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In 1991, Middletown High School teacher Fred Isseks started an elective class that every student wanted to take. “Electronic English” introduced teenagers to new media and emerging art forms, providing them access to camcorders, editing machines, and digital photography. Each day, students filmed music videos, shot horror movies, and hosted talk shows, developing their broadcast and rap skills in an environment that encouraged creativity and the kind of collaboration and critical thinking that other classes couldn’t.

But Isseks wasn’t just overseeing good times and teaching technical skills. Not long after learning about toxic waste spilling into a local landfill, Isseks convinced his students to embark on an environmental video project that would investigate the town’s unreported ecosystem of corruption and neglect. Over the next six years his classes produced four documentaries about the subject, the last one called Garbage, Gangsters, and Greed, a culmination of all their journalistic...

The upstate New York high schoolers at the heart of “Middletown” hint at what the Breakfast Club crew might have been had they shared a purpose beyond sulky rebellion.

In 1991, teacher Fred Isseks created a way for his students to channel both their curiosity and their rightly contrarian impulses in an elective called Electronic English. For the next several years, the students who opted for that class made videos, shot horror shorts and, most significantly, embarked on a project about the local landfill that would become a sharp and heralded piece of investigative journalism. Altogether, classes from 1991 to ’97 made four films. The final was the hour-long “Garbage, Gangsters and Greed.” Political malfeasance, press acquiescence, the Ford Motor Co. and the Genovese crime family among others play their roles in the student exposé of toxic waste dumped into the area landfills.

Filmmakers Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss know their way into...

Leave to “The Daily Show” to ask the big questions in the wake of President Joe Biden seemingly calling Trump supporters “garbage.” That’s exactly what Ronny Chieng did on Wednesday night … after a while.

“Wait hold on — Joe Biden is still the president?” the senior correspondent incredulously asked during the show’s opening monologue.

In the wake of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at a New York Trump rally, Biden said, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.” The comment immediately sparked backlash among Republicans.

“That’s a crazy thing to say even if you believe that. Just wait six more days, man,” Chieng advised President Biden. The Comedy Central host then tried to give Biden the benefit of the doubt and carefully listened through the president’s other comments about Puerto Rico. But between Biden’s stumbling and...

The inaugural Tasveer Film Market has unveiled over 40 projects selected from more than 300 submissions across India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, the U.K., the U.S., Canada and Australia. The initiative, positioning itself as a new hub for South Asian and diaspora filmmakers, is set to launch as part of the 19th Tasveer Film Festival in Seattle.

Notable talents presenting projects include Radhika Apte (“The Sleepwalkers”), the Cannes-winning “Joyland” team of Apoorva Charan and Saim Sadiq, Sarvnik Kaur (“Against the Tide”), Q (“Garbage”), Nabeel Qureshi (“Na Maloom Afraad”) and Hania Chima (“Laal Kabootar”). The lineup also features the adaptation of Soniah Kamal’s “Pride and Prejudice” adaptation “Unmarriageable,” led by Sadia Ashraf and James McMillan.

Industry leaders scheduled to attend include filmmakers Deepa Mehta and Pan Nalin, along with representatives from Amazon MGM Studios, Blumhouse, HBO, Est N8, Creativeland Studios, NBCU, CAA and WME. The market has partnered with organizations such as NBCU,...

On Tuesday June 25 2024, Nick Jr broadcasts Blaze and the Monster Machines!

The Garbage Truck Challenge Season 8 Episode 2 Episode Summary

In this episode of “Blaze and the Monster Machines,” the excitement reaches new heights with the “Garbage Truck Challenge.” Garbage Truck Blaze returns, ready to take on the challenge against Garbage Truck Crusher. The stakes are high as they go head-to-head in a battle to see who can Compress more Garbage Trucks. Will Blaze’s speed and precision outshine Crusher’s strength, or will Crusher finally prove he’s the ultimate champion?

Fans of the show can expect thrilling action-packed scenes as Blaze and Crusher race against the clock in the Garbage Truck Challenge. The competition is fierce, and both trucks are determined to come out on top. With their unique abilities and strategies, viewers will be on the edge of their seats, wondering who will emerge victorious in this epic showdown.

Who would have thought that the charming Chris Pratt—funny, giving, the kind of person you want to hang out with—rose from poverty and hardship? Yes, and above all, the Marvel star, 44, is not even ashamed to talk about his tragic days when he was broke and homeless, a stark contrast to the luxurious life he is leading today.

With his chubby physique mirroring his laid-back character, Pratt became famed for playing the hilarious Andy Dwyer in the popular sitcom Parks and Recreation. But before the actor lit up the silver screen with his infectious charm, he was discovered living on the streets, even eating “garbage from the dumpster”.

Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy | Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Yet, it was this period of his life that he reflected on with a sense of fondness, considering it “charming” in its way, as he recounted in a chat with The Talk.

Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Toxic, a coming-of-age teenage tale, secured this year’s Work in Progress prize at Meeting Point Vilnius (Mpv), the annual audiovisual industry event that takes place during the Vilnius International Film Festival, Kino Pavasaris.

The award lands the filmmaking team a €5,000 cash prize from the Lithuanian Film Centre,

Toxic is being produced by Lithuania’s Giedrė Burokaitė, with Bliuvaitė, the pair are looking for a sales agent and “a premiere at a film festival” for the title which they anticipate finishing by the end of May this year.

It is about a young girl abandoned...

Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked, but nothing is more distorted than attempting to make another Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action adaptation only to disappoint fans again.

Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender

After M. Night Shyamalan’s 2010 film version of the iconic animated series, the latest Netflix rendition ought to fulfill fans’ wish: to assemble a group of indigenous actors and wonderfully translate the story of Aang and company to the screen. This did not seem to be the present case.

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Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender Was Not The Artistic Vision Of Original Creators

Avatar: The Last Airbender recently premiered on Netflix, and the cold reception of fans towards the adaptation is already telling the franchise’s future. Though there...

Following a couple who are hosting an event to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, director Arne Gjelten’s short film The Best Day of Our Lives takes a turn when one member of the couple reveals that he has no memory of their big day. The brilliance of Gjelten’s tense relationship drama comes in its tone and carefully construed depiction of a contemporary relationship. The soft colour palette, the lack of a score, the carefully constructed dialogue and camerawork. It all feeds into an awkward whirlwind that grips the viewer whilst subtly unpacking societal expectations of relationships and marriage. Dn is delighted to premiere Gjelten’s thought-provoking short alongside a deep dive with the filmmaker where he talks through the film’s inception as a satire, its tonal evolution through the writing phase and the process of nailing its uncomfortable ambience in the edit.

The Best Day of Our Lives,...

Streamer Chorki has acquired Bangladesh rights to iconoclastic Indian filmmaker Q’s latest film “Zewel,” it was revealed on the sidelines of Singapore’s Asia TV Forum and Market.

Chorki has also boarded the project as a co-producer alongside Rita Meher, curator of Tasveer Festival and CEO of Luminary Pictures (Seattle). Produced by India’s Oddjoint, the project is currently in post-production.

The film, shot across India and Bangladesh, tells the story of a young TikToker’s journey from zero to villain. Zewel wants to be a hero on Tiktok and already has 15,000 followers. He is a firestarter, a matchstick master who never misses a target. Living at the edge of an industrial wasteland in Bangladesh, Zewel and his brother Zibon, both daily-wage labourers, were planning to move to Qatar to join the booming influencer factories. But dreams come at a cost. As Zibon gets busted selling drugs, all doors...

When you look at David Gordon Green’s career, it’s really difficult to nail down just what type of filmmaker he is. Does he make indie films? Comedies? Reboot horror franchises? Yes, yes, and yes. Hell, he’ll also show up in an occasional acting role, such as in “Bones & All.” But even though he is very eclectic in the subjects he tackles in his films, he does tend to stay away from a lot of big I.P.

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The Nineties are in full swing on the soundtrack to the recent second season of Yellowjackets.

Yellowjackets Season 2 Official Soundtrack: Music from The Original Series, set for release Sept. 1, will include tracks from Alanis Morissette, Nirvana, Garbage, Elliott Smith, Veruca Salt, the Cranberries, and Pulp. It also features an original track, “Just a Girl,” by Florence + the Machine, as well as Papa Roach’s “Last Resort” in a nod to a memorable moment from the show.

Morissette’s contribution is a cover of the Showtime series’ theme song, “No Return,...

A Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds gig in Saratoga Springs, New York on Saturday was abruptly stopped early due to reports of a bomb threat.

Via Billboard, after opening act Metric and co-headliner Garbage finished their sets, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center displayed an emergency message stating the venue needed to be completely evacuated because of “circumstances beyond our control.” The evacuation was complete before Gallagher and company were able to perform.

“We have no idea what happened tonight,” Garbage wrote on Twitter. “We were just all evacuated and we were concerned for everyone !!! I’m sorry we have no real information. We were just told there was an emergency evacuation!!!!”

Sunday Morning, the NY State Park Police clarified the cause for evacuation: “Out of an abundance of caution, the concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center was suspended ‪at 9:40 pm and concert attendees were evacuated without incident,” reads a statement on Facebook.

The audience attending Noel Gallagher‘s High Flying Birds concert at Saratoga Performing Afters Center in New York over the weekend was only able to catch performances from the two opening acts, Metric and Garbage. Before Gallagher could hit the stage for his headlining performance, the venue was evacuated in response to a bomb threat.

At around 10 p.m., an announcement canceling the rest of the show was shared through digital monitors at the venue. “At this time, we will need to evacuate the venue. We ask you to calmly proceed to the nearest exit.

One of the things we love most about the dark Showtime series “Yellowjackets” is all the fantastic ’90s music. Half of the show takes place in 1996, when high school girls’ soccer team crash lands in the wilderness and half is set 25 years later, with the still traumatized adult survivors.

Season 2 features an exclusive track by Florence + the Machine, an eerie cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl,” Sharon Van Etten’s “Seventeen,” and such ’90s feminist icons as Tori Amos.

And of course, we love the kind of creepy main title theme, “No Return,” by Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker. The opening credits from Season 1 teased some of the things we would see unfold, and the updated Season 2 credits sequence also gives us hints at what we’ll see in upcoming episodes.

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[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets, Season 2 Episode 8, “It Chooses.”]

After a riveting first season filled with sonic callbacks to the ’90s, Season 2 of Showtime’s Yellowjackets kicked off with a similarly wistful tone, thanks to the new trailer, spotlighting Florence and the Machine’s cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl.”

Season 1 of the series took viewers back to 1996 when a young group of soccer players survives a plane crash and the aftermath forced the characters to deal with a string of psychologically unfortunate events. Considering when the story starts, music from the era is paramount to the series. So far, we’ve heard everything from Portishead’s “Glory Box” to “Rump Shaker” by Wreckx-n-Effect in the series, with Season 2 promising to keep that same energy while jumping in between timelines.

The ’90s part of the series shows Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Sammi Hanratty, Liv Hewson, and Courtney Eaton playing...

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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds — surely to the dismay of Oasis super fan Matty Healy — will hit the road again this summer on a joint-headlining tour with Garbage.

The tour will kick off June 2 at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, Washington, and wrap July 15 at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston. Metric will provide support throughout the tour (save for a July 3 show in...

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Garbage have announced a North American co-headlining tour with special guest Metric. The early summer jaunt spans 25 shows in total, kicking off on June 2nd in Auburn, Washington.

A Live Nation ticket pre-sale is set for Thursday, February 16th (use access code Chorus), with a genera on-sale following on Friday, February 17th via Ticketmaster. Alternatively, tickets are available to purchase via Stubhub.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds are set to release their fourth studio album, Council Skies, on June 2nd. Garbage recently marked their 30th anniversary by releasing a compilation Anthology; they’re currently at work on a new album — their first since 2021’s No Gods No Masters.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 2023 Tour Dates:

06/02 – Auburn, Wa @ White River Amphitheatre ^*

06/03 – Ridgefield, Wa @ Rv Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater ^*

06/06 – Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion ^*

06/07 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl ^*

06/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre ^*

06/10 – San Diego,...

Vice TV has ordered the series “Super Maximum Retro Show,” from Jimmy Kimmel’s Kimmelot and ITV America. The series, which is based on the Super70sSports viral Twitter feed, launches on Tuesday, March 7 at 10 p.m. Et.

Ricky Cobb is behind the Twitter account, while comedian Chris Distefano will host. The show will include videos, photos, ads and games from the pre-Internet era and focus on things that would have gone viral had the web existed back then. A group of guest panelists will join in and comment, as well as share their memories from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Among the panelists lined up: Hasan Minaj, Roy Wood Jr., Chris Redd, Matteo Lane, Judy Gold, Chris Gethard, Adam Pally and others.

“I love Ricky Cobb’s Super70sSports Twitter feed and Chris Distefano is one of my favorite comics,” Kimmel said in a statement. “I cannot wait for...

After expanding her musical output to Broadway with her 2019 Tony Award-winning jukebox musical Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette will soon explore a new sonic territory: meditation music.

The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter will release The Storm Before the Calm, an album of guided meditations co-written with Dave Harrington, on June 17. In advance of the album, Morissette dropped track “Safety—Empath in Paradise” — an 11-minute new age epic featuring hypnotic drums and soothing drone sounds.

“Meditating rests my interior, to the point where I can have access to ideas and visions and...

Alanis Morissette is back with a new powerhouse piano ballad, “Olive Branch.”

The track features just Morissette’s piano and vocals as she unleashes a raw, striking plea for forgiveness: “And here is my olive branch,” goes the refrain, “And I’m so sorry/And mea culpa/I’m reaching out to make amends/No pressure for you to let me in.”

Morissette wrote “Olive Branch” with Michael Farrell, who produced the track with Henrik Jakobsson. The song marks Morissette’s first bit of new music in 2022. Last year, she...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Boiling Point (Philip Barantini)

More often than not, one-take films struggle to justify their gimmick. Whether shot in one go or utilizing an intensive editing process to appear like so, the technique almost always threatens to overshadow whatever story is at the center rather than emphasizing it. Used correctly, it can prove immersive in the exact same way as a theatrical production—breaking down barriers between performer and audience, who can see their work unfold in real-time. Unfortunately, the impracticality of telling a story this way is usually highlighted via several scenes of actors slowly walking between filming locations. – Alistair R. (full review)

Where to Stream: VOD

The Feast (Lee Haven Jones)

Lee Haven Jones’ slow-burn eco-horror The Feast may feature extended...

Kiana Madeira listened to everything from Snoop Dogg to Tracy Chapman to prepare for her roles in the “Fear Street” slasher trilogy – films that respectively take place in 1994, 1978 and 1666.

“I think the music is like another character in the story for all three films—the soundtrack as well as the score,” Madeira told TheWrap. “They had such a big part in telling the story and the trajectory of what the characters were going though.

The “Fear Street” trilogy centers around Shadyside teens who, after multiple gruesome killings, get together to take on the evil force that’s been tormenting their town for centuries. Many Shadyside residents believe the force to be a doing of the witch, Sarah Fier, who is said to have placed a curse on the town before her death in 1666.

The films are all subversions of the horror genre in many ways. They’re centered on queer love,...

A quarter of a century has passed, and Shirley Manson still wants to tear your little world apart — especially if you support the patriarchies and idiocracies destroying the planet. On Garbage’s seventh offering, No Gods No Masters (a slogan for anarchists and labor unions alike), Garbage’s redheaded Molotov cocktail explodes at evangelicals apathetically offering prayers after shootings, “The Men Who Rule the World,” shitty men in general (in case they don’t rule the world), and, as is often the case on a Garbage record, herself. She broods...

Freeform’s premiere of its new teen thriller series “Cruel Summer” on Thursday was not like any other Hollywood has experienced during the pandemic. Instead of a virtual or drive-in screening, the network booked 80 rooms at the Beverly Hilton for a balcony screening. Each guest was assigned to their own room in order to watch the screening from a terrace overlooking an inflatable jumbo screen. “This is special,” producer Michelle Purple told Variety. “I’ve seen friends have drive-in premieres, but Freeform got creative.”

Each room was decked out with ’90s nostalgia – including “Friends” posters, concert fliers for Garbage and The Cranberries, vintage Seventeen magazines, scrunchies, inflatable furniture and candy – to match the show’s mid-90s setting.

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Before the screening began, the cast of the show were introduced through a speaker system installed on each terrace. Footage of the stars,...

This year’s MTV Video Music Awards bash was the first major Covid-era award show, which meant it had something rare for the VMAs: a reason to exist. The whole night felt like a weird experiment, with everyone figuring out how to do a glitzy music spectacle during a pandemic, with social distancing and no audience. MTV originally planned it as a live broadcast from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, but it turned into a virtual gala full of pretaped razzle-dazzle. Yet that just gave it a sense of creative risk and emotional stakes — for once,...

When Shirley Manson began hosting The Jump last year — a podcast in which she interviews artists on one song that represents their artistic moment of truth — she was incredibly nervous. “It caused me a lot of stress, truth be told,” the Garbage frontwoman tells Rolling Stone. “The first season, I felt like I wasn’t qualified and I had no right to be sitting in that position as a host talking to these amazing artists. But I absolutely loved the experience.”

On Tuesday, Manson will release the second season of The Jump,...

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Garbage Pail Kids gave birth to my anti-authority streak. I was in fifth grade waiting for art class to start and showing off my prized Ashcan Andy to enraptured classmates when my teacher walked in the classroom, sighed, confiscated the card and proceeded to rip it up. “This junk has no place in an art room,” she stoically declared as Andy was transformed into sad confetti before my eyes. Years later, I came to realize that this demonstration was all about jealousy – these cards had instantly engaged students in art in a way that her years of teaching never could.

And let me be clear here: Garbage Pail Kids are most definitely art. Often grotesque and always eye-catching, the unfortunate children showcased on these cards fostered an interest in painting, illustration, and design...

If one thing is abundantly clear to anyone who’s ever spent time with Dave Grohl, it’s that he’s an even bigger music fan than he is a rock star. Whether talking about his favorite Van Halen album (“Fair Warning”) or getting to play drums as a teenager with Iggy Pop at a record release show in Toronto, he is as animated as he is on stage.

So Grohl and his Foo Fighters bandmates were the perfect people to resurrect Cal Jam, the massive festival held in 1974 and 1978, and last year when Grohl and the Foos flew the flag again, alongside Queens of the Stone Age, Cage the Elephant, Liam Gallagher and many more.

“Talk about bringing the party,” he says of the original festivals. “When I look at that lineup, I think about the musicianship. To see a band as funky as Earth, Wind & Fire, and then...

Director, producer previously teamed-up on Berlin title Garbage.

Following their collaboration on Berlin title Garbage, Indian director Q and producer Shaailesh R. Singh are reteaming on fantasy horror Replay.

The new project will be produced by Q’s Oddjoint and Singh’s Karma Entertainment & Media. It revolves around a group of young friends who become involved in a twisted game of death and gore.

Q previously directed horror title Ludo, about a group of teenagers locked overnight in a shopping mall, which had a wide festival run, including a Us premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin.

Garbage, which premiered in...

The Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama sidebar is now complete, bursting with 47 titles from 40 countries, and mixing documentary and features. Among the new additions today is Idris Elba’s directorial debut Yardie which just premiered at Sundance. Other selections announced include the Pedro Almodovar-produced Franco regime doc The Silence Of Others and Lemonade, produced by Romania’s Cristian Mungiu.

Also on deck are new works from Korea’s Kim Ki-duk, Human, Space, Time And Human; and Ursula Meier’s Shock Waves – Diary Of My Mind.

Wolfgang Fischer’s Styx will open Panorama Special on February 16. The nearly dialogue-free film film tells the story of a female doctor on a sailing holiday gone unexpectedly sour somewhere between Europe and Africa. The main program will open on the evening before with the previously announced River’s Edge from Isao Yukisada.

Below is the full...