Entertainment

Summer Movies is your guide to 30 sun-drenched classics that—through beach parties, road trips, outdoor sports, summer camp, or some intangible mood that brings the heat—manage to keep summer alive year-round. Packed with production details, stories from the set, and more than 150 photos, the book takes an in-depth look at films from the silent era to the present that reflect the full range of how summer has been depicted on screen, both by Hollywood and by international filmmakers.

Cherry Red is to release Pop Don’t Stop: Greatest Hits, a new Kim Wilde box set that includes five CDs and two DVDs. Kim Wilde needs no introduction, having registered a staggering 30 hits on the UK charts since 1981, and selling over 30 million records globally. The Cherry Pop label is dedicated to interesting poptastic catalogue releases from records that originally came out in the 1980’s & 90’s.

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal takes a page from his Samurai Jack series where long stretches where language is non-existent. Primal goes further you will not find any dialogue. Tartakovsky has captured the universality of human genesis as a whole. Primal is fast-paced where one species is on the rise when one is about to exit from existence. This is not the Flintstones. The first season is now available on DVD/Blu-Ray. Primal is one series you do not want to miss. The friendship of a caveman and a dinosaur is tested as the world is thrown at them. Will they survive?

Follow the trail – find the killer! Get ready to test your investigation skills with TNT’s award-winning psychological thriller as Warner Bros Home Entertainment brings more plot twists and shocking turns with the release of The Alienist: Angel of Darkness. Uncover the secrets and go on an edge-of-your-seat journey with all 8 episodes from the second season, plus enjoy the captivating extra features including a season 1 recap, behind-the-scenes featurettes, a set tour, and series overview!

Relive an iconic cinematic moment from Jaws! The vinyl figure is approximately 6.15-inches tall and 8-inches long. The killer display piece depicts Quint being eaten by the shark aboard the Orca, and it comes with a watery base to complete the moment!

The 70s belonged to Led Zeppelin. They were the biggest band in the world. They were bigger than the Beatles. With that fame the bootleg industry gave rise to unique and illegal recordings of the band. Photographer, Ross Halfin, started collecting these rare pressings of Led Zeppelin albums when he chanced seeing a unique Led Zeppelin album at the original Virgin Records shop in 1971, called “Live on Blueberry Hill.”

Saskadelphia (Universal Music Canada/UMe) is made up of six previously unreleased tracks written in 1990. Five recorded in that same year during the Road Apples sessions in New Orleans, and one live track, “Montreal (Live from The Molson Centre, Montreal, 7 Dec 2000),” written at the same time, but for which the original recording is yet to be found.

May 4th has become Black Friday for Star Wars fans. You can buy any under the two suns of Tatooine from grills to the latest gadgets. May the Fourth be with you!

Ian Gillan, at 75 years old, has sung Smoke on the Water since 1972. Whether with Deep Purple, the Ian Gillan Band, and Black Sabbath. He has sung the encore song in the range of 2,500 times for 50 years. I guess Ozzy Osbourne would be in the same dilemma by singing Paranoid.

1975 was the peak year for Black Sabbath. Five years in and another four till Ozzy derailed. Sabotage was a strange album with some classic hits but at the same time, the band was going musically in different directions. They were starting to lose their identity. Personally, riff wise I love this album. My favorite song is Symptom of the Universe. It has so many guitar sounds that explore different experimental tunes.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned if your name is Jocelyn Susan Bundy. She is suing Nirvana LLC, Live Nation Merchandise LLC and its Merch Traffic LLC unit, along with Silva Artist Management LLC, saying NIRVANA had been using her grandfather C.W. Scott-Giles drawing since 1997 on shirts, mugs, vinyl records, and other merchandise sold at stores including Walmart, H&M and Hot Topic.

The sought-after toy, invented by TeeTurtle CEO, Ramy Badie, is a plushie octopus that can flip from being happy one moment to sad the next. Demand for the Reversible Octopus Plushie exploded in 2020 after it was featured in several TikTok videos that went viral. Since then, kids and adults alike have wanted to get their hands on the plushie, making it the #1 Best Selling Toy and Game on Amazon.com for virtually all of 2021.