‘An empty room can break me’: meet Kogonada, the director who is desperate for connection | Movies

Memory bank … Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja and Justin H Min in After Yang.

Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Cher … many of our finest artists are known by mononyms. South Korean-born American film-maker Kogonada may not be quite as much of a household name (yet), but he’s a name worth getting […]

Cerys Hafana: Edyf review – using the Welsh triple harp to connect past and present | Music

Cerys Hafana Edyf Album artwork cover art

Machynlleth-born Cerys Hafana is a master of the Welsh triple harp, an intimidating instrument of three rows of glistening strings. In the 2022 anthology Welsh (Plural), excerpted in the Guardian, she wrote that “it is […]

Tom Hardy Compared To His Dark Knight Rises Role After Winning Jiu-Jitsu Tournament

Tom Hardy compared to his 'Dark Knight Rises' villain role after winning Jiu-Jitsu tournament

Tom Hardy Reminds Fans Of The Dark Knight Rises Character Post Jiu-Jitsu Victory! ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ) Actor Tom Hardy has gained a lot of traction on the Internet after it was unveiled […]

Big Scary: Me and You review – introspective and varied, with wonderful, harrowing moments | Music

Tom Iansek and Jo Syme as Big Scary

Connection is the cornerstone of Melbourne duo Big Scary’s fifth album. In their explorations of love found and lost, longtime collaborators Tom Iansek and Jo Syme paint the varied textures of human relationships: grief, loneliness, […]

Tom Hardy Bags Victory After Surprise Jiu-Jitsu Competition Appearance

Tom Hardy Bags Victory After Surprise Jiu-Jitsu Competition Appearance

As made even more evident this weekend, Tom Hardy isn’t fucking around. The Mad Max: Fury Road and Dunkirk actor, who last year led the Venom sequel to mid-pandemic box office success, was a surprise […]

M*A*S*H at 50: ‘Everything about it is relevant, today, tomorrow and yesterday’ | Television

Alan Alda, David Ogden Stiers, Jamie Farr and William Christopher.

When I was a kid, M*A*S*H was always on television. Every time we switched on the TV, somehow, improbably, M*A*S*H was just … there. Like water, it filled every crack and crevice. And, like water, […]

‘Giant fizzy tangled strings of feelings’: The Big Moon’s postnatal LP | Music

Clockwise from top left: Soph Nathan, Juliette Jackson, Fern Ford and Celia Archer of the Big Moon.

Juliette Jackson is describing the song that made her feel human again. “It makes you feel like you’re not a fucking weirdo,” she says. “I got messages from people who get it. You find out […]

Kelis Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth

Kelis

What is Kelis’ Net Worth? Kelis is an American singer-songwriter who has a net worth of $4 million. As an artist, Kelis has worked with producers like will.i.am and Pharrell Williams to produce popular tracks […]

Three things with Zan Rowe: ‘I never washed my Take That T-shirt … then it started to smell’ | Life and style

‘He yelled out, “Come on Zan, bring it here!”’: how Rowe finagled a signature from Paul McCartney

This month one of the ABC’s best-loved radio segments is making the jump to the small screen. Take 5, the Double J mainstay hosted by Zan Rowe every Friday morning, will air five episodes on […]

Feted opera singer with links to Putin garners boos – and cheers | Opera

Vladimir Putin awards Anna Netrebko the people’s artist of Russia honour during celebrations marking the 225th anniversary of the Mariinsky theatre in 2008.

On the opening night of Anna Netrebko’s first run of performances at the Vienna State Opera since the Kremlin launched its war in Ukraine, the Russian soprano was met with boos as she made her […]

Lights, camera, corgis! How movies tackled the enigma that was Elizabeth II | Movies

On her majesty’s secret service … with Daniel Craig as Bond.

Only very recently did the Queen make her screen breakthrough. Like British Shakespearean stage veterans who suddenly find themselves in a huge movie franchise late in life, the monarch found herself knocking it out of […]