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Simon Cowell developing ‘The Fifth Beatle’ movie on Brian Epstein

John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Brian? Beatles fans will forever debate who the Fifth Beatle was. Some will argue it was George Martin, who was responsible for so many of the sonic flourishes and orchestrations on all The Beatles albums. Pete Best was originally the band’s drummer before being kicked out for Ringo (good call). …

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The Sounds of Revolution: Godard’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ and ‘British Sounds’

There was something in the air when Jean-Luc Godard took up the political banner of the late 1960s and shifted his filmmaking focus in terms of storytelling style and stories told, and in a general sense of formal reevaluation and reinvention.

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Ron Howard directing sanctioned Beatles documentary

Deadline reported Wednesday that Ron Howard, director of Rush, A Beautiful Mind and The DaVinci Code, will helm a documentary on the early years of The Beatles. The film will focus on the years of 1960 to 1966, taking viewers through their formative days playing skiffle and at The Cavern Club in Liverpool all the …

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‘The Jungle Book’ and Racism in Disney’s Animated Features

The release of The Jungle Book on Blu-ray today has become, as when Saving Mr. Banks was unveiled a couple months ago, an unplanned forum on a most thorny issue for the Disney uber-fan: was Walt Disney a racist/sexist/anti-Semite, and if so, was he a super-racist/sexist/anti-Semite, or just your average, garden-variety racist/sexist/anti-Semite? Even though the …

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