‘I had no idea it would be so painful!’ Could you survive the real-life Squid Game? | Reality TV

Rhik pits himself against the honeycomb challenge.

My feet are numb. I’ve been trapped in an awkward squat for several minutes, lactic acid eating through my thighs. The 20ft-tall mechanical doll stares mercilessly, her dress orange, her head full of motion sensors, […]

Exclusive: MUSTB on All Things ‘Royalty’, B-side “Memory” and their Next Goal

Exclusive: MUSTB on All Things 'Royalty', B-side "Memory" and their Next Goal

MUSTB released their 4th single album after celebrating the success of their 13 country world tour. “Royalty” was released on the 17th April alongside the B-side “Memory”. Royalty is accompanied by a music video too, […]

Alan Sparhawk review – beautiful, obliterating hymns to Low’s Mimi Parker | Music

Cyrus Sparhawk, Alan Sparhawk and Dave Carroll on stage

This time last year, Low were due to headline Le Guess Who, an experimental music festival in Utrecht. Instead, the beloved US indie band had to cancel their tour dates owing to the declining health […]

Ezra Collective review – a home-town triumph for jazz’s young heroes | Ezra Collective

Dancers from Kinetika Bloco on stage with Ezra Collective at the Royal Albert Hall.

High up in the penultimate tier of the Albert Hall, two spotlit heralds blast out a fanfare on trumpet and tenor sax. They are answered by a deep dub bassline on stage. A wild-haired pianist […]

Jazz rulebreaker Hiromi: ‘The piano is a plane that can take me anywhere’ | Jazz

‘I have always loved the challenge of changing minds’ … Hiromi.

There aren’t many jazz performers like Japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara. With her hair artfully piled almost a foot above her head, the 44-year-old launches into muscular assaults that traverse everything from fast-paced bebop to contemporary […]

Hunger Games review: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a winning return

Snow handing Lucy a rose outside the train station

In 2012, the first Hunger Games movie sparked a revolution. Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games books were already bestsellers at that point, but the success of the movie adaptation cemented their cultural impact, ushering in an […]

Dua Lipa: Houdini review – vanishing-act anthem destined for total ubiquity | Dua Lipa

Album artwork for Houdini.

At first blush, the notion that Dua Lipa named her comeback single after shorthand for pulling a vanishing act is a bit eyebrow-raising. Since she released her second album, Future Nostalgia, in 2020, the 28-year-old […]

General Hospital Spoilers: Bobbie’s Grim Fate in Amsterdam – Sad Sendoff Brings Jacklyn Zeman Tribute?

General Hospital Spoilers: Bobbie’s Grim Fate in Amsterdam – Sad Sendoff Brings Jacklyn Zeman Tribute?

General Hospital (GH) spoilers reveal that Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliot) recently announced that she’d join Bobbie Spencer (Jacklyn Zeman) in Amsterdam for a difficult task. Tracy admitted she’s going to help sort out Luke Spencer’s […]

What You Need to Know Before Watching ‘The Marvels’

What You Need to Know Before Watching ‘The Marvels’

With the release of The Marvels, Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) returns to the big screen in earnest for the first time since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. And she’ll be joined by some familiar faces. The Marvels […]

Jeezy says therapy couldn’t save his marriage to Jeannie Mai

Jeezy says therapy couldn't save his marriage to Jeannie Mai

Jeezy and Nia Long have a lot of relationship baggage to unpack. And much like their respective public splits in the past year or so, the rapper and the actor decided to do so in […]

Giggs & Diddy review – potent chemistry unites Peckham and NYC | Rap

Giggs, Diddy and Shyne are lapped up by the crowd.

If you’d have predicted 15 years ago that Peckham’s Giggs and US rap mogul Diddy would one day share a stage in Shepherd’s Bush, you might have received some strange looks. Road-rap legend Giggs half-talks […]

For Hollywood, AI is a threat. For these indie filmmakers, it’s a lifeline

A still image from a film showing a girl in front of a birthday cake

Blazers brushed up against streetwear. Miniature cameras dangled from a woman’s earrings. One man’s hoodie read: “Rendered With Love.” Envoys from two parallel planets, software and showbiz, mingled in the Cary Grant Theatre on Thursday […]

Nintendo Announces Live-Action LEGEND OF ZELDA Movie in Development

Link looks to the left in a screenshot from Tears of the Kingdom

Shock of shocks! Hot on the heels of The Super Mario Bros. Movie making—conservatively speaking—a s**t-zillion dollars earlier this year, it seemed only reasonable for Nintendo to keep that ball a-rolling. However, while an animated […]