Chicago – “Dandelion” was the centerpiece film at the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival (Ccff) on May 6th, and featured an appearance by the actor portraying the title character, KiKi Layne (“If Beale Street Could Talk”). Ms. Layne walked the Red Carpet at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre.
Dandelion (KiKi Layne) is a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey (Thomas Doherty), a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago. As Dandelion joins Casey’s nomadic group of struggling musicians, the kindred spirits make music together and strike up a whirlwind romance.
KiKi Layne at the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
KiKi Layne is an ascending actor after making her feature film debut in “If Beale Street Could Talk” in 2018 as Tish Rivers. She also...
Dandelion (KiKi Layne) is a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey (Thomas Doherty), a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago. As Dandelion joins Casey’s nomadic group of struggling musicians, the kindred spirits make music together and strike up a whirlwind romance.
KiKi Layne at the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
KiKi Layne is an ascending actor after making her feature film debut in “If Beale Street Could Talk” in 2018 as Tish Rivers. She also...
- 5/7/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – The 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival Day Four – Monday, May 6th – presents a film about music dreams and a documentary on a music store. “Dandelion” is written and directed by Nicole Riegel and “Flipside” by Chris Wilcha are the centerpiece screenings. For the full schedule, info and tickets, click Ccff May 6th. For individual films, click titles below.
Dandelion
Dandelion
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Dandelion (KiKi Layne) is a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey (Thomas Doherty), a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago. As Dandelion joins Casey’s nomadic group of struggling musicians, the kindred spirits make music together and strike up a whirlwind romance.
Capsule Review: This is a passionate meditation on young love and the sensitive artist trying to interpret it. The love is as much about the...
Dandelion
Dandelion
Photo credit: ChicagoCriticsFilmFestival.com
Dandelion (KiKi Layne) is a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey (Thomas Doherty), a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago. As Dandelion joins Casey’s nomadic group of struggling musicians, the kindred spirits make music together and strike up a whirlwind romance.
Capsule Review: This is a passionate meditation on young love and the sensitive artist trying to interpret it. The love is as much about the...
- 5/6/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
KiKi Layne, breakout of “If Beale Street Could Talk” and other indies, sings and performs in Nicole Riegel’s SXSW premiere “Dandelion” as a Cincinnati singer/songwriter in a downward spiral. IndieWire shares an exclusive first look at the film here ahead of its March 10 premiere in Austin at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival. Riegel previously directed 2021’s “Holler,” a blue-collar drama starring Jessica Barden.
Here’s the SXSW synopsis for “Dandelion”: “Dandelion, a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago. As Dandelion joins Casey’s nomadic group of struggling musicians, the kindred spirits make music together and strike up a whirlwind romance. The experience moves Dandelion from a narrow view of success to a deeper appreciation of her artistic journey, and the discovery...
Here’s the SXSW synopsis for “Dandelion”: “Dandelion, a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago. As Dandelion joins Casey’s nomadic group of struggling musicians, the kindred spirits make music together and strike up a whirlwind romance. The experience moves Dandelion from a narrow view of success to a deeper appreciation of her artistic journey, and the discovery...
- 3/4/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Thomas Doherty (Gossip Girl) is joining season 2 of the Hulu Original Series Tell Me Lies.
Doherty has been cast as Leo, a junior at Baird who returns to campus after studying abroad for a year and finds himself immediately drawn to Lucy (Grace Van Patten). He seems as kind as he is charming, but Lucy isn’t sure whether she can fully trust him. Leo will eventually become entangled in the web created by Lucy and Stephen’s (Jackson White) toxic relationship.
Tell Me Lies follows a tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of eight years and sweeps everyone around it into its dangerous wake. A group of college friends has no idea that one addictive entanglement among them has the power to pull them all into a web of betrayal, sex, and lies that will permanently alter each of their paths forever.
Doherty, who...
Doherty has been cast as Leo, a junior at Baird who returns to campus after studying abroad for a year and finds himself immediately drawn to Lucy (Grace Van Patten). He seems as kind as he is charming, but Lucy isn’t sure whether she can fully trust him. Leo will eventually become entangled in the web created by Lucy and Stephen’s (Jackson White) toxic relationship.
Tell Me Lies follows a tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of eight years and sweeps everyone around it into its dangerous wake. A group of college friends has no idea that one addictive entanglement among them has the power to pull them all into a web of betrayal, sex, and lies that will permanently alter each of their paths forever.
Doherty, who...
- 2/14/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Selected for SXSW in 2020 but unfortunately that was the last minute canceled edition, Nicole Riegel‘s debut film Holler would technically land its world premiere at the 2020 Deauville American Film Festival. She quickly followed this up with a sophomore film that shot in October of 2022 shot in Cincinnati and South Dakota — the IFC Films folks re-teamed with the director and will distribute. A romantic drama, Dandelion is toplined by KiKi Layne who also has producer creds.
Gist: KiKi Layne plays a struggling, but determined Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral. She reluctantly takes a last ditch effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago.…...
Gist: KiKi Layne plays a struggling, but determined Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral. She reluctantly takes a last ditch effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago.…...
- 11/9/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
With her spare, acoustic-driven solo work, Kristin Hersh sought to distinguish herself from the harder, post-punk sound of the singer-songwriter’s band Throwing Muses. A dozen albums in, she’s successfully carved out her own lane, maintaining a touch of the Muses’s jaggedness while largely eschewing electric instrumentation. While her latest album, Clear Pond Road, isn’t as radically stripped down as her earliest solo efforts, it’s still a departure from 2018’s more rock-oriented Possible Dust Clouds.
Clear Pond Road draws from a wide range of influences: The album’s cello arrangements take a page from the psychedelic pop of Love and the Beatles, while “Palmetto” is infused with the Delta blues in the vein of Son House. In the end, though, Hersh’s acoustic guitar is the album’s driving force, while at the same time avoiding the obvious tropes of roots music.
The album’s production...
Clear Pond Road draws from a wide range of influences: The album’s cello arrangements take a page from the psychedelic pop of Love and the Beatles, while “Palmetto” is infused with the Delta blues in the vein of Son House. In the end, though, Hersh’s acoustic guitar is the album’s driving force, while at the same time avoiding the obvious tropes of roots music.
The album’s production...
- 9/4/2023
- by Steve Erickson
- Slant Magazine
Lamp and Dandelion were unveiled as two beloved Nineties actors after being booted off The Masked Singer in a double elimination.
On Wednesday (12 April) night’s episode of the US version of the top-secret celebrity singing contest, UFO defeated Lamp and Dandelion for a spot in the semi-finals.
To kick off the round, Dandelion sang a rendition of Muse’s 2006 song “Starlight”.
Wowed by her performance, Judge Nicole Scherzinger called her “an intergalactic rock star”.
For her final clue, Dandelion teased that she has “plenty of experience with space”, leading Scherzinger and fellow judges Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy and Robin Thicke to guess Sara Bareilles, Alicia Witt, or Zendaya were under the mask.
Lamp followed next with her performance of the 1986 song “Venus” by Bananarama.
Finalising her clue package, Lamp said: “Let me spell it out: M-a-x-i-m.”
The judges listed Neve Campbell, Melissa Joan Hart, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alyssa Milano...
On Wednesday (12 April) night’s episode of the US version of the top-secret celebrity singing contest, UFO defeated Lamp and Dandelion for a spot in the semi-finals.
To kick off the round, Dandelion sang a rendition of Muse’s 2006 song “Starlight”.
Wowed by her performance, Judge Nicole Scherzinger called her “an intergalactic rock star”.
For her final clue, Dandelion teased that she has “plenty of experience with space”, leading Scherzinger and fellow judges Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy and Robin Thicke to guess Sara Bareilles, Alicia Witt, or Zendaya were under the mask.
Lamp followed next with her performance of the 1986 song “Venus” by Bananarama.
Finalising her clue package, Lamp said: “Let me spell it out: M-a-x-i-m.”
The judges listed Neve Campbell, Melissa Joan Hart, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alyssa Milano...
- 4/13/2023
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched the Season 9, episode 9 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired April 12 on Fox.
It was “Masked Singer in Space Night,” but “The Masked Singer” could have also been celebrating “’90s Night.” That’s because the two celebrities unmasked on Wednesday’s episodes were both TV stars from that era: Melissa Joan Hart (of “Clarissa Explains It All” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” fame) and Alicia Witt. Hart was revealed to be Lamp, while Witt was Dandelion.
Witt had won the previous week as Dandelion, but her journey ended here. For Dandelion, panelist Ken Jeong guessed Witt right. Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg thought it was Milla Jovovich. Robin Thicke went with Sara Bareilles and Nicole Scherzinger named Zooey Deschanel.
For Lamp, McCarthy Wahlberg, Thicke and Scherzinger all got it right with Hart. Jeong went rogue with Michelle Williams.
Like last season, “The Masked Singer...
It was “Masked Singer in Space Night,” but “The Masked Singer” could have also been celebrating “’90s Night.” That’s because the two celebrities unmasked on Wednesday’s episodes were both TV stars from that era: Melissa Joan Hart (of “Clarissa Explains It All” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” fame) and Alicia Witt. Hart was revealed to be Lamp, while Witt was Dandelion.
Witt had won the previous week as Dandelion, but her journey ended here. For Dandelion, panelist Ken Jeong guessed Witt right. Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg thought it was Milla Jovovich. Robin Thicke went with Sara Bareilles and Nicole Scherzinger named Zooey Deschanel.
For Lamp, McCarthy Wahlberg, Thicke and Scherzinger all got it right with Hart. Jeong went rogue with Michelle Williams.
Like last season, “The Masked Singer...
- 4/13/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Fox’s The Masked Singer Season 9 is in full swing, and fans can’t wait to see what goes down on Space Night. Three masks hit the stage, and two of the masks are brand new. So, how many more new masks will fans see once Space Night ends? Here’s what we know.
[Spoiler alert: Potential The Masked Singer Season 9 spoilers ahead for Space Night.]
‘The Masked Singer’ Season 9 Space Night | Fox via Getty Images ‘The Masked Singer’ Season 9 Episode 9 features 2 new masks
Two new masks hit the stage in The Masked Singer Season 9 Episode 9, Space Night. “Get ready, ya’ll,” Robin Thicke says in the promo. “The Masked Singer is headed to space.” Dandelion, Lamp, and UFO go head to head, and fans get to see Lamp and UFO sing for the first time.
“Can you believe it?” Nicole Scherzinger tells the cameras. ” … Space, I think I would thrive. I feel...
[Spoiler alert: Potential The Masked Singer Season 9 spoilers ahead for Space Night.]
‘The Masked Singer’ Season 9 Space Night | Fox via Getty Images ‘The Masked Singer’ Season 9 Episode 9 features 2 new masks
Two new masks hit the stage in The Masked Singer Season 9 Episode 9, Space Night. “Get ready, ya’ll,” Robin Thicke says in the promo. “The Masked Singer is headed to space.” Dandelion, Lamp, and UFO go head to head, and fans get to see Lamp and UFO sing for the first time.
“Can you believe it?” Nicole Scherzinger tells the cameras. ” … Space, I think I would thrive. I feel...
- 4/12/2023
- by Lauren Weiler
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Ever since The Masked Singer‘s U.S. debut in 2019, many fans have become skilled at quickly and correctly predicting who is behind the masks. The panelists … not so much. Ken Jeong has gained a reputation as the worst guesser with his out-there and often incorrect predictions. Robin Thicke has gotten it right many times, but he’s also guessed incorrectly on several occasions. Even Jenny McCarthy and Nicole Scherzinger, who won Golden Ear trophies for the most accurate guesses, have been stumped. Here are The Masked Singer panelists’ worst guesses of all time.
Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Ken Jeong, and Nicole Scherzinger on ‘The Masked Singer’ | Michael Becker/Fox Shaun White as Robot
In Robin’s defense, Robot’s clues were vague when he made his debut in the season 3 premiere. The panelist thought Robot’s story of toughness and determination meant he was an athlete. However, we...
Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Ken Jeong, and Nicole Scherzinger on ‘The Masked Singer’ | Michael Becker/Fox Shaun White as Robot
In Robin’s defense, Robot’s clues were vague when he made his debut in the season 3 premiere. The panelist thought Robot’s story of toughness and determination meant he was an athlete. However, we...
- 4/12/2023
- by Elise Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched the Season 9, episode 7 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired March 29 on Fox.
Everyone knows George Wendt’s name — well, at least Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg does. “Cheers” star Wendt was one of the two more celebrities who were revealed on Wednesday’s edition of “The Masked Singer.” Also unmasked: “Selling Sunset” star Christine Quinn.
For Moose, panelist Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg got it right with George Wendt. Robin Thicke went with Jon Lovitz, Nicole Scherzinger named Ed O’Neill and Ken Jeong guessed John Goodman.
As for Scorpio, no one got it right. McCarthy Wahlberg named Denise Richards, Thicke guessed Lisa Rinna. Ken Jeong thought it was Heidi Klum. Nicole Scherzinger picked Willa Ford.
Like last season, “The Masked Singer” has once again adopted a “Champion of Masked Singer” format. Each episode, three costumed celebrities will perform, but only one will win...
Everyone knows George Wendt’s name — well, at least Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg does. “Cheers” star Wendt was one of the two more celebrities who were revealed on Wednesday’s edition of “The Masked Singer.” Also unmasked: “Selling Sunset” star Christine Quinn.
For Moose, panelist Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg got it right with George Wendt. Robin Thicke went with Jon Lovitz, Nicole Scherzinger named Ed O’Neill and Ken Jeong guessed John Goodman.
As for Scorpio, no one got it right. McCarthy Wahlberg named Denise Richards, Thicke guessed Lisa Rinna. Ken Jeong thought it was Heidi Klum. Nicole Scherzinger picked Willa Ford.
Like last season, “The Masked Singer” has once again adopted a “Champion of Masked Singer” format. Each episode, three costumed celebrities will perform, but only one will win...
- 3/30/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched the Season 9, episode 6 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired March 22 on Fox.
You’d better be ready to, be ready to… Jump! Off of “The Masked Singer.” Actor Holly Robinson Peete, known for “21 Jump Street” among other things, was one of the two more celebrities who unmasked on Wednesday’s edition of “The Masked Singer.” Also out: WWE star Alexa Bliss, who just made headlines this week for revealing that she had been diagnosed with skin cancer, and recently underwent a procedure for it.
For Axolotl, panelist Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg got it right, naming Alexa Bliss (real names Alexis Kaufman and Alexis “Lexi” Cabrera). Robin Thicke guessed Nikki Bella. Ken Jeong thought it was Brie Bella. Nicole Scherzinger picked McKayla Maroney.
As for Fairy, no one guessed Robinson Peete. Scherzinger went with Tracee Ellis Ross, McCarthy Wahlberg thought it was Corrine Foxx,...
You’d better be ready to, be ready to… Jump! Off of “The Masked Singer.” Actor Holly Robinson Peete, known for “21 Jump Street” among other things, was one of the two more celebrities who unmasked on Wednesday’s edition of “The Masked Singer.” Also out: WWE star Alexa Bliss, who just made headlines this week for revealing that she had been diagnosed with skin cancer, and recently underwent a procedure for it.
For Axolotl, panelist Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg got it right, naming Alexa Bliss (real names Alexis Kaufman and Alexis “Lexi” Cabrera). Robin Thicke guessed Nikki Bella. Ken Jeong thought it was Brie Bella. Nicole Scherzinger picked McKayla Maroney.
As for Fairy, no one guessed Robinson Peete. Scherzinger went with Tracee Ellis Ross, McCarthy Wahlberg thought it was Corrine Foxx,...
- 3/23/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched the Season 9, episode 3 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired March 1 on Fox.
“The Masked Singer” is like a jungle sometimes, it makes you wonder how you keep from going under. On Wednesday’s episode, rap legend Grandmaster Flash was trying not to be pushed, since he was so close to the edge. But despite trying not to, he lost his head.
Grandmaster Flash was the latest celebrity to be unmasked on Season 9 of “The Masked Singer,” revealed as the Polar Bear. The hip-hop pioneer sang “Rapture,” by Blondie. And there’s quite a connection there.
“That song was actually written for me,” he told Variety. “I remember Fab Five Freddy bringing [Blondie’s Debbie Harry] to one of my shows. This is way back in the day before I became famous. And she wrote this song of what she saw when...
“The Masked Singer” is like a jungle sometimes, it makes you wonder how you keep from going under. On Wednesday’s episode, rap legend Grandmaster Flash was trying not to be pushed, since he was so close to the edge. But despite trying not to, he lost his head.
Grandmaster Flash was the latest celebrity to be unmasked on Season 9 of “The Masked Singer,” revealed as the Polar Bear. The hip-hop pioneer sang “Rapture,” by Blondie. And there’s quite a connection there.
“That song was actually written for me,” he told Variety. “I remember Fab Five Freddy bringing [Blondie’s Debbie Harry] to one of my shows. This is way back in the day before I became famous. And she wrote this song of what she saw when...
- 3/2/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched the Season 9 season premiere of “The Masked Singer,” which aired Feb. 22 on Fox.
The Winner Takes It All: “The Masked Singer” paid tribute to Swedish super group Abba on Wednesday — and unmasked two 1980s icons in the process. Pop ingenue Debbie Gibson, who first hit it big in 1987 as a 17-year-old sensation who wrote and sang her own songs, was unmasked as the Night Owl, while comedian and “America’s Got Talent” judge Howie Mandel — who rose to recognition on the 1980s medical drama “St. Elsewhere” — was revealed to be the Rock Lobster.
Gibson was a last-minute addition to the episode after the celebrity who was originally set to appear had to exit after testing positive for Covid. With less than 24 hours to taping, Gibson agreed to step in.
“I didn’t really have much time to decide to do it,...
The Winner Takes It All: “The Masked Singer” paid tribute to Swedish super group Abba on Wednesday — and unmasked two 1980s icons in the process. Pop ingenue Debbie Gibson, who first hit it big in 1987 as a 17-year-old sensation who wrote and sang her own songs, was unmasked as the Night Owl, while comedian and “America’s Got Talent” judge Howie Mandel — who rose to recognition on the 1980s medical drama “St. Elsewhere” — was revealed to be the Rock Lobster.
Gibson was a last-minute addition to the episode after the celebrity who was originally set to appear had to exit after testing positive for Covid. With less than 24 hours to taping, Gibson agreed to step in.
“I didn’t really have much time to decide to do it,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
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