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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Hacks season 3, episode 9.

Deborah and Ava reunite in Hacks season 3, filling scenes with iconic songs to underscore emotional developments. The soundtrack features classic artists like Electric Light Orchestra, The Temptations, and Earth, Wind & Fire. Musical choices like "Evil Woman" and "Shining Star" enhance plot points.

Hacks season 3 has landed, and it continues the shows awesome tradition of filling the soundtrack of each episode with great songs from a wide range of genres. Picking up a year after Deborah fired Ava in Hacks season 2's ending, season 3 sees the two rekindling their friendship. After bumping into each other at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, they start texting each other again, then start working on new jokes together, and eventually put aside their differences and reconcile their working relationship with the goal of taking over a popular late-night show.

From Deborahs newfound fame to Avas troubled relationship with Ruby,...

"Every show had this power that I've never experienced..." Madman Films has unveiled the official trailer for an acclaimed documentary film titled The Teaches of Peaches, made by the two European filmmakers Philipp Fussenegger & Judy Landkammer. This first premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and opens in Germany this month, but still doesn't have any US release date yet. Seamlessly weaving together exclusive archival gems with dynamic tour footage, this documentary captures the transformative journey of quirky Canadian musician/performance artist Merrill Nisker into the internationally acclaimed cultural powerhouse that is Peaches. Film during her 2022 concert tour marking the 20th anniversary of her breakthrough album The Teaches of Peaches. Others that appear in the film include Peaches' frequent collaborators Feist, Chilly Gonzales, Shirley Manson. Through biting wit, Peaches advocates for Lgbtqia+ rights and tackles issues of gender & sexual identity, leaving an indelible mark on popular culture. If you know Peaches,...

NonStop Entertainment has acquired Nordic distribution rights to Mattias J Skoglund’s upcoming horror The Home [working title].

The film will begin production in Gotland, Sweden in spring, produced by Siri Hjorton Wagner for [sic] film. LevelK is handling international sales.

The Home is based on Mats Strandberg’s 2017 novel of the same name, about a man who returns to his small town to care for his dementia-stricken mother, as she experiences terrifying visions of her late abusive husband.

Strandberg is adapting his book in collaboration with Skoglund; co-producers are Elina Litvinova of Three Brothers and Heather Millard of Compass Films. Financing comes from the Svenska Filminstitutet,...

Legendary singer Madonna celebrated her fourth child’s birthday with a touching tribute.

The ‘Vogue’ singer, 65, shared a photo montage of her daughter Chifundo “Mercy” James for her 18th birthday.

The sweet montage was set to background music of Mercy gracefully playing a rendition of Erik Satie’s ‘Gnossienne No.1’ on the piano, reports ‘People’ magazine.

The ‘Material Girl’ singer began her birthday message in the Instagram caption, “Beautiful Chifundo James! you’re 18 years old today!! Beautiful Mercy James. You’re already a young woman! Beautiful African Queen!! You Surprised all of us”.

As per People, Madonna went on to share how Mercy has been the “quiet”, “gentle”, “shy” and “stoic” sibling and “never” wanted “to draw attention” to herself.

“Always Humble and Kind, Always the first one to say thank you. To clear the table after dinner! To Come and Hug me and say how much you appreciate something,...

Daft Punk will continue their 10th anniversary celebration of Random Access Memories this November with a “drumless edition” of their Grammy-winning 2013 album.

Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition), due out November 17, features all 13 songs from the original LP, but as the title suggests, the drums and percussion have been stripped from the defunct dance duo’s tracks.

Ahead of the reworked LP’s release, Daft Punk has shared the “drumless” version of the ballad “Within”; although already one of Random Access Memories’ less percussive tracks, the “drumless edition” take spotlights Chilly Gonzales’s piano work.

Exclusive: Almost a thousand migrant children separated from their families at the U.S. border during the Trump administration have yet to be reunited with their parents, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Many other migrant parents might still be waiting to get their children back were it not for the efforts of Immigrant Families Together, a mom-led organization that sprang up in response to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy.” The story of anguished parents helped by Ift is told in the documentary Split at the Root, directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton. Today, Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing announced it has acquired rights to the film, with plans to debut it in select theaters and on Netflix on March 3.

“Split at the Root follows the emotional journey of mothers separated from their children at the U.S. border and the grassroots initiative that, against all odds, reunites those families,...

Pioneering electronic duo Daft Punk have decided to call it a day. The French group's publicist has confirmed that they have decided to retire. To announce their retirement, the group released a video titled "Epilogue," which is an excerpt from their 2006 film Electroma. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo started Daft Punk in 1993, and went to great lengths to keep their personal lives out of the way. They adopted ornate helmets and gloves to assume robot personas, later creating a rabid following and influencing the worlds of electronic and dance music.

In the "Epilogue" video, the Daft Punk members are out in the desert, wearing their iconic helmets, when one of them removes their jacket to reveal an energy pack. The first robot presses a button on the pack and walks away as the other one explodes. The camera cuts to a sunset, while Daft Punk's "Touch" is played in the background.

Reality is always connected with fiction, especially when it comes to the lives of performers. Grammy-winning composer, Chilly Gonzales is no exception to that rule-in fact, he actually has thrived during his career for embracing heightened reality, especially on stage. The virtuoso pianist’s search for the truth in the artifice is highlighted in the new […]

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"A truly clever pop musician can do so much with so little." 1091 Media / The Orchard has released an official Us trailer for an indie music documentary called Shut Up and Play the Piano, a profile of the pop music icon known as Chilly Gonzales. This first premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year, and is finally getting a release in the Us next month for those who have been waiting to see it. The doc film follows Grammy-winning musician Chilly Gonzales (real name: Jason Charles Beck born in Montreal) on his rise from Canada to the world's great philharmonic halls. "Using Gonzales' extensive video archive in a rather unorthodox manner, Shut Up & Play the Piano explores his persona by interweaving newly shot interviews and concert scenes with fictional materials of totally different time periods. Reality and fiction blur together as we embark on a trip through Chilly Gonzales' world.

The life and times of one of the world’s most talented and eccentric musicians is being made into a documentary.

Shut Up and Play the Piano will chart the transformation of Chilly Gonzales from an obsessive underground pianist to an internationally renowned composer and Grammy-winning entertainer, chronicling his artistic journey from Canada to the Berlin scene of the late '90s to philharmonies worldwide and crossing rap, electro and chamber music.

Philipp Jedicke will direct the feature, which is set to star some of Gonzales’s most famous collaborators, including Daft Punk, Peaches, Feist and Jarvis Cocker, and is being introduced to...

Ed Helms is set to star alongside Lake Bell in her latest directorial effort, “What’s the Point?” The film, which Bell also wrote, will be financed by Cold Iron Pictures and the Film Arcade. Production is set to begin in April. Produced by Bell, Jett Steiger (Ways & Means), Miranda Bailey and Amanda Marshall (Cold Iron Pictures), “What’s the Point?” will be executive produced by Jason Beck and Andy Bohn. Also Read: Lake Bell, Omari Hardwick, Jon Bernthal, Benjamin Bratt Join Thriller 'Shot Caller' “What’s the Point?” is a comedy that investigates the concept that marriage...