According to Florence Pugh, Denis Villeneuve’s stunningly strange and breathtaking universe is the equivalent to George Lucas’ heroic space opera. It is worth remembering this when considering Florence Pugh’s recent declaration, ahead of next month’s Dune: Part Three, that Dune is her generation’s Star Wars.
Ahead of her farewell UK concert next year, the 87-year-old singer-songwriter will join us to answer your questions She has lived an extraordinary life at the forefront of US folk music, but at the age of 87, Judy Collins is getting ready to retire from touring. A relationship (and its end) with Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young resulted in a torrid back-and-forth of poignant songwriting.
The actor’s triumphant breakthrough has clear ancestors in grimy tales of working-class struggle, but finds a fresh, rousing idealism Peter Farrelly’s new film I Play Rocky is about the underdog-with-heart story of how a great boxing movie got made against the odds with its plucky young untried screenwriter allowed to star. Its writer and insurgent star Sylvester Stallone created the role of Rocky Balboa, a punchy heavyweight fighter just turned 30, making peanuts slugging it out with bums and reduced to collecting debts for the Philly mob; this is an indignity which infuriates his grizzled…
Enrico Rava Fearless Five with Joe Lovano: In 1960s Europe, a different story emerged, as African American free jazz innovations by Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and others flowed into cultural traditions from Scandinavia to Spain, Soviet Russia and East Germany, inviting unions with contemporary classical and local folk music along the way.
Ghanaian photographer James Barnor has been named recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award at the 2027 Sony World Photography Awards. In October 2023, James Barnor, Studio of Life opened at FOMU Antwerp in Belgium.
A century after Joan Sutherland's birth, singers reflect on how La Stupenda's artistry, bel canto revival and Australian success continue to inspire.
The award is in recognition of the Uba Sani administration’s investments in education, skills development, youth empowerment and sustainable development.
Ghanaian music company Apprise Music & Media has completed its fourth participation in the Worldwide Music Expo, with its latest attendance highlighting efforts to expand international opportunities for Ghanaian musicians and strengthen connections between Africa’s music sector and the global live music industry. Beyond commercial opportunities, Apprise Music’s involvement at WOMEX also reflected a broader interest in the international representation of Ghana’s musical heritage, including Highlife, indigenous percussion, regional folk traditions and local-language compositions.
Just like Ullas Chemban’s debut work Anchakkallakokkan, Disco too is strong in its technical department, but that is not enough to save a film which banks a little too much on stylistics
By Benjamin Njoku Veteran Nollywood actor, Diewait Ikpechukwu, is dead. Ikpechukwu, a former footballer, reportedly died on Thursday after a prolonged illness, according to a family source.
Seemingly every other week a story – usually perpetuated by Mel B, the band’s number one cheerleader – appears in the tabloids hinting at some sort of reunion. In a music landscape littered with nostalgia tours, surely Ginger, Scary, Baby, Sporty and (maybe) Posh could strap on some Buffalo boots for a final zig-a-zig-ah?
‘This is a labour of love,’ she says When Wynonna Judd appears on my laptop screen – hair a deep shade of crimson, makeup perfect and sporting a huge black baseball cap with Kentucky Queen spelt out across its brim – she looks both fabulous and confident. “I’m in a good place,” says the woman Rolling Stone described as “the greatest female country singer since Patsy Cline”.
Inspired by everything from Radiohead to Deerhoof and Linda Perhacs, the west country band merge disparate styles into solid anthems From Bristol, UK Recommended if you like Puscifer, Julie Christmas, the Mars Volta Up next Supporting Every Hell at Bristol’s Exchange, 4 December; playing UK festivals Strangeforms, Noizzefest and Arctangent in 2027 Even a cursory scroll through Sans Froid’s influences will make you expect chaos. In interviews, members of the west country rockers have acknowledged Radiohead, the Mars Volta, the immersive folk of Linda Perhacs and even the haywire…
New report finds that record label Ador stripped child protections from group’s contracts when they were minors The superstar K-pop group NewJeans signed restrictive record label contracts that waived their right to “sleep, rest and free choice”. A new report from the New York Times found that the contracts were signed when the members of the record-breaking girl group were aged 14 to 17.
Suriya’s playful reinvention and Naslen’s wicked charm power Jithu Madhavan’s thoroughly engaging, delectably satisfying dark comedy
Ruth Madeley is brilliant in a rousing disability rights tale, and Ron Howard’s scintillating ode to one of the greatest photographers of all time Judith Heumann may not be a household name in the UK, but in the US she has been called the “mother of the disability rights movement”. The film focuses on her leadership of a coalition of the rejected – wheelchair users, blind and deaf activists – who occupied a federal building in San Francisco in 1977 to protest the failure to sign regulations that would ban state discrimination against disabled people.
(Vertigo) Devastating moments are dressed up with warm production and kinetic 00s R&B in the now quiff-less singer’s grownup fourth album Over the six years that La Roux, AKA Elly Jackson, was making her fourth album, the singer ended a 17-year relationship, confronted her weed dependency, received autism and ADHD diagnoses and lopped off her signature Johnny Bravo-esque quiff. “Feels like you’re slipping right out of my life,” she admits on To Make Our Love, though the song bounces along like Ace of Base’s All That She Wants, while Night Vision, despite its crushing lyrics – “you keep…
‘Bachelor Party D’eux’, set to release on November 19, boasts a star-studded cast of Naslen K Gafoor, Kunchacko Boban, Tovino Thomas, Soubin Shahir, Sharafudheen and Sreenath Bhasi
Cristian Mungiu lets out an exasperated sigh. In 2013, Mungiu was part of a delegation of European auteurs who travelled to Brussels to meet the then president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso.
They discuss male egos, working with Dolly Parton, and explain why, despite Trump, they still believe in democracy – at least in their band La Petite Maison, in Nice, has a certain reputation as a five-star celebrity haunt. So do Elton John, Tom Cruise, Harry Styles and Leonardo DiCaprio, their meals presided over by the restaurant’s founder, Nicole, variously described in print as “eccentric”, “unique” and “truculent” (she’s standing by the entrance when I arrive, and suffice to say, doesn’t look like someone you’d much enjoy being on the wrong side of).
Portraying the humour, passion and grit that took the actor from bit parts to Oscar glory, this making-of tale is even more mythic than the original movie For fun, excitement and the transcendental thrill of success, there’s nothing to touch this very enjoyable drama about the making of Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar-winning 1976 boxing movie, Rocky. Perhaps not very profound but, as Oscar Wilde’s Lord Henry Wotton says, it is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
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The Alice Springs architect behind the NT's only 6-star green rated building has been awarded the industry's highest honour. The win sees Susan Dugdale join the ranks of other influential designers, including the architect behind the Sydney Opera House.