U2 wrapped up their Joshua Tree 2019 tour with their first-ever show in India at Mumai’s D.Y. Patil Stadium on Sunday evening.
It was largely a standard Joshua Tree show until the encore section when Indian musical icon A. R. Rahman and his daughters joined the band to perform “Ahimsa”, a song he wrote and recorded with the band earlier this year.
“Included in this country are women, the most precious and rarest potential talent that we have,” Bono told the crowd, “and it’s 50 percent of this stadium.
It was largely a standard Joshua Tree show until the encore section when Indian musical icon A. R. Rahman and his daughters joined the band to perform “Ahimsa”, a song he wrote and recorded with the band earlier this year.
“Included in this country are women, the most precious and rarest potential talent that we have,” Bono told the crowd, “and it’s 50 percent of this stadium.
- 12/16/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome to this week’s review of SmackDown, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and you already know that this sucks. There’s no shame in it…for you anyway. Vince should take the rest of the dog food from last week and shove it up his ass. Okay, let’s get this over with.
Match #1: Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross def. Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Tensions have continued to boil over between the two teams as Alex Bliss & Nikki Cross look to silence Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville. Two weeks after Alexa Bliss returned to help her friend Nikki Cross repel the two-on-one assault from Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville, and one week after Rose attempted retribution by ripping out Bliss’ eye lashes, Fire & Desire delivered a pre-match sneak attack on the former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions. Despite this early assault,...
Match #1: Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross def. Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Tensions have continued to boil over between the two teams as Alex Bliss & Nikki Cross look to silence Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville. Two weeks after Alexa Bliss returned to help her friend Nikki Cross repel the two-on-one assault from Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville, and one week after Rose attempted retribution by ripping out Bliss’ eye lashes, Fire & Desire delivered a pre-match sneak attack on the former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions. Despite this early assault,...
- 12/16/2019
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
Vojtech Jasny, an award-winning director from Czechoslovakia who made more than 50 films, has died. He was 93.
Jasny passed away Friday, according to The Associated Press. The director was best known for his 1968 film, All My Good Countrymen [also known as All My Compatriots], about the lives and struggles of Czechs under communist rule. The film was banned in his homeland, but won acclaim abroad and picked up the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969.
Jasny’s 1963 film The Cassandra Cat won a Cannes special jury prize. Among his many other movies were Desire (1958), The Pipes (1966), The Clown (1976), The Great Land of Small (1987), and Return to Paradise Lost (1999)
Born in 1925, Jasny moved to the West after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. His father was killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
He moved to the U.S. in the 1980s and taught film directing at Columbia University for several years, before returning home.
Jasny passed away Friday, according to The Associated Press. The director was best known for his 1968 film, All My Good Countrymen [also known as All My Compatriots], about the lives and struggles of Czechs under communist rule. The film was banned in his homeland, but won acclaim abroad and picked up the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969.
Jasny’s 1963 film The Cassandra Cat won a Cannes special jury prize. Among his many other movies were Desire (1958), The Pipes (1966), The Clown (1976), The Great Land of Small (1987), and Return to Paradise Lost (1999)
Born in 1925, Jasny moved to the West after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. His father was killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
He moved to the U.S. in the 1980s and taught film directing at Columbia University for several years, before returning home.
- 11/17/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Sokol Nov 29, 2019
Hey, you missed a spot. Martin Scorsese's The Irishman paints over some interrelated mob hits.
This article contains small The Irishman spoilers.
You have to have some knowledge of mob history to appreciate segments of The Irishman. Director Martin Scorsese is telling a very long history, based on an exhaustive book, I Heard You Paint Houses by author Charles Brandt. The biography details Frank Sheeran, played by Robert De Niro in the film, confessing to killing about 30 people. So Scorsese can be pardoned for skimming past key points, especially where Sheeran isn’t even part of a contract.
For example, Scorsese shows us a shooting in Columbus Circle. The film notes how significant the event is, but doesn’t present a full background, making it look like Joseph Colombo was killed by the African American shooter. He wasn’t. This is a necessary cut; the movie...
Hey, you missed a spot. Martin Scorsese's The Irishman paints over some interrelated mob hits.
This article contains small The Irishman spoilers.
You have to have some knowledge of mob history to appreciate segments of The Irishman. Director Martin Scorsese is telling a very long history, based on an exhaustive book, I Heard You Paint Houses by author Charles Brandt. The biography details Frank Sheeran, played by Robert De Niro in the film, confessing to killing about 30 people. So Scorsese can be pardoned for skimming past key points, especially where Sheeran isn’t even part of a contract.
For example, Scorsese shows us a shooting in Columbus Circle. The film notes how significant the event is, but doesn’t present a full background, making it look like Joseph Colombo was killed by the African American shooter. He wasn’t. This is a necessary cut; the movie...
- 11/14/2019
- Den of Geek
“Music is the thing that saved me,” says Mexican superstar Paulina Rubio. Music is what she has known her whole life, or at least, ever since she made her early Eighties debut in the popular teen group, Timbiriche. But in 1992, Rubio broke away from the pack to launch her solo career — and like America’s Madonna, she has reinvented herself with every new release. For her latest act, La Chica Dorada, or the Golden Girl, will take a lifetime’s worth of transformations on the road in support of her 2018 album,...
- 9/12/2019
- by Lucas Villa
- Rollingstone.com
Alec Bojalad Jul 1, 2019
Neil Gaiman's Vertigo classic, The Sandman, is getting a TV series at Netflix with a big price tag to boot.
No, you're not dreaming. Neil Gaiman's The Sandman is finally getting adapted.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. Television has come to a deal with Netflix to adapt Gaiman's influential comic book run into a television series. The deal is described as being a massive financial commitment from Netflix and represents potentially the largest dollar amount that DC Entertainment has ever received for a TV series. It would have to be a big monetary commitment for Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment to allow one of its juiciest comic book properties to go to a rival streaming service rather than its own, DC Universe.
Gaiman will serve as an executive producer on the TV project alongside David Goyer, who was also attached to the produce an...
Neil Gaiman's Vertigo classic, The Sandman, is getting a TV series at Netflix with a big price tag to boot.
No, you're not dreaming. Neil Gaiman's The Sandman is finally getting adapted.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. Television has come to a deal with Netflix to adapt Gaiman's influential comic book run into a television series. The deal is described as being a massive financial commitment from Netflix and represents potentially the largest dollar amount that DC Entertainment has ever received for a TV series. It would have to be a big monetary commitment for Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment to allow one of its juiciest comic book properties to go to a rival streaming service rather than its own, DC Universe.
Gaiman will serve as an executive producer on the TV project alongside David Goyer, who was also attached to the produce an...
- 6/30/2019
- Den of Geek
Just when you think you have this unruly, untamed phantasmagoria pegged, this unclassifiable documentary/concert film — subtitled “A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese” — continually pulls the rug from under you. The film features a glorious restoration of previously abandoned footage from the Rolling Thunder Revue as Dylan and company, including violinist Scarlet Rivera and guitarist Mick Ronson, played gigs across America from 1975 to 1976.
It was a time of transition for the tambourine man. His electronic success in large stadiums left him yearning to play smaller venues to get closer...
It was a time of transition for the tambourine man. His electronic success in large stadiums left him yearning to play smaller venues to get closer...
- 6/11/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
In the summer of 1975, in the middle of recording his album “Desire,” Bob Dylan decided that he wanted to go on tour again, but that he also wanted a break. A break from the crowds, from the press scrutiny, maybe even from his own stardom. So in the fall of that year, he launched the Rolling Thunder Revue, a knowingly small-time ramble of a concert tour that was designed, from the outset, to be a kind of antiquated floating carnival of down-home traveling players. Call it “A Prairie Home Companion” meets Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The venues wouldn’t be sold-out arenas, like the ones that Dylan had played, along with the Band, to rapturous audiences the year before. They would be concert halls in places like Plymouth, Mass., and Rochester, N.Y., and Bangor, Maine. And though the tour was billed on posters as an all-star counterculture revue,...
The venues wouldn’t be sold-out arenas, like the ones that Dylan had played, along with the Band, to rapturous audiences the year before. They would be concert halls in places like Plymouth, Mass., and Rochester, N.Y., and Bangor, Maine. And though the tour was billed on posters as an all-star counterculture revue,...
- 6/11/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
From the rough, spontaneous energy of the rehearsals that open this box to the set’s barely-tamed-tornado climax, on stage in Montreal, Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue barely lasted a season: seven weeks in the frenzied autumn of 1975. And no song captures the distance and velocity of Dylan’s legendary touring phenomenon across these 14 CDs, between concept — a loose-limbed rock & roll medicine show — and its swinging vengeance on the road, better than “Isis.”
Written by Dylan in July, 1975 with his collaborator at the time, theater director Jacques Levy, and...
Written by Dylan in July, 1975 with his collaborator at the time, theater director Jacques Levy, and...
- 6/7/2019
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
As Martin Scorsese’s Netflix documentary about Bob Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue approaches, one of the members of that traveling troupe, J. Steven Soles, writes about his memories of how the idea of a communal tour gradually took shape.
In the spring of 1975, my new managers at Lookout Management were putting me out on the road as as an opening act on the club circuit. Back in New York, where I was opening for Hot Tuna, club owner Mickey Ruskin’s new place beckoned down Fifth Avenue. Hoping to catch up with old friends, I’d settled in at the bar when Bobby Neuwirth came bouncing in with T Bone Burnett and Larry Poons, artist extraordinaire. We had a few drinks and headed to the Other End to meet up with owner Paul Colby, the great folk singer Phil Ochs (for whom Arthur Gorson and I had helped produce...
In the spring of 1975, my new managers at Lookout Management were putting me out on the road as as an opening act on the club circuit. Back in New York, where I was opening for Hot Tuna, club owner Mickey Ruskin’s new place beckoned down Fifth Avenue. Hoping to catch up with old friends, I’d settled in at the bar when Bobby Neuwirth came bouncing in with T Bone Burnett and Larry Poons, artist extraordinaire. We had a few drinks and headed to the Other End to meet up with owner Paul Colby, the great folk singer Phil Ochs (for whom Arthur Gorson and I had helped produce...
- 4/12/2019
- by J. Steven Soles
- Variety Film + TV
Another turn of the dial, another vampire tale for the folks at home; TV sure did like them bloodsuckers, and for good reason – it’s generally the same story that everyone knows, and you don’t really need more than some fake chompers. A few wrinkles to the tale certainly helps to be set apart, as does a strong creative presence; and when you do those things, you end up with something like I, Desire (1982), a fun little neck biter that’s different just enough to stand out.
Originally broadcast November 15th as part of The ABC Monday Night Movie, I, Desire had to use its wooden stakes on M*A*S*H and Newhart over on CBS, while NBC trotted out their Monday Night at the Movies. I’m pretty sure I would have begged my folks to watch the vampire flick over Hawkeye if I had been given the chance.
Let...
Originally broadcast November 15th as part of The ABC Monday Night Movie, I, Desire had to use its wooden stakes on M*A*S*H and Newhart over on CBS, while NBC trotted out their Monday Night at the Movies. I’m pretty sure I would have begged my folks to watch the vampire flick over Hawkeye if I had been given the chance.
Let...
- 1/27/2019
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (Ncose) has released a statement condemning Netflix’s new Italian drama series “Baby” for promoting sex trafficking. The show centers around two teenage girls from a wealthy part of Rome who are drawn into the city’s underworld after becoming fed up with their family and friends.
According to the Ncose, “Baby” portrays “a group of teenagers entering into prostitution as a glamorized ‘coming-of-age’ story. Under international and U.S. federal law, anyone engaged in commercial sex who is under 18 years old is by definition a sex trafficking victim. In the real-life scandal that ‘Baby’ is based on, the mother of one of the teenagers was arrested for sex trafficking.”
Fifty-five survivors of sex trafficking joined the Ncose at the beginning of the year to send a letter to Netflix expressing concern about the show. The society says the series also “normalizes child sexual...
According to the Ncose, “Baby” portrays “a group of teenagers entering into prostitution as a glamorized ‘coming-of-age’ story. Under international and U.S. federal law, anyone engaged in commercial sex who is under 18 years old is by definition a sex trafficking victim. In the real-life scandal that ‘Baby’ is based on, the mother of one of the teenagers was arrested for sex trafficking.”
Fifty-five survivors of sex trafficking joined the Ncose at the beginning of the year to send a letter to Netflix expressing concern about the show. The society says the series also “normalizes child sexual...
- 11/29/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Creative Artists Agency has signed on to represent controversial Chinese filmmaker Wu Hao. Wu’s latest work, “People’s Republic of Desire,” has been selected for consideration in the documentary section of the Academy Awards and goes on commercial release in North America this week.
CAA is set as Wu’s exclusive representation. The company will deploy agents in Beijing and Los Angeles to help build out his career in both the Chinese and international markets.
Shot over two years, “Desire” probes the murky and curious world of live streaming in China and its ability to create Internet idols. The film dedicates most of its time to charting the private lives and online careers of two improbable streaming celebrities, Shen Man, a surgically-enhanced former nurse, and Big Li, a comic. “Desire” won the grand jury prize for documentaries at the SXSW festival in March this year.
With biology degrees from Chinese and U.
CAA is set as Wu’s exclusive representation. The company will deploy agents in Beijing and Los Angeles to help build out his career in both the Chinese and international markets.
Shot over two years, “Desire” probes the murky and curious world of live streaming in China and its ability to create Internet idols. The film dedicates most of its time to charting the private lives and online careers of two improbable streaming celebrities, Shen Man, a surgically-enhanced former nurse, and Big Li, a comic. “Desire” won the grand jury prize for documentaries at the SXSW festival in March this year.
With biology degrees from Chinese and U.
- 11/27/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Parents Television Counsel is calling on Netflix to remove the controversial Argentinian film Desire from the streaming service, saying the company is placing profits ahead of corporate responsibility in distributing what it considers child porn.
The film depicts a 9-year-old girl masturbating for the first time and experiencing an orgasm while watching a John Ford cowboy film with a young friend.
The scene, in which the girls imitates the cowboy by sitting on her pillow and bouncing up and down, employs slow motion, the sound of heavy breathing and close-ups of the child’s face.
PTC president Timothy Winter wrote to CEO Reed Hastings, urging him to immediately remove “child-porn content like Desire” from the service.
“Netflix has gone from merely showing a reckless disregard for the millions of families that keep your streaming platform alive and viable, and callously placing profits ahead of any sense of corporate responsibility,...
The film depicts a 9-year-old girl masturbating for the first time and experiencing an orgasm while watching a John Ford cowboy film with a young friend.
The scene, in which the girls imitates the cowboy by sitting on her pillow and bouncing up and down, employs slow motion, the sound of heavy breathing and close-ups of the child’s face.
PTC president Timothy Winter wrote to CEO Reed Hastings, urging him to immediately remove “child-porn content like Desire” from the service.
“Netflix has gone from merely showing a reckless disregard for the millions of families that keep your streaming platform alive and viable, and callously placing profits ahead of any sense of corporate responsibility,...
- 8/14/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
The director of Argentinian film accused of featuring child pornography has denied that the scene featuring two preteen actresses is exploitative.
Diego Kaplan’s 2017 film “Desire,” which is available to stream in the U.S. on Netflix, became the subject of much debate earlier this week when Megan Fox, a columnist for the conservative news site Pj Media, accused the film of featuring child pornography in a scene involving two preteen girls.
“Of course this scene was filmed using a trick,” Kaplan said in a statement to IndieWire, adding that he anticipated questions about it and prepared a “Making of” footage of how it was shot.
In the scene, which occurs early in the film, two girls pretend to ride horses using two pillows — and are film in a way that suggests that one is unknowingly masturbating and having her first orgasm. No nudity or explicit sexual act are depicted.
Diego Kaplan’s 2017 film “Desire,” which is available to stream in the U.S. on Netflix, became the subject of much debate earlier this week when Megan Fox, a columnist for the conservative news site Pj Media, accused the film of featuring child pornography in a scene involving two preteen girls.
“Of course this scene was filmed using a trick,” Kaplan said in a statement to IndieWire, adding that he anticipated questions about it and prepared a “Making of” footage of how it was shot.
In the scene, which occurs early in the film, two girls pretend to ride horses using two pillows — and are film in a way that suggests that one is unknowingly masturbating and having her first orgasm. No nudity or explicit sexual act are depicted.
- 6/30/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Director Diego Kaplan has released a statement defending his erotic thriller film “Desire” after a conservative commentator and others online accused it of containing child pornography.
The scene in question involves a young girl unknowingly masturbating for the first time and experiencing an orgasm after watching a John Ford cowboy film with a friend and imitating the horse riding using a pillow.
Kaplan disputed the child pornography categorization and told Indiewire that the filming of the scenes was done “under the careful surveillance of the girls’ mothers” and neither of the girls were aware of what they were depicting.
Conservative commentator Megan Fox had written a blog post on Pj Media saying she had reported Netflix to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “Netflix is in violation of distributing child pornography because the child in question is very clearly engaging in the sexual act of masturbation,” she wrote,...
The scene in question involves a young girl unknowingly masturbating for the first time and experiencing an orgasm after watching a John Ford cowboy film with a friend and imitating the horse riding using a pillow.
Kaplan disputed the child pornography categorization and told Indiewire that the filming of the scenes was done “under the careful surveillance of the girls’ mothers” and neither of the girls were aware of what they were depicting.
Conservative commentator Megan Fox had written a blog post on Pj Media saying she had reported Netflix to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “Netflix is in violation of distributing child pornography because the child in question is very clearly engaging in the sexual act of masturbation,” she wrote,...
- 6/30/2018
- by Erin Nyren
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix is facing backlash from users online over the Argentinian film “Desire,” which opens with a scene involving a young girl accidentally having her first orgasm. The scene is being accused on social media of featuring child pornography, but director Diego Kaplan told IndieWire that’s not the case. The filmmaker said the child actor was never exploited on set and the scene was filmed “under the surveillance” of her mother.
The scene starts with two young girls watching a television program featuring a cowboy riding a horse. One of the girls imitates the cowboy by sitting on her pillow and bouncing up and down. Kaplan uses slow motion, dramatic music, the sound of heavy breathing, and close-ups of the child’s face to show the character unknowingly masturbating. The girl falls off her pillow and her mother runs in to take her to the hospital.
Netflix was criticized in...
The scene starts with two young girls watching a television program featuring a cowboy riding a horse. One of the girls imitates the cowboy by sitting on her pillow and bouncing up and down. Kaplan uses slow motion, dramatic music, the sound of heavy breathing, and close-ups of the child’s face to show the character unknowingly masturbating. The girl falls off her pillow and her mother runs in to take her to the hospital.
Netflix was criticized in...
- 6/30/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
When a stadium-sized artist does a “club show,” they usually play an acoustic-ish set or a scaled-down (i.e. intimate but incomplete) version of their usual headlining concert. Sometimes, they do something special.
For their concert at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater on Monday night — presented by and broadcast on SiriusXM — U2 truly did something special, delivering a unique, carefully curated show, mixing classics and new songs with several deep cuts, including an encore set with the 13-piece Sun Ra Arkestra that featured three rarely played, Harlem-centric songs from their 1988 album “Rattle and Hum.” There were none of the dazzling special effects that have become a hallmark of their big-room shows; just lights, a stage, and one of the greatest live rock bands in history at full throttle, roaring through 20 songs from their nearly 40-year catalog.
The show promised to be a special one even before the band took the stage.
For their concert at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater on Monday night — presented by and broadcast on SiriusXM — U2 truly did something special, delivering a unique, carefully curated show, mixing classics and new songs with several deep cuts, including an encore set with the 13-piece Sun Ra Arkestra that featured three rarely played, Harlem-centric songs from their 1988 album “Rattle and Hum.” There were none of the dazzling special effects that have become a hallmark of their big-room shows; just lights, a stage, and one of the greatest live rock bands in history at full throttle, roaring through 20 songs from their nearly 40-year catalog.
The show promised to be a special one even before the band took the stage.
- 6/12/2018
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
U2’s May 15 opener of its two-night stay at Los Angeles’ Fabulous Forum (the second is tonight) marked just a little under a year since the band sold out two dates at the Rose Bowl on their victory lap “Joshua Tree” tour, which ended up grossing $316 million for just 51 shows. Presumably, those who craved hearing the likes of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” “With or Without You,” “Bullet the Blue Sky” or “Where the Streets Have No Name” got their fill last time, because none of those concert staples is on the current set-list for the band’s new Experience + Innocence tour. This latest trek builds upon the previous 10-city North American outing in which the album titles were reversed.
Like that series of shows, the new indoor-arena concerts once more boast a giant, two-sided Led screen that bifurcates the venue three-quarters of the way from front to back,...
Like that series of shows, the new indoor-arena concerts once more boast a giant, two-sided Led screen that bifurcates the venue three-quarters of the way from front to back,...
- 5/16/2018
- by Roy Trakin
- Variety Film + TV
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