A dynamic space where the latest trends in entertainment meet cultural exploration. From film and music to art and literature, this category celebrates the diversity and vibrancy of global culture.
The seductive opening sequence of Everybody Digs Bill Evans draws you in like a magnet. The improvised jazz drifting through the air at the Village Vanguard in New York on a summer night in 1961 — soft, caressing, mellow, smoky — is one thing. But the extraordinary communion shared by the musicians of the Bill…
A pretty unsuspecting element of Hanna Bergholm’s filmography lured Rupert Grint onto Nightborn. The British actor has kept a low profile since his career-making turn as the red-haired Ron Weasley in Warner Bros’ Harry Potter films. For a decade, he was a fixture of global cinema; a wand-wielding Gryffindor who became, alongside fellow Hogwarts alums…
Loyle Carner, the album-charting, Brit Award-nominated hip-hop musician, doesn’t hesitate when asked if he was nervous shooting his first TV show. “Hell yeah,” he confesses to The Hollywood Reporter. “The whole time.” There’s a delicious irony in the fact that Carner, also a Glastonbury fan-favorite (he headlined the fest’s buzzy Other Stage only last year),…
In May 1969, Fred McFeeley Rogers, host of the nationally syndicated seriesMr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, appeared in front of the U.S. Senate on behalf of PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In a six-minute speech, he impressed upon the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media the necessity for children’s content that captured “the inner drama of…
A decade after his outback Western Sweet Country, First Nations director Warwick Thornton returns, with his new film, Wolfram, to the colonial frontier of 1930s Australia. Like Sweet Country, Wolfram is set in Thornton’s hometown of Alice Springs, and inspired by real family history, that of Thornton’s and David Tranter, co-screenwriter (with Steven McGregor) on…
A stunningly realistic AI video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt has one top Hollywood screenwriter warning the industry is about to face major challenges due to the new and rapidly evolving technology, while the MPA has blasted the company behind the model. The 15-second video (watch it below) depicts the two A-listers trading blows…
Derya and Aziz are a celebrated artist couple from Ankara. They lead a fulfilling life with their 13-year-old daughter, Ezgi. But then an incident at the premiere of their new play changes everything. Overnight, they find themselves targeted by the state. And they receive yellow letters, losing their jobs – and their home as well….
If real estate is all about location, location, location, international film markets are all about timing, timing, timing. Berlin mid-February is not an ideal spot for red carpet fashion — pity the stars facing icy winds and sub-zero temperatures at this year’s Berlinale —but if you want to do business, the timing of the European…
You can feel the outsize ambition in Bart Layton’s crime thriller adapted from a novella by that master of the genre, Don Winslow. The film features a labyrinthine storyline that connects in surprising ways; superb production values, including enough Los Angeles location shooting to counteract all that runaway production; and excellent performances from an overstuffed…
Jennifer Hudson is joining the producing team for Dreamgirls on Broadway. Hudson joins the team of the revival after winning an Academy Award for her role as Effie White in the 2006 film adaptation of Dreamgirls. The musical is planned for Broadway this fall, with direction and choreography by Camille A. Brown, choreographer of Hell’s…
