Curtain Call — Culture, film, music, and TV.
Last month saw the band announce to fans that they’d be taking an indefinite hiatus , with plans to “fall dormant as a recording and performing entity” at the end of 2027 after another stretch of touring. Advertisement…
Read moreThere are more than a hundred people in front of us, and nearly twice as many have joined the queue by the time the doors are opened by a bleary-eyed employee four hours later. “What are we doing with our lives?” someone…
Read moreThe end-of-season tournament brings together the top seven singles players and top seven doubles teams in the season-long rankings – with the eighth spot in each held back for a grand slam winner outside the top seven.…
Read moreThe second is El Otro Lado del Rio (The Other Side of the River), which he composed for the Che Guevara road movie The Motorcycle Diaries. Drexler was still largely unknown when it won the best original song Oscar in…
Read moreIt was 1978, the end of their 32-year relationship, and the end of an era. My father Paul Roche, a poet, writer and translator of Greek plays, seemed to crumble before my eyes. He was 61, a father of five, and I was the…
Read moreThe character has been locked up for the last two years, having been charged with perverting the course of justice and assault. His predicament kicked off when Samson was accidentally stabbed. His transphobic friend Josh…
Read moreShe wanted them to help her sort through old photographs to use in a memory book for son Carl (Jonathan Howard), though the night quickly took a sad turn. Assembling her friends around the dining table, Debbie laid out…
Read moreThey give a weekly wildlife dispatch from their pod nestled in the countryside somewhere near Bristol, with guest experts and "guaranteed nerdiness". Hollie Richardson BBC Sounds, episodes weekly Exoplanet This sci-fi…
Read moreHer film, her feature directing debut, takes us inside the tight-knit world of Toronto's Tibetan community, using a cast of nonprofessional actors. It drifts in a dreamlike manner as it follows introverted 18-year-old…
Read moreOr is it about a childish impulse to show off? On location for the thriller Marathon Man in 1975, playing the regular guy unforgettably finding himself in a Nazi war-criminal's dentist chair, Hoffman told co-star…
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