It will be a Reba reunion on the set of new Lifetime movie The Hammer . Reba McEntire will star with fellow Reba alum Melissa Peterman for the film inspired by the life of traveling circuit judge, Kim Wanker. McEntire’s real-life partner Rex Linn ( CSI: Miami ) and Kay Shioma Metchie ( Totally Normal ) also star. Per the logline, the film follows Kim Wheeler (played by McEntire, who also executive produces), an outspoken, firecracker lawyer who is appointed Judge of the 5th District of Nevada and is one of the few traveling judges left in America. After the reigning judge dies under suspicious circumstances, Kim finds herself covering a circuit that stretches between Las Vegas and Reno — a rugged, often desolate area where anything and everything can happen. With gavel in hand, she lays down the law with a no-nonsense brand of justice, that quickly earns her the nickname “The Hammer.” As the investigation of the former judge’s death heats up, Kim’s sister Kris … [Read more...] about Reba McEntire To Star With ‘Reba’ Alum Melissa Peterman In Lifetime Movie ‘The Hammer’
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Song You Need to Know: Sam Smith, ‘Diamonds’
Sam Smith is reborn. At least that’s how it sounds on their new single “Diamonds” — three minutes and 34 seconds of catharsis. A little over a year ago, the London-bred singer/songwriter, whose pronouns are they/them, shared on Twitter that they’d spent the preceding year and a half in therapy, describing that stretch as the “most challenging time” of their life so far. “I’ve watched and read so much over the last six months to try and make sense of all the mess in my head,” Smith added at the time. “Tried to find ways to organise all of my problems so that they are bound and organised into folders and boxes, so that they will never haunt me or effect me again.” Smith, who is now 28, said that they only recently realized they were “enough” and that “trying to change and seek perfection and a life of no pain, only causes more pain.” You can hear those realizations in “Diamonds.” Smith sings of a lying lover who cared more about the star’s fame and material goods than their … [Read more...] about Song You Need to Know: Sam Smith, ‘Diamonds’
Charli XCX Sounds ‘Hot In It’ on New Party Banger With Tiësto
We can already hear the clubs blasting this banger. On Thursday, Charli XCX released EDM-pop collaboration “Hot In It” with Dutch DJ Tiësto as part of his upcoming album — and the song has instantly become a TikTok favorite. “Tonight, I’m gon’ be rockin’ it, droppin’ it/Shake my ass, no stoppin’ it,” Charli sings in the catchy chorus. “I look hot in it, hot in it, I look hot in it.” Charli told Apple Music’s The Zane Lowe Show that the track felt “very me” when she heard it from Tiësto. “I was so honored when I got the call, to be honest because I feel like we’ve been in each other’s ether for many, many years and nothing’s ever quite happened, but I’m so happy that we waited for this song because it truly is an Anthem,” she said. “Everybody wants to just party to this song. It’s back to my roots.” Meanwhile, Tiësto said he had been “dying to work” with Charli for a long time but “it never happened.” “Finally I can put you off my bucket list. It’s amazing,” he said. “Just … [Read more...] about Charli XCX Sounds ‘Hot In It’ on New Party Banger With Tiësto
‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical’ To Open 66th BFI London Film Festival
The 66th BFI London Film Festival has set Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical as its Opening Night Gala. Directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Emma Thompson , Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Sindhu Vee and Alisha Weir as the eponymous Matilda, the film will have its world premiere on October 5 at the Southbank Centre in the Royal Festival Hall. Sony Pictures UK and TriStar release theatrically in the UK on December 2. Netflix will release the film elsewhere during the holiday season. Filmmaker and cast attendance is expected at the LFF opening and there will also be simultaneous preview screenings of the film at multiple cinemas across the UK. Matilda is an inspirational musical tale of an extraordinary girl who discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what’s right, she’s met with miraculous results. … [Read more...] about ‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical’ To Open 66th BFI London Film Festival
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect Movie Review: R Madhavan’s Film Launches Successfully With Its Emotional Fuel
Rating: 3.0 /5 Star Cast: Madhavan, Simran Bagga, Shahrukh Khan, Suriya Sivakumar, Rajit Kapur Director: Ananth Mahadevan "Mujhe tum logon se koi character certificate nahin chahiye naa hi main koi popularity contest jeetne aaya hoon. Ek mission ke liye aaye hain," Nambi Narayanan (R Madhavan) sternly tells his team members in the midst of a celebration gone awry. Well, at the end of almost two and a half hours of Rocketry: The Nambi Effect , you realise that R Madhavan has succeeded in his mission, both as a director and an actor despite some bumps in his way. What's Yay: R Madhavan, Shah Rukh Khan's cameo What's Nay: Too much scientific jargon in the first half Story A snow-bearded former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan (R Madhavan) awaits at a studio to get interviewed by superstar Shah Rukh Khan (King Khan himself). The crew at the venue ain't pleased to let their weekend go the science way while a few chat about … [Read more...] about Rocketry: The Nambi Effect Movie Review: R Madhavan’s Film Launches Successfully With Its Emotional Fuel
Vaashi OTT Release Date And Time: Keerthy Suresh-Tovino Thomas’s Film To Stream On Netflix
Vaashi , the courtroom drama that features Keerthy Suresh and Tovino Thomas in the lead roles, earned rave reviews from both the audiences and critics. The movie, which is directed by Vishnu G Raghav is now finally all set to get its OTT release soon. As per the latest reports, the online streaming rights of Vaashi are bagged by OTT giant Netflix. If the latest reports are to be believed, Vaashi will stream on Netflix from the last week of July or the beginning of August this year. However, the makers are yet to finalise the OTT release date of the Keerthy Suresh-Tovino Thomas starrer. The believable sources suggest that the OTT release date of Vaashi is expected to be officially revealed in a couple of days with a social media announcement. Tovino Thomas is playing the role of Adv. Ebin Mathew in the movie which features Keerthy Suresh as Adv. Madhavi Mohan. Vaashi depicts how a court case changes the equation between two young lawyers, who share … [Read more...] about Vaashi OTT Release Date And Time: Keerthy Suresh-Tovino Thomas’s Film To Stream On Netflix
‘No Shame’: Kanye West Sued Over ‘Donda 2’ Sample
Kanye West is being sued for the unauthorized use of a sample on his latest album, Donda 2 , marking yet another copyright infringement claim filed against the polarizing rapper. As first reported by Billboard , a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in New York claims West’s song “Flowers” unlawfully samples the 1986 club hit “Move Your Body” (a.k.a. “The House Music Anthem”). According to the suit, the Marshall Jefferson track is “repeated at least 22 times throughout” West’s song. “West advocates for artists’ rights with one hand, yet has no shame in taking away rights from another artist with the other,” the filing says, later calling the use of the sample “willful and deliberate,” claiming representatives for West met with Jefferson’s publisher, Ultra International Music Publishing, and admitted sampling the tune without obtaining proper clearance beforehand. “Defendants know and have been informed that they do not possess a license to utilize the Composition in … [Read more...] about ‘No Shame’: Kanye West Sued Over ‘Donda 2’ Sample
Sheik Yerbouti
To paraphrase the composer himself, Frank Zappa isn’t dead. He just smells funny to a lot of posthippie pundits who claim the master Mother made his point with Freak Out, Absolutely Free and We’re Only in It for the Money before descending into the depths of pornographic cheap shots and jazz-rock redundancy for most of his next twenty odd albums. As the first release on Zappa’s own label, the four-sided Sheik Yerbouti won’t change everybody’s mind, but it reaffirms (at least for the faithful) Zappa’s chops as a bandleader and rock & roll wit who doesn’t have to be socially relevant to get a laugh. The opening salvo, “I Have Been in You,” is a marvelously snide sendup of Peter Frampton’s wimpiest hour (“I’m in You”) that does for putzy love songs what “Dancin’ Fool” does later for uncoordinated nerds with fatal John Travolta complexes. Indulgent scatological exercises like “Broken Hearts Are for Assholes” and “Bobby Brown” (in which the artist unleashes a few zingers at … [Read more...] about Sheik Yerbouti
Apostrophe (‘)
Having proven his stellar musicianship on a series of instrumental-based solo albums, Frank Zappa is now returning to the musical satire on which his formidable reputation was built. Apostrophe turns out to be so brilliantly successful, though, that it seems as though he's never left this field. Songs like "Stinkfoot" and "St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast" again attest to Zappa's abilities at contorting song forms to serve his distorted purposes: They're a welcome reminder that comic lunacy is still alive and well. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" spotlights Zappa's public-spiritedness, and just in case anyone might still have doubts about his guitar virtuosity, Zappa dispels such thoughts quite convincingly on the title cut — an outrageous jam with Jim Gordon's thundering drums and Jack Bruce's bumblebee bass. Truly a mother of an album. … [Read more...] about Apostrophe (‘)
Lumpy Gravy
Lumpy Gravy is the most curious album Frank Zappa has been involved in to date, and in many ways the music just doesn’t make it; as it says on the cover, “a curiously inconsistent piece which started out to be a ballet but probably didn’t make it.” The record was recorded in February of 1967, and Zappa conducts the “Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra and Chorus,” which is made of stray Mothers and some of Hollywood’s top studio musicians. On the back of the album we are asked by Zappa, “Is this phase 2 of We’re Only In It For The Money? ” but Lumpy Gravy is hardly a sequel in quality or kind to Money , although it does share some thematic material with the later Mothers’ group. Lumpy Gravy carries to an extreme the protean, fragmented musical approach that Zappa favors, but on the whole the work is rather inert. The composition is liberally garnished with dialogues about everything from living in drums to pigs with wings, but most of these spoken sections seem … [Read more...] about Lumpy Gravy