‘Neptune Frost’: Saul Williams’ Sci-Fi Musical Is An Afrofuturist Sight To Behold [NYFF Review]

Season one of the comedy series Harlem , from Girl’s Trip creator Tracy Oliver, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video, with the official first-look images out now.

Actor/rapper Fetty Wap is in jail and faces federal charges of being a part of a bicoastal opioid drug ring based in Long Island, New York, law enforcement said.

With President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation still pending in Congress, SAG-AFTRA tonight released a statement from its president, Fran Drescher, saying that she supports the bill.

Andrew Cuomo is getting charged.

Producers of MJ, the upcoming Broadway musical about Michael Jackson that uses the late icon’s hits as its score, has cast the young actor – or actors – who will play the singer in his youthful Jackson Five era: Walter Russell III from Harlem, New York, and Christian Wilson from Norfolk, Virginia, will alternate in the role of “Little Michael.”

Come Fall In Love, a new musical based on the acclaimed 1995 Bollywood blockbuster film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, will open on Broadway during the 2022-23 season after a world premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater in September 2022.

Leena Tailor As a kid, Rob Thomas always thought December 26th was the saddest day of the year.

Jack White has shared his first new solo single in three years – you can listen to ‘Taking Me Back’ below.The full version of the track arrives after it was previewed in a new trailer for the video game Call of Duty: Vanguard over the weekend.Produced by White – who also plays every instrument on the track – and recorded at his Third Man Studios in Nashville, ‘Taking Me Back’ marks the former White Stripes frontman’s first new solo material since the release of ‘Boarding House Reach’ in

In the latest expansion of its original programming slate, Roku has bagged its first non-U.S. title with Children Ruin Everything, from Letterkenny producer New Metric Media.

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Strong are set to join the cast of Focus Features Armageddon Time with James Gray writing and directing. Anne Hathaway is also on board as are newcomers Banks Repeta along with Jaylin Webb and Ryan Sell. The film is currently in production in New York.

Directors Anisia Uzeyman and multi-talented Saul Williams deep dive into Afro-Futurism with the new film . Premiering at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes, and official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival, and New York Film Festival, this is a bold story about how the power of music, technology, and dreams can profoundly impact human connection.

Vincent Lindon is the heart of “Titane.” Since French director Julia Ducournau’s provocative new film premiered at Cannes Film Festival, making her the second woman to win the coveted Palme d’Or, similar to her first film “Raw,” it’s developed a near-mythical reputation as one of the wildest films ever. However, this wild movie is also a tender story, one concerning the love and loneliness felt by a mourning father.

South Korean film director Hong Sang-soo is cinema’s reigning poet of strained politeness, awkward confrontation, and space-filling chatter. In film after film—there are two Hongs at this year’s New York Film Festival, which is about average for the prolific South Korean—characters meet in the street or on a beach, in restaurants or hotels, and talk about the weather or the food in front of them, in banal and repetitious dialogue.

“When I write, I always write about the image first,” explains French director Julia Ducournau. It’s her indelible, singular use of imagery that made her previous film, “Raw,” about a vegetarian who becomes a cannibal, a movie that led to an audience member fainting during a 2016 screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Let’s get this out of the way out front: Yes, the Romanian film “Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn,” winner of the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlinale, opens with about three and a half minutes of hardcore pornography. Teacher Emilia (Katia Pascariu) and her husband Eugen go at it on digital video, complete with a little light flagellation, porn-informed dirty talk, and unsimulated oral and penetrative intercourse.

“Hester Street,” Joan Micklin Silver’s classic 1975 feature debut, portrays with momentous poignancy the Jewish immigrant experience in turn-of-the-century New York City: the lure of assimilation and the falling-away of tradition; the awesome, awful promise of becoming American.

The Raincoats has shared her first-ever solo single, ‘Feminist Song’ – you can listen to it below.The bassist and co-vocalist of Kurt Cobain‘s favourite band has released three versions of the new song – original, ambient mix and City Girl mix – which also includes her Raincoats bandmate Ana da Silva on the monotron.You can listen to the three different versions of ‘Feminist Song’ below:The 7-inch edition of ‘Feminist Song’ is being sold via Jack White’s Third Man Records – get it here.The new