(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still) Sun 17 November 2024 11:00, UK Throughout his illustrious career, Sir Ian McKellen has lent his talents to everything from Shakespeare to comic book blockbusters and from fantasy epics to British soaps. Despite working steadily from the late 1960s, he undoubtedly became best known in the early 2000s for […]

(Credits: Far Out / Thesupermat) Sun 17 November 2024 10:00, UK When your roommate from university, the clerk at the record shop, or the overly opinionated snob at a house party tells you to “check out Captain Beefheart”, you probably nod and say you’ll eventually get around to it. By comparison, when someone like Alison […]

(Credits: John Lennon) Sun 17 November 2024 9:44, UK The relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney was initially a creative free-for-all. The two worked incredibly closely within The Beatles, often “eyeball to eyeball”, and delivered a plethora of songs that they would both stand by. Though they were pop hits, they were also chart-toppers […]

(Credits: Far Out / A24) Sat 16 November 2024 11:00, UK Ari Aster’s feature debut, Hereditary, not only captivated horror audiences and heralded a new wave of trauma-centered “elevated” horror, but it also left countless viewers deeply unsettled. Emotionally raw and unforgiving, this is not a movie that pulls its punches. And bookending the film […]

(Credits: YouTube) Sat 16 November 2024 10:38, UK Singer, composer, producer, occasional actor, activist, and all-around eccentric icon Björk has always been predictably unpredictable, so it makes perfect sense that an upcoming exhibition she’s spearheading will recreate the calls of extinct animals. The ‘Queen of Experimental Pop’ has been every bit as avant-garde in her […]

(Credit: NBC) Sat 16 November 2024 10:26, UK Over a decade since its emotional conclusion, Friday Night Lights is set to be rebooted by Universal Television. Although the project is still, reportedly, in the very early stages of development, fans of the cult series are already brimming with excitement and some trepidation that the sports […]

(Credits: Far Out / Emma Swann) Fri 15 November 2024 11:22, UK The swagger of Suede, the lyrical wit of Pulp, the anthemic abilities that saw Blur and Oasis battling it out; take all the Britpop greats, mush them into one package, and the result will be something like Flat Party. As a Frankenstein’s creature-like […]

(Credits: Far Out / BFI Southbank) Fri 15 November 2024 11:00, UK Shiori Ito – ‘Black Box Diaries’ In 2017, young journalist Shiori Ito accused an older, high-profile TV newsman of raping her two years earlier. Her documentary, Black Box Diaries, is a highly personal account of the painful, years-long process of dealing with the […]

(Credits: Press) Fri 15 November 2024 10:43, UK Serj Tankian, the frontman of the alternative metal group System of a Down, has revealed in a new interview that he had “emotionally checked out of the band” during the recording of their two final albums. Recorded in unison, Mezmerize and Hypnotize are the band’s two albums […]