There are a lot of things that writer/director John Ridley’s upcoming biopic of rock great Jimi Hendrix, All Is By My Side, has going for it. The most obvious asset being its star, André Benjamin, who has shown potential as an actor, has a ton of experience being a musician, and looks pretty much exactly like Jimi Hendrix once he’s all dressed up in costume and letting his afro roam free. There’s one huge stumbling block that has a lot of people questioning what the point of making this movie is at all though: the Hendrix estate didn’t sign off on letting them use any of the musician’s music in the film. How do you make a movie about Hendrix’s music career without showing him playing any of his music? Rolling Stone has the scoop. Apparently the biggest strategy Ridley and company are employing when it comes to getting around the issue of not being able to use any of Hendrix’s copyrights is that they’re going to focus on an isolated part of the musician’s career, the period where he was just emerging onto the scene in ’66 and ’67. Or, as producer Sean McKittrick puts it, “This is the story of Jimi being discovered as a backup musician and how he went to London and became Jimi Hendrix.” In McKittrick’s opinion, focusing on just the early part of Hendrix’s career is smarter than making a movie that covers his whole life, because, “That would be like making a movie

Perhaps I should just scrawl it on a placard: Battle in Seattle is an indie that deserves to stand out.

Apparently, Samuel L. Jackson’s experimental pet project, a Japanese manga 5-episode miniseries called “Afro Samurai,” might be coming to the big screen as a live action flick sometime in the semi-near future.

We’ve got a first look at the final poster for Stuart Townsend’s Battle in Seattle, a quaint little indie just hoping to break on through to the other side.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there existed a league known as the American Basketball Association.

Will Ferrell in short shorts. Isn’t that enough to inspire you to see the movie Semi-Pro?

Jackie Moon wants you to be stylish…

Will Ferrell gets punched in the jujunum by Woody Harrelson.

Will Ferrel and company put the funk into the dunk as 1970s semi-pro ballers.