Elijah Wood has expressed his ‘surprise’ over plans for new movies of Tolkien’s fantasy classic – but they couldn’t be any worse than the book-butchering Hobbit trilogyFar be it for me to put words in Elijah Wood’s mouth – somebody tried that once, and...
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(Jazz Detective)On previously unheard 1979 recordings for Dutch radio, impulsive improvisations by the trumpeter-vocalist are expressed with his inimitable featherlight phrasingIn 1988, the Vogue photographer and occasional film-maker Bruce Weber made ...
The singer talks about confronting his dark side, avoiding injuries when clambering into the audience and decoding Taylor Swift songs with his daughterWhat’s your favourite song on your new album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein? 1moresecondThere are a...
With borders as its theme, the 11th edition of Kyoto’s citywide festival explores a range of issues including grief, dementia, discrimination and migration with artists from as far afield as Ivory Coast and HackneyBorders is the theme of the 11th annu...
Prosecutors have formally dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film “Rust,” citing new evidence and the need for more time to investigate
Fox Corp. chief executive Lachlan Murdoch has dropped his defamation lawsuit against Australian news website ******
This reworking of David Cronenberg’s creepy 80s movie is fast, fierce, funny and properly feminist. Weisz’s turns as a pair of gynaecologist siblings are absolutely knockoutDead Ringers opens with a bravura set piece that establishes much of the tone f...
A well-made new chapter in Sam Raimi’s splatter series delivers some impressively nasty violence but fails to leave much of a lasting impressionThere was a surprisingly straight face attached to 2013’s bracingly nasty Evil Dead reboot, a surprise given...
Chris Evans and Ana de Armas make for a chemistry-free pairing in Apple’s catastrophically misfiring mockbusterIt’s easy to see the commercial allure of Apple’s pre-summer mockbuster Ghosted, the package: a snappy buzzword title, an idea from the Deadp...