The Australian singer and songwriter - Sia and the American singer, songwriter, musician and actor - Patrick Stump, will contribute their talents in music to 'Charming' - an animated musical comedy concerning three princesses who discover they all have formally agreed to marry the same Prince Charming. Sia, who started her career as a singer in the local Adelaide acid jazz band Crisp, has written two tracks for the flick, one of which is the song "Balladino," that she will perform herself. The…
Comedy movies are more than just light entertainment on a Saturday afternoon – or a great option for a date night! The funniest movies tend to live on even after the credits have rolled out. They provide us with earworms, quotes we share in funny situations and moves we recreate with our friends. They are even our comfort blankets when times get tough and we need a smile. Comedy is also quite a hard art to master. Whilst there are tons of examples of the times when the jokes just don’t work, we…
was an American form of entertainment developed in the 19th century. Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in make-up or blackface for the purpose of playing the role of black people. I want to understand what was it that brought them humor is and why was it such a show out comedy. Was it inspiration or pure comedy that came to mind when this show was thought about. It all started in the 1840’s, peaked after the Civil War and remained…
opening sequence can set up the main characters, the location of the film, time period in which the film is taking place, or it may simply just be a place for credits to go. The opening scene also does a lot in setting up some of the films themes. Comedies for example may start off by a main character telling a joke, or being put in a humorous situation. This gets the audience (hopefully) laughing, and sets the tone for the rest of the film. However an opening scene can do a lot more than just…
1950s, game shows ‘beat the clock’ and ‘truth or consequences’ involving contestants appeared on T V. During 1950s-1959, a new type of series you asked for it’ in the sense that viewers were given certain freedom to see what they wished to seen television. However, the shows with the flavor of modern reality shows started to be produced during the 1970s. pbs series ‘an American family’ was more or less documentary in purpose and style. Then, there were ‘camcorder taped’ reality shows which…
into. 1. The Get Down Set in 70s Bronx, The Get Down is a musical drama following a group of teenagers led by “Books” Figueroa (played by Justice Smith) and the rise of hip hop and disco. It's vibrant music along with a talented young cast complemented by some stunning cinematography throughout the series. (-- removed HTML --) 2. Peaky Blinders Cillian Murphy stars as Tomas Shelby, leader of the Shelby family and the Peaky Blinders gang, in a post World War I England. The gang draws the…
you another first impression. This Summer Season of anime has certainly given weight to many interesting series. Especially the more savory ones… SIGH~ This is going to be one of those provocative reviews.. Hope you are ready to do some “HARD” time as we get into Prison School. Prison School anime is written by Michiko Yokote, directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, and music by Kōtarō Nakagawa. There is a Manga adaptation by Akira Hiramoto that currently has 17 volumes, but I…
family in London and studied history before turning to comedy in 1995. As hipster Ali G, Cohen interviewed such luminaries as Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich, and had them all believing that it was real. Synopsis British comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen is well-known for his unorthodox, fictional characters. In 1998, he introduced audiences to Ali G,…
who played a repeating character on The Colbert Report and is a co-host in the Nickelodeon children's show Me-TV. Andre Braugher, Toni Morrison, and Avery Brooks are all related to Carlos. He was an alumni of Brown University's "Improvidence" improv comedy troupe and was an Eagle scout in the boy scouts, which was the highest rank. In the wake of moving on from Brown University in 2001, Carlos went to fill in as a marketing specialist in a New York promotion firm. Carlos did this amid the day…
Edison and his assistant W.K.L. Dickinson called the Kinetoscope, which displayed a spinning series of images in a box that appeared to move when looked into. In France, the Lumière brothers specialized in the manufacturing of photographic equipment, and managed to create an early motion picture camera and projector called the “cinématographe”. With this new…