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Rupert Grint is taking a page out of Tom Felton’s spellbook and heading to Broadway to reprise his Harry Potter role in The Cursed Child. I say that because Felton has been playing Draco Malfoy on Broadway for a while now, and as his run winds down, it was announced that Grint would reprise his
Ask a table at a Fitzroy pub who makes the pokies in the next room and someone will say Aristocrat. Ask who makes Sweet Bonanza and you’ll get a blank look, even from people who’ve played it for hours. The game is everywhere. The studio behind it is a name nobody in Australia has reason
Dolly Parton’s passing has brought out tributes from stars all over Hollywood, with Seth MacFarlane being a notable standout. The writer/actor featured the country legend on Season 3 of The Orville and paid tribute to her by speaking about her as a person and that experience. Parton played a simulation of herself in the episode
Tom Holland and Zendaya are just married. Despite the rumor mill and the coincidence that was Zendaya method dressing for her hit 2026 movie release The Drama, Law Roach and finally the couple themselves confirmed the nuptials happened. It was about time, too, as the game of talking around it was starting to get a
As former late night stalwart Stephen Colbert follows in David Letterman’s bearded foodsteps, his ex-time slot is apparently having little trouble attracting audiences. Kicking off its CBS arrival back in late May 2026, media mogul Byron Allen’s comedian-fueled Comics Unleashed has been a dependable winner for the network. To the point where the Late Show’s
A majority of the conversation around Big Brother 28 so far has been about Rick Devens and Dee Valladares. The two Survivor legends have used a combination of experience and production advantages to basically dominate and impose their will on the other players who are, for the most part, less experienced at the reality television
Several celebrities have been filling in for Jimmy Kimmel on late-night this summer, with the most recent being country music singer Jelly Roll. The heavily tattooed artist has been delighting many fans of Jimmy Kimmel Live! with his monologues and celebrity interviews (including one where Glen Powell revealed him as a “complete maniac”). However, others
Sydney Sweeney is pretty fearless in a lot of ways. She’s sporty, she works on her own cars (Broncos specifically), her Euphoria Season 3 plotlines were not for the faint of heart. Oh yeah, and she dove into the producing realm to take more control over the projects she’s in. Now, she’s taking a move
It’s been a rough week for celebrity deaths. Just one day after Dolly Parton’s death was announced, it was revealed that the iconic Tim Curry also died at 80. Generations of fans have been mourning these losses, and for the latter, that includes the Rocky Horror Picture Show community, which is a thriving one based
Nostalgia is often a vessel for forward-thinking ideas. As a culture, we would not look to the past unless it informed the present. That being said, nostalgia for its own sake is also a worthwhile enterprise; there is no harm in seeking out a comfort mechanism if you need one. Such is the ethos of
Beartooth are a microcosm of metalcore. On their early releases, they were furious, chaotic and hardcore-leaning. They defined a new take on “metallic hardcore”, based on the melodic style of Comeback Kid and Stick to Your Guns rather than the grooving chugs of Killing Time. They retained the sing-scream-breakdown structures of their contemporaries and even
Kent Jones’s 2025 comic dramaLate Fametakes full advantage of the age and experience etched in Willem Dafoe’s face. Dafoe plays 64-year-old New York City postal worker Ed Saxberger, who quit high school, moved to the city, joined artistic circles, published a book of poetry, and then settled into a quiet life in lower Manhattan. Those
Who is audacious enough to publish a book purporting to explain the answer to the question, What is life? Well, Christophe Galfard is. In his book, This Is Life: How the Science of the Cosmos Explains What We Are, he explains it to the best of our current knowledge in 476 fascinating, highly readable pages.
The Jayhawks, a group with origins in the 1980s Minneapolis music scene, are proudly celebrating 40 years as an act. Original members Gary Louris (vocals, guitars) and Marc Perlman (bass) have watched their surroundings shift while delivering a blend of consistent and understated soft-rock, folk, and bar-band music. While Americana’s popularity has spiked from time
French director Sarah Leonor’s gentle triptych drama D’ici là opens with a soft melody, over which rustling leaves and birdsong is heard. Nature is viewed through a three-pane window, one of which is broken, a stone arch, before the view is unimpeded by the human footprint. Leonor is subtly setting up the premise of D’ici
Rhombus Larry Goldings / Peter Bernstein / Bill Stewart Smoke Session 7 August 2026 Organ trios aren’t as common as they once were. With the keyboardist handling the bass duties from the Hammond’s bass pedals and a guitarist or tenor saxophonist providing melodic help on top of a grooving drummer, these bands once turned bars
It’s been a long journey to Garage Flower’s debut single. It was officially announced on 17 July, but just two weeks later, a scourge was unleashed on British music. In response to UK drill’s “UK poo” meme, TikToker Angus.Official coined “indie poo” for what he perceived as a naïve slew of new indie rock artists:
THE SKY IS A WONDROUS BEING I AM LUCKY TO BE INSIDE Laura Fisher Strange Daisy / Cruel Nature 5 August 2026 Last year, Laura Fisher released Celestina, a daring, refreshing full-on plunge into solo piano that fuses the musician’s classical music roots with a penchant for improvisation. Earlier musical excursions saw her tackle math
“She [Dolly Parton] can see into people. She’s deep. It’s like through her songs, she opens her arms wide and embraces such a broad swath of people that don’t always feel seen. – Jane Fonda Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton worked together, alongside Lily Tomlin in the 1980 comedy, 9 to 5. A tart and
Dead Janitor’s Club Movie Review by Matt Boiselle Dead Janitor’s Club – directed by Devon Downs & Kenny Gage, written by Jeff Klima & starring Jake Busey, Felix Merback & Brianna Gage Okay, this one was a lot of fun.Dead Janitor’s Club, from co-directors Devon Downs and Kenny Gage, is a darkly funny crime film
Marginalia Movie Review by Matt Boiselle Marginalia – directed & written by Mark Beal, and starring Jessica Bell, Seraluna Sanchez & Jessica Lemmons Marginalia, from director Mark Beal, is a really fun little horror film that mixes demons, witchcraft, dark secrets and… killer rabbits. Yes, you read that right. The story follows Sister Trista, who
Hellcat Movie Review by Matt Boiselle Hellcat – directed & written by Brock Bodell, and starring Dakota Gorman, Todd Terry & James Austin Johnson Released on Shudder August 14th, Hellcat is a nasty little horror/thriller that takes a pretty simple setup and manages to squeeze a surprising amount of tension out of it. The movie
Black Mandala returns to one of its most successful horror franchises with THE 100 CANDLES GAME: DARK MIRROR, the third installment in the internationally successful anthology saga. The previous films in the franchise have been sold to more than 70 territories and released theatrically in 20 countries, building a worldwide audience around the sinister mythology
The entertainment world is in mourning following the passing of Tim Curry, the chameleonic British icon who left an indelible mark on cinema, theater, and television. Passing away at the age of 80, Curry leaves behind a staggering legacy built on a unique ability to blend the sinister with the theatrical, the terrifying with the
Death Cab for Cutie ended their run on Atlantic Records with 2022’s Asphalt Meadows, a strong return to form after a weaker run of releases through the 2010s that produced only a handful of memorable tracks but kept them on the radio. Now signed to Anti-, I Built You a Tower is their first independent
Call Me by Your Name author André Aciman’s queer romance novel, Enigma Variations, is getting the Netflix treatment with an all-new TV adaptation, and more stars continue to join the buzzy project as the ensemble recruits Love Story‘s Sarah Pidgeon and more in the latest casting reveal. As more stars join the mix, we’re breaking
Is it just me, or does something about modern mainstream pop culture feel off? Not broken, but stuck. A sense of stasis. There’s more content than ever before, but less and less seems worth seeing or hearing. Those nostalgic Facebook posts showing what was playing on multiplexes in 1987 (Robocop, Platoon, Predator, and Three Men
A Strange Light From the East: Eastern Influenced Western Music 1965-72 Various Artists Cherry Red 21 August 2026 In their 2019 article on “raga rock”, Brian Ireland and Sharif Gemie point to several specific social and political phenomena as key to the surge in purported Asian influences on music in the 1960s Anglophone North Atlantic.
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