The first major video-streaming site, YouTube, debuted in 2005. Netflix arrived two years later. These streaming services and their competitors were preceded by cable television. The pay alternative ...
"Love Me Tender." "Hound Dog." "Suspicious Minds." Those are some of the songs tribute artists typically perform during Elvis Week. But "Ito Eats"? The song from the 1961 movie "Blue Hawaii" that ...
A singer (Elvis) joins a traveling carnival run by Barbara Stanwyck after getting into a fight and fleeing town. His smooth voice has an immediate effect on the previously insolvent touring act, which ...
The legacy of Elvis Presley endures nearly 50 years after his passing, as the continuing celebration of his music, films and larger-than-life persona proves. His influence has transcended generations, ...
For some of us, there’s no such thing as too much Elvis; for others, two Elvises within two years are two Elvises too many. Yet it’s surprising that it has taken until the first quarter of the 21 st ...
Luhrmann’s Elvis was a masterpiece to some and a bland piece of pop filmmaking to others. Regardless, it was definitely an exploration of Elvis the icon. It showed up his rise and fall (and subsequent ...
Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...
Elvis Presley’s bodyguard said viewers of one film should be able to see evidence of the fact that the singer was using drugs. He acted in multiple movies over the course of his career and reportedly ...
Last year, Baz Luhrmann's glitzy biopic "Elvis" told the rollicking if tragic story of the Memphis icon, earning the film's star Austin Butler an Oscar best actor nomination in the process. "Priscilla ...
Referred to in The Commercial Appeal in October 1954 as "our homegrown hillbilly singer," Elvis Presley, recording artist, was first acknowledged in his hometown newspapers a few months earlier, in a ...