Knock at the Cabin, M. Night Shyamalan’s new home invasion thriller based on Paul G. Tremblay’s 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World, will mean very different things to audiences depending on […]
Tom Brady may have seven Super Bowl rings, but that’s nothing compared to perhaps the winningest group of legends ever assembled. Just take a look at the stats: first up, Jane Fonda, with two Oscars, […]
Fifteen years into his career, dancehall kingpin Andrae Sutherland, AKA Popcaan, feels on top of the world. On his fifth album, Great Is He, he expresses gratitude for his rise with plenty of classic dancehall […]
Just days after nominations for this year’s Oscars were unveiled, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Friday that it is “conducting a review” of this year’s nominees to make sure none […]
Virginia Glaze ❘ Published: 2023-01-27T23:38:00 ❘ Updated: 2023-01-27T23:38:09 Beauty guru Jeffree Star called out TikTok star Mikayla Nogueira after she posted a glowing review of L’Oreal’s Telescoptic Lift mascara, claiming she […]
Wildfires in California are just the sort of peace-shattering, visually intimidating force of nature that dramas like to use as a starting point. What happens to the people who share the terrifying experience of being […]
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 […]
You’re not going to believe me when I tell you this, but Forspoken is pretty good. The game got off to an inauspicious start, getting delayed a couple of times and dinged in the court […]
Before the banjo, the instrument at the heart of so much folk, country and bluegrass music, was the ekonting: a self-built, three-string gourd instrument with a muted but characterful tone, played by the Jola people […]
To successfully imitate the kind of mega-budget worldwide blockbuster most closely associated with Hollywood productions, filmmaker Frant Gwo literally went global. 2019’s The Wandering Earth, a sci-fi disaster adventure that became one of China’s biggest-ever […]
Image Source: Amazon It seems almost everyone has found themselves on some form of a healing journey in 2023. While wellness and self-care have always been important, sometimes it also feels a little overwhelming. Why […]
On her second album of raw, deliciously sad indie-rock, Nashville-based Samia constantly flits between blackly comic confessionals and excruciating bloodletting. Opener Kill Her Freak Out, underpinned by a funereal organ sigh, imagines her killing an […]
There shall be no Scooby Doo in HBO Max’s Velma, the Velma Dinkley origin series created by Mindy Kaling. The show is following in the footsteps of review-bombed shows like Amazon’s The Boys (because people […]
I learned very quickly when playing one of my first Dungeons & Dragons campaigns that my character wasn’t always going to be the main character. That was fine by me, since as a timid newbie, […]
The Norwegian saxophonist Mette Henriette seems to have become the quintessential ECM Records artist. Her second album features all the hallmarks of Manfred Eicher’s label: beautifully recorded low-volume acoustic music located somewhere equidistant from jazz, […]
A split-level 1970s living room, somewhere between Abigail’s Party and The Ice Storm. Seven members of the 1975’s touring band enter the front door one by one, hang up their jackets and switch on lamps. […]
From its opening moments, The Last of Us seems engineered to defy preconceptions. HBO’s television adaptation of the hit PlayStation and Naughty Dog post-apocalyptic video game franchise doesn’t open with the game’s thunderous prologue but […]
Within the grid-based continuum of contemporary electronic music, Rotherham producer Rian Treanor is an experimental outlier. Shunning four-to-the-floor kick drums and repetitive synth melodies, Treanor trades in squeals, shrieks and scattergun bass, stretching formulaic structures […]
Matty Healy is chewing on slab of raw steak. Minutes later, after doing push-ups while images of Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Margaret Thatcher flash on screens, he crawls into an old rear-projection television and […]
It’s hard these days to isolate your characters enough for high drama to play out. You have to rely on uncharged mobile phones, social media refuseniks or go big like The Terror or The North […]