Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest is a passion project of director Michael Rapaport. It’s also his first real outing as a director, a lone episode in the final season of the long forgotten Fox TV show Boston Public notwithstanding. As such it’d be easy for Rapaport as a public fan of the group to present their story as a fluff piece that fails to explain how one of the most important acts in hip-hop exploded into the public’s consciousness after three cornerstone hip-hop albums only...

“Man was created by Nature in order to explore it. As he approaches Truth he is fated to Knowledge. All the rest is bullshit.” – Dr. Sartorius (Solaris 1972) Imagine if you learned tomorrow that not only has another planet been discovered, but it appears to be an exact replica of Earth. This Earth 2 has appeared in our solar system and appears to be moving towards us. Questions arise about what is on this Earth 2, is it inhabited, are there people like us, is there another “you” living there? Curiosity...

What if Jennifer Love Hewitt was a guy? Now imagine this guy looks exactly like the guy who played Josh in 2011′s Insidious.  Ok now that you have that picture in your head put him in a doctor’s lab coat.  Got it?  Good.  Oh wait did I mention he can also see dead people?  I didn’t? Well he can.  I bet you are thinking to yourself this sounds eerily like the cancelled CBS show Ghost Whisperer.  Well you would be wrong, kind of.   This time the Haley Joel Osment wanna be is played by Patrick Wilson...

I was one of those people who used to look at all the women reading The Help and wondered how come everyone is raving about this book.  That was until I had an amazingly long business trip debacle that forced me to buy a full-price book in those airport bookstores.  I went with the biggest book that I was interested in and that ended up being The Help by Kathryn Stockett.  While it is a large book, it is an easy read, and I ended up really liking it.  I knew The Help was coming out in movie theatres within the next few months,...

Win Passes to see CONAN THE BARBARIAN in Dallas TX! Starring Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ron Perlman, Leo Howard, Steve O’Donnell, Raad Rawi, Nonso Anozie, Bob Sapp, and Milton Welsh. SYNOPSIS: The most legendary Barbarian of all time is back this Summer. Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination- in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds- Conan’s exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive...

  It’s not everyday that an actress can go from being a little known teen drama actress to a soap opera star to cult hero status, but yet that is exactly what Sarah Michelle Gellar did when she became known as Buffy Summers in Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  When Buffy ended its run on the now defunct UPN in May 2003 Gellar showed occasionally on the big screen most notably in The Grudge but has not returned to small screen until this fall in the new noir drama Ringer.  Gellar stars in a dual role...

So the inaugural Kanrocksas is over and in the books. Will it return next year? Remains to be seen. Personally I really hope it does as I had a freaking blast. Before I go any further however allow me go ahead and clarify in the interest of full disclosure that I did attend this year’s festival for “free” as a credentialed member of the media doing my writing and editorial duty for the site you’re on now Lost in Reviews. That out of the way, would I have paid to attend Kanrocksas? Yes I would....

This week on Blu Monday we take a look at Mars Needs Moms,Fox and the Hound,and Rio. Watch the video review and let us know what you think in the comments below.   By Ryan Davis

Check out our our video of all the day one excitement. Kanrocksas is over and we have all gone home, but that’s no reason to forget what happened on the first day of this wonderful festival. I just hope that this wont be the last time we think about Kanrocksas and rather just the beginning of an on going tradition. So here is to Kanrocksas with hopes that it returns for years to come, but for now enjoy this walk down memory lane. By Ryan Davis

As I walked to the Ad Astra stage to see OK GO I began to wonder if the walk would be worth it. Having never seen the band live fears that they were just another hype machine went though my head. These thoughts couldn’t have proved to be more wrong as OK GO set the bar for the rest of the bands for the day. It was almost as is if singer Damian Kulash was screaming to the other bands saying “top this!” The band did it all, everything from a hand bell performance, an acoustic moment from within the crowd, and even pulling...

Dripping in sweat, I zig-zagged through clusters of people at the Uptown on Wednesday night. The concert may have concluded, but the night’s energy had not ceased. Dozens of people remained, hovering in the street, loitering outside the premise. Not minutes after the show’s finale, concertgoers were already revisiting the experience. All of this excitement was a direct result of the concert that had just been performed. My Morning Jacket hypnotized an energetic Kansas Citycrowd for the duration of the evening and when they...

Right from the beginning you could feel that day two of Kanrocksas was a bigger animal, the heat wasn’t keeping the thousands of people in attendance away from Kansas City’s biggest concerts. Day one was impressive, but nothing compared to day two. The line up was solid boasting band after band with must see potential. Running from stage to stage was a must as missing any of the bands would leave you with that “I wish I was there feeling,” but the show really didn’t start to heat up until Austin’s...

It’s day two of Kanrocksas!!! Congratulations you made it out of day one alive. Day two is a whole other animal, they turned up the heat and released a “Sabertooth Tiger”. The line up of day two has added up to what dreams are made of and you can see all the action in the photo-gallery below. It’s 7:00 PM, the sun’s about to go down, soon Muse will take the stage, but until then here are all the highlights from the day’s activities. Keep checking back with this page for more pictures of day...

Grumble all you want about the name. Just say it or attempt to, since many seem to have their own way of saying “Kanrocksas.” It’s abrasive, it doesn’t work, and in some cases, just down right pisses local folks off. Mix in the idea of having a music festival that is aiming for the big leagues, like the concurrently running and very similar lineup at Lollapalooza, or say Coachella or Bonnaroo, and having the fest at a Nascar race track and people seemed mixed. There were many things leading up to the inaugural...

At this year Kanrocksas we had the chance to talk with Fitz of Fitz and the Tantrums right before they kicked off the inaugural show. We talk about Fitz’s relationship with Noelle, their live show, and the new album.  Check out the interview and let us know what you think in the comments below. For more information about Fitz and the Tantrums visit the website here.   By Ryan Davis photo by Angela Davis