As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM (2015)?

Title: As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM
Rating: NR
Directed by: Kevin Kerslake
Written by: Kevin Kerslake
Starring: DJ AM, A-Trak and Niko Achtipes
Release Date: 4/2015
Running Time: 109 minutes

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Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM, was a man with deep passions and aggressive demons. As I AM is an insider’s look into the life of the late, great mash-up pioneer: his professional success that made him the first million-dollar DJ in the United States and his incredibly complex personal life that was lived under the specter of drug addiction.

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High Strung (2016)*

Title: High Strung
Rating: PG
Directed by: Michael Damian
Written by: Janeen Damian and Michael Damian
Starring: Keenan Kampa, Nicholas Galitzine and Jane Seymour
Release Date: 4/8/2016
Running Time: 96 minutes

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In a city where only the best succeed, two radically talented people from opposite sides of the tracks need to find harmony to achieve their dreams.

Ruby Adams is a dancer from the Midwest on scholarship, living her first day in New York City. Johnnie Blackwell is a British musician, playing for money in the subway tunnels. Ruby’s world is classical and disciplined; Johnnie’s is improvisational and street smart. When a hip-hop battle gone wrong throws these two artists together, they immediately clash but can’t deny it when sparks begin to fly. Their lives quickly get entangled in the pitfalls that come with competing in New York City. With the help of a dynamic dance crew called The SwitchSteps, Ruby and Johnnie must find a way to save Ruby’s scholarship and keep Johnnie from being deported.

In an action-packed extravaganza combining cutting edge hip-hop with contemporary and classical dance, the two must navigate their opposing worlds and prepare for a competition where winning or losing will change their lives forever.

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Johnnie, Ruby, and The SwitchSteps dance in a park with some young kids.

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Dedication: For our mother, Coco.

Special thanks to Frank S. for this submission

One More Time (2015)*

Title: One More Time
Rating: NR
Directed by: Robert Edwards
Written by: Robert Edwards
Starring: Christopher Walken, Amber Heard and Kelli Garner
Release Date: 4/8/2016
Running Time: 98 minutes

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An aspiring rocker is forced to move in with her father, a famous singer attempting a comeback, tensions rise, but their lives change forever.

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We see album covers from Paul Lombard’s career, and we also see Jude’s album cover with her punk band Pussy Fart (album title: While My Guitar Gently Queefs).

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Dedication: For Eloise

Special thanks to Frank S. for this submission

Miles Ahead (2015)

Title: Miles Ahead
Rating: R
Directed by: Don Cheadle
Written by: Steven Baigelman, Don Cheadle, Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson
Starring: Don Cheadle, Emayatzy Corinealdi and Ewan McGregor
Release Date: 4/1/2016
Running Time: 100 minutes

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An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

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Note: The final concert scene continues to play as the credits scroll.

Dedication: Miles Davis May 26, 1926 –

I Saw the Light (2015)

Title: I Saw the Light
Rating: R
Directed by: Marc Abraham
Written by: Marc Abraham
Based on the book by: Colin Escott, George Merritt and William MacEwen
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen and Maddie Hasson
Release Date: 3/25/2016
Running Time: 123 minutes

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I SAW THE LIGHT tells the story of the iconic, tormented singer-songwriter Hank Williams who revolutionized country music with his raw charisma, haunting voice and original songs, most of which are considered American standards today and have been recorded many times over by pop, rock and country artists alike.

Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston) emerged from the local Alabama music scene after World War II. Wife Audrey (Elizabeth Olsen) was desperate to sing by his side despite being of lesser talent, which fueled an extremely turbulent home life. But Williams’ ability to write songs covering a wide range of emotions, using his own personal troubles as inspiration, became the essence of country music. In the end, he realized his dreams: hit records, a place on Nashville’s prestigious stage and radio show the Grand Ole Opry and even guest spots on the then-new medium of TV.

Refusing to hide his longtime alcoholism and dependency on painkillers behind the wholesome facade Nashville and the Opry expect of its stars, Hank remained prolific and immensely popular until the very end of his life. Like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, Hank’s star burned brightly, but briefly over the six years before he died on New Year’s Day of 1953. He was 29.

Today, country is the most popular music in America, and Hank Williams had much to do with that. His enduring qualities explain his inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame (1961), the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1970) and the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame (1987). Williams had 33 hit country singles during his life. 30 reached the Top Ten; eight hit Number One. Seven more Top Tens came after his death with three going to Number One.

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Born to Be Blue (2015)

Title: Born to Be Blue
Rating: R
Directed by: Robert Budreau
Written by: Robert Budreau
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo and Callum Keith Rennie
Release Date: 3/25/2016
Running Time: 97 minutes

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Ethan Hawke lights up the screen as jazz legend Chet Baker, whose tumultuous life is thrillingly reimagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool. By the 1960s, he was all but washed up, his career and personal life in shambles due to years of heroin addiction. In his innovative anti-biopic, director Robert Budreau zeroes in on Baker’s life at a key moment in the 1960s, just as the musician attempts to stage a hard-fought comeback, spurred in part by a passionate romance with a new flame (Carmen Ejogo). Creatively blending fact with fiction and driven by Hawke’s virtuoso performance, Born to Be Blue unfolds with all the stylistic brio and improvisatory genius of great jazz.

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Of Mind and Music (2014)?

<br /> Title: Of Mind and Music (aka. Una Vida: A Fable of Music and the Mind)
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Richie Adams
Written by: Richie Adams and Nicolas Bazan
Starring: Joaquim de Almeida, Aunjanue Ellis and Bill Cobbs
Release Date: 2014
Running Time: 98 minutes

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A story about a beautiful street musician suffering from memory loss and a disheartened neuroscientist intent on helping her, bringing together the city of New Orleans and the jazz that made it famous.

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Tumbledown (2015)

Title: Tumbledown
Rating: NR
Directed by: Sean Mewshaw
Written by: Sean Mewshaw, Desiree Van Til and Desi van Til
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Jason Sudeikis and Blythe Danner
Release Date: 2/5/2016
Running Time: 105 minutes

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Pop culture scholar Andrew (Jason Sudeikis) comes to Maine to interview Hannah (Rebecca Hall), the protective widow of an acclaimed singer. When the unlikely pair strike a deal to co-write a biography, Andrew finds himself clashing with a cast of locals, including Hannah’s hunky suitor (Joe Manganiello), and her loving but defensive parents (Blythe Danner, Richard Masur). When Hannah and Andrew’s stormy partnership blossoms into an unexpected connection, they face the possibility that the next chapter in their lives may involve each other. Dianna Agron and Griffin Dunne costar in this startlingly funny and sweetly romantic tale of moving on and finding love in the unlikeliest of places.

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Dedication: For Nina B. & Gary W.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)*

Title: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Rating: PG
Directed by: Walt Becker
Written by: Randi Mayem Singer and Adam Sztykiel
Based on characters created by: Ross Bagdasarian and Janice Karman
Starring: Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Kaley Cuoco, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate and Bella Thorne
Release Date: 12/18/2015
Running Time: 86 minutes

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Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami…and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal, saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible stepbrother.

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Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)?

Title: Janis: Little Girl Blue
Rating: NR
Directed by: Amy Berg
Starring: Janis Joplin and Cat Power
Release Date: 11/27/2015
Running Time: 103 minutes

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Musician Cat Power narrates this documentary on Janis Joplin’s evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.

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Tag: Music

As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM (2015)?

High Strung (2016)*

One More Time (2015)*

Miles Ahead (2015)

I Saw the Light (2015)

Born to Be Blue (2015)

Of Mind and Music (2014)?

Tumbledown (2015)

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)*

Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)?

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