(Credits: Far Out / Album Covers / Netflix) Tue 13 January 2026 11:00, UK At first, the great soundtrack to Stranger Things was something to bob your head to, but quickly, music wasn’t just there to set the energy; instead, songs were characters, vital plot points and important clues as the Duffer brothers didn’t just […]

(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still) Mon 12 January 2026 11:33, UK Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser paid a subtle tribute to Rob Reiner at the end of the ceremony, honouring the director for his impact across Hollywood. At the end of the show on January 11th, Glaser delivered her final words to the camera […]

Credits: Far Out / Amy Martin Photography / A24 Mon 12 January 2026 11:30, UK It’s only after leaving the cinema, having seen Marty Supreme, that everything from the last year makes sense. For months, or even since February 2025, when Timothée Chalamet got on stage and drew a clear and outright path for greatness, perhaps […]

(Credit: Alamy) Mon 12 January 2026 11:20, UK They weren’t just a band, the Grateful Dead were a way of life. And a pretty blood wild one at that. Leading out the Grateful Dead’s 1970 masterpiece Workingman’s Dead with its sunny pseudo-calypso beat, ‘Uncle John’s Band’ is one of the few songs by the band […]

(Credits: Far Out / MGM) Sun 11 January 2026 11:30, UK Over the last 60 years, the James Bond franchise has served up countless memorable villains for MI6’s finest to thwart in their plans of world domination, and as archetypal as many of them have been, the lure of playing the big bad in a […]

(Credits: Far Out / Album Cover / Sarah Doyle) Sun 11 January 2026 11:00, UK Something about reducing the human condition to a puddle of tears is common to the country canon. We should really check if they’re all OK. But with CMAT at the helm, the emotions are only going to keep flowing. ‘When […]

(Credits: Golden Globes) Sun 11 January 2026 10:30, UK Being nominated for two acting prizes at the same awards show is one of the rarest achievements in Hollywood, but winning them both is rarer still. It’s never happened at the Oscars, and it would take 46 years before it happened for the first time at […]

(Credits: Alamy) Sat 10 January 2026 11:30, UK Without wishing to be too disparaging in this opening line, it is fair to say that the MTV Video Music Awards have never been considered among the most prestigious accolades that a musician can strive for. Perhaps as a result of that, the VMAs have witnessed some […]

(Credits: Salt N Pepa) Sat 10 January 2026 11:29, UK A federal judge has ruled that the iconic hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa never owned the copyrights to its earliest works, officially siding with Universal Music Group. The duo, consisting of Cheryl ‘Salt’ James and Sandra ‘Pepa’ Denton, filed a copyright lawsuit against Universal Music Group in […]