For Jill Scott's new album The Light of the Sun that will be released June 21st, here is a video with the artist and co-producer JR Hutson discussing the making of eight of its tracks followed by previews of each track.
With Looking For A Fight, the Sweetback Sisters could turn out to be the decade's Bring It Girls. Showing true grit and wit, they are a genuine blast from the past -- no matter how far back you want to go.
Hershman Leeson asks the audience? "Can you name three women artists?" She took her camera into the streets where flabbergasted subjects exiting world-class museums struggle to name names. A few, tentatively, produce, "Frida Kahlo?"
Last Tuesday, Bryant Park was a chess fest. Young and old, seasoned and novice players sat head in hands contemplating plastic pieces on the checkered mats. You could hear a pawn drop.
If you haven't started watching Men of a Certain Age then this is the season to give it a try. You will find yourself enjoying the tales of these three friends as they stumble into middle age. It is warm, honest and humorous.
Finally the show is here! Million Dollar Decorators... if only I had taken Margaret Russell's advice and insisted on hair and makeup, not to mention losing 15 pounds before the show was taped instead of after, I would have no negative comments.
I could go to painstaking lengths, detailing how deeply offensive and unfunny the repeated and gratuitous use of n**** in The Hangover Part II was, but the damage in large part has already been done.
We may not necessarily think of experimental cinema when we think of the land of bossa nova, Bahia and bikinis. Yet there is an abundance of wonderfully unusual indie, alternative work coming out of Brazil today.
Eminently lyrical and rapturous in the cinematic manifold that it kaleidoscopically brings into and out of focus onscreen with each turn of the Terrence Malick lens, Tree of Life is one of those singular cinematic milestones.
Witness five artists stare down the midlife of their musical careers armed with ukuleles, epic productions, and carefully chosen cover songs.
Pygmalion is one of Bernard Shaw's best works, but it is clearly in the shadow of My Fair Lady. It's lovely to revisit this comic romance sans music; but it's a shame they didn't come up with any particular reason for doing so.
If you've ever imagined the feel of a Hattori Hanzo blade in your hand, you must see this movie. If the phrase "the most feared swordsman in Japan" sends a thrill up your leg, you must see this movie.
Since you're probably a human being with things like responsibilities and priorities, you most likely didn't watch every reality show finale this week. Here are all of the reality show finales from this last week summed up and videoized.
Ready for another visit from the most awesome martial arts master ever? Well, ready or not, Po, the legendary Dragon Warrior (and roly-poly panda) is back in this follow-up to the well-received Kung Fu Panda.
While Phantom has long been considered a classic, I believe it has taken on more importance in this new generation as the bridge to the Broadway of the past.
It was close, but no cigar, as The Hangover 2 made a run for the R-rated opening weekend record. As it stands, the film pulled in $86.4 million over the Friday-Sunday frame.
Midnight In Paris was truly wonderful; a romantic and exhilarating fantasy of Paris as seen through Woody's idiosyncratic eyes.
The best is yet to come? Not this time. It's already here as it deliciously unfolds by way of singers Sally Mayes, Lillias White and Rachel York.
Larry Flynt has won. He was America's pioneer pornographer -- the man who fought against a still-Puritan nation all the way to the Supreme Court for the right to get hard core close-ups into the grasp of every young man.
Amitava Kumar, 2011.06.01
Marshall Fine, 2011.06.01
Marshall Fine, 2011.06.01
