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In Blum’s final note, “Capitalize on Luck”, he told Vassar grads that “You can’t get lucky without trying again and again. The more chances you take, the more times luck has to work its magic.” Despite any intimidation that lies ahead in the great expanse which college graduates are facing, Blum said “Opportunities will be there for you, I promise but they will not always be appealing. For others, you may also have to chase them down. Some will be off the beaten track, out-of-the-box, off-the-rails, but don’t judge. People passed judgement on me and they still do, for producing horror movies. If I had been threatened by that judgement, I wouldn’t be where I am today.” … [Read more...] about Jason Blum Reassures Vassar Grads During COVID-19 Times: “Don’t Let Moments Of Failure And Frustration Distract You”

The epic dark comedy features Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav), who serves as a narrator of a story about the rise of a man from poor villager to successful entrepreneur in modern India. The story follows Balram as he works his way into becoming a driver for Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) and Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas), who have just returned from America. If anything, society has trained Balram to be one thing: a servant. Because of this, he makes himself readily available to his rich masters but after a night of betrayal, he realizes the corrupt lengths they will go to trap him and save themselves. On the verge of losing everything, Balram rebels against a rigged and unequal system to rise up and become a new kind of master. … [Read more...] about Timely ‘MLK/FBI’ And Stranger-Than-Fiction ‘Assassins’ Documentaries Debut – Specialty Preview

In the early 1960s, he had hit after hit and one notable flop: the album A Christmas Gift to You, released, tragically, on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated, the worst possible time for such a joyous record. "A Christmas Gift," featuring the Ronettes singing "Frosty the Snowman" and Love’s version of "White Christmas," is now considered a classic and a perennial radio favorite during the holiday season. … [Read more...] about Phil Spector, “Wall of Sound” Producer Convicted of Murder, Dies at 81

Transmogrified from a lanky man in his mid-30s into a minty-blue blob with Joe's glasses but no nose, our hero's soul finds himself on a giant travelator in a black void heading into a massive white light that swallows each soul that enters it with a small pop and fizzle like the last pixel snuffing out on an old TV set. Panicked, Joe scrambles away from the light and ends up in the Great Before, some kind of inter-dimensional space where unborn souls are assigned personality traits before birth, visualized as bizarre pavilions not unlike the personality islands in Inside Out. There, Joe is assigned by the 2-D-ish line-drawing incorporeal beings that look like late Picasso sketches, all named Jerry (voiced by Alice Braga and Richard Ayoade among others), to mentor a troublesome unborn soul named merely 22, who sounds like a "middle-aged white lady" (she's voiced by Tina Fey). … [Read more...] about ‘Soul’: Film Review | London 2020

“We go at this thing with the same musical integrity as Jamey,” Cope once told Rolling Stone of the Steel Woods’ musical approach. “Honest songwriting, always trying to push the boundaries of our musicianship and keeping it really close to our roots when it comes to our influences.” … [Read more...] about Jason ‘Rowdy’ Cope, Guitarist for the Steel Woods, Dead at 42