Erin Krakow is getting candid about When Calls The Heart.
03.04.2023 - 05:53 / variety.com
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Spinning Gold,” a sketchy but adoring if not outright devotional biopic about Neil Bogart, the upstart ’70s music-industry mogul who founded Casablanca Records, there’s a pivotal moment that spins around the story of how Bogart, at a party he was throwing, played the 3-minute-and-20-second single version of Donna Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby.” He played it over and over again because his guests kept asking for it. That’s when the lightbulb went on. Bogart realized that the song needed to be longer, much longer — long enough to have sex to. (It ended up being 16 minutes and 50 seconds.) This is a rather famous anecdote (in the new documentary “Love to Love You, Donna Summer,” which just premiered at SXSW, there’s a clip of Bogart telling it on a talk show). So we assume that we’re going to see Bogart meet with Giorgio Moroder, the song’s composer and producer, and change music history.
It happens that way…sort of. Bogart tells Moroder (who, as played by Sebastian Maniscalco, sounds like a character out of “Hogan’s Heroes”) that he wants a longer version of the song. But then Bogart himself, in Munich, meets with Donna Summer (Tayla Parx) and presides over a recording session in which the song gets remade. (Moroder is nowhere in sight.) Bogart keeps telling Summer that the song needs something extra, and he gets her to start mixing orgasmic moans into the vocals by nuzzling up against her, whispering in her ear, and seducing her into an erotic trance. Bogart, in his chipmunk way, was a curly-haired nerd, but Jeremy Jordan, the Broadway actor who plays him, is suave and willowy, like Chris Pine’s little brother. This scene, which never actually happened, is a touch ridiculous,
Erin Krakow is getting candid about When Calls The Heart.
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Kelly Clarkson has a tough call to make as the Knockout Rounds kick off Monday on !In a sneak peek shared on Friday, the coach tees up the first Knockout performances of season 23, pitting Cait Martin and Kala Banham against one another for the chance to represent Team Kelly in the live playoffs.Cait takes on a tall task, performing Whitney Houston's «All the Man That I Need,» while Kala delivers an emotional rendition of The Goo Goo Dolls' «Iris» that leaves their coach dreading the decision she has to make.«I'm so angry, you both did such a great job!» Kelly bemoans, hiding behind her hands.«I'll throw in my two cents, which is not going to matter to Kelly,» Blake Shelton begins, saying that he heard some sharp notes in Cait's performance, and praising Kala's «passionate performance.»Niall Horan and Chance the Rapper both praise Cait for tackling a Whitney song, and while Niall is leaning toward Kala, Chance insists, «I just wanna emphasize that Cait just smashed that. That was spot-on Whitney.
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returned for the ninth week of season 9 on Wednesday, and the show was out of this world with a special sci-fi-tinged, outer space themed " In Space Night!«Helmed by host Nick Cannon and overseen by stalwart panelists Robin Thicke, Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy and Nicole Scherzinger, Wednesday's „Country Night“ episode saw the return of last week's champion, The Dandelion, facing off against two new challengers — The Lamp and The UFO!So who went home and who moved on? Each week, ET will be breaking down the biggest moments and most surprising unmaskings in each new episode of the hit reality singing competition series.Here's how Wednesday's » In Space Night" shook out, when all the songs were sung and votes were cast!The reigning champ, The Dandelion, was the first to hit the stage, and she wowed the panel and the audience from the start when she came out playing the piano (making her the first female contestant to play the piano during a performance in the show's history) and delivered a stunning cover of Muse's «Starlight» that left everyone in awe.«Dandelion, you were an intergalactic rock star on that stage tonight!» Nicole exclaimed after her stunning appearance.The Lamp was up next, and credit is do to the costume team for making a stunning ensemble that looks so much like a Tiffany lamp brought to life through magic.
Ready to sympathize with “The Sympathizer,” the miniseries adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen starring Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey, Jr.? Well, the first trailer for the series from Park Chan-wook and A24 is here. And it’s a doozy. Watch it above.HBO described the series as “an espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese Communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States.” The show also stars Fred Nguyen, Toan Le, Duy Nguyễn, Vy Le and Alan Trong, with Sandra Oh, Kieu Chinh, Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen and Robert Downey, Jr.
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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic There are a lot of reasons why “Air,” the sensational new movie starring Matt Damon and directed by Ben Affleck, is being consumed by audiences with eager pleasure. It’s the rare drama for adults these days that people actually want to see in a movie theater (I don’t mean that to sound negative; the film could jump-start a trend). And that’s no random triumph. “Air,” based on the true story of Nike, Michael Jordan and the man who brought them together, is full of juicy inside talk about money and sports and celebrity and what agents and marketing executives actually do. In that way, it has the qualities that defined both “Jerry Maguire” and “Moneyball.” The script is by Alex Convery, who has come out of nowhere (this is his first produced feature). I would personally like to give a high-five to any screenwriter who creates this kind of dialogue — bright and sharp and nimble, with a cutting worldliness, the kind of conversation that’s been an engine of great films for 100 years. People talking! Spewing what’s on their minds, or deftly concealing it, as we hang on every word. “Air” has come along at just the right moment to remind us that terrific actors delivering savory lines of dialogue is the most special effects that a movie needs.
actress was a guest on and revealed that she has officially signed on to play Dionne Warwick in an upcoming film.«We're already working on it,» Taylor told Hall when asked about possibly playing the legendary songstress.«We're at the building process right now,» the 31-year-old triple-threat star said. «I always wanted to make sure I could lock in with any person I would be playing.»Taylor went on to reference Angela Bassett's Oscar-nominated performance as Tina Turner in and Jamie Foxx's Oscar-winning performance as Ray Charles in. «I miss when movies was like that,» she shared.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” gives you a wholesome prankish druggy chameleonic video-game buzz; it’s also a nice, sweet confection for 6-year-olds. Historically, the proverbial problem with live-action movies based on video games — and “Super Mario Bros.,” a leaden dud released 30 years ago, had the dishonor of being the very first one — is that they jam-pack the screen with tropes and fights and characters and landscapes right out of the game, but when it comes to molding all that gimcrackery into, you know, a story, they lose the electronic pulse that made the game addictive. Digital animation is, and always should have been, the true cousin of video games (which are essentially computer fantasies that you control). And “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” takes full advantage of the sculptural liquid zap of the computer-animation medium. Yet it also has a fairy-tale story that’s good enough to get you onto its wavelength.
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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Cinema, as an artform, relies on two tools — sight and sound — to fool us into believing that all five of our senses are being stimulated. That makes Léa Mysius’ more-intriguing-than-successful supernatural thriller, “The Five Devils,” a very curious animal indeed, since it focuses on a young girl with an exceptionally strong sense of smell, a phenomenon its director can show but never properly reproduce. Eight-year-old Vicky (Sally Dramé) would be right at home as one of the young mutants in an “X-Men” movie, so hypersensitive are her olfactory skills. A future perfume designer perhaps, the frizzy-haired kid spends her free time collecting odoriferous scraps from her life and environment and storing them in neatly labeled jars. When her mother Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos) discovers Vicky’s gift during a walk in the woods, she blindfolds her daughter and tries to hide under a pile of wet leaves. Sniffing the air, Vicky manages to locate Joanne almost immediately.
Kiss — that’s a good name,” Bogart said.“Do you really wanna talk business right now?” Biawitz, who was Kiss’ manager, replied. Soon after, Bogart signed the band to his fledging label, Casablanca Records, based on the demo alone. “My father signed them sight unseen — he signed them because of the music,” said Bogart’s son, Tim Bogart.
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Brent Lang Executive Editor Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” a historical drama about the serial targeting and murder of members of the oil-rich Osage tribe, will open in limited theaters starting Oct. 6. The film will then have a wide release on Oct. 20. “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which is being produced by Apple Original Films, will then begin streaming on Apple TV+ at an unspecified date. Paramount Pictures will partner with Apple on the theatrical release of the movie, which has an impressive ensemble that includes Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Brendan Fraser, as well as Jesse Plemons and Lily Gladstone. Given the top talent involved, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is expected to be a major awards season player.
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Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor To call “Spinning Gold” a labor of love is an understatement completely uncharacteristic of its subject: the late Neil Bogart, the larger-than-life founder of Casablanca Records, the famously freewheeling 1970s powerhouse that brought the world Kiss, Donna Summer, Parliament-Funkadelic and the Village People in less than five years. Some 25 years in the making, the biopic was written, produced and directed by Bogart’s eldest son Tim (who’s worked in those roles on many TV series, from “Majors & Minors” to “The Jungle Book”) with music supervision from his youngest son, Evan (a songwriter and music publisher who co-wrote Beyonce’s “Halo,” among many other hits), and other family members as producers. Out March 31, it features Tony and Grammy-nominated Broadway star Jeremy Jordan (“Newsies,” “Rock of Ages,” “Waitress”) as Bogart, Michelle Monaghan as his first wife, Lyndsy Fonseca as his second, rapper Wiz Khalifa as P-Funk’s George Clinton, singers Ledisi as Gladys Knight and Tayla Parx as Summer, among many others.