Op-Ed: The Beatles Now and Then – As good as then, now.
McCartney and Ringo Starr are the only surviving Beatles. — © AFP If you’re a fan, anything that sounds like it might be a remix can be annoying. If it’s a song you’ve never heard […]
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‘There was no one better’: Peruvian singer finally takes her place among all-time greats | Peru
On a late spring morning 50 years ago this week, 30,000 people gathered outside the baroque facade of the church of San Francisco in central Lima to weep, sing and say goodbye to the young […]
Corinne Bailey Rae review – a genre-mashing celebration of her artistic freedom | Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Bailey Rae wanders the stage wordlessly, wafting handheld percussion instruments at amplifiers and members of her band as though burning sage to cleanse the space. All around her is the sound of more percussion […]
Taylor Swift is blasting during Killers of the Flower Moon showings
Early on in Martin Scorsese’s historical drama Killers of the Flower Moon, there’s a quiet moment between Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and the woman he will eventually marry, Osage heiress Molly (Lily Gladstone). The absorbing […]
‘What Hump?’: 15 Trivia Tidbits About Mel Brooks’ ‘Young Frankenstein’
You’d be hard-pressed to find any “Best Of” comedy horror list that doesn’t feature Mel Brooks’ iconic 1974 spoof/tribute to Universal’s monster movies (specifically, 1931’s Frankenstein), Young Frankenstein. This parody came from the mind of Gene Wilder and would go on to live in infamy […]
5 Foods We All Eat That Were Designed to Be Garbage
Eat a burger with Krispy Kreme donuts for buns, and someone is sure to tell you it’s junk food. Which is their way of saying it’s full of fat and sugar and has none of […]
How to Play All of Those Old Flash Games You Remember
Flash is dead and has been for years. Every major web browser disabled the infamous plug-in back in 2020 (the main thing we all remember about that otherwise uneventful year). Most of us didn’t mourn […]
Are People Paying Attention to Apple TV+’s Scripted-Series Hot Streak?
Historically, I haven’t been an Apple person. When Apple attempted to persuade me to get a Mac, I got a Dell instead. When iPods proliferated, I owned an iRiver. And when iPhones changed the world, […]
Kaiju GAMERA Will Return in a ‘New Work’ From Netflix
During the kaiju boom of the 1960s in Japan, Godzilla undoubtedly reigned supreme. But he was by no means the only giant creature tromping around Tokyo. Toho had other heavy hitters like Mothra and Ghidorah; […]
Cracked Exclusive: An Oral History of ‘Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist’
Two of the most beloved comedies on TV right now are Curb Your Enthusiasm and Bob’s Burgers. While both are unique and brilliant in their own way, they each owe a tremendous debt to a […]
Beats That Bounce Back: Spencer Brown Announces Third Album, an Ode to Resilience
If there’s one quality electronic music producers need to succeed, it’s resilience, an attribute Spencer Brown has in spades. Brown, one of EDM.com‘s best music producers of 2021, has announced a brand new album, Equanimity. If the […]
Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live? is a gloriously demented goodbye
This first impression of Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live? comes from the movie’s opening in Japan. American release plans for the film have not been announced yet. It’s been 10 years since The Wind […]
Hiltzik: AI hype is as old as AI itself
Those of us who have spent the last few decades reporting on technology have seen fads and fashions rise and fall on investment bubbles. In the late 1990s it was dot-com companies, more recently crypto, […]
15 Trivia Tidbits About ‘What We Do in the Shadows’
When Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement set out to make a short film back in the early 2000s, they had no idea their vampire spoof would sire a popular and critically-acclaimed franchise. What We Do in the Shadows went from wowing audiences on […]
Every sci-fi movie should handle technology like 65 does
For a movie about Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs, 65 sure came and went without much fanfare. The futuristic survival film — a collaboration between A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods — quietly […]
Dial of Destiny gave me everything I wanted from Indiana Jones
More than 40 years after its release, Raiders of the Lost Ark is still my No. 1 argument for seeing a movie in a movie theater. It’s the best example of bona fide Hollywood movie […]
Dead dogs, capitalist critique and only four songs: when Wham! squashed Lindsay Anderson’s China film | Lindsay Anderson
It’s hard to imagine a stranger pairing: Lindsay Anderson, the pioneering director acclaimed for his provocative leftwing critiques of postwar Britain, and Wham!, the young pop duo behind Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and […]
Merchant: California must call Google’s and Facebook’s bluff on news
In June, Canada passed a law that will require major tech platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay a small fee when they host news on their platforms, to compensate the journalistic outlets that […]
Find Out the Top 8 Proficient Music Composers
The music industry is one of the largest existing industries. A lot of musicians and composers have shown their talent by creating music. In this industry, we have seen a lot of composers who have […]
‘We were naive and nerdy. No one cared about us’: how American Football became indie legends against the odds | Indie
American Football didn’t intend for a dilapidated student house in Urbana, Illinois to become a cult musical landmark. As with much of the band’s career, it just happened. They’d chosen the now iconic photo of […]