REWIND: 'Let's Do It Again' Trailer

The trailer for the 1975 motion picture Let's Do It Again, starring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Jimmy Walker, John Amos, Calvin Lockhart, Denise Nichols and Ossie Davis.

'Let's Do It Again' was directed by Poitier and written by Timothy March and Richard Wesley. It was released October 11, 1975.

The film's theme song and soundtrack were written and produced by Curtis Mayfield and performed by The Staples Singers. The song "Let's Do It Again" went #1 on both the R&B and Pop charts.

PRADA presents "A THERAPY"

The new Roman Polanski directed advertisement for PRADA.

Starring Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham Carter.

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"The Gangster Squad" Movie Trailer

"The Gangster Squad" is based on Brooklyn mob king Mickey Cohen(played by Sean Penn) who was one of the most dangerous bosses of all time. He controlled all illegal activities, the L.A.P.D. and the politicians in Los Angeles in the 40's and 50's. 

The drama unfolds when a secret squad is organized to take back the city. Directed by Ruben Fleischer.

Coming to theaters soon!

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A Pierre Ballenegger film: New York City in February

Film makers Pierre Ballenegger and Michael Zgraggen shot footage of various locales around New York City - Roosevelt Island, Manhattan and Brooklyn.

They took to the streets of Gotham with a Nikon 7000, edited, synched up the song "Stand Bye"(Eric Lau) and the final product is available for your viewing pleasure... if you would kindly press play above.

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"Battleship" Movie Trailer - In Theaters May 18th

"Battleship" is based on a classic combat video game. Naval ships discover an alien armada while on a war game exercise.  This sci-fi thriller stars Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson and Rihanna as Raikes. Directed by Peter Berg(@peter). Screenplay written by Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber.

The cool special effects (in HD) help intensify the big fight on the powerful ocean which makes this film worth seeing!

Look for "Battleship" in movie theaters on May 18th.

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"The Avengers" Closes Tribeca Film Festival And Premieres in Theaters On May 3rd

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Marvel's highly anticipated movie "The Avengers" closed TFF '12 this weekend in NYC. The action packed film stars comic book characters The Hulk(Mark Ruffalo), Captain America(Chris Evans), Iron Man(Robert Downey Jr.) Thor(Chris Hemsworth), Blackwidow(Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye(Jeremy Renner) and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.

Look for spectacular effects to help tell the story of a team of superheros bought together to form the Avengers. They fight with special individual super powers to save the earth from Loki and his army.

It'll premiere in theaters on Thursday, May 3rd.

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'Big Fun In The Big Town' (DVD Trailer)

In 1986 Dutch filmmaker, journalist and rap fan, Bran Van Splunteren came to New York City for 7 days to create a documentary that would capture the essence of Hip Hop culture and attempt to explain to others why those who participated in Hip-Hop felt compelled to do so - that film would become 'Big Fun In The Big Town'.

After 25 years the footage he and he is camera crew captured is finally available commercially. I'm familiar with the film and have only viewed it in segments.

Big Fun in the Big Town comes to DVD May 22nd 2012.

Nelson George - "All Hail the Beat"

Filmmaker Nelson George(@nelsongeorge) has done it again with "All Hail the Beat!" An incredible short documentary about the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer drum machine, one of the first programmable machines.

The TR-808 was used to produce drum sounds for classic rap, r&b or techno songs(Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" and Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock"). The drum machine's sounds were so popular that even as samplers came into vogue, producers simply sampled the sounds from the unit and worked with them. Those sounds are used to produce beats heard in today's music.

This film was directed by Nelson George, and was part of the Focus Forward series(@FocusFwdFilms) for Tribeca Flim Festival '12.

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Rihanna: Road to "Talk That Talk" (Part 1)

Follow Rihanna on tour as she visits Boston, Los Angeles and Barbados. Also go behind the scenes to catch a glimpse(and I do mean glimpse) of the song selection process that allowed "Talk That Talk" to become a single.

Nuyorican Cafe presents "Aja Monet - What I've Learned"

A Camovement by Cam Be and Aja Monet

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"High School" Movie Trailer

"High School" is a comedy about a high school valedictorian and his best friend who uses drugs just days before the principle decides to impose a mandatory drug test.

Their problem escalates when they steal drugs from a local pot head(play by Adrien Brody) to get the entire student body high on brownies laced with marijuana.  In hope of everyone failing the drug test.

"High School" will hit movie theaters on June 1st.

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"Sparkle" Trailer

REWIND: Marvin Gaye Rehearsing "Come Get To This"

A clip from the 1981 documentary "Transit Ostend" aka "Remember Marvin Gaye".

The Richard Olivier directed film centers on his time living in Ostend, Belgium.

Today, April 1st is the annivesary of his death and tomorrow would have been his birthday. 

"Bigger Than Life" (Full Documentary)

The Notorious B.I.G. documentary.

John Legend Featuring Ludacris - "Tonight(Best You Ever Had)"

The John Legend "Tonight(Best You Ever Had)" video featuring Ludacris, with footage from the  "Think Like A Man" movie (starring Taraji P. Henson and Michael Ealy).

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