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The meaning behind the title of Björk’s 1995 album Post is twofold. The album was, of course, a postscript to 1993’s Debut, the singer’s first solo effort following the dissolution of her band the Sugarcubes, but it was also designed as a mixtape of messages to friends and family back in Iceland. The blazer Björk dons on the album’s cover, photographed by legendary shutterbug and frequent collaborator Stéphane Sednaoui, was created by British fashion designer Hussein Chalayan and made out of waterproof envelope paper bearing the markings of the Royal Mail.

Each song on Post has a distinct sound—trip-hop bumps up against house, industrial rock, and jazz—and an intended recipient. The grimy “Army of Me” is a kick in the pants to Björk’s little brother; the subterranean “Enjoy” is a love letter to London; the dubby “Possibly Maybe” is a farewell to Sednaoui, whom she...

Lindsay Lohan may be dusting off her musical abilities for “Freakier Friday,” but alas, she doesn’t sing in her new Christmas film. Her sister sure does though.

Now streaming on Netflix, “Our Little Secret” centers on a pair of exes who unintentionally reunite to spend Christmas together. How, you ask? Well, they’re now dating a pair of siblings, and don’t know it until they come face to face in front of the whole family.

Avery (Lohan) decides to pretend she and Logan (Ian Harding) have never met, which only leads to predictable trouble down the line. We won’t get into spoilers though.

We’re just here to let you know what songs you’re hearing throughout the film, including one from Lohan’s sister. Here’s your guide to the “Our Little Secret” soundtrack.

Here are all the songs in “Our Little Secret”:

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When Julianne Moore’s elderly deaf character Rose enters the frame in Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck to the tune of Eumir Deodato’s take on “Sprach Zarathustra” (also prominently heard in the Peter Sellers comedy Being There), you know something amazing is about to happen, and surely it does. The Oscar-winning Still Alice actress plays not one, but two roles in her fourth outing with the Oscar-nominated director following Safe, Far From Heaven and I’m Not There: One a 1920s…...

To celebrate the upcoming release of Marvel's Monsters Unleashed #1, launch parties will be hosted at local comic stores on January 18th. Look for exclusive items at these launch parties including a Monsters Unleashed sketchpad. Also: casting details for The Humanity Bureau, details on the Stanley Wiater horror auction, the Coffin Joe trilogy is coming to DVD, a look at the short film Trouser Snake, and Head of the Family Blu-ray release details.

Monsters Unleashed Launch Party, Sketchpad, and Variant: Press Release: "New York, NY—November 30th, 2016 — Run if you can! Hide if you must! Monsters have invaded the Marvel Universe! Nothing can prepare heroes across the globe for Monsters Unleashed! But you can be prepared! To coincide with the highly anticipated release of Monsters Unleashed #1, Marvel is bringing widescreen action and epic destruction to your local comic shops with Monsters Unleashed Launch Parties. Not only is your local comic shops...

There are horror movies that will give you nightmares, and cause you to fear showers and shallow waters for decades. There are some that get deep under your skin – often times because they've literally flayed or burrowed under their characters' skins – and others that will make you see everyday items (a bowl of pea soup, a hockey mask, a videotape) in a horrifying new light. And then there are the ones that push so many social-taboo envelopes, strike so many collective raw nerves and tweak so many communal gag reflexes that they are a cut,...

Check out the new brand new UK trailer for French actioner Black with a hilarious voiceover from sixty smokes-a-day man. We’ve also got a rather thorough synopsis for you to read, too.

Black comes from the same producer as last year’s superb A Prophet. This one looks a bit more action-orientated… check it out.

Synopsis:

The spirit of Blaxploitation classics such as ‘Super Fly’, ‘Shaft’ and ‘Truck Turner’ is given a modern day makeover in the action-thriller, Black, the directorial debut feature from Pierre Laffargue.

Produced by Marco Cherqui (A Prophet) and starring French hip-hop artist Mc Jean Gab’1 (the District 13 movies), Carole Karemera (Sometimes In April), Francois Levantal (A Very Long Engagement; D’Artagnan’s Daughter) and Anton Yakovlev (The Beat That My Heart Skipped), Black is “a slick, fun, French heist flick” (Eye Weekly) with a supernatural sting in the tail that sees its eponymous...

By Adam Rosenberg

I saw Phish last night. A lot of people did (Madison Square Garden is a pretty large room), but it was new for me. I've seen them perform in concert more than 70 times over the years, but not once in the past almost-decade. Granted, they spent part of that period on hiatus, so no one was seeing them then. But I fell off that train in 1999, catching only sporadic shows until mid-2000. So last night was a sort of homecoming. And I have to say, as cynical as I've become of that scene in the years I've been away from it, the show was fan-damn-tastic.

For starters, the setlist really delivered. Enjoyment of a Phish setlist is largely a personal thing; different songs move different folks, and this is a band with a catalog that — between originals and covers — is literally hundreds of songs deep. The selection...

In "Bossa Nova", director Bruno Barreto serves up a dreamy Rio de Janeiro that pulsates to the beat of Antonio Carlos Jobim bossa nova classics, a Rio of midnight swims and intimate strolls along Copacabana beach, where romance lingers in the humid night air.

It's the Rio of travel agents' dreams rather than the urban nightmare Barreto portrayed in his frightening 1978 crime melodrama "Amor Bandido". While this Rio may intrigue romantically inclined adults, even they may feel cheated by lightweight fare that is more a tempting Brazilian hors d'oeuvres than a satisfying dinner by candlelight. Sony Classics should anticipate no more than modest returns in urban markets.

Although an ensemble piece, the film very much stars Barreto's wife, American actress Amy Irving. Playing an English teacher who stays on in Rio following the death of her Brazilian husband, she remains aloof from this tropical pleasure zone. Like a flower placed between the pages of a book for years, Irving's Mary Ann Simpson looks beautifully preserved but dead to her surroundings.

Barreto and writers Alexandre Machado and Fernanda Young, working from Sergio Sant'Anna's novel "Miss Simpson", place Mary Ann amid a whirligig of comic misunderstandings and near-farcical romantic pursuits that mostly feel forced and mechanical.

The paths of nine characters crisscross Mary Ann,'s with attorney Pedro Paulo (veteran actor Antonio Fagundes) at the focal point. Pedro's wife (Debora Bloch) has left him for her tai chi teacher (Kazuo Matsui). Mary Ann teaches English in the same building that houses the tailor shop of Paulo's father (Alberto de Mendoza).

One of Mary Ann's students (Drica Moraes) has fallen in love, sight unseen, with a New Yorker with whom she trades lies about lifestyle and physical attributes via the Internet. Another student, a soccer star (Alexandre Borges), must brush up on his English upon his move to a British club. Then Pedro's half-brother (Pedro Cardoso) falls for Pedro's legal intern (Giovanna Antonelli), who in turn develops a thing for the soccer star. Everything comes to a head with the arrival of the Internet lover (Stephen Tobolowsky).

The film's reliance on perfectly timed entrances and exits and fortuitous coincidences at times gives "Bossa Nova" a contrived feeling. Barreto manages the multiple plots and love affairs well, and the film is not without its moments of subtle charm and amiable comedy. The music -- both Jobim's and original work by Eumir Deodato -- and Pascal Rabaud's postcard-perfect cinematography establish the romance of this mythical Rio even if the viewer doesn't always buy into the romantic trysts.

The mood is playful, but the characters lie very near the surface. And the attempt to mingle laughter with tears never comes off. The most egregious stumble comes when Barreto brings all of the characters together for a climax at a hospital, where Pedro's father lies dying of a heart attack.

And Irving's feminine enigma floats through the movie in a way that Brazilians may find seductive and exotic. But to American viewers, she may seem like an emotional zombie.

BOSSA NOVA

Sony Pictures Classics

LC Barreto & Filmes do Equador

in association with Globo Filmes

Producers: Lucy Barreto, Luiz Carlos Barreto

Director: Bruno Barreto

Screenwriters: Alexandre Machado,

Fernanda Young

Based on a novel by: Sergio Sant'Anna

Executive producer: Bruno Barreto

Director of photography: Pascal Rabaud

Production designers: Cassio Amarante,

Carla Caffe

Music: Eumir Deodato

Costume designer: Emilia Duncan

Editor: Ray Hubley

Color/stereo

Cast:

Mary Ann: Amy Irving

Pedro Paulo: Antonio Fagundes

Acacio: Alexandre Borges

Tania: Debora Bloch

Nadine: Drica Moraes

Sharon: Giovanna Antonelli

Trevor: Stephen Tobolowsky

Roberto: Pedro Cardoso

Running time -- 95 minutes

MPAA rating: R...