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Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all global rights, excluding France and Germany, to the new feature documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song. The film, which earned critical acclaim ...

The brand new Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is now out in the wild and the fighting game community has very much begun digging into the fresh platform fighter, and while the allure of having Nicktoons from across generations has proven more ...

Five stories about local veterans are told in a new collection of 28 compelling interviews by bestselling author Elinor Florence, formerly of rural North Battleford. Pictured on the cover of the . . .

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Dylan turns 80 years old today. I’m not so much shocked at his age—in some ways, he has always seemed old; this is a guy who sang “Fixin’ to Die” on his first album, recorded when he was just 20—but at my own, and at the fact that he has been there all this time, and that I keep going back to try to figure out just a little bit more about the puzzle he has created for six decades. Bob Dylan transformed the very possibilities of pop music. He introduced a sense of literary ambition t...

Did he ever really leave the building? From the minute Elvis Aaron Presley shook his hips onto the burgeoning blues scene in late 1940s Memphis to th...

Rolling Stone John Lennon, Yoko Ono Doc ’24 Hours’ Available to Stream on Coda Collection Release marks first time film has been available in full since airing on the BBC in 1969 By 24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko, is available to stream on the Coda Collection on Amazon Prime Video. The release marks the first time the 35-minute film has been available in full since it first aired on the BBC December 15th, 1969. Directed by Paul Morrison, 24 Hours follows Ono and Lennon over...

  ‘ 24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko’, a documentary short that initially aired on December 15, 1969, on the BBC, is now available to stream for the first time since its original broadcast exclusively on The Coda Collection. Directed by Paul Morrison, the cinema verite style film chronicles the creativity and activism of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the period and was shot at Lennon’s Tittenhurst Park estate, Abbey Road Studios, and the Apple offices in London during the couple’...

Thirty-six years ago, the late artist known as Prince won an Oscar for Best Original Score for Purple Rain. His musical movie not only crossed genres to make him a household name, but showcased a slew of talented musicians like Morris Day and The Time, Wendy & Lisa, and more. Everyone who stood on stage with Prince was exceptionally gifted. That was by design, as every artist that came through Paisley Park was trained and coached by Prince himself. The graphic novel MPLS Sound aims to captur...

Highlander Courtesy of Alan Light via Flickr under CC-BY-SA-2.0 As everyone is already painfully aware of at this point, 2020 was a depressing year that changed how we all consumed entertainment media. Streaming became the primary source of escapist entertainment as theaters closed down. As that year’s awards season loomed, audiences were given empty auditoriums with Zoom acceptance speeches. Comedy attempted to alleviate any awkwardness but mostly fell flat as a result. With the COVID...