The Orielles have always valued artistry over a quick buck. Having emerged from West Yorkshire in the 2010s as a trio of preciously talented teens, they are more interested in geeking out over niche recording […]
“Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” is indeed a strange beast, both the animal — a city-dwelling croc with the voice of an angel — and the movie, which is also a sort of monstrous hybrid of unexpected […]
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What is the secret to longevity? Is it the strength of product and brand, the ability to adapt to changing times, having your finger on the pulse, some combination of all of the above? Whatever […]
Most everyone now associates Marvel with its gigantic roster of superheroes and blockbuster movies, but it was, once upon a time, a publisher of pulp comics. This was a time when it was known as […]
Few 21-year-olds can claim to have enjoyed a pop career as long as Smith’s, which is now in its 10th year. Certainly, few can claim to have covered so much musical ground. Even leaving aside […]
Emma Thompson and Tim Minchin make a very tasty combination in this DayGlo movie musical for the London film festival’s opening gala – amusing, exhilarating and the tiniest bit exhausting. It’s based on the award-winning […]
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t weigh in on a copyright fight over the Paramount Pictures movie “What Men Want.” The decision brings to an end at least part of author and screenwriter Joe Carlini’s multiyear […]
Stephen King’s works are full of all kinds of memorable monsters and villains. The likes of the man in black, Pennywise the clown, and Jack Torrance are ingrained in pop culture. In the latest cinematic […]
“We’re the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and we’re back!” So screamed Karen O at the start of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ hometown comeback concert at Queens’ Forest Hills Stadium on Saturday, October 1st. There was unrestrained joy […]
Lawrence Scotti ❘ Published: 2022-10-02T18:24:27 ❘ Updated: 2022-10-02T18:24:44 Twitch star Asmongold admitted his new custom gaming PC company StarForge Systems must do better after one of their custom-built PCs was reviewed […]
Stabley Tucci live in London. Image: Tim Sandle Stanley Tucci is an actor of international regard, noted for his many movies as an actor and director. Latterly he has also been celebrated for his CNN […]
It takes a lot of moxie to be around for over two decades. That may not be the word Slipknot would use to describe themselves, but it doesn’t make it any less true — they […]
By one of those coincidences that leads me to suspect witchcraft — or perhaps just the more banal dark magic of social media — this week has renewed some heated online chatter about the dubious […]
In 1975, an idiosyncratic musical odyssey called The Köln Concert became the unlikeliest of multimillion-sellers. On that album, Keith Jarrett revealed how an unplanned, unplugged and uncommercial private meditation between just him and a traditional […]
It is thrilling to witness someone making something difficult look easy. When Clairo released her second album Sling in July 2021, the fear was that its hushed, ornate songs, inspired by the Carpenters and Todd […]
Writer-director Parker Finn’s feature debut, “Smile,” boasts the thinnest of premises based on a laundry list of horror movie trends and tropes, from the historical to the contemporary. Expanding on his 2020 short film “Laura […]
Cool It Down is something of a misnomer. The first album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs since 2013 fumes, seethes, smokes, smirks. It’s not the polemic that acerbic lead single Spitting Off the Edge of […]
New Bingeable FX series alert! The Bear is one for all the hospitality workers, restaurateurs, and chefs out there. If you know, you know! If you don’t, “The Bear” provides a realistically searing look into […]
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What can be said about a music festival that books Flume, The Chemical Brothers, Jamie xx, Four Tet + Floating Points, Fred again.., Caribou, Bicep, Fatboy Slim, DJ Shadow, Kaytranada, Charli XCX, James Blake, Peggy […]
Films about important historical moments are often marked by a heavy solemnity, a sometimes suffocating respectfulness that can make one forget that these events involved real people, human beings with passions and foibles. This is […]