The key to Friedkin's cinema is his experience as a documentarian. His first feature, "The People vs. Paul Crump," was about a convicted armed robber and murderer in Chicago who would've been executed had Friedkin not taken a camera into the jail and told the man's story so convincingly, including his protestations of innocence, that the governor of Illinois intervened to get him released. From that point forward, Friedkin continued to incorporate a documentarian's sense of intense physical reality into every movie he made, whether it was a horror film like " Read More...
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The Bangles - Eternal Flame. Picture: Bangles/CBS By Thomas Curtis-Horsfall The Bangles wrote some incredible songs during their career, but 'Eternal Flame' has to be their most enduring.
In fact, the band - led by Susanna Hoffs - would never again quite match the same level of success that the beautiful ballad achieved.
But who wrote the song? What inspired it? Here's all you need to know about The Bangles' classic track: Read More...
New York, NY - 22Gz has spoken out after he and two other drill rappers were removed from this year’s Rolling Loud New York lineup at the last minute.
On Friday (September 23), the Atlantic Records artist shared multiple posts to his Instagram Stories suggesting the festival organizers were just as responsible for the decision as Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) who originally pulled the plug. He also questioned why fellow drill rapper Fivio Foreign was allowed to perform, but he wasn’t. Read More...