Hugh Hudson, the director of the influential 1981 film and 1982 Oscar best picture winner “Chariots of Fire,” died Friday at age 86. “Hugh Hudson, 86, beloved husband and father, died at Charing Cross hospital […]
Film director Hugh Hudson, who directed best picture Oscar winner Chariots Of Fire, has died aged 86 following a short illness. A statement released on behalf of his family said: “Hugh Hudson, 86, beloved husband […]
In 2007, Paramore released their breakthrough hit, Misery Business. It’s a song the band have a complicated relationship with. A few years ago, singer Hayley Williams began offering caveats about it – “I haven’t related […]
Barbra Streisand will publish her first memoir later this year, her publisher has announced. My Name is Barbra will cover the life and six-decade-long career of the 80-year-old star. Though there have been several books […]
Michael Winterbottom, director This film was an allergic reaction to being in Canada on a depressing recce and getting snowed in at a logging town. We wanted to do something closer to home so we […]
Alison Dunne – stage name Fish – has formed a punk band at the age of 58 because, as she said: “I’ve got no fucks to give any more about what anyone thinks of me.” […]
Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy VII Remake. Photograph: Square Enix Squaresoft’s environmentalist fable pitches a small group of eco-rebels against the might Shinra Electric Power Company – part energy supplier, part terrifying interplanetary dictatorship. The […]
The singer and songwriter Hayley Williams was born in Mississippi in 1988. She signed her first music deal aged 14, shortly after moving to Tennessee, and went on to form the pop-punk band Paramore. The […]
The voice of 69-year-old Guadeloupean singer Moïse Polobi is a uniquely powerful presence. Deep, laden with heavy vibrato and rasping through yearning melody, his delivery has been honed through a lifetime spent with groups singing […]
Last week, it was announced that five former members of revered Manchester post-punk group the Fall would be releasing an album under the name House of All – without the original band’s late frontman and […]
It wasn’t just the altitude that was causing a shortness of breath at this year’s Sundance film festival. The Utah-based congregation, known for unveiling some of the most exciting and influential independent films over the […]
When Adele covered Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love on her debut album 19, her interpretation was a sparse piano ballad that exuded tortured romantic longing. “The lyrics are just amazing and summed up […]
There have been many incarnations of Wednesday Addams since Charles Addams first published The Addams Family cartoons in the New Yorker. In those first cartoons, she never even had a name. It was not until […]
“Mistakes are good, and perfection is a sin,” says Graham “G” Hastings, explaining the creative ethos guiding Young Fathers. They have even coined a name for it: “mistakeology”. It’s the governing principle at their Edinburgh […]
With nine Oscar nominations and a leading 14 nods for next month’s Bafta film awards, it could become the most decorated German film of all time. But in its country of origin, Edward Berger’s All […]
Is it possible for a rickroll to go too far? Twenty-six-year-old rapper Yung Gravy may be about to find out. Born Matthew Hauri, the musician – from Rochester, Minnesota – had a viral hit last […]
Long ago, I wrote in the Guardian that a 1980 London performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago – Lester Bowie (trumpet), Joseph Jarman (saxes), Malachi Favors Maghostut (bass), Roscoe Mitchell (sax and composition) and […]
Identifiable by the bright front doors on their covers, domestic noir novels have become an established genre in recent years. But we don’t yet have a term for their office counterpart. And yet there is […]
Photo Credit: MTV International / CC by 3.0 The Madonna biopic is no longer in development at Universal Pictures, according to reports. Variety reports the biopic is “taking an indefinite holiday” after multiple sources spoke […]
Wynonna Judd knew touring without her late mother would bring up a lot of feelings, but she didn’t know that it would also help her through the grief. Judd’s mother, Naomi Judd, died by suicide April […]