Ghostbusters: Afterlife might not have been in the same league as the originals, but after the disappointment of Paul Feig’s well-intentioned but ultimately disastrous female-driven reboot, Ghostbusters: Afterlife came as a major relief to fans of the franchise. Accompanying the film was a soundtrack comprising of composer Rob Simonsen’s score, together with a selection of…
Some bands are just iconic. They define an era and their music is impossible to forget. Tommy James and the Shondells are one of those bands. With hits like “Crimson and Clover,” “Crystal Blue Persuasion,” and “Mony Mony,” they have cemented their place in history as one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands of…
‘She’s All That’ is a 1999 teen romantic comedy film that R. Lee Fleming Jr. wrote and Robert Iscove directed. It stars Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, and Paul Walker. The film’s storyline is based on both George Cukor’s 1964 film ‘My Fair Lady’ and the George Bernard Shaw play ‘Pygmalion.’ It…
Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, and Ernie Hudson. It follows the Ghostbusters, a team of parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City….
To surrender means calling a truce with someone you were at loggerheads with or something bugging your mind. In other cases, it could mean you love someone or something deeply, and that surrendering is the only way to portray your expression. Either way, we’ve all had moments where we surrender to ease the burden off…
The film Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American hood drama film directed by John Singleton and written by Singleton. The film stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long and Regina King. The film follows three young men in South Central Los Angeles, one of the most notorious neighborhoods…
Jackie Brown might be one of Quentin Tarantino’s most underappreciated films, but there’s no denying its brilliance. Starring Pam Grier and Samuel L Jackson, the film plays tribute to 1970s blaxploitation movies like Foxy Brown and Coffy, both of which Grier starred in. As you’d expect from Tarantino, the soundtrack is as thrilling as the…
Wale was born Olubowale Victor Akintimehin on September 21, 1984, in Washington D.C. His parents divorced when he was three, and his mother, an Ethiopian immigrant, raised him. Wale’s musical career began to take off in 2006 when he was featured on Mian Street Journal, a local hip-hop blog. He released his first mixtape, Paint…
Any film that takes its name from a song by The Replacements is almost guaranteed to have an awesome soundtrack, and Can’t Hardly Wait certainly doesn’t disappoint on that score. Even if you haven’t seen the film (although if you haven’t, it’s worth doing, for no other reason than name-checking all the ‘before they were…