, Colin Conners, Caleb Courtney, Aaron Kuban, Spenser Pollard, and Tyler Thomas.
Also known by the title Sol Invictus,...
- 3/15/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
By all accounts, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" exists as a tribute to Chadwick Boseman. Pretty much everyone involved with the film, from writer-director Ryan Coogler to star Letitia Wright, has expressed their feeling that they on some level made the movie for the late, great actor who embodied the hero in 2018. That feeling, apparently, continues through to the film's soundtrack, which will feature the first new music from Rihanna since 2017. One song, "Lift Me Up," has already debuted, and it's a sweet, emotional ballad infused with care.
/Film's Bill Bria attended a virtual press conference with Coogler, and the filmmaker spoke about how Rihanna returned from seeming retirement for the "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" soundtrack. It's a story that features several big-name stars, music made across three continents, and, at its heart, love for Boseman and his legacy.
An Oscar-Winning Musician Helped Out
When asked about getting Rihanna on board,...
/Film's Bill Bria attended a virtual press conference with Coogler, and the filmmaker spoke about how Rihanna returned from seeming retirement for the "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" soundtrack. It's a story that features several big-name stars, music made across three continents, and, at its heart, love for Boseman and his legacy.
An Oscar-Winning Musician Helped Out
When asked about getting Rihanna on board,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Stars: Caleb Courtney, Jake White, Spenser Pollard, Jake Brown, Aaron Kuban, Sky King | Written and Directed by Ben Carland
Before I get to the actual review of Galaxy Games a little bit of background is in order. While looking up writer/director Ben Carland’s other credits I noticed he was credited with a film from 2021 called Sol Invictus, which is the actual name of the games the characters are competing in.
Checking it out, it’s obviously the same film, but with user reviews dating back to 2013. A further bit of searching found a couple of articles, including this one, dating back to 2011. So rather than a new movie, this is an eleven-year-old film that’s been released under a couple of titles, Sol and Sol Invictus already.
After a voiceover hyping the games to prospective participants and explaining them to us, we’re dumped on a beach where...
Before I get to the actual review of Galaxy Games a little bit of background is in order. While looking up writer/director Ben Carland’s other credits I noticed he was credited with a film from 2021 called Sol Invictus, which is the actual name of the games the characters are competing in.
Checking it out, it’s obviously the same film, but with user reviews dating back to 2013. A further bit of searching found a couple of articles, including this one, dating back to 2011. So rather than a new movie, this is an eleven-year-old film that’s been released under a couple of titles, Sol and Sol Invictus already.
After a voiceover hyping the games to prospective participants and explaining them to us, we’re dumped on a beach where...
- 7/11/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Stars: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Christy Summerhays, Morgan Lund, Mallory Bechtel, Jake Brown, Jarrod Phillips, Ann Dowd, Brock McKinney | Written and Directed by Ari Aster
[Note: With Hereditary out on Blu-ray this week, here's a reposting of one of our reviews from the films UK cinematic debut]
Some critics might turn their nose up at the idea that 30-year-old Ari Aster’s debut film should be mentioned in the same breath as the greats of horror. But Aster is clearly a genre fan. With Hereditary, he’s borrowing the possession aspects of The Exorcist; the elemental grief of Don’t Look Now; the parental anxiety of Rosemary’s Baby; the maternal madness of Images; the familial holocaust of The Shining; and the generational violence of Psycho. The result is a distressing and exhausting piece of work, as subversive (in its own way) as last year’s horror breakout, Jordan’s Peele’s Get Out; although it’s probably closer in tone and pacing to Robert Eggers’ The Witch.
[Note: With Hereditary out on Blu-ray this week, here's a reposting of one of our reviews from the films UK cinematic debut]
Some critics might turn their nose up at the idea that 30-year-old Ari Aster’s debut film should be mentioned in the same breath as the greats of horror. But Aster is clearly a genre fan. With Hereditary, he’s borrowing the possession aspects of The Exorcist; the elemental grief of Don’t Look Now; the parental anxiety of Rosemary’s Baby; the maternal madness of Images; the familial holocaust of The Shining; and the generational violence of Psycho. The result is a distressing and exhausting piece of work, as subversive (in its own way) as last year’s horror breakout, Jordan’s Peele’s Get Out; although it’s probably closer in tone and pacing to Robert Eggers’ The Witch.
- 10/9/2018
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
In the summer of 1979, Conway Twitty earned his 22nd Number One hit with “I May Never Get to Heaven,” written by longtime friends Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen. Anderson had been enshrined in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame four years earlier, but has continued to have hits into the 21st century, including the multi-award-winning “Whiskey Lullaby,” written with Jon Randall. “I May Never Get to Heaven,” however, took a long, circuitous route to the top of the charts, yet along the way ended up being recorded by numerous artists — including the late Aretha Franklin,...
- 8/16/2018
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Smashing Pumpkins should have been in high spirits heading into the making of their second LP. But according to Billy Corgan, the lead-up to Siamese Dream was one of the darkest chapters in the band’s history. “We were on tour, selling out everywhere we go,” the singer told Rolling Stone in 1995 of the period following their 1991 debut, Gish. “Everything went cool, fine, dandy. Suddenly, boom: Nirvana. We went from being seen as future stars almost to has-beens, people saying, ‘Well, if you were so good, this would have happened to you.
- 7/27/2018
- by Sophie Harris
- Rollingstone.com
Stars: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Christy Summerhays, Morgan Lund, Mallory Bechtel, Jake Brown, Jarrod Phillips, Ann Dowd, Brock McKinney | Written and Directed by Ari Aster
Some critics might turn their nose up at the idea that 30-year-old Ari Aster’s debut film should be mentioned in the same breath as the greats of horror. But Aster is clearly a genre fan. With Hereditary, he’s borrowing the possession aspects of The Exorcist; the elemental grief of Don’t Look Now; the parental anxiety of Rosemary’s Baby; the maternal madness of Images; the familial holocaust of The Shining; and the generational violence of Psycho.
The result is a distressing and exhausting piece of work, as subversive (in its own way) as last year’s horror breakout, Jordan’s Peele’s Get Out; although it’s probably closer in tone and pacing to Robert Eggers’ The Witch.
Some critics might turn their nose up at the idea that 30-year-old Ari Aster’s debut film should be mentioned in the same breath as the greats of horror. But Aster is clearly a genre fan. With Hereditary, he’s borrowing the possession aspects of The Exorcist; the elemental grief of Don’t Look Now; the parental anxiety of Rosemary’s Baby; the maternal madness of Images; the familial holocaust of The Shining; and the generational violence of Psycho.
The result is a distressing and exhausting piece of work, as subversive (in its own way) as last year’s horror breakout, Jordan’s Peele’s Get Out; although it’s probably closer in tone and pacing to Robert Eggers’ The Witch.
- 6/18/2018
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Stars: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Christy Summerhays, Morgan Lund, Mallory Bechtel, Jake Brown, Jarrod Phillips, Ann Dowd, Brock McKinney | Written and Directed by Ari Aster
Opening just one week ago in America (and creating a lot of buzz before this at its Sundance midnight showing), Hereditary has been talked about as one of the scariest movies ever! So you can imagine how excited I was to see it.
Hereditary is a film I really don’t want to spoil for anyone and it is definitely a film that is best seen when you know very little about the actual story. So I will keep this part brief. We follow a family whose grandmother has recently passed away. Shortly after the funeral a number of tragic incidents occur, leading the family to grieve in very different ways.
Hereditary shows a very distinct style from literally its first second.
Opening just one week ago in America (and creating a lot of buzz before this at its Sundance midnight showing), Hereditary has been talked about as one of the scariest movies ever! So you can imagine how excited I was to see it.
Hereditary is a film I really don’t want to spoil for anyone and it is definitely a film that is best seen when you know very little about the actual story. So I will keep this part brief. We follow a family whose grandmother has recently passed away. Shortly after the funeral a number of tragic incidents occur, leading the family to grieve in very different ways.
Hereditary shows a very distinct style from literally its first second.
- 6/15/2018
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
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