According to an anecdote that has been going around the Internet for several years, in 1934 Gardel was performing on NBC in New York when he was introduced to a young admirer who was eager to meet him. As it turns out, he was none other than 19-year-old Frank Sinatra. Nobody is certain about whether that meeting happened or not but rumor has it that during the night, Gardel and Sinatra were locked in a dressing room together.
Led by terrific vocalist Stokley Willis, the Minneapolis quintet Mint Condition was one of the best R&B groups of the 1990s. Always known for their live shows, they are at their best at this performance at Washington D.C.'s 9:30 Club, performing memorable hits like "Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)," "Is This Pain Our Pleasure?," and "So Fine".
Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime families while struggling to leave the streets behind. When Black's family raids one of Stick's drug houses and kills two of his men, Stick is forced to choose between leaving it all behind or seeking revenge and feeding the cycle of violence.
A biopic of the late musician Dédé Fortin, the singer, songwriter, and founder of a very popular Québécois band called "Les Colocs".
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.
In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His death will be the ransom of a life that was not denied to the excesses or the consuming flame of genius. His wildest improvisations will open the door to future jazzmen. Between shadow and light this film will pay tribute to one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.
School production of Grease streamed only for 3 nights in 2021. After being postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, most of the cast was back (with some new additions) and expecting to perform at the Chatswood Concourse, but due to lockdown restrictions, this was not viable. Ultimately, the crew turned to film to bring the show to life! Redlands presents Grease The Musical! Since its electric Broadway and West End debut in the early 1970s, GREASE has remained one of the world’s most popular and enduring musicals. Funny, frank and featuring the hit songs “Greased Lightnin’,” “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” “You’re The One That I Want,” and “Summer Nights,” GREASE follows the journey of Danny and Sandy, alongside the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies, as they navigate high school to the unforgettable rock n’ roll soundtrack that defined generations. With 7 Tony Award nominations, don’t miss one of the most popular musicals of all time!
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms of bighearted billionaire Oliver Warbucks - with plenty of mischief and music in between.
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
A TV worker has fickle designs on an aspiring singer for whom she arranges an audition.
Onde Estás, Felicidade?
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
Alex is annoyed when he loses out on being picked as class president. When visiting a local antique shop he finds a magic lamp, with three singing Genies, who grant him three magical wishes.
Tirza Hightower is a jet setting executive ready to shake things up and lay low for awhile. Kam Mercer, a corporate brand strategist by day, is an artist who might have just found his way out of the corporate sector. Both at a crossroads, they meet at what seems like an inopportune time. Things could go left or right, when is the right time to take a chance on connection?
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
A Musical Based on the Acts of the Apostles