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18-03-2025
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'Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)': How Sly Stone impacted artists Questlove, D'Angelo, Chaka Khan
Directed by Questlove, featuring artists like D'Angelo, Chaka Khan and Andre 3000, the documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), now on Disney+ in Canada, tells the story of the musical legend Sly Stone. Following the Oscar-winning film Summer of Soul, Questlove reunited with producer Joseph Patel for this exploration of Stone's life and career, navigating success as a Black artist in the U.S., and Stone's impact on future generations of musicians. "We're of similar age, we have very different backgrounds in terms of our upbringing, but we are hip-hop kids who knelt down on the dirty floor of a dusty record shop looking for records," Patel told Yahoo Canada about what makes his collaboration with Questlove so effective. "And in a lot of ways, I think this kind of filmmaking is similar to that. It's the same mentality." Patel added that what's also appealing about Questlove's approach to filmmaking is that, even with all his success, "he is still a music fan." "I met him in 1996 writing my first cover story for Rap Pages magazine on The Roots. ... I flew out to Philadelphia to interview him, ... and I had never met anyone like him," Patel shared. "He was Questlove of The Roots, but also, he was a music fan, and he nerded out over record reviews and magazines the same way me and my friends did." "He's not a gatekeeper, when he learns something he wants to share that story with people. And I think that part of him has always been there, and I think it's the thing that really bonds us together." Everyday People, Family know the music, it's time to meet the man. Directed by #QuestLove, SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) comes to #DisneyPlusCA February 13. — Disney+ Canada 🇨🇦 (@DisneyPlusCA) February 13, 2025 As Patel's fellow producer, Derik Murray, highlighted, the impact of having Questlove, a music icon in his own right, lead the stars through the interviews for this film created a place of trust for them to not just open up about Stone, but their own lives. "He brought comfort and trust," Murray told Yahoo Canada. "When he sat down with these folks, he wasn't stepping into that world a stranger, and ... he's being very honest about his own trials and tribulations with fame and success, and he is ... a genius in his own right." "We spent a lot of time trying to figure out who to talk to, but we wanted them to be proxies for Sly," Patel said in a separate interview. "D'Angelo was hard. Even though him and Amir are really tight and have a lot of history, it took a year to get D'Angelo to sit on camera for us." "We started talking about Sly, but he's really talking about himself, and those are, to me, my favourite parts of the movie. Those are the ones where you see the connection between Sly and these artists that he's ... influenced, but also who have sort of taken on the contours of his own experiences." Sly Lives! begins with one impactful question, "What is Black genius?" Stated very clearly and directly, it's the question that we go on the journey of answering throughout the film. "The movie opens with this montage of people contemplating the question, 'What is Black genius?' And the editing sleight of hand is that they're really struggling with the question, and ostensibly, the story of Sly is the answer to that question," Patel explained. "Here's an example of Black genius." "But really they all answered that question, to some degree. It was not an unfamiliar question for them. ... I think Questlove asking that question would have solicited a different response." But with any documentary, there's an element of wanting to serve the people who may know nothing about its subject, and those who are particularly informed. "I want to find the sweet spot right between people who know a lot and people who are coming to it fresh, and you want to draw them in," Patel said. "I think one of the things we learned in making Summer of Soul is that sometimes you have to kill your darlings in service of the bigger idea, and we approached Sly very similarly." "Even for those obsessives, there's stuff in this film that they have never seen or heard before. Sony gave us access to the vaults where we got to hear "Stan" take one. And "Everyday People" take one. ... But for everybody else, we wanted to give them the story, 'Oh you recognize these hits, here's the story of the ... person behind those hits.'" As time progresses in the documentary, we get to understand the pressures Sly Stone as a pioneering successful Civil Rights Era Black artist, tasked with navigating the anxieties of his career. In an interesting portion of the film, we get to the superstar's drug use and eventual time in rehab, but as we see the archival footage of Stone talking about his drug addiction and going to rehab, he doesn't have the vocabulary to talk about his trauma, or the understanding of generational trauma. "We wanted to show how he was struggling to describe, really, what therapy was," Patel said. "He's facing the sort of the double whammy of being part of the late '60s hippie generation, but also being Black. And so in the conservative Reagan '80s, he's a prime target for for people to take joy in his downfall." "And we were very careful, we didn't want to rob Sly of his agency. He made these choices. The last bite of the film, ... this interview he does with Maria Shriver that we use as a through line through the movie, he says, 'We get everything we deserve'. ... So he understands that he made these choices. ... We didn't want to get lost in the drug stories. We wanted to really spend time in the context around those stories and really how they were portrayed." "He's a trailblazer, there's no road map for him to follow," Murray added in a separate interview. "I think from that standpoint, I think he felt trapped within his role as this Black artist, as this superstar." "That's the beautiful part about the archive in this film, is we really get to hear from Sly firsthand, this journey that he was on, and I think that's what allows us to really start to feel like we're understanding what the stresses are, what the complications are, and we're seeing this incredible, epic success complicated by the factor that he's such a change-maker. ... In many ways, I think he was a target for many in the universe that were, quite frankly, racially motivated not to support an artist that had that vision."
Yahoo
02-03-2025
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What to watch on Netflix Canada, Disney+, Prime Video, Apple TV+ and more: New TV shows and movies in March
Film and TV fans will surely be tuning into the 2025 Oscars in the first weekend of March. But it's also going to be a month filled with incredibly popular and highly anticipated TV shows and movies being released on streaming sites in Canada, like Netflix, Prime Video, Crave, Disney+, Apple TV+, Paramount+ and Hayu. Daredevil: Born Again will hopefully be a shining light for Marvel, while The Righteous Gemstones reaches its final season, and a new Nicole Kidman thriller will make its premiere. Additionally, a new Guy Ritchie crime show will be released, starring Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan. And we didn't forget about you reality TV fans, get ready for the drama on The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 16 in March. Powerhouse actor Stephen Graham stars in and is the co-creator of the upcoming crime drama, where 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is accused of murdering a teenage girl. Graham plays Jamie's father in the four-part limited series, with Ashley Walters as Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe, and Erin Doherty playing Briony Ariston, the clinical psychologist assigned to the case. Shondaland's upcoming whodunit looks incredibly enticing, starring Uzo Aduba as detective Cordelia Cupp, who's tasked with investigating a murder in the White House. The cast includes Randall Park, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson, Jane Curtin, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Al Mitchell, Edwina Findley and Julieth Restrepo, to name just a few of the show's stars. Watch TV shows, movies on Netflix After its success on Netflix, Daredevil is coming to Disney+ with the upcoming series Daredevil: Born Again, marking the return of Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk. With such beloved characters already, fans are anxiously waiting to see if Marvel can maintain the dark more alluring storytelling from what we saw on Netflix. "When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course," the official synopsis reads. The series stars Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, Margarita Levieva, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Zabryna Guevara, Nikki James, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Clark Johnson and Michael Gandolfini. Looking for your next BINGE? 👀🎥 Stream #DeliBoys on #DisneyPlusCA March 6. — Disney+ Canada 🇨🇦 (@DisneyPlusCA) February 27, 2025 Starring Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh, Poorna Jagannathan, Alfie Fuller and Brian George, Deli Boys follows Pakistani American brothers who, after their father's sudden death, discover his secret life of crime. The 10-episode comedy was created by Abdullah Saeed and developed by Jenni Konner and Nora Silver. Michelle Nader serves as showrunner and executive producer. The popular series The Wheel of Time returns for Season 3 this month, following last season's ending where everyone fight Ishamael and Rand is declared the Dragon Reborn. "The threats against the Light are multiplying: the White Tower stands divided, the Black Ajah run free, old enemies return to the Two Rivers, and the remaining Forsaken are in hot pursuit of the Dragon," the synopsis reads. "Including Lanfear, whose relationship with Rand will mark a crucial choice between Light and Dark for them both." "As the ties to his past begin to unravel, and his corrupted power grows stronger, Rand becomes increasingly unrecognizable to his closest allies, Moiraine and Egwene. These powerful women, who started the series as teacher and student, must now work together to prevent the Dragon from turning to the Dark…no matter the cost." Nicole Kidman stars in the upcoming thriller Holland, playing teacher Nancy Vandergroot who has a "picture perfect" life with husband Fred (Matthew Macfadyen) and son Harry (Jude Hill), in Holland, Michigan. But through Nancy's friend, played by Gael García Bernal, we realize nothing is at it seems. We maintain that w is one of the best shows in recent years, but it's coming to end with the premiere of the fourth and final season premiering on March 9 As we see in the trailer for the season, Jesse (Danny McBride) and his family are promoting new "Prayer Pods," while Eli's (John Goodman) been in Floria and is maybe spending time with a woman, much to his children's dismay. We can't wait to see it season. In addition to McBride and Goodman, the cast also includes Adam Devine, Edi Patterson, Cassidy Freeman, Tim Baltz, Tony Cavalero and Walton Goggins. Based on the novel by Liz Moore, the eight-part series Long Bright River, starring and executive produced by Amanda Seyfried. Seyfried plays Mickey, a police officer operating in a Philadelphia neighbourhood that's been particularly impacted by the opioid crisis, when she realizes her personal life may be related to a case she responds to. Watch TV shows, movies on Crave Seth Rogen's 10-episode comedy series The Studio he plays Matt Remick, the head os a movie studio where he, and he team, have to "wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords" to make films. The series also stars Catherine O'Hara, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz and Chase Sui Wonders. Mythic Quest fans rejoice! Because we have an addition to the show's universe with Side Quest, exploring "the lives of employees, players, and fans who are impacted by the game in an anthology format." The show stars Rob McElhenney, Anna Konkle, Derek Waters, William Stanford Davis, Bria Henderson, Rome Flynn, Leonard Robinson, Gary Kraus, Annamarie Kasper, Esai Morales and Shalta Grant." Filmed in Vancouver, the upcoming series Happy Face stars Annaleigh Ashford and Dennis Quaid. The show is based on the true story of Melissa G. Moore, who, at just 15 years old, discovered that her father was a serial killer, known as Happy Face. The legend Guy Ritchie is giving us a new crime series titled Mobland, starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Mandeep Dhillon, Jasmine Jobson, Geoff Bell, Daniel Betts, Lisa Dwan and Emily Barber. "MobLand stars Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan as the head of an organized crime family, fighting for power within a global crime syndicate.," the synopsis reads. Season 16 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta promises "shocking revelations" with some new additions to the cast, Brit Eady, Kelli Ferrell and Angela Oakley, ready to "stir the pot. Phaedra Parks will also be joining, later in the season. The season will include Porsha's split from Simon Guobadia, and Drew's divorcing Ralph Pittman, spraking rumours about her relationship with Dennis McKinley, Porsha's ex and baby daddy. The famed competition show made the move to Canada for Season 22, with 15 chefs competing for a chance to win the largest grand prize package in the show's history. Highlighted cities include Toronto, Calgary, Montreal and Prince Edward Island. Watch TV shows on Hayu Dive deeper into the life of Gypsy Rose, after filing for divorce from Ryan Anderson, rekindling a romance with ex Ken Urker, while also embracing life as a mother. Starring Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet, LAID is centred around a woman, Ruby (Hsu) who finds out her exes are dyign in peculiar ways. She then finds herself in the position to try to find everyone she's been with, and warn them. A film that premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), in Joanna Arnow's film The Feeling That The Time for Doing Something Has Passed Ann (Arnow) is a New Yorker in her 30s who feels stuck in her life, including her long-term casual BDSM relationship. Watch movies on Mubi
