Jennifer Hudson, in the role of Aretha Franklin, delivers a show-stopping performance of the Queen of Soul’s signature song in a clip from the upcoming biopic Respect. Following a series of trailers as well as the audio-only clip of Hudson’s version of “(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman,” …
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The Jesus Music — a documentary tracing the “uplifting and untold story” of the roots of contemporary Christian music through where the genre is today — will arrive in theaters on October 1st via Lionsgate. The film features some of the biggest names in the genre, including Amy Grant, Kirk …
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Meet Paul McCartney: the ultimate Beatles geek. The excellent new Hulu documentary series McCartney 3, 2, 1 gets up close with the most legendary of rock stars, alone in the studio with Rick Rubin, telling stories and listening deep to the Beatles. It’s a fascinating thrill just to listen with …
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Ryan Murphy‘s American Horror Story series is receiving a new spinoff titled, somewhat confusingly, American Horror Stories, and the first teaser clip for the show is out now. Whereas its predecessor focused on a different storyline every season, American Horror Stories takes the weekly anthology route, featuring new characters, monsters, and gore …
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Quentin Tarantino shared some previously unreleased footage from Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood in a new trailer for the upcoming novelization of his 2019 film. The clip boasts its own distinct late-Sixties feel, with a deep-voiced narrator stating at the start, “You’ve seen the Columbia pictures, now read the …
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At some point, you’ve probably made fun of one of those cheesy sitcoms about an oafish man with a beautiful, impossibly patient wife. That’s because those kinds of sitcoms have been around for our entire lives, going back practically to the start of television itself. Some of these shows have …
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HBO Max has released the official trailer for LFG, an upcoming documentary about the U.S. women’s soccer team’s fight for equal pay. The film is set to premiere on the streaming service on June 24th. With a whopping four World Cups and four Olympic gold medals won over the past …
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Focus Features has released the first trailer for Roadrunner, a documentary about the life of chef, author, and travel host Anthony Bourdain. The film premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11th and will be released widely in theaters on July 16th. Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 …
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“Our music is about representation. It’s about being heard,” explains Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey), the lead singer of the band that gives the new Peacock import comedy We Are Lady Parts its title. Saira’s explanation for why she plays music is a fairly trite one out of context — what …
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We begin at the beginning: It’s a lovely, late spring day in Smalltown USA. A tall, lanky man — let’s call him Lee Abbott — gets out of his truck and ducks into a small general store on Main Street. He walks through the aisles, past a shelf full of …
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