(Credits: Far Out / CBS Television) Mon 23 December 2024 11:00, UK Lucille Ball was a groundbreaking comedian during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Starting her career as an actor playing supporting roles in boilerplate musicals and film noirs, she made the leap to the then-obscure and experimental medium of television in 1951. Teaming up […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Mon 23 December 2024 10:00, UK Although he’s sometimes grouped in with the punk movement of the 1970s, Ian Dury‘s musical style stretched far wider than three chords. With the Blockheads, he combined funk, reggae, new wave and jazz with classic rock and roll, which helped to mark the group […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Sun 22 December 2024 11:00, UK Although Sylvester Stallone’s most iconic character will always be Rocky Balboa, Rambo is a close second. The actor portrayed the antihero in five films between 1982 and 2019, creating a modern-day superhero with his hulking, monosyllabic performance and making that minuscule tank top and […]

(Credits: Sony Pictures Releasing) Sun 22 December 2024 10:00, UK Justin Baldoni, the actor and director behind the hit summer romantic drama It Ends with Us, has been dropped by his agency following a lawsuit filed against him by co-star Blake Lively. The move followed swiftly after news broke of the lawsuit on December 21st. […]

(Credits: Far Out / Spotify) Sun 22 December 2024 10:00, UK Rock and roll has never shied away from taboo subjects. For as long as the genre has existed, musicians have been willing to push the envelope and say things that might get them in hot water, whether that’s Mick Jagger’s snarl on ‘Satisfaction’ or […]

(Credits: Far Out / Sean Benesh / Joshua Hanks) Sat 21 December 2024 11:00, UK Should films be censored for the general public? This is a question that has caused significant debate over the years, not just because censorship often feels incredibly dystopian, but also due to the fact that art is a medium in […]

(Credits: Paramount Pictures) Sat 21 December 2024 10:05, UK Days after making the shortlist for ‘Best Original Song’ at the Academy Awards, Robbie Williams’ ‘Forbidden Road,’ which appears in his upcoming biopic Better Man, and is also nominated for a Golden Globe, has been disqualified from the competition.  According to the Academy’s rules, songs in […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Sat 21 December 2024 10:00, UK A lot of people think that punk music started with the Sex Pistols, and while they were one of the first out-and-out punk bands to take to the mainstream, the seeds for the movement had been sown long before Johnny Rotten had even written […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Fri 20 December 2024 11:27, UK As a parent, it must be impossible to pick your favourite child. Sure, there is doubtless a child which you prefer, the one which brings you your cup of tea or is just a little funnier than the others. But you can never actually […]