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“Everybody’s just in the best mood and it gets better and better throughout the day,” I overheard a fan say Thursday afternoon at the 2025 Luck Reunion. His observation was spot-on. For its 13th year, the boutique festival held on Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch in Spicewood, Texas — just outside of Austin, as the song goes — proved to be unlike any music fest on earth.

With stages set up in and around the Old West buildings that dot the grounds, a movie set where Nelson filmed his 1984 Western Red Headed Stranger,...

Luck Reunion, the bucket-list music festival held each March at Willie Nelson’s ranch in Spicewood, Texas, has announced its 2025 lineup. Along with a set by perennial headliner Nelson and his Family Band, the daylong fest will include performances by Charley Crockett, Steve Earle, Taj Mahal, Shane Smith and the Saints, Lukas Nelson, Jesse Welles, Lily Meola, and Julien Baker and Torres.

This year’s Luck is scheduled for March 13, as usual, smack dab in the middle of the music portion of the South by Southwest conference in nearby Austin.

Jesse Welles, the gravelly-voiced songwriter who is reviving protest songs through a series of self-shot videos, will release his new studio album, Middle, next month.

But there’s nothing “middle” about Welles: He’s unflinchingly addressed hot-button topics like the war in Gaza, capitalism, and the U.S. healthcare system in his viral videos with song titles like “War Isn’t Murder,” “Amazon Santa Claus,” and “United Health.” The latter dropped just a week after the high-profile shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York (“Now CEOs come...

Songwriter Jesse Welles has been turning heads with his solo acoustic protest songs about the war in Gaza (“War Isn’t Murder”) and capitalism (“Amazon Santa Claus”), earning a devoted following online and at his sold-out concerts, including the upcoming leg of his Fear Is the Mind Killer Tour. This week, Welles recounted the history of America’s healthcare industry in a new acoustic video and song, “United Health.”

With a melody reminiscent of John Prine’s “Fish and Whistle,” Welles cuts down UnitedHealthcare specifically — just a week after the...

Sylvester Stallone was one of the biggest movie stars of the 1980s and had many acclaimed roles in action hits, franchise sequels, and underrated thrillers. While this was a decade defined by Stallone's feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger, these two icons pushed each other forward to star in increasingly outrageous cult favorites throughout this incredible decade in filmmaking. During this time, Stallone often one-upped the stakes of his long-standing rival by branching out into comedies, neo-noirs, and continuing to make his own work as a writer, director, and star of some of the biggest hits of this era.

Many of the best Stallone movies were released during the 1980s, as this was a prime time for the popularity of his characters like Rocky Balboa and John Rambo. Stallone had plenty of underrated movies during this time that, only with the power of hindsight, have come to be regarded as cult classics and misunderstood fan favorites.

Mark Hamill is best known for playing Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, but the actor has given life to quite a few other great characters outside the galaxy far, far away. Mark Hamill got his big break in the original trilogy of Star Wars movies, and his time as Luke Skywalker has had a huge impact on his career. While he's certainly best known for Star Wars, Hamill has also branched out into other franchises, genres, and even mediums. In fact, Hamill has played so many great characters in his career that narrowing down the best of them is quite a feat.

Plenty of actors known for Star Wars have made great movies, but very few of them have had as prolific careers as Mark Hamill. In his career, Hamill has had a role in over 300 shows, movies, games, and more. Many of those roles have been animated; for example,...

Underrated animated fantasy movies often don't receive the recognition they deserve at the Oscars. Movies like Wizards, The Red Turtle, and FernGully offer deep themes and incredible animation. Nimona showcases a heartwarming story about facing cruelty, while The Night is Short, Walk on Girl has a satisfying experimental narrative.

Animation lends itself well to fantastical settings, which is why many filmmakers produce animated fantasy movies which sadly do not get as much love as they deserve. 2024s Oscar nominations and predictions included a Best Animated Feature race between The Boy and the Heron and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, with audiences paying little attention to other nominees that were never going to win. Following the categorys inception at the beginning of the millennium, movie fans were treated to many animated movies in the 2000s that were forgotten.

Some of the most underrated animated fantasy movies were nominated for Oscars but...

Farm Aid's annual music and food festival is returning to Saratoga Springs, New York, on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Broadview Stage at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (Spac).

Farm Aid 2024 — a full day of music, family farmers, Homegrown food and agrarian experiences — will feature performances by Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews (with Tim Reynolds), as well as Mavis Staples, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson with The Travelin’ McCourys, Charley Crockett, Joy Oladokun, Southern Avenue, Cassandra Lewis and Jesse Welles, with more artists to be announced.

The festival will highlight how family farmers are essential for a secure supply of safe, nutritious food; healthy soil and water; and strong, economically vibrant communities. Farm Aid 2024 will highlight innovative, resilient farmers on the Farm Aid stage and throughout the event. As farmers and farm and food advocates converge from across the country for the annual festival,...

Neil Young, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews have announced the details of Farm Aid 2024. The annual charity concert will take place on Saturday, September 21st, 2024 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Young and Nelson, who both dealt will health issues in recent months, forcing the cancelation of tour dates, are slated to perform at Farm Aid 2024, as are fellow board members Mellencamp and Matthews.

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The Farm Aid 2024 lineup also features Mavis Staples, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson with The Travelin’ McCourys, Charley Crockett, Joy Oladokun, Southern Avenue, Cassandra Lewis and Jesse Welles, with more artists to be announced.

A pre-sale for Farm Aid members is set for Wednesday, July 24th, with a Live Nation pre-sale following on Thursday, July 25th (use code Strum). A public ticket sale for Farm Aid 2024 will follow on Friday,...

A month after cancelling all concert dates due to an unspecific illness, Neil Young will be returning to the concert stage as part of Farm Aid at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York, on Sept. 21. He’ll be joined by his fellow Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews along with Mavis Staples, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson with The Travelin’ McCourys, Charley Crockett, Joy Oladokun, Southern Avenue, Cassandra Lewis, and Jesse Welles.

“We’re energized to be back in New York,...

In The Flash‘s Oct. 24 episode, Wally West (played by Keiynan Lonsdale) informed Barry, Iris et al that he was leaving town to sort out his life, in the wake of Earth-2 girlfriend Jesse Wells jilting him.

But rest assured, Wally’s trip home to Blue Valley is only a temporary one. “Keiynan’s a regular,” co-showrunner Andrew Kreisberg assured reporters on Monday following a screening of this week’s episode, “and we will see him again,” next in Episode 7 (airing Nov. 21).

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This Tuesday night is an especially great one for TV. NCIS served up a strong hour (and dropped a tiny bombshell), This Is Us went on a terrific road trip, tonight’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the best one in a long time. And The Flash allowed us to watch a speedster battle a sentient gorilla in a giant arena.

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Setting the stage for this Gorilla City two-parter, of course, was Jesse Wells’ arrival from Earth-Two, where her father Harry has gone missing after receiving an “invitation” to Gorilla City.

“Grodd. He’s got my dad! And he has him in Gorilla City!”

With those words, dropped at the end of the Feb. 7 episode of The CW’s The Flash, Jesse Wells set in motion an adventure that will transport Barry & Co. back to Earth-Two, where things are gonna be a bit… bananas.

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Setting the stage for the two-parter, which launches Tuesday, Feb. 21 with the episode “Attack on Gorilla City,” returning guest star Violett Beane tells TVLine, “Jesse’s dad got a message from some of the sentient gorillas,...

Grodd isn’t monkeying around when The Flash and friends pay a visit to Earth-Two’s Gorilla City, as seen in these first photos from the CW hit’s next episode, airing Tuesday, Feb. 21.

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As revealed by speedster Jesse Wells (played by Violett Beane) at the close of this week’s episode, her father/former Team Flash member Harry has been abducted by Grodd and hauled off to Gorilla City (which was first glimpsed at the end of the November 2015 episode, “Gorilla Warfare,” after...

This Tuesday on The Flash (The CW, 8/7c), Wally’s dream of being a speedster turns into… well, an actual dream, when his slumber is interrupted by visions of exactly that. Is this some sort of affirmation that he is fated to be super-fleet of feet? Or might this mark his first step toward an eeeevil reality?

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Wally’s “visions of this alternate life” indeed excite more than confuse him, seeing as they appear to support his theory — held ever since he and Jesse Wells got...

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The CW has released a gallery of images from next week’s episode of The Flash, and in them we get to see a lot of very interesting reveals. The most significant has to be our first look at Jesse Wells suited up as Jesse Quick, a speedster from the comic books who, in the TV show, hails from Earth-2 and is the daughter of Harrison Wells.

Your eyes aren’t deceiving you though; Jesse is indeed wearing a slightly modified version of the costume worn by Trajectory when that villain appeared in The Flash season 2.

The next big reveal is the return of Captain Cold. The fan-favourite villain was killed off in the season 1 finale of Legends of Tomorrow, so how exactly is he alive and well here? Chances are it has something to do with Barry Allen’s recent trip back in time, as...

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The CW has released the first official images from next week’s episode of The Flash, and in them we see both the return of Earth-2’s Harrison and Jesse Wells along with the small screen debut of the villainous Magenta. Look closely through the gallery above though and you’ll notice a very interesting – and exciting – reveal.

In the shot of Harrison and his daughter sitting down talking, there’s a box in the background containing something which looks an awful lot like a superhero costume. Now that Jesse has the powers of a speedster (that’s something you can see more of in the promo for the episode), chances are that she’ll be getting a costume of her own to head into action as Jesse Quick.

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When we last saw Jesse Wells, she was heading back to Earth-2 alongside her father. Since then, she's discovered that she's a speedster, and we get a first look at her in action in this promo for next week's instalment of The Flash. The villainous Magenta also makes her presence felt here, and it looks like the Fastest Man Alive will need some backup from Jesse Quick if has any hope at all of taking her down.  Barry (Grant Gustin) and Team Flash are thrilled to reunite with Earth-2 Wells (Tom Cavanagh) and Jesse (guest star Violett Beane). Wells confides to Barry and Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) that Jesse has all the powers of a speedster and has been saving people on his Earth. He is concerned about her safety and wants them to talk her out of using her powers. Meanwhile, Magenta, (guest star Joey King) a new meta who can control metal,...

During the second season of The Flash, the team was forced to recreate the same particle accelerator blast that originally gave Barry Allen his powers in order to help him go up against and defeat Zoom. However, a side effect of that experiment was the fact that both Wally West and Jesse Wells (the daughter of Harrison Wells from Earth-2) were hit by it, too.

Despite not initially showing any symptoms, Wally has since been revealed as being Kid-Flash – in the Flashpoint timeline at least – but there’s been no word on Jesse. She returned to Earth-2 with her father, so we simply don’t know what sort of impact Barry’s trip back in time had on them. However, reports from the Vancouver set of The Flash confirm hat she’ll suit up as a speedster.

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Just like Wally West, Jesse Wells was hit by a shockwave from the particle accelerator explosion during season two of The Flash. We already know that the former is going to suit up as Kid-Flash in season three of course, but it has now been revealed that Jesse is next. Canadagraphs has provided us with many first looks in the past, and while there are no photos this time, they've now confirmed that Violett Beane has been on the set suited up as a speedster, something we all knew was coming.  Still, it remains to be seen whether Jesse will be heading into action alongside the Scarlet Speedster in the Flashpoint or regular timelines (or both). Not much is known about her costume as of right now, though it's said that she has "red pants like Barry's." You can forget seeing the character in the skirt from the comic books then,...

There's another Flash in town.

Kid Flash!

That's right, Wally West gets his speedster powers on The Flash Season 3. We don't need details, because we have photos to prove it.

We have absolutely no details about how Kid Flash will appear, only that he does.

On The Flash Season 2, when Barry disappeared in the mini particle accelerator explosion, the Speed Force seemed to wash over both Wally West and Jesse Wells when they were knocked down in the hallway.

But despite daddy Joe's best efforts to find some speed in his son, nothing appeared.

Jesse, however, lit up when The Flash touched her while she was injured. 

It's possible Kid Flash will be the new guy in town because of the fiasco Barry created: Flashpoint. 

When he returns from saving his mother, nothing should be the same. We've been wondering if he'll even be The Flash any longer.

Well, it...

This Tuesday on The CW’s The Flash, Cisco and Harry teamed with Earth-Two’s Iris and Barry (plus an unexpected ally) to rescue their speedster from Zoom and return home. Meanwhile on Earth-One, Caitlin scrambled to perfect Velocity-9 and Iris met her new anti-Flash editor.

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Held captive in Zoom’s lair (yes, Harry, it’s a lair), Barry did his best to keep up cellmate Jesse Wells’ spirits, in part by singing the praises of her father, who he notes has never...

Can two of sinister speedster Zoom’s prisoners team up to solve a mystery involving the third?

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In this exclusive sneak peek from Part 2 of The Flash‘s trip to Earth-Two (airing tonight at 8/7c, The CW), Barry (played by Grant Gustin) is convinced that the “man in the iron mask” entrapped alongside him and Jesse Wells (Violett Beane) is trying to send a message. Jesse, though, is skeptical — until some words from Barry nudge her into rethinking the sitch.

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This Tuesday on The Flash (The CW, 8/7c), Barry, Cisco and Harry — upon arriving on Earth-Two to rescue Jesse Wells from the ominous Zoom — get a chilly reception from that world’s version of Caitlin Snow, who is known as the villain Killer Frost.

Sure, she’s got Ronnie at her side again (here as the baddie Deathstorm), but the love of a not-so-good man apparently could not keep the scientist from heading down a dark, cold path. Here, Danielle Panabaker previews her walk on the wild side, Killer Frost’s beef with Barry and the breachers, and what nice...

While guys like Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas spent the 1970s reinventing live action moviemaking, animation had just one lone figure toiling away. Ralph Bakshi, trained on Terrytoons and involved in 1960s television animation, began exploring the possibilities of animated features in the shadow of Walt Disney’s death. His Fritz the Cat made people sit up and take notice, followed by Heavy Traffic, and Coonskin – urban, funky, raw tales set in a familiar world.

After that, he set his sights on something fantastic and gave us, in 1976, Wizards. I’ve been waiting for this film to be restored, cleaned up, and released on Blu-ray given its visual artistry and fun story. Finally, 20th Century Home Entertainment has released it for the film’s 35th Anniversary and they’ve given it a handsome treatment. Encased in a hardcover case with a 24-page booklet, the Blu-ray is striking to watch.