(Credits: ARTE France) Sat 11 January 2025 11:30, UK While she was primarily regarded as a folk artist, Joni Mitchell has a long-standing and highly-publicised love for jazz music. Having written an album alongside Charles Mingus in his final years and also recruited the talents of fusion bass player Jaco Pastorius to perform on most […]

(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still) Sat 11 January 2025 11:00, UK Unlike the strictly regimented paths to becoming a solicitor or sommelier, there is no specific blueprint for becoming a film director. Even if you study filmmaking at university, there is absolutely no guarantee that you will be able to do the job professionally. In fact, you are probably […]

(Credits: Alamy) Sat 11 January 2025 10:50, UK For over 20 years, Ringo Starr didn’t perform live and fell out of love with that side of the music industry. It was a part of the job that The Beatles outgrew due to the sheer size of their operation and the lack of infrastructure to accommodate […]

View gallery Image Credit: The Hollywood Reporter via Getty The Traitors season 3 and its all-star cast have arrived! This season promised surprises and delivered. Without dropping any spoilers, 3 new players were added on the series premiere, per Variety. Three Traitors were also chosen by host Alan Cumming. “This season’s very different, and it’s […]

(Credits: Far Out / Wikimedia) Fri 10 January 2025 11:30, UK Artists are rarely truly original. The Beatles took key aspects from their combined influences, such as Little Richard’s shouting. Led Zeppelin never hid from the effect of others on their work, even when shamelessly pilfering from them. This applies to today’s collection of postmodern […]

(Credits: Far Out / Warner Bros / Universal Pictures / AGC Studios) Fri 10 January 2025 11:00, UK At one point during a screening of Robert Eggers’ hugely successful Nosferatu remake, a thought popped into my mind that I couldn’t shake. As I sat in the darkened cinema and watched Nicholas Hoult deliver one of […]

(Credits: Rust Movie Productions) Fri 10 January 2025 10:52, UK Actor Alec Baldwin had filed a civil rights claiming that he was wrongly accused of manslaughter of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin filed a 73-page suit against the prosecutors and investigators, claiming wrongdoing on several occasions, including false accusations and withholding evidence. The suit follows […]

(Credits: Far Out / Daniel Hazard) Thu 9 January 2025 11:30, UK Rock and roll has never run short on some dodgy lyrics from time to time. Even though there have been certain lines or entire verses of songs that have stood the test of time, others feel either like a product of their time […]

(Credit: Alamy) Thu 9 January 2025 11:17, UK For a time, when thinking of Keanu Reeves, it would be tough for a regular cinemagoer not to proceed to provide you with a facial reconstruction that resembled a perplexed bunny rabbit. Rarely moving the needle on his artistic authority, Reeves’ position as a sometimes goofy action […]

(Credits: Far Out / Franz Ferdinand) Thu 9 January 2025 11:02, UK Franz Ferdinand – ‘The Human Fear’ THE SKINNY: I’ll be 30 years old next week. This isn’t a plea for my inbox to be inundated with messages of goodwill or commiseration, but it’s an important landmark in the ageing process that I feel […]