American Born Chinese, the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, is a near-universally lauded, surreal graphic novel about a Chinese American kid who’s deeply embarrassed to be Chinese. So it’s not surprising if fans — […]
Four Tet’s shows have never had such a clash of audiences. Some know Kieran Hebden as the grandfather of a certain introspective strain of UK club music; others know him as part of a trio […]
“Do you wanna get rocked?” Joe Elliott asks, engaging 23,000 partisan fans with a mischievous glint in his eyes. It’s entirely rhetorical. Introducing Let’s Get Rocked, Def Leppard are so bone-shakingly loud that the football […]
Whenever a new Disney live-action remake of an animated classic comes out, there’s always a hullabaloo about what, if anything, changed from the source material. Specifically, fans question whether the latest remake updates anything to […]
This review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny comes from the movie’s premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Expect more on the movie as we get closer to the film’s theatrical opening […]
It begins with what looks like an old-fashioned TV test card but is in fact the colours of the Progress Pride flag, arrayed across the back of the giant stage. It ends with a photo […]
Cate Blanchett gives it the full wimple as cantankerous alcoholic nun Sister Eileen in Warwick Thornton’s woozily mystical and slightly unfocused drama set in a remote outback Catholic orphanage in 1940s wartime Australia – and […]
When you hear, what do you see and feel? Filmmaker Sam Green (“The Weather Underground”) asks that question with an affable intensity in his immersively designed documentary “32 Sounds.” This philosophically minded trip across life’s […]
If you took the terms “watchmaking” and “anarchy” and fed them into a sophisticated AI program along with, say, “Frederick Wiseman documentaries” and “Guy Maddin visual style,” the end product might resemble “Unrest,” a meticulous […]
It was the Neanderthals who imagined a soundmaking miracle hiding in a cave bear’s leg bone and carved it into the oldest known musical instrument. Should any of them happen to drop by 50,000 years […]
There are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are the live shows – Glastonbury in 2009, a trawl around the world’s festivals in 2012, a global arena tour in 2015, an unexpected one-off performance […]
Hardwell in the studio. Photo Courtesy of Urban Rebel PR On May 14, electronic music megastar Hardwell headlined The Brooklyn Mirage in Brooklyn, New York, for an excellent fan turnout. Mahmut Orhan and Tim Hox […]
It starts with an archaeological mission. A so-called gloom — a scorching red mist that seems to have risen from the depths of the earth — is believed to be the cause of a widespread […]
Deidre Hall as Marlena Evans. Photo by: Evans Vestal Ward, Peacock Acclaimed actress Deidre Hall has a major TV milestone to celebrate. She just celebrated her 5,000th episode on the hit daytime drama “Days of […]
Belinda Carlisle. Photo Credit: Nick Spanos Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Belinda Carlisle of The Go-Go’s released her highly-anticipated new solo EP “Kismet” via BMG, and it rocks. All five songs on the EP […]
There is a certain beauty of childhood that many filmmakers struggle to materialize onscreen. To be a child is to exist inside a world within a world, one governed by its own forms and rituals […]
Nepo babies are all the rage, but few families have a business as niche as the McFerrins. Jazz vocalist Bobby is best known as the singer of Don’t Worry, Be Happy, the first a cappella […]
Overmono take their name from a suburb of their Welsh home town. You could take that as a knowing joke from a duo steeped in wilfully urban-sounding music, who specifically intended their celebrated 2021 Fabric […]
As a frequent flyer, I’ve made it my mission to find the best personal-item carry-on bags on the market and actually put them to the test. With airfares skyrocketing and airlines charging more for carry-on […]
Jordi Vilasuso. Photo Credit: Sonja Flemming, CBS “All My Children” alum actors Jacob Young, Jordi Vilasuso, Alicia Minshew, and Melissa Claire Egan, participated in a virtual fan event on Sunday, May 7, which was well-received. […]