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Netflix’s The Electric State, directed by the Russo brothers, brings a retro-futuristic adventure to the screen with a soundtrack packed with ‘90s classics. Starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, the film follows Michelle (Brown) and Keats (Pratt) as they navigate a dystopian America in search of Michelle’s missing brother. With a mix of action, emotion, and robotic companions, the film blends visual spectacle with music that underscores its themes.

Throughout the journey, songs appear in high-energy moments and quieter, sentimental scenes. A standout feature includes performances by a piano-playing Taco robot, adding a quirky twist to familiar tracks.

Full Soundtrack Listing: Mary Jane’s Last Dance – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Mother – Danzig I Fought The Law – The Clash Sound Off (Duckworth Chant) – Willie Lee Duckworth & Bernard Lentz Take Me To The River – Al Green & Mabon Lewis Hodges (Performed by The Studio Musicians) Tornerai – Trio Lescano e Quartetto Funaro...

An action-packed adventure with a 90’s backbone awaits viewers in Netflix’s The Electric State starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.

The film also features the voice work of Alan Tudyk, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate and more. Based on the graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag, the film watches Michelle (Brown) and Keats (Pratt) venture into the dangerous Exclusion Zone and the heart of artificial intelligence firm Sentre to try and rescue Michelle’s brother. The politics of robots vs. humans fall to the side as each of them has their own robot companion, and they meet more on their adventures to track down Christopher (Woody Norman), who Michelle was told died in a car accident that also took the lives of their parents.

Several 90’s needle drops play in many different scenes from the more sentimental ones to the high-adrenaline ones. Some are performed by a piano-playing Taco robot.

Exclusive: Lifetime’s Gloria Gaynor biopic has cast Tony Award winner Joaquina Kalukango in the leading role as the Queen of Disco. Kalukango and Gaynor serve as executive producers. Lance Gross (Tyler Perry’s House of Payne) will also star as Gaynor’s husband, Linwood Simon, in I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story from Robin Roberts Presents.

The movie will air in 2025 as part of the network’s Voices of a Lifetime slate, which features the previously announced titles, Mary J. Blige’s Family Affair and Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story.

Additionally, Gaynor will write and record an original song for the authorized biopic that follows her 50-year career in the music industry. “It will chronicle her rise to fame, from her humble beginnings to becoming one of the most iconic voices in music history,” touts Lifetime.

The late, great Aretha Franklin once said: “Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.”

It surely has been for Gloria Gaynor. The Grammy-winner singer is the subject of director Betsy Schechter’s compelling new documentary Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive. The outing, which became an Audience Favorite at the recent Palm Springs International Film Festival, tracks the disco diva’s legacy, which took flight nearly five decades ago upon the release of her chart-topping disco hit "I Will Survive" in 1978. That song, which has sold more than 14 million copies to date, became the quintessential anthem for jilted lovers and anybody moving through life’s most pressing challenges.

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For the first four months of the school, we were serenaded in our house about a dozen times every day with the 1978 disco standard "I Will Survive". This has been courtesy of our ten year-old, who may not have the life experience for an anthem of defiant independence, but definitely has the pipes.

She's not a Gloria Gaynor type, exactly – more like a midget Ethel Merman. A real belter, this kid. When she finally got to perform what she'd been rehearsing, at her grade-school variety show, 400 grownups reacted in the first half-dozen bars as if they'd been Tasered.

Then they started clapping in time with the beat. Wives gave husbands dirty looks. Third graders were doing that sassy-black-girl thing with their necks.

Old Dad had a tear in his eye,...