Category: Arts
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review – Jim Carrey supplies laughs and energy for hedgehog threequel
A third Sonic film rolls off the production line with remorseless inevitability, and no little excitement among its core early-teen fanbase; the Marvel Cinematic Universe [more…]
Emilia Pérez shows early promise in Oscars race as Academy releases shortlists in 10 categories
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) released shortlists for 10 of its award categories including best international feature and best song on [more…]
Aphex Twin: Music from the Merch Desk (2016-2023) review – Santa’s sack overspills with AFX bounty
The near transcendentally awful cover art of this 38-track compilation, released with little fanfare this week, will already be familiar to hardcore Aphex Twin fans. [more…]
‘To me, to uzi’: why Paul Chuckle as a gangster isn’t such a dramatic career change
Next year a British gangster film will be released, entitled Fall to the Top. Its plot concerns a frustrated labourer who becomes a drug dealer [more…]
Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 3 – The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest, a British, American and Polish production directed by Jonathan Glazer, begins with a scene of bucolic bliss: a German-speaking family picnicking [more…]
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – an unmissable, ingenious Christmas treat
Forget Tom Cruise riding his motorbike off a cliff in Mission: Impossible. Wallace and Gromit are on a comfy narrowboat teetering on the edge of [more…]
‘Very disheartened’: trans actor Chanel Stewart speaks out as Disney changes her Pixar character to be cisgender
An upcoming Pixar animated television series will no longer include a transgender teenager after Disney removed dialogue that referenced the character’s gender identity. Win or [more…]
Mufasa: The Lion King review – storytelling takes pride of place in punchy origin tale
How did Scar, the wicked uncle from The Lion King voiced by Jeremy Irons, get to be so … well … wicked? How is it [more…]
Can the Russos find a good reason for Chris Evans’s return to Marvel?
Ever wondered what the multiverse might look like if Marvel just used it to bring back popular superheroes the studio regrets writing off? Welcome to [more…]
‘Like Depeche Mode, but evil’: the sweaty, sexual music of 80s EBM
In Düsseldorf in 1978, you might think Kraftwerk would be considered royalty in the local music scene. However, for a new era of kids coming [more…]
