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This post contains major spoilers for Marvel's "Alien: Romulus" #1.

Director Fede Álvarez brought the "Alien" franchise back to life with this year's "Alien: Romulus." It was the first entry in the franchise in seven years following the commercial disappointment that was Ridley Scott's "Alien: Covenant" in 2017. But Álvarez didn't shy away from touching on Scott's prequels in his film, nor did he shy away from making direct connections to Scott's original 1979 horror/sci-fi masterpiece "Alien." Now, a new comic that serves as a prequel to Álvarez's film makes even more connections to Scott's '70s classic, shining a light on the fate of the first Xenomorph that terrorized the crew of the Nostromo.

Marvel's "Alien: Romulus" #1, written by Zac Thompson and illustrated by Daniel Picciotto, serves as a direct prequel to the events of the film of the same name.

Seventeen is kicking off their U.S. tour!

The K-pop group kicked off their much-anticipated Seventeen [Right Here] World Tour In U.S. on Tuesday (October 22) at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill.

After two sold-out shows in Goyang, Korea in front of 58,000 audience members, Seventeen returned to the U.S. stage for the first time in over two years in Chicago. The show sold out on the first day of the presale!

Seventeen delivered a 3-hour set packed with 22 songs from their discography including “Super,” “God of Music,” and “Adore U,” starting with a special rendition of “Fear,” representing their past struggles, moving into “Fearless,” symbolizing their resilience, and ending with “Maestro,” a “testament to their growth into global stage dominators,” per a release.

Keep reading to find out more…

This theme ties into their latest album Spill The Feels, which reflects the band’s transformative journey from helplessness to hope. Live...

The legacy of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt can almost be considered predestined in Hollywood – so powerful is their impact on the industry today. However, the problem with legends is that there can only be one of them at a time. And the world will never settle for knocking either Pitt or Cruise off the pedestal to raise the other.

Interview With the Vampire feat. Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, and Tom Cruise [Credit: Warner Bros.]

The newer generation with actors like Jacob Elordi, Timothée Chalamet, and Austin Butler have a long way to go before elevating themselves to the level of Cruise and Pitt. Fortunately, once in a blue moon, actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon waltz into the scene and launch themselves off with a bang which automatically propels them to god-tier fame among the fans.

The Subtle Art of Pitting Leo DiCaprio Against Matt Damon Matt Damon and...

History unfolds with on-the-ground immediacy in director Julia Loktev’s first feature since 2011’s The Loneliest Planet, as well as her second nonfiction work after 1998’s Moment of Impact. Running five-and-a-half hours and split into five chapters, My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow chronicles the hardscrabble efforts and eventual exile of a group of young Russian journalists who work for the independent news channel TV Rain.

“The world you’re about to see no longer exists,” Loktev narrates in the first scene. For there was no way to know, when filming commenced in 2021, that she would be in a prime position to observe the Vladimir Putin-instigated invasion of Ukraine, in addition to the draconian crackdown that followed on any and all dissenting voices. Not that the situation for reporters refusing to toe the party line was sunshine and moonbeams beforehand. Much of the documentary’s first...

There’s no doubt that Heavy Rain is one of the best action-adventure titles back from the golden days of gaming. It’s a critically acclaimed title where gamers must make various choices that end up shaping the story. It brought a strong narrative and a set of unique characters to the table back then.

Heavy Rain is back on the radar. (Quantic Dream)

Without countless releases in the genre over the years, Heavy Rain lost to time. However, the game is once again witnessing an upsurge in popularity due to its unique antics that have captured the attention of modern-generation gamers.

Heavy Rain’s Viral Clip Prove Why its a Top-Tier Game Heavy Rain features a hilarious chase scene. (Image via Quantic Dream)

Well, Qtes, or quick-time events, are quite a heated topic within the gaming community. Some believe they are poorly implemented and ruin immersion in a game that’s been carefully crafted.

Tom Cruise is blessed with a skillset unlike any other. The actor’s career since the early 80s has only ever been on the rise, without fail, and Cruise has only become more unstoppable with age. The global fascination that comes with his name is indicative of his status as one of the last true movie stars and it is because of that star persona that his career has turned into a timeless legacy.

Tom Cruise [Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures]

However, for every great man’s climb to the top, there were a dozen others who were passed over or rejected along the way to make room for the star. In Tom Cruise’s case, the rejection was parried over to his contemporary, Charlie Sheen. Despite being the son of Martin Sheen and his inherent familiarity with the studio system, the second-generation Hollywood actor failed to make his mark as a...

On Tuesday, October 8, 2024, at 9:00 Pm, Fox will air Season 1 Episode 3 of “Murder in a Small Town,” titled “A Chill Rain.” This episode takes viewers back to the quiet town of Gibson, where life is about to take a dark turn. Zoe Strachan, a local resident, faces an unexpected visit from her estranged brother, Benjamin. He arrives with alarming news, claiming he is in financial trouble. Their reunion is filled with tension, as years of family conflict bubble to the surface.

Things escalate when a dead body matching Benjamin’s description is found in the area. Detective Alberg steps in to investigate the shocking murder. The small-town atmosphere becomes charged with fear and suspicion as Alberg navigates the community’s secrets. As he pieces together clues, viewers will witness how the past influences the present and how family ties can lead to deadly consequences.

“A Chill Rain” promises to be...

Lady Gaga Drops ‘The Joker’ Song from Harlequin Album for Joker: Folie a Deux - Main Image

Everyone was waiting to see what Todd Phillips was cooking when he cast Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie a Deux, and so far, it looks like she’s going to make for one original ‘Lee Quinzel.’

The movie is said to be a ‘jukebox musical’ which means it would be featuring covers of existing songs (like Illumination’s Sing franchise). With every musical, there’s always expected to be a companion album, and Gaga had just dropped the tracks online.

The Joker by Lady Gaga

Probably at the very top of the soundtrack list of the Harlequin album is the song ‘The Joker’ which can be heard here:

Though some may think that this is an original song written for the movie, it’s actually a cover of The Joker by Shirley Bassey.

Anna Nemzer, former journalist at exiled Russian news network TV Rain, offered a word of warning today — don’t ignore “unpleasant” political signs. That comes from someone with firsthand knowledge of the aftershocks.

“All countries are different, and we have a lot of countries under dictatorships, under authoritarian regimes. But we also have democratic countries with very unpleasant signs. And if we can share something of our experience, it would be don’t ignore unpleasant signs — they definitely become something more important and bigger than just signs. It won’t pass,” she said after American filmmaker Julia Loktev’s multi-part documentary My Undesirable Friends: The Last Air In Moscow screened for press at the New York Film Festival ahead of its official world premiere.

The doc follows a group of young journalists, mostly women, reporting writing, producing and delivering the news as the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin grows increasingly repressive,...

It’s been 16 years since Christine Jeffs’ last feature, the seriocomic Amerindie sleeper “Sunshine Cleaning,” with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. Her new feature “A Mistake” hews back to her 2001 debut, “Rain,” in that it is set in her native New Zealand and adapts its script from a Kiwi author (in this case Carl Shuker’s fifth novel). Though not a knockout, the director’s return affirms her knack for intelligent adult drama, here hinging on issues of medical ethics and bureaucracy — Elizabeth Banks plays an Auckland surgeon whose reputation and career are threatened when a patient dies after what had been anticipated as a routine procedure. Quiver Distribution is releasing the Tribeca-premiered film to 100+ U.S. theaters this Friday.

The distractingly named Elizabeth Taylor (Banks) is a highly regarded specialist, woken from a nap during one long night-shift by an emergency: A patient previously discharged as having minor ailments...

It’s annoying that Days of Our Lives spoilers for the week of 9-09-24 feature so much of Connie, but it could be good news.

When stories get close to being wrapped up, they suddenly get overexposed, featuring the characters involved every day until resolution.

Spoilers feature Connie trying to hold onto Melinda, Jada becoming suspicious, and Paulina trying desperately to get Rafe to wake up and tell her who stabbed him. If this story follows the usual pattern, it’s almost done!

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The Connie Story Has Gotten Out Of Hand It Needs To End As Soon As Possible

Connie began as a minor character who was an annoying Li fangirl and obsessed with true crime, only for her to turn out to be the latest unhinged Salemite to go on a killing spree.

That’s overdone on Days of Our Lives to begin with, and now...

After starring in Red Riding Hood and Evil Dead, Shiloh Fernandez has continued to work in the indie-film world. He jumped to TV for a pair of episodes on Euphoria, Netflix’s Gypsy, and even a Tremors movie. He joined the cast of Continue from director Nadine Crocker, which made its initial debut in 2022. Continue makes its way into theaters on September 6th, and will also be available via digital platforms.

Fernandez and Crocker spoke before he agreed to take on the role. Relatedexclusive: Simon Whiteley Discusses the Origins of The Matrix Digital Rain, Zack Snyder, and Mimlacode

Early on, Crocker knew that Fernandez was a fit. “She sent an offer to my team early. You know what was really special about this particular offer, was not only the incredible script but she wrote me a personal letter.” The note contained more intricate details about Crocker’s connection to the work,...

In our current franchise-dominated landscape, it's hard to imagine an actor having the brass to insist their character be killed off. But that's what living legend Sigourney Weaver did when she made 1992's "Alien 3," reasoning that her "Alien" heroine — the plucky blue-collar space trucker turned badass Xenomorph slayer Ellen Ripley — had endured more than her fair share of bad luck by that point. She would backtrack on that five years later for "Alien: Resurrection," intrigued by the idea of reprising not the Ripley we knew and loved, but a hybrid alien/human clone with her own quirks and personality (not to mention a killer behind-the-back basketball shot). Weaver would then come precariously close to reprising Ripley proper for Neill Blomkamp's scrapped "Alien 5," a sequel that, in a stunt similar to the one David Gordon Green's "Halloween" pulled, planned to ignore the prior two sequels by taking the...

The 1988 film Rain Man featured Tom Cruise alongside Dustin Hoffman, in a groundbreaking portrayal of autism that captured the hearts of audiences and critics alike. However, despite the film being a huge success, the marketing team initially struggled with how to promote a movie that delicately navigates such a sensitive topic.

Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman in a still from Rain Man | Credit: United Artists

Cruise later recalled the struggle of the marketing team in a 2017 interview, sharing that they had no idea how to promote the film, due to its unconventional title and the challenge of conveying the film’s concept.

Tom Cruise Reflected on the Challenges of Promoting Rain Man

Directed by Barry Levinson and starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man follows two brothers on a cross-country journey while exploring the realities of living with a mental illness.

Rain Man | United Artists

While it was a huge hit,...

Actor Mel Gibson has won two Academy Awards for his direction despite being more commercially successful as an actor. However, Gibson might just have had a shot at winning an Oscar for acting had he accepted one role in one of the most critically acclaimed movies starring Tom Cruise.

Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman starred in 1988’s Rain Man (Credit: MGM).

Tom Cruise starred in the 1988 comedy-drama film Rain Man, which was a box office hit and even won several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman. However, Hoffman’s role was initially offered to Gibson, who turned it down. On the other hand, Cruise was equally good in the movie but got snubbed by the Academy.

Rain Man Almost Starred Mel Gibson Along With Tom Cruise

The 1988 comedy-drama film Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, starred Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in the lead roles.

For “Alien: Romulus,” director Fede Álvarez was able to make the iconic Xenomorphs and Facehuggers even more badass than in Ridley Scott’s masterful “Alien” (1979). And he did so even while adhering as closely as possible to H.R. Giger’s original designs (with minor exceptions for heightened emphasis) since his re-imagining takes place between “Alien” and “Aliens” (1986) on an abandoned research station.

Álvarez also shot as much as he could practically in camera, relying on suits, animatronics, and puppets from Legacy Effects. This was part of the tactile vibe, and it was key for the actors to have creatures to play against and react to. Thus, the physical effects (supervised by Alec Gillis) worked seamlessly with the fast-moving, action-packed VFX (production supervised by Eric Barba).

“It’s really when the Facehuggers or the Xenos have to move in ways that a puppet, or a guy in a suit, or animatronic Xeno couldn’t,...

This article contains spoilers for both Alien: Romulus and Alien: Isolation.

It’s a green, blinking box. Yet every time it appeared in the background of Alien: Romulus, a cold chill went down the spines of possibly millions of viewers, including this writer. That’s because if you ever played Alien: Isolation, Creative Assembly’s relentless survival horror game from 2014, those proverbial telephone boxes are the stuff of nightmares and lingering trauma.

Appearing in more than one scene during Fede Alvarez’s love letter to the larger Alien franchise, these “registration points,” or emergency telephone booths, are littered throughout the Renaissance Space Station in Alien: Romulus. You can see one in a scene where Cailee Spaeny’s Rain and Archie Renaux’s Tyler discuss how best to circumnavigate a hallway filled with facehuggers. The emergency comm-links also appear when Andy (David Jonsson) explains to the humans that they’re going to need pulse rifles.

In space, no one can hear you spoil the latest "Alien" movie. Be warned, this article discusses major spoilers from "Alien: Romulus."

After well over 40 years of seeing the "perfect organism" in all its various forms on the big screen, including a convoluted origin story covered in both of Ridley Scott's divisive prequels "Prometheus" and "Alien: Covenant," it was fair to wonder how another franchise installment like "Alien: Romulus" (read /Film's review) could possibly make the dreaded Xenomorph scary again. Every possible facet of the sentient mechanical-biological weapon seemed to have been explored by now, from its flawless introduction in the 1979 original to the introduction of the queen in "Aliens" to the animal hybrid of "Alien 3." So, what was left for director Fede Álvarez to explore this time around?

Luckily for us all, "Romulus" goes back to the franchise's roots (according to many of the early reactions to...

This article contains spoilers aplenty for Alien: Romulus and the whole franchise.

“I admire its purity,” a robot says during an infamous scene in Alien. Ian Holm’s synthetic science officer is of course referring to the “organism” (or “xenomorph” as Aliens later defines it). However, this line of dialogue has gone on to be cherished by science fiction fans all over the world as a metaphor for the original, sleek, and mysterious 1979 movie that started it all.

It would seem director Fede Alvarez and his Alien: Romulus co-writer Rodo Sayagues would agree. Their new seventh entry in the mainline Alien franchise is a love letter to nearly everything that came before. That is definitely seems to be the case with the many callbacks, homages, and easter eggs to the original Ridley Scott film. However, Alien: Romulus also includes nods, winks, and allusions to every other proper film in the series…...

Recent American movies seem obsessed with franchises, however their relationship with them is not as simple as it might seem.

Desperate to both engage a fresh new audience while pleasing an older obsessive fan base the reboots, re-imaginings, sequels and prequels of the last few years play a tricky game of trying to please all the people all of the time and very often completely failing.

What disparate legacy film series from Halloween to Rocky to Beverly Hills Cop to Top Gun to Friday 13th to Star Wars and many more share is years if not decades between instalments. There is also a desire with all of these from the production companies for you to view each new entry as simultaneously a shiny stand alone slice of entertainment and a call back filled fest that joins all the dots you were once desperate to connect.

Obviously the above is impossible...

It’s been over four decades since Ridley Scott terrified audiences with his sci-fi masterpiece Alien. The film launched a beloved franchise exploring humanity’s battle against a perfect killing machine. While later installments have delivered more action or philosophy, director Fede Alvarez aims to recapture that original scare-in-space feel.

Alvarez made his name remaking cult classics like Evil Dead with a modern edge. For Alien: Romulus, he draws from the tough, working-class characters of the first two films. Set between them, Romulus centers on miners trapped in contractual bondage on a moon gone murky from pollution. Our heroine Rain toils away, dreaming of the stars with her android brother Andy.

When Rain and friends discover an abandoned station drifting above the moon, they hatch a risky plan to hijack it. Little do they know the station harbors its own nightmare—outmates left drifting with ravenous aliens aboard. Can Rain...

Plot: Seeking to escape their grim fate as indentured workers for Weyland-Yutani on a lifeless rock, a group of young colonists scavenge an abandoned space station, only to discover a terrifying secret that threatens to pick them off one by one – or worse.

Review: As far as this critic is concerned, there are two perfect Alien movies: the first and the badass James Cameron sequel. I tend to flip-flop between which one I prefer (it usually depends on the one I saw most recently), but both films are among the most perfectly conceived and executed blockbusters of all time—the sequels, though- well, are a mixed bag at best. There have been interesting ones (Alien 3), terrible ones (Alien: Resurrection and the Avp movies) and frustrating ones (the Ridley Scott prequels), but until now, there have been no outstanding ones. As such, the fact that director Fede Alvarez was able...

“I admire its purity,” says Ash of the xenomorph in Ridley Scott’s Alien. The best films in the series are the ones that adhere to that philosophy. They keep their settings and premises simple and linear, pushed forward by the sheer panic of humans attempting to stay one step ahead of creatures that see them only as food and ideal hosts for egg incubation. At its best, Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus is a winning attempt to get things back on the rails after the elaborate mythology introduced in Scott’s two prequel films, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, threatened to stretch the thematic core of the series beyond its limits.

Written by Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues, Romulus takes place between the events of Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens. It follows a group of downtrodden young adults desperately seeking an escape from the planetary mining colony that super-corporation Weyland-Yutani controls as a quasi-serfdom.

Sequels to the landmark 1979 space horror Alien have ranged from the superlative (Aliens) to the mixed-bag (Alien Resurrection) to the messily philosophical (Prometheus) to the best forgotten (Alien Vs. Predator). Director Fede Alvarez’s latest gambit for the franchise is a smart one: to take the best elements of the two best films in the series — Ridley Scott’s original and James Cameron’s original sequel — and squash them together, with the force of a facehugger.

As it turns out, Alvarez’s ‘interquel’ — set between Alien and Aliens — hews a little closer to the former, with nods to both. He doesn’t stray too far from the established hallmarks: expect chestbursters, pulse rifles, synthetics, even a reference for Prometheus fans. Only occasionally does it feel like Alvarez has attended the J.J. Abrams School Of Fan Service: one character from a previous film is distractingly resurrected via CGI, while the...

Writer-director Fede Alvarez talks exclusively about his new film, Alien: Romulus and his handmade approach to its making.

Alien may be a 45 year-old franchise by now, bearing the fingerprints of such filmmakers as Ridley Scott, James Cameron and David Fincher, but Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez has taken a distinctly personal approach to making the upcoming Alien: Romulus.

Echoing his first two feature films, Evil Dead (2013) and Don’t Breathe (2016), Alien: Romulus places a small group of youngsters in a claustrophobic scenario and lets the horror play out. In this case, six scavengers – among them Cailee Spaeny’s Rain and David Jonsson’s Andy – sneak onto the Renaissance, an abandoned Weyland Yutani station orbiting their backwater planet. Needless to say, they find something toothsome and distinctly unfriendly hiding in the abandoned vessel.

As we met Fede Alvarez in June, we’d just seen a selection of scenes from the film that weighed in at roughly 20 minutes.

On the evening of Feb. 28, 1984, Prince was at home, watching Michael Jackson become the first artist to win eight Grammys in a single night, including Album of the Year for Thriller. When the broadcast was over, Prince turned to Bobby Z, his longtime friend and drummer for the Revolution, and told him, “Next year, that’s gonna be us.”

As both an album and a movie, Purple Rain was still unfinished at that point, but Prince had a good idea of what he had. The very idea of making a movie was inspired,...

Creed launched their “Summer of ’99” North American reunion tour at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Wednesday night (July 17th), marking the kickoff of the band’s first outing in 12 years (tickets available here).

Singer Scott Stapp and company delivered a 16-song set heavy on tracks from their Diamond-certified 1999 album Human Clay, including tunes like “Are You Ready?,” “What If,” and the main-set-closing one-two punch of massive hits “With Arms Wide Open” and “Higher” (No. 1 on Consequence‘s recent list of the 50 greatest post-grunge songs).

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The set started out with “Bullets,” one of four songs played from 2001’s Weathered, including the encore of “One Last Breath” and the show-closing “My Sacrifice.” Meanwhile. the band’s 1997 debut, My Own Prison, was also well represented with four songs, among them the title track and “What’s This Life For.”

The kickoff show featured support from Switchfoot and Finger Eleven.

If you’ve ever wondered what “Rainism” is, then Disney+’s new K-drama titled Red Swan might have the answer for you. Jokes aside, everyone’s favorite “oppa,” Rain, has returned to telly with this new “makjang” drama, which follows Oh Wan-Soo, a woman who rose to the top through her dedication to golf and her big dreams. However, it seems the rich family she’s been married into has many buried secrets, one of which Seo Do-Yoon, Wan-Soo’s new bodyguard, is determined to learn about. The show is your run-of-the-mill melodrama that features a vicious mother-in-law, a cheating husband, and infidelity. It is sour like a kimchi jigae, but is it as wholesome? I suppose we’ll find out soon enough, but at the moment, let’s dive deep into the first two episodes of the show.

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How do Do-Yoon and Wan-Soo meet?

In the first episode of Red Swan,...

A frenzied performance of “Let’s Go Crazy”? Check. A set that resembles the Minneapolis club First Avenue? Check. But a scene in which a woman is tossed into a trash bin against her will? Or saucy pickup lines? Hold the check.

Early this year, plans for a stage musical based on Prince’s landmark Purple Rain movie and album were announced, with a premiere set for Minneapolis’s State Theatre next spring before a possible move to Broadway. In fact, the team behind the production has been toiling away...

If there is anything more iconic than Steven Spielberg in the film industry, it has to be his friendship with yet another renowned filmmaker, George Lucas. The two have time and again proven why they are such good friends and that they will always have each other’s back. However, Steven Spielberg began doubting his allegiance to George Lucas when he saw the reception of Tom Cruise’s Rain Man.

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Steven Spielberg was one of the few names who were in the running to direct the road dramedy starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. However, he decided to walk away from the opportunity to direct George Lucas’ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade instead, something which he sort of regrets looking back on the past.

Steven Spielberg Regrets Saying No to ‘Rain Man’ Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman in...

It’s the age-old argument: Alien or Aliens? The haunted-house horror movie, or the action-packed war film? The lean, dread-filled original, or the bigger, beefier sequel? Both Ridley Scott’s original Xenomorph outing and James Cameron’s exemplary sequel stand tall among the greatest sci-fi films of all time – each with a strong and valid claim for being the best of the bunch. But when deciding the direction in which to take his sequel, Alien: Romulus, filmmaker Fede Alvarez hit upon the ideal solution: why not a hybrid of the two?

“To ask an Alien fan to choose between them is a perverse question,” he tells Empire, in our world-exclusive new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice issue. “So I thought, ‘How do I do both?’” Get ready, then, for a film that aims to conjure the slow-build scares of Alien with the oh-god-they’re-everywhere assault of Aliens, set at a point between the...

Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston, Mike Flanagan repertory company member Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Ella Lily Hyland (Fifteen-Love) are set to star in Towards Zero, a three-part adaptation of the 1944 Agatha Christie mystery novel.

The BBC production is now filming in Bristol and Devon, and will stream Stateside on BritBox.

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Adapted by BAFTA-nominated Rachel Bennette and directed by the...

Oscar winner Anjelica Huston will lead a three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel “Towards Zero” from the BBC and Britbox International.

Set in England in 1936, “Towards Zero” follows British tennis star Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and his ex-wife Audrey (Ella Lily Hyland), who “make the unthinkable decision to spend a summer together at Gull’s Point, their childhood home and the coastal estate of Nevile’s aunt, Lady Tressilian (Huston),” the plot description reads.

“With unfinished business between the former childhood sweethearts, plus the presence of Nevile’s new wife Kay (Mimi Keene), tensions are running high. Add to this a long-suffering lady’s companion, a mysterious gentleman’s valet, an exiled cousin with a grudge, a venerable family lawyer, an inquisitive orphan and a French con man, and soon there will be murder,” the synopsis continues. “A troubled detective must rediscover his purpose to untangle a toxic web of jealousy,...

Museum staff and familiar faces discuss their favourite paintings as the National Gallery turns 200, in a film that offers personal stories over scholarly pronouncement

Here is a warm, civilised, and at points quite moving film about the National Gallery’s art collection, timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of its founding in 1824. It essentially consists of a series of talking-head interviews – mostly National Gallery staff, but also a scattering of outsiders, including a handful of relevant national-treasure celebrities – in which they talk about their favourite paintings. The enthusiasms of the gallery personnel come from an admirably wide range, taking in gift shop sales assistant Joshua Pell (The Adoration of the Kings by Jan Brueghel), corporate development manager Helena Fitzgerald (Degas’ Ballet Dancers) and sign-language guide John Wilson (Pietro Longhi’s Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice). The famous faces, on the other hand, are mainstream TV-friendly types such as...

Madonna is the best dance-pop singer ever. However, Madonna still produced some of the best pop ballads to grace the Billboard Hot 100. Here’s a look at her five best slow songs.

5. ‘Live to Tell’

“Live to Tell” has a certain mystery that few Madonna ballads possess. The song’s theme of internality was the first moment in Madonna’s career where it felt like she might have hidden depths. Many emotional Madonna projects owe a depth of gratitude to “Live to Tell,” such as “Take a Bow,” “Don’t Tell Me,” and Ray of Light.

Perhaps the best part of “Live to Tell” is its signature synthesizer riff. It’s one of the Material Girl‘s best musical moments. While the song itself is innocuous, the “Like a Virgin” singer courted controversy by performing the song while feigning crucifixion.

4. ‘Crazy for You’

The best songs portray a love that sounds almost desperate.

Madonna is the sort of fiercely driven artist who usually seems to get her way. On the other hand, Madonna’s producer told her he would change part of “Vogue” whether she liked it or not. Here is how that turned out.

Madonna battled her producer over the ‘Vogue’ bass lines

Shep Pettibone is a dance artist who worked with the Queen of Pop on tunes like “Deeper and Deeper,” “Rain,” “This Used to Be My Playground,” and, of course, “Vogue.” During a 2015 interview with Billboard, Pettibone discussed how “Vogue” came together.

“Um … the piano was added, for instance, after she sang the song,” he said. “The bass lines in the verses were changed to make them go with the verse better. Before that I think it’d just been like a two-bar loop of the bass line throughout the entire song — which she liked.

“She didn’t want me to change it,...

Morgan Freeman’s presence in movies usually attracts audience, but even his charisma and soothing voice could not save his 1998 action thriller film, Hard Rain. Directed by cinematographer-turned-director Mikael Salomon, the movie emerged as the biggest flop of that year.

Mikael Salomon’s Hard Rain / Paramount Pictures

On a more interesting note, fans who have seen the film were so angry they demanded to change the ending. They did not want the legendary icon’s character to die so the studio decided to do a reshoot.

Morgan Freeman Asked Fans Not To Watch Hard Rain

In an interview with The Guardian, actor Morgan Freeman shared his experience working on Mikael Salomon’s Hard Rain. Starring alongside Christian Slater and Minnie Driver, the actor said fans did not like the film to the point that they were forced to change its ending.

I played a bad guy in a movie, and...

Atlanta rapper Gunna achieved one of hip-hop’s most remarkable comebacks last year. After being ensnared in the Ysl Rico case and spending seven months behind bars, he got out on a plea deal and released A Gift and a Curse last June, buoyed by the infectious single “Fukumean,” which became his first Number One hit. He placed himself back on the same trajectory he was on in 2022, when his album DS4Ever debuted at Number One on the Billboard albums chart and marked his superstar ascension.

Enter his fifth album,...

With the laundry all hung out to dry, Yuki takes a well-earned lunch break in a special Maid Day (May 10 in Japan) illustration for the upcoming You Are Ms. Servant anime, provided by series creator Shotan. The adaptation will officially get to work this October. Maid Day illustration Related: Mysterious Disappearances Anime Unveils Special Maid Day Illustration Based on the manga by Shotan, Ayumu Watanabe ( After the Rain ) directs You Are Ms. Servant at studio Felix Film, with series composition by Deko Akao ( Komi Can't Communicate ), character designs by Tomoyasu Kurashima ( Infinite Stratos ) and music by Masahiro Tokuda ( Deca-dence ). Publisher Shogakukan Asia describes the story: This is the story of a maid who is all alone in the world, but who finally finds a family. Hitoyoshi Yokoya is a high school student who currently lives alone. One day, an unfamiliar girl knocks on his door and offers to be his maid.

Exclusive: The Latino Film Institute has set its lineup for the 23rd Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, which will take place from May 29th through June 2nd at the Tcl Chinese Theatres in Hollywood.

Laliff will open with the critically acclaimed In the Summers, directed by Alessandra Lacorazza and starring René Pérez Joglar a.k.a Residente in his feature film debut, Sasha Calle, Lío Mehiel and Leslie Grace. Accolades include the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award for Lacorazza at the Sundance Film Festival.

The film tells the story of Violeta and Eva who, every summer, visit their loving but reckless father Vicente, who tries to atone for the past by creating a world of wonder for them to experience. But old wounds do not heal easily and despite the fun facade, Vicente’s battle with addiction gradually erodes the magic,...

Madonna brought her “Celebration Tour” to a close with the biggest show of her career.

The pop icon held a free concert on Saturday, May 4th, at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, drawing upwards of 1.6 million attendees.

Madonna’s performance spanned 26 songs and included guest appearances from Brazilian pop stars Anitta (who joined for “Vogue”) and Pabllo Vittar (who took part in the tour debut of “Music”). Check out the full setlist and watch performance footage below.

Previously, Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach massive concerts from The Rolling Stones, who played to a crowd of 1.5 million in 2006, and Rod Stewart, who broke the world record for most-attended concert of all time with an audience of 4.2 million people in 1994.

Beyond being a big night in live music history, Madonna’s performance also closed out her “Celebration Tour,” which saw her honor her long, multi-faceted career with “reverence and joy,...

The X-perience of a lifetime is here.

Airbnb has redesigned a private mansion in Westchester, N.Y. — the home of the X-Men in Marvel comics — into a replica of the mutant manor from “X-Men ’97.”

The mansion, decorated in the 2-D animation style of the Disney+ series, is complete with replicas of Wolverine’s and Jubilee’s bedrooms, Beast’s science lab, the telepathic Cerebro device, the Danger Room and other features. There’s even the severed head of an evil, robotic Sentinel laying in the front yard to greet you as you arrive.

The “X-Men ’97” mansion is part of Airbnb’s new Icons line, a series of unique experiences located around the world inspired by movies, TV, music and art. The company unveiled its first 11 Icons, which include the “Up” balloon house, Riley’s Headquarters from “Inside Out 2,” Prince’s “Purple Rain” home and more. Most of the Icon locations are free,...

Trap Screenshot: Warner Bros. Pictures/YouTube What if the public event you were attending was entirely a setup just to getcha? That’s the nightmare of paranoiacs and Truman Show fans everywhere, and also the premise of M. Night Shyamalan’s new film Trap, premiering in theaters August 9. A new...

The 27th edition of the Malaga Film Festival (Mff) opens today (March 1) with animated feature Dragonkeeper and a strong line-up of Spanish and Latin American world premieres. The festival is a popular annual meeting point for the Spanish film industry, attended by most buyers and sellers, and showcases the best in new Spanish-language filmmaking.

The world premiere of Salvador Simó and Jian-Ping Li’s Dragonkeeper opens the festival, marking the first time Malaga has raised its curtain with an animated movie. A Spain-China co-production, Dragonkeeper is based on books by Carol Wilkinson, with an English-language voice cast that includes Bill Nighy and Mayalinee Griffiths.

American actor Grant Gustin kickstarted his acting career in 2004 while still in high school. He had landed a role in the movie Rain, in which he played the role of a mute young man who helped a man solve the mystery of his wife’s murder with visions he was getting. The director/producer, Neil Grochmal, had said that Gustin would have a great future in acting, and he wasn’t wrong.

Years later, Gustin did what could be regarded as one of the most important roles he has played to date. That role is none other than that of the DC superhero character Barry Allen, popularly known as The Flash. This role catapulted him to fame, and for those wondering if he would ever return as The Flash, he has put forward one condition under which he would do so.

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Grant Gustin Has Only 1 Condition for Returning...

It would be an understatement to say John Lennon and George Harrison had some issues with each other. John felt he deserved credit for getting one of George’s songs released as the B-side of The Beatles’ “The Ballad of John and Yoko.” The latter song did well despite its edgy lyrics.

The connection between The Beatles’ ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ and ‘Old Brown Shoe’

The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono features a 1980 interview. During the interview, the “Instant Karma!” singer said he didn’t like his unflattering portrayal in George’s book I, Me, Mine. John recalled times he looked out for George.

“I made sure George got the B-side of ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko,’ I think,” he said, referring to George’s song “Old Brown Shoe.” “And those little things he doesn’t remember.

As Skidrow frontman Sebastian Bach sat down after a long day of metal rocking to enjoy some MTV, an energetic pretty boy suddenly appeared before the eyes of Bach. And all he could think was, “What the f*ck is a Bon Jovi and What the f*ck is with all those teeth?”, as smiling was not exactly considered cool amongst the metal-heads of the time. And we can’t forget Twister Sister frontman Dee Snider, who believes that he can pin point the exact moment that metal started to become less metal….when Bon Jovi smiled, creating what many like to call “happy metal”. While others say that Bon Jovi’s music brought a fresh new light to the genre causing millions of other smiles to spread throughout the world. Not being completely miserable and angry all the time was a bold controversial move in the world of rock...

Madonna has officially launched the U.S. leg of her The Celebration Tour and we have the setlist from opening night.

The legendary entertainer performed a sold-out show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Wednesday night (December 13) and she added a special song to the set list for the New York City crowd.

The tour launched in London back in October and the start date for the tour was delayed by several months due to Madonna‘s hospitalization earlier this year for a serious bacterial infection.

Madonna‘s setlist for the tour includes more than 25 songs, some of which had not been performed onstage in decades.

Head inside to check out the set list…

Keep scrolling to check out the full set list…

**This set list is representative of the first show and might not be completely accurate for every show.

1. Nothing Really Matters

2. Everybody

3. Into the...

Even though it’s received reverent reviews from music critics, Ringo Starr criticized The Beatles’ “Rain.” He compared it to other songs that feature his drumming. While “Rain” was a hit in the United States, it didn’t even chart in the United Kingdom.

Ringo Starr said The Beatles’ ‘Rain’ is ‘certainly different than 99% of’ his work

During a 2015 interview with Goldmine, Ringo discussed his drumming on “Rain.” “It’s not my best playing; it’s just different,” he said. “I played ‘Rain’ and I’ve never played like it since or before it. It’s very busy for me.”

“I always tend to take the fill half-time whereas with that song it was full-on [smacks his hands] fast!” he added. “If anyone asks me about my strangest drumming, it’s ‘Rain.’ I don’t think it’s the best I ever played and I don’t think it’s the most inventive...

Having completed production in the summer of the previous year, Christine Jeffs is now well-prepared to polish off her highly anticipated fourth feature film, a book-to-film adaptation titled A Mistake to high-brow auds. This marks a sixteen-year gap between her previous feature films – she began with a lot of fanfare early on with Rain (2001), Sylvia (2003) and then Sunshine Cleaning (2008). A Mistake sees Elizabeth Banks topline what was a shot in New Zealand project. Jeffs was at Sundance with her last film so it might be a fun comeback narrative for this acquisitions item.

Gist: Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon—the only female consultant at her hospital.…...