The silly stars of Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” and a legendary podcast host are just three of the comedians heading to a city near you in the coming months. These ten stand-up tours are sure to tickle your funny bone this spring. Margaret Cho Queer Korean comic MargaretContinue Reading
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Italian actor Isabella Rossellini has responded to Roger Ebert’s infamous 1986 review of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. In the noir-horror, Rossellini plays a lounge singerContinue Reading
“There are good artists that have children,” Tracey Emin once said. “They are called men.” But while motherhood is underrepresented in art, a new exhibition aims to break this taboo. The realities of motherhood, the “years of broken nights, ridiculous laughter, reading practice, nosebleeds, scraped knees, teenage arguments and brokenContinue Reading
Shelagh Delaney’s unflinching debut – which she wrote when she was still in her teens – was a “real jolt to the system” when it premiered at The Theatre Royal, Stratford, in 1958, said Chris Bartlett in The Stage. It tells the story of Jo, a white teenager from SalfordContinue Reading
Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Sean “Diddy” Combs casts a long shadow over the history of hip hop. One of the industry’s first moguls, his work as anContinue Reading
It’s becoming a familiar theme in TV dramas – the London detectives who move to quiet provincial towns but find themselves yearning for “the big cases and exciting days of old”. “Be careful what you wish for!” said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian by way of advice to these fictionalContinue Reading
Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Taylor Swift’s father will not be charged for allegedly punching a photographer in Sydney, Australian police have said. Photographer Ben McDonald, 51, toldContinue Reading
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Scarlett Johansson is negotiating a deal to play the lead role in a forthcoming reboot of Jurassic Park, according to reports. If she took onContinue Reading
Where do you go if you are not at school, work or home? For some, the answer is, well, nowhere. With the growing cost of living, the prevalence of social media and the residual social-distancing mentality from the pandemic years, third places, or locations designed for socialization, have largely disappeared.Continue Reading
For a movie that takes painstaking care to recreate the vibe and aesthetics of 1970s television, the firestorm engulfing the newly released indie horror film “Late Night with the Devil” is a thoroughly modern one. Co-written and directed by brothers Cameron and Colin Cairnes, the film’s depiction of a talkContinue Reading
