Elvis

The Gate (1987) Original Trailer There are a lot of movies about demons being accidentally unleashed upon our world, but only 1987's The Gate also features the following: young teen protagonists (one is played by Stephen Dorff, in his feature debut), nightmarish premonitions, a backyard pit that coughs up a cursed geode, evil incantations, heavy metal lyrics, Biblical verses, ghostly construction workers, human sacrifices, and adventures in babysitting. Watch on Tubi. The Gate (1987) Original Trailer There are a lot of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAustin Butler has revealed that it took the help of a dialect coach for him to stop sounding like Elvis Presley.Before the 32-year-old landed his leading role as Major Gale in Apple TV+’s newest World War II minidrama Masters of the Air, he starred as Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 Oscar-nominated musical biopic, Elvis. During a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,…

Every year for more than two decades, Elvis Presley tribute acts have gathered at the European Elvis Championships competing to become that year’s king of rock’n’roll.But at this year’s event in Birmingham there was one particular Elvis on everyone’s lips – hologram Elvis, set to make his debut in an “immersive concert experience” in London in November.For all the Presley mega-fans in the room, this week’s announcement had caused a loud buzz, and there was little concern that a lifesize digital recreation of the man…

Elvis Presley is set to return to the stage — as a hologram. Elvis Evolution, an “immersive concert experience” that uses AI and holographic projection, will premiere in London in November. Additional shows are planned in Las Vegas, Tokyo and Berlin. The show was created based on thousands of the musician’s personal photos and home-video footage, which were part of a deal between Authentic Brands Group, the owners of the Elvis Presley estate, and Layered Reality, a British immersive entertainment company. Layered…

While some believe that the king of rock’n’roll may celebrate his 89th birthday next week propping up the bar of the Heartbreak Hotel, the rest of us will have to make do with an Elvis Presley hologram show in 2024.Elvis Evolution, an “immersive concert experience” using AI and holographic projection, will premiere in London in November, with shows also planned in Las Vegas, Tokyo and Berlin.The technology will create a lifesize digital Elvis from thousands of his personal photos and home-video footage. The hologram will…

The realm of music royalty has a new queen, and her name is Taylor Swift. The chart-topping singer, at 34 years old, has just eclipsed a record held by the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll himself, Elvis Presley, securing the title for the solo artist with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. With the release of her latest album “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” Swift notched her 68th week atop the Billboard 200, edging past Presley’s 67 weeks at No. 1 across his 10 albums from 1956 to 2002, as confirmed by…

There are few directors as gifted as Sofia Coppola when it comes to capturing that very specific view of a world glimpsed through the bars of a gilded cage. First with the five-star hotel ennui of Lost in Translation (2003), then the ribbon-bedecked prison of privilege in Marie Antoinette (2006), and now the dark side of a fairytale in Priscilla. Coppola evokes the aching loneliness and isolation experienced by women who simultaneously have everything and nothing.In this case the woman is a girl. Priscilla Beaulieu – a…

It’s hard to imagine two films more different than Elvis and Priscilla. The former, directed by Baz Luhrmann and released in 2022, charts the rise and fall of Elvis Presley on an operatic scale, zeroing in on his complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and presenting him as little less than pop’s greatest martyr. The latter, written and directed by Sofia Coppola, based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir and released in the UK this week, is dreamy and intimate, focusing on the life of Priscilla as it related…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePriscilla, Sofia Coppola’s telling of the courtship of the 14-year-old Priscilla Presley née Beaulieu by the 24-year-old Elvis, will make uncomfortable viewing for fans of The King. It shows him in a far from flattering light, as an insecure narcissist fixated on a teenage girl and unwilling to allow his young wife any independence. The film, endorsed by Presley herself and adapted…

I’m Just A Lucky So And So – that’s a lyric Mack David wrote in 1945 for Duke Ellington, the same Mack David who co-wrote Baby It’s You with Burt Bacharach, a song I first heard performed by the Beatles.Yet despite these links back to its very beginnings, Burt Bacharach isn’t part of the dull orthodoxy of rock music. When a dogmatic journalist faulted his absence from the rock’n’roll revolution in the 1950s, Bacharach responded, “I was studying with the French modernist composer Darius Milhaud and listening to Dizzy…