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After performing under the alter-ego of for years now, John C. Reilly has officially unveiled his debut single as Mister Romantic. To kick off this chapter ahead of the release of a full album, he’s shared a cover of the Johnny Mercer classic, “Dream.” Stream it below.

Originally released in 1944, “Dream” has been covered by the likes of Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers, and Roy Orbison. The song precedes an album of Great American Songbook favorites titled What’s Not To Love? For the project, due on June 13th, he’s recruited a number of musical colleagues to round out the LP, including award-winning producer and instrumentalist David Garza.

“I looked at our weary world a few years ago and tried to think of a way I could spread love and empathy,” Reilly said of the ongoing project. “I decided the most fun way to do that was through...

In case you didn’t know: John C. Reilly is a vaudeville guy. Not only did the beloved character actor star as half of the legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy in the emotionally affecting biographical film Stan & Ollie (2018), but since then he’s created a throwback stage persona of his own, the lovelorn and musically inclined Mister Romantic, who has sold out concerts across Los Angeles since 2022.

Now, Reilly is set to introduce Mister Romantic to the rest of the world with a full-fledged album that arrives on June 13. His charming debut,...

“It’s What’s Inside” might have you wondering exactly which character the actors are playing at any given moment, but it’s just as likely to have you wondering, “Hey, what’s that song?”

The new body-swap thriller from writer/director/editor Greg Jardin reunites a group of college friends after many years and unleashes a body-swapping technology on them, revealing long-suppressed drama and pent-up secrets — all while they’re switching from body to body.

In addition to the score from Andrew Hewitt, the “It’s What’s Inside” soundtrack is full of classical and retro needle drops, including songs by The Orions, The Walker Brothers and several orchestras. Check out all the songs in “It’s What’s Inside” below.

“It’s What’s Inside” Soundtrack “Copellia: Act 1: Valse” by Slovak Radio Orchestra “L’Italiana in Algeri: Sinfonia” by Prague Sinfonia and Christian Benda “Guilty One” by Jim Stratton “Down in the Country” by Tee...

Warning: This article contains Major Spoilers in It's What's Inside.Netflix's It's What's Inside includes an interesting soundtrack featuring predominantly instrumental music that helps add tension and shape the plot. The comedy-horror movie follows a group of friends who play a body-swapping game that leads to deadly consequences. After its strong debut, Netflix quickly snatched up the expensive Sundance movie, adding the title to its catalog of exclusive content.

It's What's Inside has gone over well with critics, gaining an impressive 77% score on Rotten Tomatoes before its Netflix debut. Many factors contribute to the movie's success, including the cinematography, the color palette, and the fun premise. Many critics have praised It's What's Inside's engaging characters, who are both flawed and interesting. However, one of the most underappreciated parts of the movie is the fantastic soundtrack. Rather than relying on a score, this movie uses compelling instrumental songs and a...

Alan Copeland, the songwriter, Grammy-winning arranger and ultra-smooth vocalist known for his many years with The Modernaires and performances on Your Hit Parade and The Red Skelton Hour, has died. He was 96.

Copeland died Dec. 28 in an assisted living facility in Sonora, California, his friend Bob Lehmann told The Hollywood Reporter.

As recently as this fall, Copeland was still singing and playing keyboards in a quartet called Now You Hazz Jazz. “It was his dream to play in a small group until the last curtain, that’s how he termed it,” said Lehmann, the drummer.

Copeland wrote or co-wrote songs including “Make Love to Me” — Jo Stafford’s version made it to No. 1 on the Billboard chart in 1954 — “Too Young to Know,” “High Society,” “This Must Be the Place, “Darling, Darling, Darling” and “While the Vesper Bells Were Ringing.”

After taking arranging lessons from Henry Mancini, he arranged vocals for...

Darrell Brooks Jr. — the Milwaukee resident who was found guilty of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide after crashing his SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on Nov. 21, 2021 — was sentenced on Wednesday, Nov. 16. He received six consecutive life sentences on Counts 1 through 6, one for each of the people he killed, with the judge commenting that Brooks had no empathy or remorse. “This community can only be safe if you’re behind bars for the rest of your life,” the judge said.

Jackson Sparks, 8, Tamara Durand, 52, Jane Kulich, 52, Leanna “Lee” Owen,...

Tiffany Haddish won Best comedy Album at the Grammys for “Black Mitzvah.” It was her first bidn in the category and her second overall following her Best Spoken Word Album nomination for “The Last Black Unicorn” in 2019. She was the only woman nominated in the comedy race this year, and the Grammys have been shockingly stingy to female comedians, so this win was especially noteworthy. Check out the complete list of Grammy winners here.

In the last 34 years, only one other woman took home Best Comedy Album: Kathy Griffin in 2014 for “Calm Down Gurrl.” Before that only four other women claimed this trophy: Jo Stafford, Elaine May, Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg. This also makes Haddish just the second Black woman to win the award.

SEE2021 Grammy winners list: 63rd Annual Grammy results in all 84 categories

The historical shortfall is certainly not for a lack of female comedians in the running.

As expected, Bruce Springsteen’s rumored Jeep commercial was the big highlight of this year’s Super Bowl ad haul, with The Boss making his first-ever appearance in a commercial. His music, however, remains an advertising holdout, as Springsteen opted to compose an original score for the two-minute spot with frequent collaborator Ron Aniello rather than license one of his hits.

Still, Olivier Francois, chief marketing officer for Jeep’s parent company Stellantis, was thrilled to finally team up with his white whale of all celebrity cameos. “It took me ten years to get him in, but once he was in, he was all in,” he told Variety’s Brian Steinberg over the weekend.

Those looking for Sunday-night surprises had to make do with previously unannounced cameos by Drake (State Farm) and Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton & Adam Levine (T-Mobile), as the vast majority of this year’s ads premiered several...

Another year, another chance for the Grammys to overlook a woman for Best Comedy Album. Tiffany Haddish is nominated for “Black Mitzvah.” It’s her first nomination in this category and her second overall following her Best Spoken Word Album bid for “The Last Black Unicorn” in 2019. But she’s the only woman nominated in the comedy category this year, and the Grammys have been shockingly stingy to women.

In the past 34 years, only one woman has taken home Best Comedy Album: Kathy Griffin in 2014 for “Calm Down Gurrl.” Before that only four other women prevailed: Jo Stafford, Elaine May, Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg.

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And it’s certainly not for a lack of female comedians producing albums. The last five years have included noms for Lisa Lampanelli, Margaret Cho, Tig Notaro, Amy Schumer,...

Terence Davies’ films deal with repressed desire, longing, and emotional pain that springs from the depths of his characters’ souls, and yet, in person, the great British auteur is undoubtedly the funniest person in the room. He is all smiles and jokes as we sit down to discuss his glorious Sunset Song, entering a limited release this week, and a retrospective of his work at the Museum of the Moving Image. It makes sense that he is joyful rather than somber, because it makes one feel a sort of relief knowing that levity was welcomed between takes on haunting dramas such as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Deep Blue Sea. In Sunset Song, Davies takes on the first part of a trilogy written by Lewis Grassic Gibbons, in which we meet farm girl Chris Guthrie (a luminous Agyness Deyn) as she is forced to take on the reins of her life in pre-wwi Scotland.

Moved from a planned awards-season contending fall reason to this spring, it's likely that the lukewarm reviews for "I Saw The Light" compelled Sony Pictures Classics to change their game plan. But that doesn't change the fact that it has Tom Hiddleston doing a pretty good job singing Hank Williams tunes in the biopic about the hard livin' country legend. Read More: Review: 'I Saw The Light' Starring Tom Hiddleston And Elizabeth Olsen The full soundtrack for the movie has landed. In an addition to Hiddleston singing a handful of cuts, there are also some classic tunes by Eddy Arnold, Jo Stafford, The Delmore Brothers, Emmett Miller, and more. If you feel like gettin' your honky tonk on, this seems like it'll do the trick. The soundtrack drops on in stores the same day as the movie, March 25th. Full details and tunes below. "I Saw The Light...

It’s the opening day of Todd Haynes‘ Carol, which means if you’re in New York City or Los Angeles you can now see the year’s best film, and for others, it’ll expand in the coming weeks. We’ve reviewed the film, heard from the director and cast multiple times, premiered exclusive posters, and more (see it all here), so what’s left? Evidently, a lot. We’ll have much more coverage in the coming weeks, but today brings Carter Burwell’s official excellent score, which also includes tracks from Billie Holiday, Les Paul, Jo Stafford, and more.

“I began at the opening scene,” Burwell tells EW when it comes to creating his score. “It’s an odd choice, looking back, because none of the main characters appear in that scene. At the same time, I felt it was important that whatever I did for the movie would work there.

In the minds of many, "Carol" has already won all the awards. The romantic drama was a major Cannes Film Festival sensation (where Rooney Mara picked up a Best Actress prize and Todd Haynes won the Queer Palm), it has Oscars in its sights, and a new poster has landed. Read More: All The Songs In Todd Haynes' 'Carol' Including Billie Holiday, Gerry Mulligan, the Clovers, Jo Stafford & More   Cate Blanchett is the co-lead of the movie which is based on the book by Patricia Highsmith detailing the relationship that blooms between a married woman and a younger department store clerk. Reviews so far have been universal raves (read ours), and there's no doubt this is going to be a major awards season contender. "Carol" opens on November 20th. Check out the new poster below. [Vanity Fair]...

If super hero movies and blockbusters are taking over at the box-office and, as some predict, dramas and art movies may head to VOD and TV cable premieres, then adults should be grateful that Cannes will always exist as a global launching pad for dramas. And if there’s only a handful of filmmakers left who represent a kind of superstar prestige drama that “matters,” then director Todd Haynes has to be one of them. Read More: All The Songs In Todd Haynes' 'Carol' Including Billie Holiday, Gerry Mulligan, The Clovers, Jo Stafford, & More Off the heels of his somewhat underrated and underappreciated HBO miniseries “Mildred Pierce” (which received solid reviews, but is capital A f*cking awesome), Haynes latest is “Carol,” an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s “The Price Of Salt” which centers on an illicit lesbian affair between two women in the 1950s. Haynes' terrific...

Todd Haynes' highly anticipated "Carol" hits the Cannes Film Festival very, very soon, and for most us, we can't be there. Our team will deliver a review, but for everyone else, we'll have to take whatever we can until the movie gets released (hopefully) later this year. But one thing we can dive into is the soundtrack, and no surprise, it's period specific. Read More: The 20 Most Anticipated Films Of The 2015 Cannes Film Festival To recap, the film is based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, stars Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett, and tells a '50s set story about the relationship that develops between an older married woman and a young clerk at a department store. To that end, swoony tunes of the era and before will be heard throughout, many of them provided by Grammy-winning Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks, while Paul Thomas Anderson fans will recognize Jo Stafford's "No Other Love,...

High school senior Austin Dennison sweetly asked his 89-year-old great-grandmother, Delores, to his prom, since she had to miss her own back in the 1940s. Austin, a 19-year-old from Ohio, called Delores to see if she'd like to be his date. Of the invitation, she said, "He was so sweet and adamant about it. I asked him, 'But are you sure you don't want to take one of the young ladies who could get out there and do everything with you?' He said no. 'I want you.'" The pair went dress shopping, and Austin gave her a pearl necklace. On the night of the prom, they were introduced at the promenade, receiving a standing ovation. Austin had a special surprise for her too. He made sure that the song his late Grandpa Ed used to sing to her - "Dolores" by Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, and The Pied Pipers...

In this week’s Bones, Booth crafted a meaningful playlist as a romantic gesture for Brennan. Shout-out? (Probably not.) Regardless, we’ve pulled together another TVLine Mixtape for you – because we, like Seeley, like you more than a friend.

As always, here are some great songs from recent TV episodes, complete with artist and album information in case you want to add them to your permanent collection. Spoilers abound, and we chose songs we liked – but we always want to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

So peruse our playlist, and then hit the comments with your favorite TV jams!

Series And Episode | The Walking Dead,...

Now that Rick is finally done with his hallucinations and met Michonne, maybe we will get some ass-kicking tonight? Someone's gotta go rescue Maggie and Glenn from Merle and the Governor. Tonight's episode entitled "When The Dead Come Knocking" was directed by Dan Sackheim.

Spoiler Alert: Do not read any further if you haven't watched the episode yet. This is a recap with specific details from the episode. Continue only if you have watched it.

This episode started with Merle menacing Glenn in a wooden shack. Merle was still upset about that rooftop incident back in season 1. Glenn explained that the group went back for Merle, even T-Dog, but when Merle learned that T-Dog didn't make it, he grimaced "I hope he went slow." Glenn still refused to talk even while being tortured. Maggie listened while also tied to a chair nearby.

After the opening credits, we are back at...

The Master marks the second collaboration between Paul Thomas Anderson and highly respected progressive composer/RadioHead guitarist multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood. Back in 2007, There Will Be Blood saw Greenwood compose an orchestral score (Academy ruled it ineligible due to its use of pre-existing material) — he used some already existing materiel from Body songs and his award-winning Popcorn Superhet Receiver was also used in the first wordless twelve minutes of the film. This ineligibility won’t be a liability this year, as Greenwood continues his streak of brilliance in scoring eleven original compositions — eerie and multi-layered, as the film itself, this is potentially the best score we’ll hear all year.

The notion of multi-layered is rather fitting term for an engrossing perplexing beast of a film such as The Master. Who is the master? Even if Lancaster Dodd calls himself one and he acts the part, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he is one.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master hits theaters nationwide in less than a month, excited? You can listen to a track from Johnny Greenwood’s (Radiohead) score for the film below to get you in the mood even more.

Greenwood scored Anderson’ s There Will Be Blood, doing a great job, so we expect nothing less here.

The soundtrack will be available on September 11th. The Master opens on September 14th.

Here’s the tracklist for the soundtrack, followed by “Application 45 Version I” that you can listen to below via The Playlist.

1. Overtones

2. Time Hole

3. Back Beyond

4. Get Thee Behind Me Satan – Ella Fitzgerald

5. Alethia

6. Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me) – Madisen Beaty

7. Atomic Healer

8. Able-Bodied Seamen

9. The Split Saber

10. Baton Sparks

11. No Other Love – Jo Stafford

12. His Master’s Voice

13. Application 45 Version 1

14. Changing Partners – Helen Forrest...

We’re nearly there, folks. Paul Thomas Anderson’s long-awaited The Master finally hits theaters nationwide in a little under a month, and you can now listen to a track from Johnny Greenwood’s score for the film to help tide you over for the time-being. Greenwood—of Radiohead fame—scored Anderson’s 2007 pic There Will Be Blood, and his moody tones return yet again for The Master. I found his work on Blood to be hauntingly beautiful, and based on what we hear in this track called “Application 45 Version 1”, it appears that his work on The Master will be equally unsettling. Hit the jump to take a listen to what Greenwood has cooked up. The soundtrack will be available on September 11th, while The Master opens on September 14th. Here’s the full tracklist for the soundtrack, followed by the clip from “Application 45 Version I” (via The Playlist):...

I'm not sure how interesting this will be for most of you, but Marvel has updated the Iron Man 3 official site with the logo animation you see to the right. Robert Pattinson has joined the cast of Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert opposite Naomi Watts with a late Fall 2012 start being eyed. The film is based on the true story of Gertrude Bell (Watts), the traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attache for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century. Pattinson's character is that of T.E. Lawrence, whom most know as Lawrence of Arabia. [Variety] Keanu Reeves continues to discuss the prospects of a Bill and Ted's 3 this time telling GQ, "One of the plot points is that these two people have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world. And they haven't done it.

If it’s anything like his work on There Will Be Blood — and from the short glimpses it certainly seems so — then Jonny Greenwood will deliver one of the best scores of the year for Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master. While we haven’t heard any single tracks from the Radiohead guitarist, the first details for the score have arrived today from Pitchfork which include 11 new song from Greenwood, as well as pieces from World War II by Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford, including a performance from the young star Madisen Beaty. Check out the cover above and the tracklist below, along with Stafford’s song.

1 Overtones 2:20

2 Time Hole 1:42

3 Back Beyond 3:42

4 Get Thee Behind Me Satan – Performed by Ella Fitzgerald 3:47

5 Alethia 4:06

6 Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me) – Performed by Madisen Beaty 1:36

7 Atomic Healer 1:24

8 Able-Bodied Seamen 3:54

9 The...

Terence Rattigan's romantic drama set in a repressive postwar Britain is brought to the big screen superbly by Terence Davies

If we count his first three short films made on shoestring budgets between 1976 and 1983 as a trilogy, and his next, Distant Voices, Still Lives, as a diptych (they were actually made separately), Terence Davies has directed a mere seven films in 35 years. This puts him in the same exclusive league for low output and high quality as his contemporary, Terrence Malick. Davies's last film, Of Time and the City (2008), was a withering documentary about the sad decline of his hometown, Liverpool, and it followed two feature pictures adapted from American novels set at different times and in different American milieux, John Kennedy Toole's The Neon Bible and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.

His outstanding new movie, The Deep Blue Sea, is a version of a play by Terence Rattigan,...

The first clip from Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea, a film we had a chance to see at Tiff, is now online. Set to Jo Stafford‘s version of “You Belong To Me,” the brief scene is a romantic look at Rachel Weisz, dancing with Tom Hiddleston. Dave Robson gave the film a very positive review stating, “Fans of Terence Rattigan’s original play certainly shouldn’t fear a garish adaptation. The original is sensational, and Davies leaves it largely intact. Rattigan’s words are wonderful and any director would be lucky to have them. The dialogue he weaves into his plays is complex, at times subtle, and puts everything just so delicately. That’s all made it into the film. Davies version isn’t dumbed down for export, either—if you don’t understand what is meant by a “milk-in-first sort of person,” that’s a shame”. Here is the clip.

It was recently announced that English director Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea would be closing this year’s BFI London Film Festival, to go hand in hand with another film that Rachel Weisz is starring in, 360, which will be opening the festival on 12th October.

A lovely first clip from the film has now surfaced, The Playlist report, and it gives a great feel of the beautiful moments we can expect from the film ahead of its November release here.

“Set in post-war Britain, this deeply moving story is an adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s classic play, The Deep Blue Sea is a study of forbidden love, suppressed desire, and the fear of loneliness. Stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, what – or whom – should Hester choose?”

It doesn’t give anything away but a taste, leaving you wanting more, which is always good for a clip to do.

Between the absurdity of its characters and the contrivance of its conflicts, Happy in the Poorhouse gives off the prevailing feeling of a network sitcom on the verge of jumping the shark. Returning after last season’s much-hyped The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, The Amoralists and playwright/director Derek Ahonen have provided us with another ambiguous comedy, muddled with messages, uncertain of what it's trying to say or do.

Ahonen writes freely, unafraid to ramble in Tarantino-like banter that tries to fill the many potholes in his bumpy plot. There are comic moments that connect with some clever dialogue, but these few hits fail to justify the close to two hours of failed attempts.

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Single fathers (whether widowed, divorced or surrogate) raising sons have been an obsessive subject of the cinema since Chaplin's The Kid nearly 90 years ago. Captains Courageous was such a tale and so, arguably, is Citizen Kane. Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar playing a dedicated single father in Kramer vs. Kramer and Viggo Mortensen may emulate him this year for The Road. Tom Hanks has played the part at least twice (Sleepless in Seattle, Road to Perdition), for laughs, tears and excitement.

The appeal resides in two, now increasingly questioned, assumptions. The first is that mothers have duties, responsibilities and inherent skills that make loving, caring for and rearing children a natural activity that scarcely needs remarking on. The second is a traditional perception that there's something unnatural, even farcical, about fathers performing domestic tasks and giving more than a few minutes of quality time to their children when they're not out there hunting and gathering.

The Youth In Revolt soundtrack. You know, Michael Cera is becoming a pretty trustworthy star. Seems odd to use that word, the S word, for a young weedy guy who’s carved a niche for himself playing young weedy guys, but his ironic deadpan humour and his tendency to pick pretty solid projects (Year One certainly should have been funny) mean he’s actually quite an attractive box office draw, like an uncool Michael J Fox. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist is exactly the kind of film you should be making if your face, voice and persona mean you’re going to be frolicking in the youth market for a few years to come. He doesn’t tend to make by-the-numbers crap is what I’m saying, which those of you who are under 21 should all thank him for, because it is on your behalf that he foregoes the crap.

Due to continuous sold out performances, long lines around street corner blocks and strong critical acclaim, The Amoralists will be moving their celebrated play, The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, to Off-Broadway. The show's Off-Broadway run will begin on September 10th and run through October 5th at Theatre 80 St. Marks, the former home of The Pearl Theatre Company, located at 80 St. Marks Place between 1st and 2nd Avenues in NYC. The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side is written and directed by Derek Ahonen.

Due to continuous sold out performances, long lines around street corner blocks and strong critical acclaim, The Amoralists will be moving their celebrated play, The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, to Off-Broadway. The show's Off-Broadway run will begin on September 10th and run through October 5th at Theatre 80 St. Marks, the former home of The Pearl Theatre Company, located at 80 St. Marks Place between 1st and 2nd Avenues in NYC. The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side is written and directed by Derek Ahonen.