EA Sports UFC Mobile Features Ronda Rousey In Content Update
Fresh off kicking Turtle’s a** in Entourage, Ronda Rousey is one of the seven new fighters featured in Electronic Arts’ first major content update for EA Sports UFC Mobile. Â
The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited Hits Xbox One & PS4
The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited debuts today on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. As a lifelong fan of the Elder Scrolls universe (especially Skyrim), I’ve spent many an hour traversing these realms on my Xbox 360.
Audio Life: SHAMEIK MOORE talks “Dope” Leading Man Lessons
Already generating great word of mouth prior to its June 19 release, Dope centers on Malcolm (Shameik Moore), an Inglewood, CA. resident with big dreams of attending Harvard. An invitation to an underground party leads to a series of potentially dangerous (and often humorous) escapades for Malcolm and his friends (Kiersey Clemons, Tony Revolori). During a recent roundtable interview with Moore, he talked about the lessons he learned about playing a leading man in Dope.
Garbage Celebrates 20 Years, Launches U.S. Anniversary Tour
It’s been 20 years since the release of Garbage’s self-titled (wow – I really am that old!), and in celebration of their longevity the outfit will embark on the 20 Years Queer Tour. Instead of going the predictable “let’s play our hits” route, the band will perform their debut album in its entirety for the first time during the tour.Â
DVD Review: “The Stranger Collection” Spotlights Top-Notch Spaghetti Western Trilogy
It’s easy to lump Spaghetti Westerns as a genre simply owned by director Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood. The Man With No Name isn’t the only inhabitant of the Wild Wild West, however, as evidenced by Warner Archive’s top-notch release The Stranger Collection.
Kiersey Clemons & Tony Revolori Work “Dope” Session With Pharrell
Pharrell Williams serves an an executive producer on Dope, the inspired comedy/drama about a trio of Inglewood, Ca. high schoolers (Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons) who are all about ’90s hip-hop. Their passion is translated with their own punk band Awreeoh, and the film’s soundtrack contains the fictional group’s rousing tune “Don’t Get Deleted,” which is produced and penned by Pharrell.
VIDEO: “Odd Mom Out” Star Jill Kargman Talks Early Writing Influences
Premiering Monday, June 8 (Bravo, 10 pm et/pt), the freshman series Odd Mom Out has deliciously acerbic (and witty) author Jill Kargman playing a heightened version of herself as she finds herself ensconced in the burdensome, keeping up with the Joneses environment of New York’s Upper East Side. During an interview with Kargman, I asked her how she found her voice as a writer.
“Cinderella” Composer Patrick Doyle To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Oscar nominated composer Patrick Doyle, who recently scored the Disney hit “Cinderella,” will be honored with the World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award in Ghent, Belgium. Piece from Doyle’s work will be performed by the Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Dirk Brossé.
This year’s focus of the 42nd Film Fest Gent will be on British cinema, so Patrick Doyle was the ideal candidate to grant the Lifetime Achievement Award to, during the 15th World Soundtrack Awards,” said Patrick Duynslaegher, artistic director of Film Fest Gent. “Anyone who can still recount hearing Doyle’s score for Kenneth Branagh’s debut film “Henry V” in 1989 for the first time, knows that back then a great composer was born.”
Along with composing a hauntingly beautiful score for director Brian De Palma’s New York set crime drama “Carlito’s Way,” Doyle has also worked on “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” “Hamlet,” “As You Like It,” and “Thor.”
In the Soundcloud bar below, “Thor” actor Tom Hiddleston talks about meeting composer Patrick Doyle:
For more info on the World Soundtrack Awards, which takes place October 24, 2015, please go to this link.
Audio Life: OLIVIA COOKE Discusses Early Acting Days
