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So he blows it up.
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Ever since Jonathan Demme’s Talking Heads film “Stop Making Sense” picked up its reputation as the best concert movie of all time, David Byrne has kept designing dazzling tours, and prominent directors have kept wanting to capture them. Following Spike Lee’s film rendering of Byrne’s “American Utopia” road show six years ago, now another name […]
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When he set out to make his third film, “Bunker,” about a slow-burning conflict between two married people who have grown apart, Oscar-winning French director Florian Zeller had Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” in mind. Like Kubrick, who cast then-married Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a couple whose relationship is unraveling, Zeller wanted to […]
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Stephen King’s solitary story set in London is getting the TV treatment. “Crouch End,” based on the horror master’s short first published in 1980 and named after the real-life North London district in which it’s set, has been greenlit by Prime Video as a six-part limited series. The show will mark the first King adaptation […]
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HBO released a trailer for “Youth,” the upcoming comedy starring by Sharon Horgan, who also created the series and serves as executive producer. Per the official logline, “Youth” follows “a 50-year-old divorcee’s search for sex and love whilst juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should-be grown up son.” Along with Horgan as […]
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PodcastOne has acquired exclusive sales and distribution rights to “Dropping Names… and Other Things,” an interview podcast co-hosted by Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes, longtime friends who starred on the TV show “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” In each episode of “Dropping Names,” Spiner and Frakes sit down with people they’ve met across decades in […]
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Gilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghSongs, physical comedy and clever design come together in Theatr Iolo’s adaptation of Arnold Lobel’s offbeat story, aimed at over-fivesArnold Lobel was a writer with a keen sense of the seasons. Frog and Toad Are Friends, one of my favourite books since childhood, has a wonderful story where the excitable Frog wakes up his grumpy friend Toad and tricks him into enjoying the dawn of spring with him. Those stories celebrate togetherness but Lobel’s collection Owl at
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Peter Cullen, the voice actor behind the Autobots leader Optimus Prime in “Transformers” and the mopey Eeyore in several “Winnie-the-Pooh” projects, died on Wednesday, his agent Kevin Motley confirmed. He was 85. Cullen passed at his family home in Los Angeles, “surrounded by his loving family – and held in the hearts of his many friends […]
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Schroder draws criticism for becoming "the first person to disrespect Parton in her passing."
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As an admittedly elder millennial, my first encounter with Tim Curry was not his defining role — not for most people, at least. His delicious, lascivious Dr. Frank N. Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” may be the Curry performance that takes up the most real estate in the imagination once you get around […]
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The theater-trained Canadian also created sounds for King Kong and the Predator and portrayed Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh's pal.
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The actor on which star he’d devour first on a lifeboat, why he prefers pigeons to dogs and how Trainspotting put the Scottish accent on the mapYou’re stranded on a lifeboat with Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Keith Allen and Irvine Welsh. Who do you eat first? DarkAnaemicI77I suppose you have to think about who’s the healthiest and has looked after their body best. I reckon Ewan would be a wee bit too chewy, and Irvine a wee bit pickled.
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A teacher’s private anxieties are subtly combined with political events in this Booker-listed tale set in coastal MassachusettsArtie Dam is a much-loved history teacher from coastal Massachusetts famed for his white socks and old sneakers and who sees a growing hopelessness in his young students. Not only are they dispirited by the state of the world, but they also believe they won’t be able to achieve their professional dreams. Their feelings of dread and ennui are shared by Artie who is aghast
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Jacques Forestier/Boris Kusnezow (Warner Classics)The Canadian violinist’s album definitely does what it says on the tin: from Bartók to Ernst, there is a quiet and beguiling eloquence to his playingPerhaps the most promising thing about this impressive debut album from Jacques Forestier, the young Canadian violinist who tied in first place at the 2024 Joseph Joachim Competition, is the way it lives up to its title.There’s a swing to the way he and the pianist Boris Kusnezow play Bartók’s six Ro
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Andrew Rea, the online creator best known for producing food content on the YouTube channel Binging With Babish, is making his narrative debut with the short film “Old Soul” (working title). Starring Liza Koshy and Dean Winters, “Old Soul” is a fantasy drama set on a subway in New York City. Per the official logine, […]
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Paul Greengrass drama The Uprising was supposed to be a historical epic about the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 – but a strange new campaign has inserted a surprising figureNobody likes to have the full plot of a movie spoiled before they’ve even seen it. However, sometimes this can be taken to the extreme. Take the new Paul Greengrass movie, The Uprising, for example. It is two weeks away from release and, not only does nobody know the plot, but nobody seems to know what it is even about. Seriously,
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A docuseries about reigning F1 world champion Lando Norris is in the works at Prime Video. The three-part “Lando” (working title) will offer a “never-before-seen look” at the 26-year-old Brit, “a man who is not only defending his crown but also giving unprecedented access to a more personal side of his life, and what matters […]
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The BBC has confirmed that its veteran motoring show “Top Gear,” whose former hosts have included Jeremy Clarkson and “Friends” star Matt LeBlanc, will return. The series, which began in 1977 and became one of the BBC’s biggest exports, was taken off air in 2022. It was rested after co-host Andrew Flintoff, a former cricketer, […]
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Artist known for her dazzling polka-dotted paintings and infinity mirror room installations The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who has died aged 97, created an exhilarating oeuvre of polka-dotted paintings, stuffed cloth phalloi and provocative happenings, films and installations, as well as a curate’s egg of novels and poetry. Kusama’s autobiography, Infinity Net (2002), relates her work directly to the obsessions and neuroses from which she suffered throughout her life: “From my very earliest m
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Written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, the musical sets up a song competition between the wives of Henry VIII.