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[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Gabby Barrett is on a long list of former competition singing show performers who have managed to turn reality TV appearances into stardom. The 20-year-old country singer placed third on “American Idol” in 2018 as an 18-year-old dreamer and has maintained the momentum, becoming the first solo female songstress since Carly Pearce in… Continue reading ‘American Idol’ alum Gabby Barrett says debut album ‘Goldmine’ is a nod to years of ‘hard work’ — The Latest News

FILM: The Staircase FILMMAKER: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade REVIEWER: Becky Beamer This is a true EPIC documentary. Well, actually it’s a mini-series. If you like 48 hrs mystery and Law and Order you will really enjoy this series. It’s 8 x 45min programs on 2 DVDs. This weekend I conquered the first half. It’s a more… Continue reading The Staircase – An EPIC doc — Doc & a Drink

Surprise! You are eating your documentary veggies today. via Genre Bending? Yes, please. — Doc & a Drink

After receiving a faculty research grant to kickstart our #documentary, we started preproduction. What are the key elements of pre-production for a budget conscious documentary? I used my experience freelancing for factual programing to develop a plan. 1. Pack Light 2. Prepare your releases : Personal, Location, Material 3. Book Locations for Filming and Develop […]… Continue reading What are the key elements of pre-production for a budget conscious documentary? — Doc & a Drink

Title – Da 5 Bloods (2020) Director – Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing) Cast – Delroy Lindo, Chadwick Boseman, Clarke Peters, Jonathan Majors, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr, Jean Reno, Mélanie Thierry, Paul Walter Hauser Plot – Four African American Vietnam veterans return to the war-torn country in search of the body of a […]… Continue reading Film Review – Da 5 Bloods (2020) — Jordan and Eddie (The Movie Guys)

Number 7. I Am Woman (R Burton/H Reddy) – Helen Reddy 1972 Helen Reddy had left Melbourne to pursue success in the US market in 1966, after winning a Bandstand talent quest, she was a single-mother who had divorced her first husband Ken Weate in 1966, she did not have a green card entitling her […]… Continue reading HITS OF THE DECADE – 1970’s — 4The Record

Nickelodeon, the number-one kids’ network, today announced it has signed an overall deal with 13-year-old social media star and hip-hop artist, Alaya “That Girl Lay Lay” High. Known professionally as Lay Lay, Nickelodeon will work with the teen sensation to develop original multiplatform programming, music initiatives, and build a cross-category consumer products business. Said Lay […]… Continue reading Teen Sensation and Hip-Hop Artist Alaya “That Girl Lay Lay” High Signs Overall Deal with Nickelodeon — Morty’s TV

This is the first monograph devoted to manuscripts illuminated by the mid-fifteenth-century artist known as the Wavrin Master, so-called after his chief patron, Jean de Wavrin, chronicler and councillor at the court of Philip the Good of Burgundy. Specializing in the production of pseudo-historical prose romances featuring the putative ancestors of actual Burgundian families, the […]… Continue reading Publication – Rosalind Brown-Grant, “Visualizing Justice in Burgundian Prose Romance. Text and Image in Manuscripts of the Wavrin Master (1450s-1460s)” — RMBLF.be

Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966) is arguably his most famous masterpiece. Persona is filled with surreal imaging and dream sequences in which it’s very hard to filter dreams from reality. I don’t think anyone can say for sure what Bergman is suggesting through his works: maybe it is showing that the ‘Persona’ we assume is a […]… Continue reading A History of the Overlapping Face — Cinemaniac

[ad_1] by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90) As part of Good Black News’ celebration of African-American Music Appreciation Month (#AAMAM), we are taking some time to honor quality artists whose music has nevertheless remained unappreciated. Last week, we brought you a playlist from Ronnie Dyson. This week we’d like to introduce/re-introduce you to Merry Clayton. Open… Continue reading “Just A Shot Away” – Rediscovering Legendary Session Singer Merry Clayton (LISTEN) – Good Black News — Black News Zone