Category: Arts
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – sad but sweet Thai inheritance tale
The title makes it sound like some goofy Brit crime comedy; in fact it’s a sweet, sad heart-warmer from Thailand, whose original title Lahn Mah, [more…]
Rippy review – kangaroo slasher bounces into Cocaine Bear territory
It is a horror movie truth universally acknowledged that if your killer bounces after its victims, you’d best play it for laughs. But that is [more…]
Blake Lively sees wide support in lawsuit against co-star Justin Baldoni
Blake Lively is picking up broad support in her battle against her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni, days after the US [more…]
‘It took a while, but I’m here’: Denzel Washington is baptised before his 70th birthday
Denzel Washington has become a minister after being baptised shortly before his 70th birthday, in a ceremony at a church in New York. The Oscar-winning [more…]
Claressa Shields: ‘I’m not here for people to cry and feel sorry for me’
Claressa Shields was two months removed from defending her Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games when an email from Hollywood landed [more…]
From Charli xcx to Chat Pile: Guardian readers’ favourite albums of 2024
Chat Pile – Cool World I often feel overwhelmed by the lengths some people will go to literally watch the world burn. Chat Pile seem [more…]
Dirty Three, Amyl and the Sniffers and Emily Wurramara: the best Australian albums of 2024
Amyl and the Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness Key track: Chewing Gum Credit to Amyl and the Sniffers for not standing still: the creative growth of [more…]
‘I take karaoke seriously. I’ve got a good falsetto’: Asim Chaudhry’s honest playlist
The first song I fell in love with I was obsessed with Michael Jackson as a kid, to the point where we went to Butlin’s [more…]
Ramones family row puts the skids on US punk pioneers’ biopic
A movie based on New York band the Ramones could be coming apart after a legal battle that in many ways mirrors the trajectory of [more…]
Music: Kitty Empire’s 10 best albums of 2024
1. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Woodland (Acony, August) Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’s return was prompted by the near loss of their life’s work [more…]
