Jake and Elwood Blues put their R&B band back together in an effort to save the orphanage where they grew up in 1980’s Blues Brothers movie. The film’s clearly hilarious, but it also features a slew of good music. Ray Charles, James Brown and Aretha Franklin all make memorable cameos, while always-underrated aces Donald “Duck” Dunn and Matt “Guitar” Murphy lead Jake and Elwood’s band. Enjoy the music and the madness with The Blues Brothers on Cinemax on Saturday morning.
Friday [all times Eastern]:
- Patti Smith, Kate Nash and Joe Cocker visit Later to chat with Jools Holland [Rave HD 9:00 PM]
- John Lennon stars in 1967’s How I Won The War [SHO Family 11:45 PM]
- Craig David, Dave Matthews and James Morrison perform Live From Abbey Road [Sundance 2:00 AM]
Saturday:
- Austin City Limits airs an encore showing of Coldplay’s performance from 2005 [PBS check local listings]
- The Blues Brothers movie features cameos from Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and James Brown [MAX 9:45 AM]
- VH-1 Classic airs a three-hour cut of Woodstock: The Movie [8:00 PM]
Sunday:
- Sunday Morning profiles the life and times of David Crosby [CBS 9:00 AM]
- Drive Carefully, Sleep Well documents Death Cab For Cutie’s life on the road [WHAM 7:50 PM]
- Classic 60 Minutes features a profile and interview with Bruce Springsteen [VH-1 Classic 8:00 PM]
4 Responses
wow, you actually reminded people blues bros were on, arent they on on some chanel at least once a day anyway? great flick
belushi was not that funny most of the time, not really funny in this movie, just a few times when he went nuts on snl. but he is a golden calf so everyone has to pretend to think he was hilarious so they don’t seem uncool.
viva farley
actaully, belushi’s brother is funnier, Real Men and his natural smart ass looks actually make me laugh, now i know he cant come up with genious scenes like popping a donut out of his mouth but…
apologies for bad tytppng.
yo yo…
Surely you jest.
There was more comedy in the 1 minute scene in 1941 where John Belushi (Blutarski) ejects out of his already-crashed plane than James Belushi’s entire film/tv career.
no, no i dont jest, you made my point, only a few seconds of any of his bits are funny, thats it, little choc donuts, yelling on the news. im not saying he was not funny, he seems liek a great dude, like he could be really funny but saying dumb crap during samurai whatever is not top tier funny. maybe if he was in better films or had better writers for snl he would have been funny, in other words, if he was more himself.
samurai whatever- not funny
his scenes in animal house other than guitar smash and the germans invading pearle harbor scene- not really great
blues bros- what in that movie by belushi is “oh my god did you see that thats hilarious” funny? nothing, i repeat ,there was NOTHING funny about belushi in blues brothers, nothing.the movie is good, and belushi may be enjoyable, but nothing drop dead funny. nothing.
real men, belushis brother’s natural smart ass coming thru, now thats funny