Music

You know you must be having a surreal night when you pass by Frank Sinatra and don’t even notice the presence of the legend. But that’s exactly what happened to singer B.

Janelle Monáe headlines Season Two of the Amazon series Homecoming, directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez and featuring a different storyline from that of season one, which was directed by Sam Esmail and starred Julia Roberts, who continues to serve as executive producer.   Steven James and Hong Chau return, while Chris Cooper and Joan Cusack are added to the cast.

When she was a little girl, Germaine Franco played piano and drums.   Decades later she became the first Latina composer to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science music branch.

The music documentary, as a genre, never went away. But in the past few years, we have seen a resurgence with major plans for the future.

On October 19t the annual Hollywood in Vienna gala honored film composer Hans Zimmer with the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award. Zimmer has scored more than 150 films including Dunkirk, Driving Miss Daisy, The Dark Knight, The Lion King, Gladiator, The Thin Red Line, Rain Man, Inception and Thelma and Louise.

Golden Globe winner Bryan Cranston will soon be seen in the drama-comedy The Upside in which opera plays a pivotal part.  They say that music is the language of the soul and acting is telling the truth.

Three-time Golden Globe nominee Kelly MacDonald started her acting career with the iconic Trainspotting in 1997 and next December she will be seen in Etan Cohen's solo debut as a director in the action-mystery comedy Holmes and Watson. We met the brilliant Scottish actress for her starring role in the drama Puzzle and we asked her if she is inspired by music when she prepares for a part.

Golden Globe winner for her amazing performance as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With it Angela Bassett is very much in love with music as a universal language: “We can be from different parts of the world and just hear a strain of music and it can make us both weep” , she told us as we met for her role in TV series 9-1-1 We agreed that it might very well be the language of the soul and when I asked her how much it intersect with her love for acting, she said: “I have used it often, doing a play or a particular character I'll listen to certain songs or instrumentals and they really hit my spirit or soul and they just take you there emotionally.   Music is able to do that in a way sometimes just the straight word on the page might not be able to, but it compliments it.

When we recently met Golden Globe winner Toni Collette for the release of two of her movies, Hereditary and Hearts Beat Loud, we made sure that she knew how much we loved her singing voice when she performs a sweet karaoke in Hearts. “Thank you.

Director Jean-Marc Vallee is famous for his use of music on the set to prepare the crew and actors to shoot the scenes. As we met for his new HBO series Sharp Objects we asked the talented Canadian filmmakers how important is music when he prepares for a movie.