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Legend of the Mountain – King Hu – Re-Release Trailer

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King Hu’s wuxia masterpiece Legend of the Mountain opened February 2, 2018 at Metrograph in NYC on a new 4K restoration by the Taiwan Film Institute. It will tour select cities before being released on Blu-ray and DVD later in the year. “Hu, a master of the wuxia swordplay sub-genre of martial arts cinema, is perhaps best known for Come Drink with Me, Dragon Gate Inn, and A Touch of Zen. For his late-period Legend of the Mountain, Hu turned instead to a supernatural fable set during the 11th-century Sung Dynasty, drawing upon Pu Songling’s classic 18th-century collection Stories from a Chinese Studio and filming independently on location in the South Korean countryside. A scholar-errant, tasked with translating and safeguarding a Buddhist sutra involving the afterlife, loses his grasp of space and time as he wanders through a strange, haunting mountain landscape. Along the way, he encounters temptress ghosts and Taoist priests, ancient abandoned fortresses and inns, and a delirium of color, sound, and silence.” – Museum of Modern Art New 4K restoration by the Taiwan Film Institute.

Dennis Edwards, from the Temptations, dead at 74

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Dennis Edwards was the lead singer for the Temptations during the height of their career during the 1960s & 1970s.

Dennis Edwards, died at the age of 74 years on Friday, February 4th, at his home in Chicago. In 1968, Dennis became the lead singer of the Temptations after the original lead singer, David Ruffin, had left to pursue his own solo career. At that time the group had 10 consecutive Top 40 hits on Billboard charts since 1966, with 5 of those singles reaching the Top 10.

During Edwards time as the lead singer, nine of the groups singles had reached the Top 10, with 3 titles, “I Can’t Get Next To You”, “Just My Imagination(Running Away With Me)”, and “Papa Was A Rollin Stone” became the groups second, third and fourth number 1 hits.

Dennis Edwards left the group in 1977 to embark on his own solo career at Motown Records. His first release was 1984’s Don’t Look Any Further had reached number 2 on the Black LP charts, which is now known as the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums list. Edwards followed up with “(You’re My)Aphrodisiac” that climbed to number 15 on Black singles, which is todays Top R&B/Hip Hop songs. Edwards followed up with a LP the year after called, Coolin’ Out.  Even that album reached number 36 on the charts!
Edwards Rejoined the Temptations in the 1980s and was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame as a group member in 1989. The Temptations was such a force as a group that last year they were given the name of the Number 1 act on the Greatest of All Time R&B/Hip Hop Artists. As a honor to the memory of Dennis Edwards listen to some of his greatest hits below!

JUST CHARLIE – Working Class Trans Teen Drama

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Just Charlie from Wolfe Video on Vimeo.

Directed by: Rebekah Fortune

Writer: Peter Machen
Starring: Harry Gilby, Scot Williams, Patricia Potter, Karen Bryson, Ewan Mitchell, Joshua Pascoe
Distributed by: Wolfe

JUST CHARLIE traces with nuance and sensitivity one young person’s struggle with gender identity through the lens of a gritty, sports loving blue-collar community and a tough family struggling to accept it.

Set in Tamworth, a gritty, small working class Midland town in the UK, teenage soccer star Charlie and his family see soccer as a way out of a dead end factory life for him. But Charlie is struggling with gender dysphoria, and is torn between his father’s expectations and shedding his male identity. With dramatic yet surprising results for himself, his family, and his community, Charlie begins a gender transition while continuing to pursue the dream of becoming a soccer star.

JUST CHARLIE is the feature film directorial debut of theatre & TV actress / director Rebekah Fortune. Inspired by emotional real life accounts from transgender communities, Fortune was inspired by these resonant stories to create a poignant account of one young teen’s identity transition in a small, gritty British town.

Said Fortune, “Just Charlie is a film about chasing your dreams, and accepting those who are different because – sometimes – the rules on how to love, what you can do, and who you should be, are meant to be broken. This is a story about identity, who we think we are and who we really are. About being true to ones self in the face of terrible adversity.”

Featuring a breakout lead performance from theatre / TV actor Harry Gilby (star of the play version of The Full Monty). This film marks his cinema debut, and he was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Film Awards.

Dive into the mysterious world of MUTE – starring Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux.

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Berlin, the future, but close enough to feel familiar: In this loud, often brutal city, Leo (Alexander Skarsgård) – unable to speak from a childhood accident – searches for his missing girlfriend, the love of his life, his salvation, through dark streets, frenzied plazas, and the full spectrum of the cities shadow-dwellers. As he seeks answers, Leo finds himself mixed up with Cactus Bill (Paul Rudd) and Duck (Justin Theroux), a pair of irreverent US army surgeons on a mission all their own. This soulful sci-fi journey from filmmaker Duncan Jones (

Moon, Source Code, Warcraft) imagines a world of strange currencies in which echoes of love and humanity are still worth listening to.

 

Mute is directed by Duncan Jones and written by Jones and Michael Robert Johnson. The film is produced by Stuart Fenegan. Charles J.D. Schissel and Trevor Beattie are executive producers.

Mute will be released on Netflix, February 23, 2018

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www.netflix.com/mute

Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx Celebrate Together in Rare Appearance

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#JamieFoxx and #KatieHolmes have kept their rumored relationship on the down low for years, but they looked every bit the happy couple at #CliveDavis‘ annual Pre-Grammy Awards Gala.

The 39-year-old actress arrived ahead of Foxx to Saturday night’s bash, sponsored by Absolut Vodka, socializing with the star-studded crowd in a red gown and with her cropped hair tucked behind one ear.

Though Foxx and Holmes sat at the same table, it appeared the actress tried to avoid drawing attention to herself  by leaving the room and moving to a different seat just moments before Davis announced the singer’s presence.

However, Davis called out the move, saying, “This lady left the room right when I was going to introduce her, she was sitting at that table right with Jamie Foxx and everyone else.”

Davis added, “If you’re going to sit together what better night than tonight?”

A camera showed Foxx, 50, cracking up while Holmes appeared somewhat chagrined to have the spotlight on her.

The duo found themselves at the same table again, where they were photographed looking happy together. When Logic performed, they stood up and danced along with others.

To read more click HERE!!!

JAY-Z Reveals Why He Ended His Six-Year Grammys Boycott

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“I’m gonna say a lot of things tonight, but it’s all coming from a place of honesty,” the 48-year-old rapper — who’s nominated for eight Grammysthis year — said at Clive Davis’ Pre-Grammy Gala at the Sheraton Time Square on Saturday while accepting the 2018 Salute to Industry Icons Award.

“My introduction to the Grammys were, aside from seeing them on TV and seeing Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all those guys inspiring [me] to do what they did, was 1998,” he continued at the Absolut Vodka-sponsored event, which the 4:44 rapper attended with his wife.
“I had an album called Vol. II. You like that album? And I was nominated for some awards,” he said, adding that “There was another guy. His name was DMX, and he had released two albums the same year, they did like 900,000…The same year, he had released two albums, and he wasn’t nominated for any Grammys.”
“I actually boycotted the Grammys that year,” JAY-Z continued, adding that he didn’t come back until 2004, “when a beautiful young lady, whom I love dearly, had a solo album, and it was the breakout — she was nominated.”
Continued the rapper, “My first time coming back, six years later, [was] for the Crazy in Love album with the beautiful Miss Beyoncé.”
JAY-Z added that part of the reason why he decided to end his boycott of the awards ceremony was because “I realized, man, all this is super subjective, and everyone’s doing their best, and the Academy—they’re human, like we are, and they’re voting on things that they like; it’s subjective. And we believe in it because we do.”
“We can pretend that we don’t care, but we really care—we care because we see the most incredible stand on those stage, and we aspire to be that. So I realized: I had to be there. That is the idea, for us to all get involved and to push this thing further,” he added.
“No matter what happens at the Grammys, it’s going to be what it is: Bob Marley‘s gonna be Bob Marley whether he’s nominated for a Grammy or not. Tupac is gonna be Tupac. Biggieis gonna be Biggie. That’s true. But in this industry, we have to… the things that we hold and we love and we treasure, that we respect, we have to get involved.

Read original story HERE!!!

 

Killer Mike & T.I. Join New Atlanta Mayor’s Transition Team

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Congratulations to Killer Mike & T.I. who have been nominated by the city of Atlanta’s new mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, to join her transition team which represents “the best and the brightest in the city of Atlanta”

The new Atlanta mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, who won the mayoral election in December, has elected Killer Mike of “Run The Jewels” and T.I. to be apart of her transition team, per Pitchfork. The rappers will be included with people such as executives like David Apney, the CEO of UPS, and Edward Bastian, CEO of Delta Airlines. The team’s role is to consult with the mayor on carrying out policy agenda items, the mayor was quoted at the press conference saying:

“I am grateful to announce this 38-strong transition team,”. “It represents a tremendous amount of diversity and depth, and really the best and the brightest in the city of Atlanta.”

Here is the full video of the press conference with Keisha Bottoms:

Even Killer Mike took to his Instagram page to make an announcement about such an honor!

 

Offset Releases “Violation Freestyle” Video

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Offset shared the video to “Violation Freestyle” which proves that Culture 2 is in the works, per Complex

King Content, who previously did the Migos “Get Right Witcha” video, is the key director for this one also!

VIOLATION FREESTYLE OUT NOW @offsetyrn 📸: @rivetingentertainment

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According to Complex, as of Monday, Culture 2 sessions had wrapped up and tracks have been forwarded for mixing. No mention of the track list yet, but we can assume that “Motorsport” featuring Nicki Minaj & Cardi B, and the new club single produced by Pharrell “Stir Fry” will be included on the album.

As for who will be producing the album we will have to wait patiently for that until then Quavo did deny rumors of Kanye West being a guest producer. Well, I am so proud of the Migos, they also are nominated for “Best Rap Album of The Year” catagory for the 2018 60th Grammy awards which will airing live on January 28th at 7:30pm eastern. I also had the pleasure of interviewing hot producer Cash Clay Beats in December regarding being Grammy nominated for his contribution to the album on the single “Kelly Price“.

Make sure to keep up with the station blog to watch out for Culture 2 updates!!!

21 Savage & Metro Boomin Collab “Pause” Surfaces Online

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21 Savage and Metro Boomin collab “Pause” surfaced online yesterday!

Well….back in 2015, 21 Savage premiered a snippet of the song “Pause” on his Instagram page for we thought back then the song was going to be included on his and Metro Boomin collab album “Savage Mode”, but unfortunately it was not included. Thankfully, World Star Hip Hop decided to post the full version of the song yesterday on its website. I can expect all 21 Savage fans to be excited about this leak due to him sounding like the old Savage fans got know prior to his superstar status. I think it will be another hit for the “Bank Account” rapper who also recently did a collab album with OffSet & Metro Boomin called “Without Warning” back in October 2017. Click here to read more!