The Commitments News

Nearly 20 years before "Glee," a group of Irish kids made beautiful music together in Alan Parker's 1991 movie "The Commitments" , in which soul music is favored over show tunes.

ON Monday December 7 at the Playhouse Cinema, Louth Film Club will be showing its annual pre-Christmas feelgood movie, the romantic drama Once.

A LOCAL signing sensation has hit the right notes in national competition to win a dream recording contract.

Set in the 1960s, the film is a comic ensemble tale about a time when rock 'n' roll was strictly rationed by BBC radio and "pirate" stations were set up offshore to broadcast music by the Stones, The Who, the Kinks, Jimi Hendrix and more to the delight of Brits of all sizes, shapes, races and social classes.

Finance has closed and pre-production begun on I Was Bono's Doppelgnger, Nick Hamm's Irish comedy based on Neil McCormick's autobiography.

Dethklok is the improbably successful collision of "Beavis and Butt-head'' and "The Commitments.'' The metal band from the cartoon series "Metalocalypse'' takes the headbanging stereotype to a comical extreme, though in a heroic direction.

If the real-life Rock and Roll Hall of Fame built a wing for fictional musicians, it would no doubt include exhibits on The Commitments, the rag-tag soul ensemble who star in Roddy Doyle's novel of the same name; Beatles knockoffs The Paranoids, from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49; Des Howell, the Brian Wilson-esque protagonist of Paul ...

I t's difficult to imagine a film more fleeting than "Fame," a remake of the 1980 picture about teens at a competitive performing arts high school in New York City.

A FEATURE film being shot in the area is appealing for extras to appear in its climactic final scene.

The Best of San Francisco Stage, Film, Fashion, Dining, Travel, Business, Philanthropy, and Governance - Challah Is Taken Sunday 13th of September 2009

THE worlda s largest gathering of Volkswagen campervan enthusiasts is back in Malvern for what promises to be another fun-filled weekend.

Chariots of Fire The City of Lost Children The Commitments Control Cocktail City of Angels Casino A Clockwork Orange Chocolat TOPICS: Music/Entertainment ; TV/Movies KEYWORDS: Honorable Mentions The Cider House Rules Cold Mountain Conan The Barbarian Carousel Crash Carmen Jones Cinema Paradiso Chasing Liberty Chinatown The Crow Crash Children of ...

Merced City Council's approval seems likely; we need the jobs, we must get this right.

Woodhouse resident and YEP columnist Oliver Cross talks brass bands and Woodhouse Festival 2010.

The Script have certainly enjoyed a glamorous summer: after warming up the crowd for Paul McCartney at Citi Field in New York and popping up on MTV, the Today show and Jimmy Kimmel, they jetted back to Dublin to greet U2's early arriving fans at Croke Park.

Woodhouse resident and YEP columnist Oliver Cross talks brass bands and Woodhouse Festival 2010.

Contrary to the poor marketing for the movie, Bandslam , it's actually rather good.

A native of the city of Paisley, Scotland , Paolo Nutini was still a teenager when he released his first album These Streets in 2006.

Bandslam, Summit Entertainment's High School Musical / Camp Rock clone, is a movie about music and high school and guilt and fitting in.

Tourist Jackie Oa TMMahony, visiting Nashville from Ireland, views a giant portrait of Hank Williams at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Monday.