HBO celebrated the life and musical legacy of music legend Mavis Staples at the NYC premiere of their documentary Mavis! last night (February 24th) at the Florence Gould Hall.
For centuries, the watch has proven to be much more than a wrist decoration.
“Ava’s Possessions” is written and directed by Jordan Galland. It stars Louisa Krause, Carol Kane, William Sadler, Alysia Reiner, Dan Fogler, Lou Taylor Pucci, Whitney Able, Joel de la Fuente, John Ventimiglia, Deborah Rush, Zachary Booth, and Wass Stevens.
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Eddie the Eagle tells the true story of Eddie Edwards, who, against all odds, completed the 90m ski jump in the ’88 Winter Olympics.
Terrance Malick’s new film KNIGHT OF CUPS opens to the public March 4. We were able to catch the sneak showing screened on Monday, February 22 in the brand new Metrograph in the Lower East Side. Many insiders as well as those working on the film attended the screening.
Kesha says her producer manipulated her career and is hoping to be free from record contracts.
This year proved to have a new addition to the Athena Film Festival, in which the first ever Leading Man Award was given to Paul Feig for his dedication in promoting female protagonists and showing women on screen when others in Hollywood avoided it. Ghostbusters star Kate McKinnon came out to support Feig and presented the award to him as the two reminisced on the struggles they had in making Ghostbusters as well as just showing funny women on camera. Here are some of the key points Feig made in his interviews:
You received a lot of backlash on Twitter and the internet ever since rumors of Ghostbusters came out. How was it like fighting with trolls who were against the film?
Well fighting on the internet is very interesting because it’s such a weird fight because you’re fighting with faceless people who are hiding behind their computers. Look, there are plenty of fans of Ghostbusters who have an issue that it’s a reboot, and that I completely get, I find that valid. But when it’s just pure misogyny, I don’t want to give voice to it. When I’m on the internet, I try not to block people, I want to hear all voices but sometimes you just hammered on for a year and you finally crack and I just decided that I just wanted to start blocking people because I don’t want to give those people a voice in a forum and it’s just such a non-starter when it’s just misogyny then what’s the point?
You can listen to their speeches the rest of the interviews with Feig below:
Pop Sensation ‘Charli XCX’ announced that she’s starting her own record label “Vroom Vroom Recordings” and shared details of her brand new ‘Vroom Vroom EP.’
JD Fashion had their debut at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday February 17th, 2016.