Second Listen Sunday: Dru Hill, InDruPendence Day
Following the lukewarm response to Sisqo’s second album in 2001, Dru Hill returned with a new member Scola in 2002 for the vastly underpromoted Dru World Order. The group would spend the next eight years touring and eventually add new member Tao for its fourth album InDRUpendence Day this week’s Second Listen Sunday pick.
Slow Jam Saturday: Delegation, Oh Honey
One of the best things about growing up in the nineties was experiencing the joy of a Bad Boy remix. The label’s female R&B trio Total was enjoying the success of their song “Kissing You” when Puff dropped the remix in the late fall of 1995. The remix h carried the subtitle Oh Honey and was smoother than the original version.
Michelle Monaghan saves Blood from the doldrums
Director Brad Anderson teams up with writer Will Honley for his latest thriller, Blood from Vertical Entertainment. Jess (Michelle Monaghan), a nurse and mother recently separated from her husband Patrick (Skeet Ulrich), moves her daughter Tyler (Skylar Morgan Jones) and young son Owen (Finlay Wojtak-Hissong) back into her family farmhouse.
Maybe I Do is a charming romantic comedy
Television writer and Oscar nominee Michael Jacobs brings together a quadrant of Hollywood veterans for his directorial debut Maybe I Do from Vertical Pictures.
Second Listen Sunday: Jason Weaver, Love Ambition
Actors releasing musical albums has been a norm for as long as I can remember. While many like Jamie Foxx find success, others (who shall remain nameless) aren’t so lucky. One such talent was Jason Weave, who released his debut in 1994 on Motown records.
Slow Jam Saturday: El DeBarge feat. Babyface, Where Is My Love
El Debarge broke into the music scene as a member of one of the eighties’ best family groups at the Motown label. When El left the group in 1986 for a solo career, industry insiders expected El to succeed tremendously. Motown didn’t allow El to write or produce anything on his first album. Thus the album didn’t cross over to the pop charts or connect with R & B audiences.
Sarah Polley delivers another winner in Women Talking
Sarah Polley continues to make a name for herself as a director with her latest film, Women Talking. The film adapts Miriam Toews’s 2018 novel of the same name, which tells the true story of an insular, ultraconservative Mennonite community in Bolivia.
That 90’s Show is a hit and miss sequel
The beloved nineties sitcom That 70s Show receives a sequel series from Netflix in That 90’s Show. The series is the brainchild of original series creators Bonnie and Terry Turner, who bring along their daughter Lindsey Turner while another alum Gregg Mettler serves as showrunner.
Missing is a crowd pleasing popcorn thriller
On the heels of the successful Searching and Run, creatives Sev Ohanian and Aneesh Chaganty continue in the suspense genre with Missing from Sony Pictures Releasing.
Second Listen Sunday : Soul For Real, For Life
Sixteen months after breaking into the music industry on the monster hits “Every Little Thing I Do” and “Canny Rain” from their debut album, the Dalyrimple brothers, a.k.a. Soul for Real, returned with their second album, For Life.
Slow Jam Saturday: Whitney Houston, Far Enough
While the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody continues to divide
audiences (I enjoyed it), I wanted to highlight the "Voice" for this week's Slow Jam Saturday. During the film, there's a scene where Bobby Brown is preparing to propose to Whitney, and a mellow R&B track plays in the background.
Rose Blood is superior Friday The 13th fan film
Friday The 13th superfan Peter Anthony makes his directorial debut in Rose Blood: A Friday the 13th Fan film. It wasn’t until I saw Jeremy Brown’s Vengeance A Friday The 13th Fan Film a few years ago that I started taking fan films seriously.