(Credits: Far Out / Warner Bros.) Mon 20 May 2024 12:30, UK George Miller persevered with a fourth entry in the Mad Max franchise for 30 years and faced countless setbacks along the way that would have dissuaded a lesser filmmaker, but action junkies and awards bodies alike couldn’t have been happier that he refused […]

(Credits: Raph_PH) Mon 20 May 2024 12:23, UK Queen guitarist Brian May has paid tribute to The Who’s Pete Townshend, the musician who he believes “basically invented” the rock guitar. While May rose to prominence a decade after The Who established themselves into rock ‘n’ roll folklore, he was around as a spectator to witness […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Mon 20 May 2024 12:00, UK When we think about the 1990s music scene, the increasing rise of alternative rock comes to mind. After bands like Sonic Youth, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr and The Melvins became vital players in the ‘80s, the following decade saw movements like grunge, riot grrrl, trip-hop, […]

(Credits: Far Out / BBC Enterprises) Sun 19 May 2024 12:30, UK Stop-motion animation is not as popular these days as it used to be, with CGI rapidly taking over as the dominant choice. Less time-consuming and quicker to produce, computer-generated imagery has increasingly infiltrated mainstream cinema, leaving the art of stop-motion more of a […]

(Credits: Far Out / Rama) Sun 19 May 2024 12:00, UK Lemmy and Motörhead are overlooked in their songwriting ability. The band is often labelled as a tour de force in heavy metal and the go-to listen if you want distortion-laden heaviness, but a lot of the topics they talked about were actually relatively complicated. […]

(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still) Sun 19 May 2024 11:00, UK In the broadest and most unflattering of senses, each of Robert Eggers‘ four features to date have been cut from a similar cloth, but they’ve each conspired to be markedly and startlingly different in their own way. Admittedly, his remake of seminal horror […]

(Credits: Far Out / Universal Pictures) Sat 18 May 2024 12:30, UK Willem Dafoe is no stranger to the Cannes Film Festival red carpet. Across a career spanning four decades, a number of his movies have premiered at the celebrated event, from Lars von Trier’s shockingly sadomasochistic Antichrist to monochromatic A24 favourite The Lighthouse. But […]

(Credits: Far Out / The Great Escape) Sat 18 May 2024 12:26, UK With red paint splashed over the front of a Barclays branch in Brighton, day two of The Great Escape unfurled amidst continuing controversy. With a third of the lineup having dropped out, and criticism filling the social media comments for those that […]

(Credits: Far Out / Anders Jensen-Urstad) Sat 18 May 2024 12:00, UK Rising out of the vibrant no wave scene during the early 1980s, Sonic Youth were the ultimate champions of the New York underground scene. For the most part, Sonic Youth largely drew inspiration from the world of no wave experimentation and noise rock […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Fri 17 May 2024 12:30, UK His opinion of the franchise may have soured after it was ripped from his hands and carried on without him, but it’s fascinating to think where Sylvester Stallone would be if it wasn’t for Rocky Balboa. One of cinema’s most iconic action heroes and […]