Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford are known to several generations of fans as Princess Leia and Han Solo—an unlikely pair who reluctantly fall in love while battling the Empire. But, for decades after the original […]
The saga of Nicolas Cage as it’s known to the public includes some pretty infamous financial ups and downs that led to, so the story goes, Cage appearing in a variety of low-budget direct-to-video action […]
In the wave of glitterball-dazzled pop-dance albums that sparkled a little light into 2020’s gloom, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia was the world-beating monster smash – No 1 in 15 countries, 10bn streams and counting on […]
In producer Denniz Pop’s old studio in Stockholm, above the mugs of coffee and overflowing ashtrays, sat a cherry red light that he would trigger when he knew he had made a hit. In the […]
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s opening sequence is spellbinding. Amid the sprawling megastructures of the city-planet Coruscant, a daring heist ensues. Having escaped the clutches of Darth Vader’s Imperial inquisition in the last game (Jedi: Fallen […]
In early 1993, Shuhei Yoshida joined Sony’s nascent PlayStation division as a business development guy – the first member of the team who didn’t have an engineering background. When he was working with Ken Kutaragi […]
Liam Ho ❘ Published: 2023-04-24T01:15:23 ❘ Updated: 2023-04-24T01:15:33 On a recent stream, popular left-wing political streamer Hasan realized that he’s accidentally adopted one of the most expensive dog breeds in the […]
There are few film-makers quite as particular about music as Jim Jarmusch. Over the years, he’s enlisted Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA to score his hitman-meets-samurai flick Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, had Tom Waits […]
As a teenager in Leeds in the 1980s, the centre of my universe was Jumbo Records. I bought all my New Order and Smiths singles there. The tiny unit in the Merrion Centre shopping precinct […]
In celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, Swizz Beatz has joined forces with Mass Appeal for Hip Hop 50: Vol. 2, the second installment in the latter’s Hip Hop 50: The Soundtrack compilation project. The project’s opening track features Nas, […]
The first feature film shot in space has premiered in Russian cinemas, with Moscow celebrating beating a rival Hollywood project amid a confrontation with the west. The Challenge is about a surgeon dispatched to the […]
Hollywood etiquette dictates that when a Hollywood star passes on a role, they don’t talk about it. To do so wouldn’t be fair on the actor who eventually took the role, since this would doom […]
The story of medicine is commonly framed as a steady accumulation of life-prolonging discoveries, inventions and practices. But seen through another lens, it is a story of competition for the title of “expert” in matters […]
The late British jazz singer George Melly used to ask his audiences: “Who is the greatest blues vocalist Britain has ever produced?” He’d tease them, asking, “Mick Jagger? No! Steve Winwood? No! Van Morrison? No!”, […]
Roger Waters’ ‘This Is Not A Drill’ show is set to be broadcast around the world. The 79-year-old musician – who co-founded Pink Floyd – has announced plans to broadcast his show from the O2 […]
Before you do anything else with your day, you need to listen to this. A new “lost” Oasis album has been released, from the period between their third album, 1997’s Be Here Now, and their […]
Since 52-year-old German artist Boris Eldagsen went public with the fact that he won a Sony world photography award with an AI-generated image, relations between him and the award body have soured. Sony have issued […]
In the video for Lael Neale’s recent single, In Verona, she takes us on a woozy walk through the streets of Hollywood. Alongside grainy footage of the Walk of Fame, we find her drifting through […]
Twenty minutes into Aldous Harding’s set, after a spellbinding version of Treasure, from her 2019 breakthrough album Designer, has provoked a particularly vociferous response from the crowd, she speaks her first words to the audience. […]
Sophie B Hawkins, singer, songwriter I was Bryan Ferry’s percussionist but got fired after two weeks. He very nicely said: “You can’t play the Cuban congas as well as so-and-so who’s coming in to replace […]