I f an Elton John-scored musical version of fashion comedy The Devil Wears Prada seems like the kind of heady (and improbable) collaboration you and your mates might dream up after your second negroni on a Friday night, you’re not alone. But this incredible match up is no longer aContinue Reading
A merican rock band Blink-182 have just announced the release date of new music – and there’s really not long to wait. The band confirmed that something is happening on September 21 through a link posted on their Twitter. Titled “stall”, the link takes fans to a website of anContinue Reading
D C and Warner Bros’s upcoming movie Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom will see Jason Momoa return as the titular character, as well as Patrick Wilson as Orm, Amber Heard as Mera, Nicole Kidman as Atlanna, Dolph Lundgren as Nereus, and Randall Park as Dr Stephen Shin. The official synopsisContinue Reading
Actor Timothée Chalamet has become a bona fide global superstar, and his stock is set to rise higher over the coming months with the release of the highly anticipated “Wonka” movie in December, as well as the sequel to the sci-fi epic “Dune” in early 2024. Chalamet portrays a young versionContinue Reading
The 80th Venice Film Festival is under way, celebrating films from around the world. The event has seemingly gone off without a hitch “despite complications arising from the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes”, Backstage reported. Tony Leung became the “first Chinese actor to win the lifetime achievement award” at theContinue Reading
The Rossettis The largest exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work in decades is on show at Tate Britain along with paintings by his wife, Elizabeth Siddal. Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled with “The Rossettis”, which features splendid loans alongside much-loved paintings from our national collections. Until 24 SeptemberContinue Reading
Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American artist renowned for recreating ancient Middle Eastern sculptures, said Elena Clavarino on Air Mail. He does this not with limestone or basalt, but using cardboard, food packaging and other modern materials. In 2018, for instance, he recreated a huge Assyrian statue of a winged bullContinue Reading
“The Woman in the Wall’s title did not seduce me,” said Carol Midgley in The Times: plonking the words “woman” or “girl” in the title of novels and adaptations became fashionable some while ago (“The Girl on the Train”, “The Woman in the Window”, etc.), and it now grates. YetContinue Reading
The upcoming final season of “The Crown” will cover Princess Diana’s death “delicately”, according to the show’s makers. Executive producer Suzanne Mackie said the team behind the Netflix series had “a very, very careful, long, long, long conversation” about the depiction of the 1997 car crash in Paris that claimed Diana’s life atContinue Reading
Sign up to the Arts & Life newsletter for reviews and recommendations “Beef” is the “best show Netflix has had in recent memory”, said Vox. This dark comedy follows two protagonists – played by Ali Wong and Steve Yeun – who meet in a “screeching episode of Southern California road rage”. TheContinue Reading
