[ad_1] Now that the British summer is well and truly upon us, with all its overexcitable, slightly feral energy, it’s time to find its perfect soundtrack. Summer anthems transcend genre and style – in recent years they have included Neil Diamond’s 1969 track “Sweet Caroline”, as an ode to England’s football team for the Euros…
[ad_1] Fortnite Chapter 4 Series 3 begins today, and as always, rumours abound as to what Epic Games has in store with its latest update to the battle-royale game. Chapter 4 Season 2 brought us the Star Wars event, and Transformers could be the next franchise to make the crossover, while Epic has also given…
[ad_1] Director Matthew Warchus and composer/lyricist Tim Minchin were the creative power pairing behind the all-conquering Matilda the Musical. Global smash-hit magic doesn’t quite happen for a second time with this musical, which follows weatherman Phil Connors, who is seemingly destined to live out the same February day for ever. Yet the duo certainly know…
[ad_1] “Who the f**k is that?” complains Mozart at the start of Chevalier. It is not your mother’s period piece. A loose, playful, defiant biopic full of contemporary slang, it is influenced more by Hamilton and Bridgerton in its knowing historical anachronisms and focus on an illegitimate mixed-race child rising to social prominence than stately…
[ad_1] Writer Charlie Brooker tried and failed to get AI to write a Black Mirror episode, proving television is more than a good idea and a script playing that idea out June 8, 2023 2:00 pm(Updated 2:33 pm) Annie Murphy in series six of ‘Black Mirror’ (Photo: Netflix) If there’s one accusation no-one can throw…
[ad_1] It takes a lot of chutzpah to start a romcom with a suicide attempt, and even more nerve to try and convince your brand-new audience that they should be finding it funny. But that’s where Significant Other begins, with a middle-aged man, Sam (Youssef Kerkour), shoving as many pills down his throat as possible…
[ad_1] Who needs theatre critics anyway? Certainly not this Queen musical, which received abysmal reviews when it opened at London’s Dominion Theatre in 2002 and went on to run for 12 triumphant years. I managed to avoid the show the first time around, but on the evidence presented here I feel confident in stating that…
[ad_1] High Street bakery Greggs has opened its doors to a camera crew and let slip some of its recipe for success in a new documentary. Channel 5 has been permitted behind the counter and into the kitchen to see what really goes on at the business which is reputed to sell more than two…
[ad_1] Sheffield rock band the Artic Monkeys play Norwich tonight as part of a series of sell-out concerts across the UK and Ireland. After dates in Bristol, Coventry, Manchester and Middlesbrough, the indie rockers head to East Anglia on Wednesday to play at the home of the city’s football team the Carrow Road stadium. This…
[ad_1] When promoting his recent BBC documentary about Rolling Stone Brian Jones, film-maker Nick Broomfield said he would never have considered taking the project to Netflix. If a documentary doesn’t have the official approval of its subject matter, he said, the big streamers don’t want to know. Broomfield might be proven right by Netflix’s new…
