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“BEAUTY AND VIOLENCE ARE DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE SAME COIN.” Speaking on the language around girlhood, “My experience of it has been very savage, violent, like cathartic exorcism. That’s why I also say pop and noise are…
Recorded with Indiana-rooted drummer Ben Lumsdaine and trumpeter John Raymond, Beginningless maintains their strong winning streak. Butterss, Raymond, and Lumsdaine may not have recorded together before in this exact…
The guests at a luxurious Berlin hotel include a famous but unhappy ballerina, a hard-up baron who has turned thief, a dying clerk, a ruthless businessman and an ambitious secretary. Their contrasting stories unfold…
Over the next few films, producers struck a balance between nodding to the past while also moving away from some of the cheesier elements of the series, no longer sticking rigidly to all of the tradition and tropes of…
The BBC One soap aired Danny Dyer’s exit as the pub landlord back in 2022, when his character Mick was lost at sea following a car chase involving then-pregnant wife Janine Carter (Charlie Brooks) and ex-wife and…
At the heart of the story are Janet Williams and Emma Murphy, two mothers who refused to be deterred by official inertia (and, at times, outright scorn) and whose robust lack of self-pity makes this film stirring rather…
"I'd like to kill him," Sean Connery famously said of Bond, that "dull, prosaic English policeman"; it was Daniel Craig who finally managed to do it, a fifth film torturously pulled out of him because Barbara Broccoli…
Given that I have zero rhythm, comedy was my other option. She wrote me a poem called Mrs Brown's Moggy, about a cat that was often very soggy, for my school's talent show. Because you can't tell the difference between…
Perhaps that's why the BBC has kept it something of a state secret that Honey , its splashy new Cold War drama, is exactly that. This prequel follows Fiona Shaw’s Carolyn Martens, played here as a young agent by Ann…
It’s for good reason that the game’s popularity hasn’t dwindled: it’s free to play and boasts a simple concept for a fun and engaging puzzle game that doesn’t take too much time. To play, you’re given six tries to work…