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Plot: The life and career of singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, who posthumously rose to fame after his tragic, mysterious death at only thirty years old.

Review: One of the ways I judge a documentary is how “inside baseball” it is for the uninitiated. This approach is sometimes necessary, especially when your subject’s life has been chronicled at length – such as another doc I saw here at Sundance, One to One: John & Yoko. Yet, when the subject is more niche, this approach doesn’t always work as it limits the potential audience. Such was my fear walking into It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley. While an icon, I must admit my knowledge of him is limited to his iconic cover of “Hallelujah” and the fact that he died young. As such, I figured I’d be lost watching this.

Happily, director Amy Berg (West of Memphis) strikes a good balance,...

New independents from documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley on the rising musician who died too young, to Kristin Scott Thomas’ directorial debut My Mother’s Wedding and quirky animated Boys Go To Jupiter, Cartuna’s first outing as a distributor, made a mark this weekend. The numbers don’t necessarily move the needle on summer box office given the proliferation of big ticket studio fare led by new entrants Weapons and Freakier Friday, but they do show moviegoer interest in a variety of fare.

Topping the indie film box office, Neon body horror Together by Michael Shanks starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie added $2.6 million in week 2 on 2,225 screens for a cume of $17.2 million at a no. 9 spot.

TIFF-premiering Sketch from Angel Studios, written and directed by Seth Worley, opened to a $2.5 million weekend on 2,157 screens for a cume of $5 million and a no. 10 spot for the adventure fantasy,...

Kylie Jenner has recently had fans deep in speculation mode after her latest Instagram Stories hinted at possible heartbreak. The beauty mogul who first sparked romance rumors with Timothée Chalamet in 2023 posted a series of snaps on August 8, holding a glass of wine, but it wasn’t the photos that had people talking.

It turns out that it was the soundtrack. One track, Jeff Buckley’s Lover, You Should’ve Come Over, carried an emotional chorus, while another, Labi Siffre’s Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying, was equally heartfelt.

In the first Story, she wrote,

and don’t come for me for the volume it’s connected to my carplay speakers.

Well, fans quickly took note of the songs and took to social media to wonder if these choices signaled a breakup. While the fans are hopeful, neither of the stars has confirmed or denied anything.

Inside Kylie Jenner And Timothée...

A pair of music documentaries and a live concert from Jin of BTS on his first solo tour join indie animation, a searing look at Sudan, a serial killer horror and Kristin Scott Thomas’ directorial debut at the specialty box office as independents spot another window with fewer new studio releases. Roman Polanski’s 2019 historical drama on the Dreyfus Affair opens in New York.

The widest this weekend is Roadside Attractions’ horror-thriller Strange Harvest, written and directed by Stuart Ortiz, on 771 screens. Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for “Mr. Shiny,” a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a dark cosmic force. Stars Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple, Andy Lauer, Matthew Peschio, Janna Cardia, Travis Wolfe Sr., Christina Helene Braa. This is at 94% with critics off 32 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Vertical is out with comedy-drama My Mother’s Wedding,...

Los Angeles music obsessive Amy Berg still remembers what it was like to be a Jeff Buckley fan back in her twenties. “Grace” “changed my life,” she told me during a recent interview. “I would see every single heavy grunge punk band that came through Los Angeles: I was at Nirvana’s first show in L.A. at Jabberjaw. When I heard this album, it settled me. It was Ok to be in your body, but Jeff made it all Ok to feel.”

“It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” the latest documentary from Berg, is not as dark as her exposés “Deliver Us from Evil” (2006), “West of Memphis” (2012), and “An Open Secret” (2014), or her definitive Janis Joplin portrait, “Janis: Little Girl Blue” (2015).

Mostly, it’s a celebration of Buckley’s life and music, primarily the only album he ever released, “Grace,” in 1994, lauded by David Bowie as one of ten...

Jeff Buckley’s voice was unlike any other — and now, it tells his story in a way only he could.

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley is a reflective and intimate look at one of music’s most mysterious and influential voices. Directed by Amy Berg, the film chronicles Buckley’s meteoric rise in the ’90s, his complicated relationship with legacy, and the music that continues to reverberate across generations.

Told through never-before-seen archival footage, candid interviews with those closest to him — including his mother Mary Guibert and former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser— and Buckley’s own voice via voicemails, demo recordings, and interviews, the film offers an intimate portrait of a man whose brief but profound career left an indelible mark on modern music.

For Berg, making this documentary was a long game. “I first approached Mary in 2007,” she writes in her director’s statement. “She politely declined.

Virtually every famous musician gets a documentary about their life at some point, so it’s rather shocking that Jeff Buckley hasn’t had a major film made about him yet. Although its heart is in the right place, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley feels a bit too lamenting for its own good, not to mention a bit too conventional of a biography, keeping it from feeling like as effective of a tribute as it could have been.

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley tells the story of the eponymous musician, a talented artist who was just beginning to blossom when he passed away in a tragic accident. Aiming to offer an intimate, personal glimpse into the life and creativity of its subject, this documentary struggles because it isn’t able to decide where to fall on a spectrum of its sadness.

Amy Berg’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley is an impressive archival document as well as a celebration of the life of a tortured artist. And while the term “tortured artist” is certainly overused, it feels especially apt when writing about Buckley. Here was a beautiful man with an almost indescribably beautiful voice, beset by the tragedy of being alive and famous and supremely gifted all at the same time. Of being haunted by the ghost of a father (fellow musician Tim Buckley) whom he barely knew and who died far too young. In May of 1997, Jeff Buckley accidentally drowned in Wolf River in Tennessee. He was working on his second studio album at the time of his death. His sole record Grace is a masterpiece.

Buckley’s mother Mary Guibert (also the executor of his estate and one of the executive producers here) is a main fixture onscreen,...

It’s been over a decade since Gossip Girl aired its final scandalous text, but the original cast has been anything but idle. From A-list marriages and chart-topping careers to heartbreaking losses and long-awaited comebacks, the stars of the iconic CW teen drama have rewritten their own scripts far beyond Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

While the 2021 Gossip Girl reboot gave a nostalgic nod to the OGs (with Michelle Trachtenberg reprising her role as Georgina Sparks), it was axed in 2023. Trachtenberg tragically passed away in February 2025 at just 39, following a liver transplant.

Showrunner Josh Schwartz once said (per TV Line):

We’ve reached out to all of them to let them know it was happening, and we would love for them to be involved if they want to be involved….They played those characters for six years, and if they felt like they were good with that, we wanted to respect that.

On a Monday night in late spring of 1992, Jeff Buckley arrived at the tiny Cafe Sin-é on New York’s St. Mark’s Place with a borrowed Fender Telecaster and a story to tell. He had scored a prestigious weekly gig at the East Village mainstay that had hosted both Irish rock royalty (Sinead O’Connor, Shane McGowan, the Waterboys), as well as up-and-coming talent, and the 25-year-old appeared ready to meet the moment.

He set up against the wall in a corner, waved a shy hello to the small crowd, opened his mouth to sing and that’s the moment when all hell broke loose. The raw power of his voice overwhelmed the space, alternating between a feminine falsetto and masculine growl—often within the same song. His guitar playing, too, had elements of punk and blues, but with Eastern flavoring woven throughout. In other words, he threw the kitchen sink at the unsuspecting audience.

Amy Berg’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley relates Jeff Buckley’s meteoric rise and early death in the 1990s through the adoring and wounded voices of his family, friends, and bandmates. Berg leavens their wistful memories with personal and concert footage, along with Buckley’s notebook jottings, ramblingly funny and emotional voicemails, and jagged animations that are meant to simulate his manic and at times self-destructive mindset.

The latter sections featuring Buckley’s words hint at the suggestive alliterativeness used by Brett Morgen in his own documentaries but are shoehorned into an impactful but at times generic portrait of another gone-too-soon artistic genius. Skillfully woven into the narrative for heightened impact, songs like “Last Goodbye” and Buckley’s famous cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” say more about the singer’s vocal abilities than most of the film’s talking heads.

Born in 1966 and raised by his mother,...

Despite there being a bunch of sequels and remakes or reboots hitting theaters, I can’t say this month is hinging on any of their successes. Not like a Disney / Marvel month would. Heck, the two most-talked-about on that list are the two that will surely make the least amount of money (Toxie almost never earned a release and Spike’s Kurosawa reimagining hits Apple TV+ three weeks later).

Maybe the bookers are leaning into festival season by scheduling some alums to finally make their bows in America? Maybe it’s a sign of the industry’s creative soundness? Unfortunately, it’s probably just a product of July’s myriad blockbusters refusing to relinquish their screens.

Whatever the reason, the below posters are primed to turn heads and coax viewers away from all that bombast. Catch some eyes and, in a perfect world, the work’s half done.

Hiding faces...

While the strike-impacted 2024 release slate resulted in fewer movies overall, 2025 promises to be something of a return to normal with a bevy of highly anticipated films coming to both theaters and streaming. From two new Marvel movies to James Gunn’s DC reboot of “Superman” to a “Jurassic” reboot to live-action remakes of animated classics galore, there’s plenty of familiar territory, but also noteworthy original films as well – Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” the Jennifer Lawrence/Robert Pattinson thriller “Die, My Love” and a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie are all on tap, to name a few.

Check out the full 2025 release calendar below. We’ll update this post continually throughout the year to make sure it’s up to date, so keep it bookmarked.

July David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult in “Superman” (Warner Bros./DC Studios)

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Some voices are musical instruments. Jeff Buckley’s was a crime scene. A thing of such impossible beauty, its four-octave climb toward the celestial seemed to violate some natural law, and you listen to it now with a sense of foreboding. It is the sound of a man flying too close to the sun.

Amy Berg’s documentary, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, functions less as a tribute and more as a psychological inquest, an attempt to map the fault lines that ran beneath that seraphic voice.

The film pieces together the evidence of a brief, incandescent life, using his single studio album, Grace, as the cornerstone of a tragedy. It seeks the man inside the myth, but in doing so, it only deepens the sense of a fate foretold, a life lived under the shadow of its final act. The beauty was the warning.

The Anatomy of a...

One of the great artists who had far too little time on this planet, Jeff Buckley’s life and legacy get unearthed in the latest film from Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg. It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival at the top of the year and features never-before-seen footage from the artist’s archives, will now be released on August 8 from Magnolia Pictures. Ahead of the theatrical run, they’ve debuted the new trailer and poster.

Here’s the synopsis: “It’S Never Over, Jeff Buckley, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg, covers the life of the rising young star with an otherworldly voice and boundary-pushing artistry, who left the ’90s music world reeling when he died suddenly, at age 30, after the release of his critically acclaimed debut album “Grace.” Told through never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives and intimate accounts from his mother Mary Guibert,...

"My main influences: love, anger, depression, and Zeppelin." Magnolia has revealed the official trailer for an acclaimed documentary film titled It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which first premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The film profiles the life and music and voice of beloved musician Jeff Buckley, who sadly passed away in 1997 at the young age of 30. Never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from Jeff Buckley's inner circle paint a captivating & beautiful portrait of the gifted musician who only made one album. Buckley had only finished that one album when he died suddenly in 1997. Those closest to him offer a portrait of the mesmerizing singer. Sundance describes the film as "a hum that echoes, and like Buckley's 'Hallelujah,' it takes on a light and life of its own." I saw this film at the festival and it really is something special, just like Jeff Buckley.

Magnolia Pictures dropped the trailer for upcoming Jeff Buckley documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley on Wednesday, a first look that frequently hints at Buckley’s mortality and leans into the enigmatic nature of the famed singer.

“How would you like your fans to think of you,” an interviewer asks as the trailer opens. “Just the music,” he responds. “Because when I’m dead, that’s the only thing that’ll be around.”

Elsewhere in trailer, Buckley’s remembered for opining that “I’m not going to last that long,” while a question from an interview on “where would you like to see yourself in 10 years” goes unanswered, with a moment of suspense.

Director Amy Berg delivers It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley with archival footage combined with interviews his mother Mary Guibert and former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, and with his bandmates as well as with contemporaries like Aimee Mann,...

Even if you didn’t already love Jeff Buckley, the new trailer for the documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley might have you falling head over heels.

It’s Never Over comes to us from Amy Berg, the Oscar-nominated director of Deliver Us from Evil as well as Phoenix Rising about Evan Rachel Wood and Marilyn Manson. Buckley’s Grace song “Last Goodbye” soundtracks the trailer, which promises new interviews with his mother Mary Guibert, Buckley’s partners, and bandmates, plus Aimee Mann and Ben Harper, as well as never-before-seen footage from his archives. More than anything, it leans into his charm.

“My main influences? Love, anger, depression, and Zeppelin,” Buckley cracks at one point, flashing the kind of smile that had movie producers trying to cast Brad Pitt for a biopic (Guibert turned them down). There are also grim forebodings of his death, though the tone here leans...

Even if you didn’t already love Jeff Buckley, the new trailer for the documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley might have you falling head over heels.

It’s Never Over comes to us from Amy Berg, the Oscar-nominated director of Deliver Us from Evil as well as Phoenix Rising about Evan Rachel Wood and Marilyn Manson. Buckley’s Grace song “Last Goodbye” soundtracks the trailer, which promises new interviews with his mother Mary Guibert, Buckley’s partners, and bandmates, plus Aimee Mann and Ben Harper, as well as never-before-seen footage from his archives. More than anything, it leans into his charm.

“My main influences? Love, anger, depression, and Zeppelin,” Buckley cracks at one point, flashing the kind of smile that had movie producers trying t0 cast Brad Pitt f0r a biopic (Guibert turned them down). There are also grim forebodings of his death, though the tone here...

Anyone who frequented the live music scene in New York over the last decade has a favorite story about Baby’s All Right, the 280-seat club in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. There was the night Billie Eilish, then 15, played songs from her first EP and a cover of Drake’s “Hotline Bling.” The time Mac DeMarco, with the help of some wine, wrote a “theme song” for the club. Or the night Zoë Kravitz’s band Lolawolf played a set to an audience that included her dad Lenny and Anne Hathaway.

The 2025 edition of Doc NYC Selects is almost here, and IndieWire can announce the program for the summer extension of the annual fall documentary festival. This year, Doc NYC Selects will take place between July 9 to 29, at New York’s IFC Center, with all of the filmmakers attending in person.

The festival will begin with Academy Award-nominated Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa’s “Apocalypse in the Tropics,” which was acquired by Netflix after debuting at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. “Apocalypse in the Tropics” is Costa’s follow-up to “The Edge of Democracy,” which Netflix also distributed. Costa returns to Brazil to document the political impact of Christian evangelical leaders in the nation for “Apocalypse in the Tropics.”

Doc NYC Selects will close with “Monk in Pieces,” an ode to composer and performer Meredith Monk; the film is directed by Billy Shebar and David Roberts and debuted at Berlinale. Additional Doc NYC...

Sundance didn’t have the plethora of late night bidding wars we used to see in the good old days of the festival, but a number of buzziest titles are actually closing deals late into the spring and into the early summer. Over 60 films came into this year’s Sundance looking for homes, and slowly but surely a number of those are finding homes. As we previously reported, the hope was that even more distributors could get creative.

Below we’ll update all the acquisitions following the festival as they arrive.

“Hal & Harper”

Section: Indie Episodics

Buyer: Mubi

Director: Cooper Raiff

Buzz: The “Shithouse” and “Cha Cha Real Smooth” writer/director’s serialized debut follows two tight-knit siblings forced to face a past tragedy when their dad decides to sell their childhood home. It’s got a strong cast, including Raiff himself, Mark Ruffalo, Betty Gilpin, and Lili Reinhart,...

Magnolia Pictures has announced its acquisition of the US rights to the upcoming documentary, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival to widespread acclaim, the film will open in theaters on August 8th, followed by its release on HBO and HBO Max this winter.

Directed by Amy Berg, the documentary looks back at the life of the beloved and influential rock musician through never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s personal archives. It also features intimate interviews with his mother, Mary Guibert; former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser; former bandmates Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred; and contemporaries including Ben Harper and Aimee Mann.

“I’ve spent practically my entire career trying to make this film, which takes a very intimate look at one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time,” Berg said in a press statement. “I’m so excited Magnolia and HBO...

Magnolia Pictures has announced its acquisition of the US rights to the upcoming documentary, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival to widespread acclaim, the film will open in theaters on August 8th, followed by its release on HBO and HBO Max this winter.

Directed by Amy Berg, the documentary looks back at the life of the beloved and influential rock musician through never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s personal archives. It also features intimate interviews with his mother, Mary Guibert; former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser; former bandmates Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred; and contemporaries including Ben Harper and Aimee Mann.

“I’ve spent practically my entire career trying to make this film, which takes a very intimate look at one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time,” Berg said in a press statement. “I’m so excited Magnolia and HBO...

Exclusive: Magnolia Pictures has landed U.S. rights to It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg’s portrait of the late musician who developed an adoring fan base before his untimely death at the age of 30.

Magnolia plans to release the film theatrically (available in Dolby Atmos) on August 8. The documentary, which enjoys a 100 percent critics approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, will premiere on HBO and stream on HBO Max this winter, as part of the Music Box series created by Bill Simmons.

“Told through never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives and intimate accounts from his mother Mary Guibert, former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, Jeff’s former bandmates, including Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, and luminaries like Ben Harper and Aimee Mann, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley illuminates one of modern music’s most influential and enigmatic figures,” notes a release. “His only studio album,...

After 11 weeks of incredible performances and a lot of coach banter, The Voice has come down to five talented singers, each hoping to walk away with the Season 27 crown. The first part of the two-night finale kicked off on Monday (May 19), where the five finalists each performed two songs, including an uptempo track and a ballad. This was their last chance to make an impression and earn America’s votes before Tuesday night’s (May 20) live results show. One of them was just hours away from winning it all. Who will it be? Team John Legend‘s Renzo got the night started with his uptempo performance, singing “Fly Away” by Lenny Kravitz. Legend called the performance “flawless from beginning to end.” Renzo returned to the stage later in the night to perform his ballad, “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” by Jeff Buckley, and again, he had his coach going crazy.

Going into the Season 27 finale of The Voice, my favorite was Team Adam Levine’s brilliant but polarizing Lucia Flores-Wiseman. But I couldn’t help but root for the underdog, Jaelen Johnston, who’d been ignominiously eliminated by coach Kelsea Ballerini in the Playoffs, only to get voted back into the competition after receiving a Super Save.

The general consensus, though — based on how y’all voted in TVLine’s polls — is that not only will Team Michael Bublé’s Jadyn Cree win, she should win, too. (I don’t get it, but to each, their own.) Team Bublé’s...

The Voice is coming down to the wire and it's now up to America to decide the winner of Season 27.

Tonight, The Voice will feature the top five competing for America's vote in Season 27’s "Live Finale Part 1" at 8 p.m. Et/Pt. Host Carson Daly will announce the winner on Tuesday's "Live Finale Part 2," featuring a star-studded lineup of guest performers including Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys, Chance the Rapper, Foreigner, James Bay, Sheryl Crow, Joe Jonas, and Season 22 winner Bryce Leatherwood.

Follow along with our live blog below to see which songs each finalist performed in hopes of winning the Season 27 crown.

See 'The Voice' sets Season 28 coaches as it shifts to a truncated schedule in the fall

8 p.m. — Previously, on The Voice: The top 12 sang their hearts out for America's vote and a spot in this week's live finale. The first four...

The 33 ⅓ audiobook series is coming to Spotify. Rolling Stone can exclusively announce that the streaming platform will add more than 50 music books to the platform from the series, with some featuring additional commentary and introductions from Spotify editors. The titles arrive tomorrow, May 13.

Among the books to be added to the platform are ones on the Beatles’ Let It Be, AC/DC’s Highway to Hell, Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Nirvana’s In Utero, and Radiohead’s Ok Computer, as well as titles about Janet Jackson,...

Matthew Lawrence was the first celebrity from the Lucky 6 to be unmasked on The Masked Singer. The actor and podcast host was voted out Wednesday after performing "Unpretty" by TLC on the Fox reality-competition series.

"It felt like I was a hermit crab without its shell," Lawrence tells Gold Derby about removing the mask (watch the video interview above). "It was not the most enjoyable part of the experience. I have stage fright when it comes to singing in front of crowds so this was getting over a fear for me. The saving grace was that I was Paparazzo — a character — that felt familiar to me as an actor. That's what grounded me and kept me from losing my nerve. I didn't want to be me out there."

In Paparazzo's second clue package this season, many of the hints were about Lawrence's role in Mrs. Doubtfire opposite the late Robin Williams.

Zedd brought his friends with him to the desert. On Sunday night, the German DJ welcomed Maren Morris, John Mayer, Elley Duhé, and Bea Miller for performances at the Outdoor Theatre.

Mayer was the biggest surprise as he hit the stage to perform several tracks, including “New Light” as Zedd stepped away from the DJ booth to play the drums. The pair first performed “Automatic Yes” from the DJ’s 2024 LP Telos.

Elley Duhé first came on during the set to play “Happy Now,” while Bea Miller played “Out of Time” and “Tangerine Rays,...

Cph:dox, the documentary film festival based out of Copenhagen in Denmark, has revealed the jury winners for its 2025 edition. Audience Award prizes will be announced in April.

More than 90 feature films screened in Copenhagen this past week, including the European premiere of Sundance favorites like “The Perfect Neighbor,” directed by Geeta Gandbhir, whose bodycam-based documentary about a wrongful killing in Florida in 2023 is positioned as one of Netflix’s forthcoming top awards contenders this year. Also bowing in Copenhagen were Amy Berg’s music doc “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” Amber Fares’ portrait of Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi with “Coexistence, My Ass!” David Osit’s “Predators,” about the rise and fall of NBC’s controversial documentary TV series “To Catch a Predator,” also bowed at Cph:dox and will be released by MTV later this year.

But Cph:dox, which has been going since 2008 and is gradually becoming a first stop...

Amazon has announced a “3 for the price of 2” sale, in which you buy two items and get a third, lesser-priced item free. Among the 1,000 items included in the promotion are hundreds of vinyl and Blu-ray titles.

To participate in the buy 2, get 1 free sale, add three qualifying items to your cart. The lowest-priced item’s cost will be removed when you proceed to checkout. (Note: The offer only applies to products sold by Amazon.com or Amazon Digital Services LLC).

Add to your vinyl collection with albums by artists ranging from The Beatles and Fleetwood Mac to Bob Dylan and Prince to Lauryn Hill and A Tribe Called Quest. More modern titles include LPs from Tyler, the Creator, Chappell Roan, and Phoebe Bridgers.

Meanwhile, cinephiles can pick up Blu-rays for movies like Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Seven, and The Fifth Element, alongside newer titles including Deadpool & Wolverine and The Substance.

Amazon has announced a “3 for the price of 2” sale, in which you buy two items and get a third, lesser-priced item free. Among the 1,000 items included in the promotion are hundreds of vinyl and Blu-ray titles.

To participate in the buy 2, get 1 free sale, add three qualifying items to your cart. The lowest-priced item’s cost will be removed when you proceed to checkout. (Note: The offer only applies to products sold by Amazon.com or Amazon Digital Services LLC).

Add to your vinyl collection with albums by artists ranging from The Beatles and Fleetwood Mac to Bob Dylan and Prince to Lauryn Hill and A Tribe Called Quest. More modern titles include LPs from Tyler, the Creator, Chappell Roan, and Phoebe Bridgers.

Meanwhile, cinephiles can pick up Blu-rays for movies like Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Seven, and The Fifth Element, alongside newer titles including Deadpool & Wolverine and The Substance.

A couple of Ramones tribute albums are in the works featuring contributions from Thurston Moore, Napalm Death, Dave Lombardo, Gwar’s Blöthar the Berserker, Voivod, and more.

Magnetic Eye Records has announced the next installments of its “Redux” series, in which various artists cover entire classic albums. To honor the legendary Ramones, the label is putting together two collections, one a tribute to Ramones’ 1976 self-titled debut album and another a best of the rest of the iconic punk act’s discography.

The tracks have already been recorded and include a number of unique collaborations: Napalm Death with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth); David J (Bauhaus) with Paul Wallfisch; Arthur Brown with Blöthar the Berserker (Gwar); Dave & Paula Lombardo’s band Venamoris with Eicca Toppinen (Apocalytpica); Kayo Dot & Ihsahn (Emperor); Voivod with Jg Thirlwell, and more.

The tribute albums — Ramones Redux and The Best of Ramones Redux — are being curated by Grammy-winning producer Marc Urselli,...

The penultimate Sundance Film festival to run in Park City ended over the weekend ina flurry ofawards.

There was scarcely any on-site activity by way of completedacquisitions, although deals will follow in the weeks and months ahead. And there were genuine discoveries, reflecting the accepted wisdom that Sundance is a complicated beast and is many things to many people.

The big talking point is where will the revered soul of independent cinema house itself starting in 2027. The festival hierarchy will reveal all before long. Screen looks at some of the key talking points to emerge from the festival, which ran...

The penultimate Sundance Film festival to run in Park City ended over the weekend ina flurry ofawards.

There was scarcely any on-site activity by way of completedacquisitions, although deals will follow in the weeks and months ahead. And there were genuine discoveries, reflecting the accepted wisdom that Sundance is a complicated beast and is many things to many people.

The big talking point is where will the revered soul of independent cinema house itself starting in 2027. The festival hierarchy will reveal all before long. Screen looks at some of the key talking points to emerge from the festival, which ran...

Did Brad Pitt want to play Jeff Buckley in a biopic? ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Brad Pitt once had plans to star as the late musician Jeff Buckley in a biopic nearly two decades ago. In 2000, after inviting Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, to his wedding to Jennifer Aniston, Pitt sought her permission to portray her son on screen, and although initially she agreed, she later had second thoughts.

Brad Pitt wanted to make a biopic about Jeff Buckley but his mother rejected it

“We’re going to dye your hair, put brown contact lenses on those baby blues, and you’re going to open your mouth and Jeff’s voice is going to come out?” pic.twitter.com/ouAKqzTwvi

— Culture Crave...

Neon is understood to be nearing a $15m worldwide deal on Together, the body horror starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco that has been the standout commercial prospect of Sundance.

The first deal of the festival means that, for the second year in a row, Kristen Figeroid and the team at Neon International will head to Berlin with a buzzy genre hit from Park City after picking up Lucy Liu ghost story Presence last year.

Michael Shanks made his feature writing and directing debut on Together, the Midnight selection about a couple who relocate to the country where their touch-and-go...

At one point in singer-songwriter Jeff Buckely’s promising career, the musician exclaimed on MTV that he sees himself as a parasite in an industry he’s long admired. Not quite a household name in the United States, the Southern California native found an immense following in Europe and other countries that seemed to gravitate towards his unique sound developed while playing in New York nightclubs in his early 20s. At a time in the 1990s when grunge music became popular, Jeff Buckley’s eclectic brand and distinctive voice was cut short when he drowned in Memphis at the tender age of 30.

Much has been written about the musician who only gave the world one studio album, “Grace.” Often regarded for his covers of previously well-known songs, Buckley is best remembered for his take on the Leonard Cohen hit, “Hallelujah,” notable for Buckley’s interpretation of the song as more sexually based than gospel hymn.

ByMonday evening in Park Citystudios and streamers were understood to be in hot pursuit of the Alison Brie-Dave Franco body horror Together, by far the most broadly appealing acquisitions target in what Sundance buyers agree has otherwise been a desert of commercial prospects.

‘Together’: Sundance Review

Michael Shanks’ feature directorial debut and Midnight entry turned heads (and stomachs) as soon as it debuted on Sunday at Eccles Theatre. Buyers including Apple, A24, Focus Features, Amazon, and Searchlight Pictures are among those who were either in attendance at the premiere or who have since seen it.

Real-life item Alison Brie...

ByMonday evening in Park Citystudios and streamers were understood to be in hot pursuit of the Alison Brie-Dave Franco body horror Together, by far the most broadly appealing acquisitions target in what Sundance buyers agree has otherwise been a desert of commercial prospects.

‘Together’: Sundance Review

Michael Shanks’ feature directorial debut and Midnight entry turned heads (and stomachs) as soon as it debuted on Sunday at Eccles Theatre. Buyers including Apple, A24, Focus Features, Amazon, and Searchlight Pictures are among those who were either in attendance at the premiere or who have since seen it.

Real-life item Alison Brie...

ByMonday evening in Park Citystudios and streamers were understood to be in hot pursuit of the Alison Brie-Dave Franco body horror Together, by far the most broadly appealing acquisitions target in what Sundance buyers agree has otherwise been a desert of commercial prospects.

Other fiction features without distribution have impressed over the first five days, despite the preponderance for bleak stories that some observers say has set a rather sullen table for the US acquisitions space in the next few months ahead.

However many agree the quality of filmmaking has been high, and nowhere has this been more evident that with the documentary selection,...

The human voice, as we all know, is as much of a musical instrument as any other instrument. But Jeff Buckley had a voice that was so breathtaking, so ethereally soaring, so reaching for the heavens in its virtuosity that it’s as if he’d been given a different instrument from everyone else in pop and rock. Not that he wasn’t profoundly influenced. He had a four-octave range, and when he ascended into the upper registers, with that theremin wail and that incredibly fast vibrato, he sounded like his greatest idol, Nina Simone, crossed with his other greatest idol, Robert Plant, crossed with the most impassioned angel God had ever gifted.

In “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” Amy Berg’s rapturous documentary about Buckley’s extraordinary rise in the ’90s and his tragically cut-short life, we hear Buckley sing in every conceivable context: in clubs, in stadiums,...

Brad Pitt had his sights set on starring in a biopic about a famous musician. However, we’re now learning why it didn’t come to fruition.

The 61-year-old actor has played many iconic roles over the years. One that didn’t work out was playing Jeff Buckley, the late singer famous for his cover of “Hallelujah,” in a biopic.

Jeff‘s mom Mary Guibert revealed that Brad reached out to her with the idea and explained why she turned it down.

Although the biopic didn’t work out, Brad did get to be involved in a different project about Jeff‘s life.

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Speaking to Variety, Mary revealed that Brad reached out in 2000 about the movie. He was so dedicated that he even invited her to his wedding to Jennifer Aniston.

“If there’s 20 people calling you, and Brad Pitt is one of them,...

It’s extremely hard not to gush over Jeff Buckley. An Adonis with an four-octave range, the singer-songwriter had the sensitivity of an early-Seventies folkie, the melody-meets-muscle rock chops of an early-Nineties grunge practitioner, and a frontman sex appeal that was timeless. He counted Nina Simone, Judy Garland, Led Zeppelin, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as his musical influences, and could replicate their vocal stylings to an uncanny degree. Having moved from Orange County, California, to New York City, Buckley began playing guitar and singing cover songs at the Lower East Side cafe Sin-é.

Angelina Jolie Snubbed, 2025 Oscar Nominations, Hollywood Politics ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

The 2025 Oscar nominations were revealed a few hours ago. While several notable and deserving names, such as Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, Timothee Chalamet, Ariana Grande, and more, received nods, there were also a few snubs, especially Angelina Jolie’s brilliant performance in Maria.

Fans were appalled that Angelina was not appreciated and acknowledged by the Academy for her stellar performance. A new report has claimed that the actress might have been snubbed at the Oscars due to her divorce from Brad Pitt and his connections in the industry. Here’s what we know.

Was Angelina Jolie Snubbed During The 2025 Oscar Nominations Due To Divorce From Brad Pitt?

Angelina spent several months working on her performance, singing, and emotional quotient as she portrayed the role of Maria Callas. The movie’s director could not stop gushing about her hard work and skill.

Every music fan can point to a specific moment when they discovered a new artist that changed their life forever. For Amy Berg, it was when she discovered Jeff Buckley. A transformative experience listening to his 1994 studio album “Grace” prompted the filmmaker to spend years dreaming about the chance to tell the story of Buckley’s fruitful career and tragic death in documentary form.

Those dreams came to fruition this year with “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” a star-studded documentary that honors Buckley’s enduring influence on music. While attending the film’s Sundance premiere, Berg and Ben Harper, a close friend of Buckley’s who appears in the film, stopped by the IndieWire Studio presented by Dropbox to reminisce about their first impressions of Buckley.

“When I heard ‘Grace’ back in the ‘90s, I was totally taken by him,” Berg said. “And then when he went missing and died,...

Jeff Buckley’s life started with both an act of embrace and a decisive abandonment. His mother was only 17 when she conceived him and, while it was suggested she might give the baby up for adoption, she knew she had to nurture the human growing inside her and let him nurture her in return. Jeff’s father, on the other hand, could not let his dreams of being a famous singer/songwriter be replaced by the difficulties of raising a child and chose not to be a part of his life.

Tim Buckley would eventually gain the notoriety he sought, producing nine studio albums and serving as a well-known figure in the folk rock community for his unique voice and experimentation with multiple genres of music. Though Jeff did finally meet his father following a concert near where he grew up in Southern California, Tim would die of a heroin overdose shortly thereafter.

Ten years after her Janis Joplin bio-doc, Janis: Little Girl Blue, director Amy Berg returns to the music world with It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, an adoring portrait of another blazing talent who died way too young, leaving an influential legacy. Every fan — whether those of us who got misty-eyed to his music in the ‘90s or romantic teenagers discovering him in recent years via social media — has their favorite Buckley songs. Mine oscillate between “So Real” and “Grace,” “Last Goodbye” and “Everybody Here Wants You.” For Berg, whose connection to the artist’s music pulses through every moment of her new doc, it would appear to be his transcendent cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

That’s an entirely valid choice and a popular one, it being Buckley’s only song to reach No. 1 on a Billboard chart — in 2008, 11 years after his tragic death at age 30. But it...