Gabriel Sasson

Metallica New Album 2016: News and Latest Updates Around Metallica's Next Record

Heavy metal band Metallica has a new album in the works, and it will arrive "in 2016, and at the very worst, at the beginning of 2017," guitarist …

Muse Ascend to the Next Level of Concert Theater

But here is the conundrum: While I believe this is a show best seen with fresh eyes, I also want to gush about it. So I’m going to do that. You’ve …

This is what Muse's stage for their 2016 Drones tour will look like

<b>Muse's forthcoming 2016 world tour will include a swarm of drones and a stage "like a double-headed arrow," the band's creative team have …

PHOTO GALLERY: The Madness of Muse

A lone figure stood illuminated in a pillar of dim blue light. With his features hidden in the shadows, he whipped out a harmonica and begun blowing …

'Furious 8' Has Officially Found Its Director (And It's Not Vin Diesel)

Turn the key, start your engines and hit the gas: "Furious 8" has officially found its director in "Straight Outta Compton" helmer F. Gary Gray.<p>After …

Iron Maiden add dates to 2016 world tour

Iron Maiden have added a string of South American dates and a show in the Netherlands to their 2016 world tour.<p>The metal giants hit the road next …

Watch Metallica Deliver Blistering 'Harvester of Sorrow' in Live Clip

Intimate video features metal legends rehearsing and meeting fans before concert at Quebec City's new Videotron Centre<p>Metallica grant fans an …

Zombies on a Plane? Watch AMC's Terrifying Web Companion to 'Fear The Walking Dead'

Getting the James Bond Song Right

This past Friday, the twenty-three-year-old British singer Sam Smith, noting that he had been “dreaming of this moment for a long, long time,” released the song “Writing’s on the Wall,” which will play over the opening credits of the new James Bond movie, “Spectre,” due in November. Smith seems to …

“The Walk” Falls Short of Artistry

Robert Zemeckis’s “The Walk” is a film of extreme self-consciousness, a movie that sets out the terms of its own ambitions and the criteria for its own success. Philippe Petit, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, appears intermittently throughout the film perched on the torch of the Statue of Liberty, …

The Video Store as Film School

The first sentence of Tom Roston’s introduction to his engaging new book, “I Lost It At the Video Store: A Filmmakers’ Oral History of a Vanished Era,” reveals much about the story that he tells: “Jean-Luc Godard’s <i>Contempt</i> flickered from the television that hung from the ceiling.” The book starts …