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Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez has shared a cover of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” as part of his monthly YouTube “Claudio Covers” series.

With the recent release of The Cure’s highly anticipated comeback album, Songs of a Lost World, the Coheed frontman celebrated the occasion by covering one of the band’s classic songs.

As Claudio tells it, he was actually introduced to the track via the brilliant cover version by Dinosaur Jr.

“This song was introduced to me by some friends as a cover done by Dinosaur Jr,” Sanchez said (via the YouTube description). “They were skaters, so the reference to ‘tricks’ at the top of the song conjured up ideas of a smitten lover’s curiosity for executing kick-flips and rail slides.”

He continued, “At the time, I didn’t know much of The Cure’s discography outside of ‘Boy’s Don’t Cry,...

Unlike much of the Cure’s output between the mid-1990s and 2008, Songs of a Lost World is textured and well-balanced, achieving a cinematic wall of sound worthy of comparison to 1989’s Disintegration. Just shy of 50 minutes, it’s also the band’s first studio album in 16 years that isn’t excessively long—a welcome change for a group that, while it excelled at taught minimalism early in its career, has tended toward rock excess ever since.

Songs of a Lost World, much of which was originally recorded back in 2019, finds the Cure not only avoiding past mistakes, but also the pitfalls that can befall releases with such a protracted development. The album doesn’t feel overworked, and largely sounds like a band playing live in a room. You wouldn’t know to listen to it that some of the music initially accompanied different lyrics or that Simon Gallup re-recorded...

On Saturday 2 November 2024, BBC Two broadcasts Radio 2 In Concert!

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The upcoming episode of “Radio 2 In Concert” promises a special treat for music fans. Titled “The Cure,” this episode features the iconic band performing in an intimate setting. The show will air on BBC Two and is sure to capture the hearts of viewers.

The Cure will take the stage at the BBC Radio Theatre in London, where they will play a mix of their classic hits and fan-favourite songs. The atmosphere is expected to be warm and engaging, as the performance is recorded in front of a small audience. This setting allows for a closer connection between the band and their fans, making it a unique experience.

In addition to the beloved classics, The Cure will showcase tracks from their latest album, “Songs of a Lost World.” This inclusion gives fans a chance to hear new material alongside...

The Cure have finally returned with a new album: Songs of a Lost World, the group’s first new release in 16 years, is out today via Fiction/Capitol Records.

Though it was formally announced back in September along with lead single “Alone” (which we named Song of the Week upon release), The Cure have been gearing up for Songs of a Lost World for quite a while. Frontman Robert Smith revealed to NME that their new album was titled Songs of a Lost World back in 2022, and despite not sharing any of its songs, they even embarked on the “Shows of a Lost World” tour in 2022-2023.

During that tour, The Cure debuted several new songs that would appear on the album, including “Alone,” “Endsong,” “And Nothing Is Forever,” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye” — the latter two being included on the band’s recent 12-inch eco-vinyl single, Novembre – Live...

The Cure’s first new album in 16 years, Songs of a Lost World, drops tomorrow. To add the already incredibly high level of anticipation, the beloved goth band performed two intimate in-studio sessions for BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6. Even better, both sets are available on-demand via BBC’s iPlayer.

The band recorded both performances on Wednesday, October 30th in front of a small crowd of lucky fans. The sets notably serve as The Cure’s first live performances in support of Songs of a Lost World, with the band performing cuts from the album as well as classics from their wider discography. See both setlists below.

Both sets, as well as the accompanying interviews with frontman Robert Smith, are available for fans to stream via the BBC iPlayer for 30 days. Stream The Cure’s BBC Radio 6 Music Session here, and stream The Cure’s BBC Radio 2 In Concert here.

Lady Gaga has unleashed “Disease,” the lead single from her forthcoming seventh studio album, due out early next year. The song is the artist’s first solo single since 2022’s “Hold My Hand,” and comes just one month after Harlequin, the companion album to Joker: Folie à Deux, quietly came and went amid the film’s tepid performance at the box office.

Just in time for Halloween, “Disease” finds Gaga falling back on some of the tricks from her early heyday—namely the macabre imagery and brash Edm stylings of 2009’s The Fame Monster and 2011’s Born This Way. Produced by Gaga, Cirkut, and Andrew Watt, the track is driven by a heavy industrial beat and squelchy bassline with enough heft to support Gaga’s characteristically bombastic performance.

The song’s lyrics rely heavily on cliché, echoing similar themes as “Bad Romance” and “The Cure”: “Screamin’ for me, baby...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Stevie Nicks delivers a powerful women’s rights anthem, Lady Gaga drops a surprise jazz album, and Rauw Alejandro rolls through with some heart-tugging slickness. Plus, Mickey Guyton, Billy Strings, Sunflower Bean, and the return of the Cure.

Stevie Nicks, “The Lighthouse” (YouTube)

Sunflower Bean, “Serial Killer” (YouTube)

Mickey Guyton, “House On Fire” (YouTube)

The Cure, “Alone” (YouTube)

Lady Gaga, ‘Happy Mistake” (YouTube)

Saweetie, “Is It the Way” (YouTube)

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The Cure appear to be on the precipice of finally announcing their long-awaited new album, as the band has wiped their website and teased a release date for their first LP in 16 years.

In August, Robert Smith and company announced a 12″ charity single featuring live versions of two of the new songs the Cure had been playing on their recent tour. After the limited-edition run of singles sold out, Smith suggested something else was forthcoming in a follow-up tweet. “And then…,” the singer simply wrote.

The “And then…,” it appears,...

Oscar winning actor Robert Downey Jr. has been a part of several fascinating movies. In this list of successful movies, however, his portrayal of Tony Stark in the Iron Man franchise stands out the tallest. But the actor refuses to conform to stereotypes by taking on fresh parts such as the 2009 smash hit Sherlock Holmes. The movie was a huge success.

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in The Avengers (2012) || Walt Disney Studios

The massive appreciation of the first installment was rewarded when the makers brought in the sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, with the Iron Man actor reprising his role. Even this movie went on to repeat the success of the first one and brought in a unique transformation of the actor that even Marvel couldn’t pull off.

Robert Downey Jr.’s transformation as a woman for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

The iconic detective...

Listening to The Cure song “To Wish Impossible Things” from 1992 was a key inspiration for Italian filmmaker Carlo Sironi in writing, with Silvana Tamma as co-writer, and directing the Italian-French drama My Summer With Irène.

“The young and timid Clara meets the spirited Irène,” according to a plot description of the website of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival where the movie screened last week in the fest’s Horizons section. “These two girls with absolutely contrasting personalities are brought together by their recent struggle with an illness that, in the midst of their vulnerable adolescent years, has transformed their previous outlook on life. When they impulsively decide to spend some time at the seaside, it feels as if they are actually trying to stop time.”

The idea came quite spontaneously. “The way this movie started is a bit strange for me,” Sironi told an audience at the 58th edition...

It’s been a long time coming, but a reboot of the 1994 cult classic film The Crow (which was based on the comic book series created by James O’Barr) will finally be making its way out into the world on August 23rd, which is when Lionsgate will be giving the film a theatrical release. With that release date swiftly approaching, we figured we should gather together all the information we have on this movie… and here it is, Everything We Know About The Crow 2024:

Not A Remake

Lionsgate has informed us that this new version of The Crow, which we have previously been referring to as a remake, is not to be called a remake. Rather, the film is to be referred to as “a new adaptation of the comic book.” They have also revealed that the tragic characters at the heart of the story are not named Eric Draven and Shelly Webster,...

X-Men: The Last Stand tried to adapt two big comic book storylines with "The Dark Phoenix Saga" and "The Cure," only to ultimately do neither of them justice (a fact that haunted writer Simon Kinberg to the extent he tried again with Dark Phoenix...and failed a second time). 

The 2006 movie was a critical and commercial disappointment and, five years later, 20th Century Fox decided to reboot the franchise with X-Men: First Class.

The prequel revisited the formation of the X-Men, meaning everyone aside from Hugh Jackman - who made a brief cameo appearance - was recast. That included Beast actor Kelsey Grammer.

He'd eventually reprise the role for a surprise cameo in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but with Nicholas Hoult taking his place, that seemed to be the end of the road for Grammer. Well, until a shocking return in The Marvels' post-credits scene last November! 

With that,...

When he’s not busy destroying Mecha-Streisand with his “Robert Punch,” The Cure frontman Robert Smith can be found chowing down on refried beans and marveling at the magnificence of the Casa Bonita cliff divers.

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s passion project, the eleven-figure rehab of the beloved Denver area Mexican restaurant and entertainment megaplex Casa Bonita, is still some indeterminate distance away from opening its doors to the general public — though some A-listers are already basking in the magnificence that only hard work, passion and $40 million can achieve.

Starting last year, select celebrities and lucky fans from the nearly year-long waitlist have been able to visit the sprawling shrine of tacos and puppet shows in successive waves of the Casa Bonita soft launch, and the review from one such celebrity guest suggests that the massive fortune Parker and Stone have poured into the restaurant that...

Over the past week or so, Apple Music has slowly unveiled the titles included in its list of the “100 best albums.” Today, the top 10 albums were revealed, with Miss Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill claiming the No. 1 spot. Rounding out the top five are Michael Jackson’s Thriller; The Beatles’ Abbey Road; Prince’s Purple Rain; and Frank Ocean’s Blonde.

The top 10 also includes Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life; Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe Version); Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black; Nirvana’s Nevermind; and Beyoncé’s Lemonade.

In all honestly, it’s a pretty safe top 10, especially considering the drama that unfolded when Apple unveiled picks 11-20 and slotted Adele’s 21 at No. 15 and Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) at No. 18 — ahead of albums like Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds,...

The iconic child-fantasy novel series The Spideriwick Chronicles received a TV adaptation on the Roku Channel. The fantasy series is created by showrunner Aron Eli Coleite, who is known for working on the shows Locke & Key and Daybreak, both Netflix shows. Authors of the novel series, Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black are also part of the development process.

Joining the show is Coleite’s Daybreak star Alyvia Alyn Lind as Calliope, an original character that was not present in the novel series. Before fans take up arms for messing with the source material, the showrunner explained why he and authors Diterlizzi and Black chose to create a new character for the show.

Why Did Roku’s The Spiderwick Chronicles Create An Original Character? A still from The Spiderwick Chronicles

The children’s fantasy novel series The Spiderwick Chronicles has already received one cinematic adaptation. The film version of the...

This X-Men ’97 article contains spoilers.

It’s time to celebrate for the mutant superheroes of X-Men ’97. Sure, Professor X is gone and Magneto is the team’s new leader, but there’s still plenty to be happy about. The Friends of Humanity have been defeated (at least for now), their archnemesis has decided to become a good guy, and Cyclops and Jean Grey have welcomed a new addition to the family: their infant son Nathan Summers. It’s an exciting time for the team, even if the two-part premiere ends with a second Jean Grey showing up at their door, while the Jean Grey who’s just given birth watches on in horror. What the hell is all that about? (We explained that here.)

But never mind all that: little Nathan is here, but as hardcore X-Men comics fans already know, this isn’t actually the first time...

After spending more than a decade in development hell, a remake of The Crow (watch it Here) has made its way through production and is set to receive a theatrical release, courtesy of Lionsgate, on June 7th. With that date just three months away, a trio of first look images have arrived online to show us what It star Bill Skarsgard and singer FKA twigs look like as the new versions of goth rocker Eric Draven and the love of his life, Shelly. These images originally showed up on Vanity Fair and can now be seen at the bottom of this article.

The film has the following synopsis: Soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgard) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers,...

Forgive the broadness of this Generation X boast, but the ‘90s were just different. Were they a simpler time? Perhaps. Were they a better time? Objectively yes, absolutely. At least in terms of pop culture, and again … that’s not really up for debate, that’s just a fact! At the very least, television was objectively stellar in the 1990s.

If that weren’t the case, then why is Friends one of the most streamed shows for teens recently? Why has the Fresh Prince reimagining worked? And most importantly: why is the greatest Saturday morning cartoon of all time making a Disney-fied comeback in X-Men ‘97?

X-Men: The Animated Series (1992-1997) was one of the strongest entries in the history of comic book adaptations simply because it was a rare mix of solid animation (for at least four of those seasons), brilliant storytelling (being able to pull from 30 years of...

Coming our way from director Zelda Williams (making her feature directorial debut) and screenwriter Diablo Cody, the horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein is set to receive a theatrical release this Friday, February 9th, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Earlier today, we shared our interviews with Williams, Cody, and stars Kathryn Newton (Freaky) and Cole Sprouse (Riverdale), and now we’ve got a clip from the film to share as well. You can check it out in the embed above and see Newton’s character tell a corpse, played by Sprouse, about The Cure.

Set in 1989, Lisa Frankenstein has the following synopsis: A coming of Rage love story from acclaimed writer Diablo Cody about a misunderstood teenager and her high school crush, who happens to be a handsome corpse. After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love,...

One of the most memorable and heartfelt ways to tell someone you're falling in love with them is through a cute love song. Even if you're not into writing your own tune, sharing a Spotify playlist full of songs about soulmates, songs about love at first sight, and songs about saying, "I love you," is a sweet and low-pressure way to get your feelings across. And thankfully, there is a wealth of songs about falling in love out there - across all genres - to show someone just how much you care for them.

The best love song, however, is the tune that resonates the most with you and your partner. So whether you prefer a slow, romantic ballad, a sexy song, or a song that's more upbeat, your love interest is certain to be falling just as hard for you after giving it a listen.

These cute love songs,...

Continuing its quest to promote and center women in genre cinema, Sitges will hold its annual networking, scholarship, and conference strand, WomanInFan, which head of the industry department, Patricia Salvatierra declared “is growing by leaps and bounds.”

The events take place over Oct. 6-8, as part of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, unspooling Oct. 5-15.

Labs, A Book Launch and Residency

This year marked the second call for the WomanInFan FanLab Short-Film Teaser Contest, won by director Samantha Aldana, for “Little Lying Wild,” billed as a story of female empowerment rooted in Mayan folklore.

Sitges also celebrates the official release of the WomanInFan imprint’s second book, “Mistress of Fan: Monsters, Creatures and Nightmares Engendered by Them,” teased last year.

The ambitious collection of essays, a joint approach at boosting women who’ve contributed fiercely to the genre, muses on cult classics and blockbuster fare while centering...

It feels like every year, we spend half of the summer wondering if there's still such a thing as a "song of the summer" or if pop culture is too fragmented for us to have one inescapable track, then we spend the rest of the summer wondering what it is. Instead of that exercise in futility, we’ve narrowed down the songs of the summer as presented by summer TV. These songs were deployed memorably, adding emotion, sensuality, or humor to the scenes they augmented. Heartstopper went wall-to-wall with TikTok-worthy Gen Z anthems (then added a little touch of The Cure for the olds to enjoy), while Painkiller had Big Pharma's worst people dancing to "The Macarena."...

Exclusive: UTA on Monday announced its signing of writer, producer and executive John Ierardi for representation in all areas.

“I am beyond excited to be joining the UTA family,” Ierardi told Deadline. “The company has always been a pillar in the industry at giving creatives a voice and I couldn’t be happier to start this next chapter.”

Ierardi teamed with Bo Youngblood in 2019 to launch Showdown Productions, a production company whose mission is to produce material with a strong artistic vision that provides critical commentary on diverse social issues.

The company, where he serves as an executive, most recently wrapped production on the Will Wernick-directed pool hall drama Break, starring Victor Rasuk and Jeff Kober, as well as the thriller In Flight, which Ierardi co-wrote from his own story. Youngblood helmed the latter title, which stars Cristo Fernandez (Ted Lasso), Tiffany Smith (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3...

The Season 2 finale of Netflix’s Heartstopper is aptly titled: “Perfect.” Although in some ways, the episode drops the Truham-Higgs gang into a best of times/worst of times scenario, creator Alice Oseman, on whose graphic novels the series is based, not only sticks the landing but beautifully sets the stage for takeoff on Season 3. (You’ll recall that, after seeing how rapturously received Season 1 was, Netflix gave it a two-season pickup.) So what actually happens? Read on…

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‘This Is The Best My Life Has Ever Been’ | “Perfect” begins on the highest of highs:...

The Cure’s double live album Show is being reissued on vinyl for the first time since its initial release in 1993.

The fresh repressing was remastered by The Cure’s Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. The reissue was initially made available as a limited-edition picture disc for Record Store Day 2023, but it will receive a wide-release on 2xLP black vinyl beginning September 8th. Pre-orders are now ongoing.

The 18-track live album was recorded at The Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan in July 1992 during The Cure’s “Wish Tour.” The tracklist includes performances of “Pictures of You,” “High,” “Lullaby,” Just Like Heaven,” Fascination Street,” “The Walk,” “Let’s Go To Bed,” “Friday I’m In Love,” “Never Enough,” and “Inbetween Days” as well as deep cut like “Trust” and “From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea.”

The Cure recently wrapped up a record-breaking North American leg...

Yungblud‘s greatest battles are both internal and external on his latest single “Lowlife.” Internally, both literally and figuratively, he can’t get out of the bed, out of the house, or out of his own head. Externally, he can’t get his name out of everyone else’s mouth. Finding himself lower than rock bottom, the British musician settles in there instead of crying to claw his way out.

“I wrote ‘Lowlife’ because I just didn’t want to leave my house. I was sick of people, of games,...

The Cure has announced their first series of North American tour dates in more than four years. The Shows of a Lost World Tour began on May 10 and will wrap up on July 1. The Twilight Sad will support the band on all dates.

Last month, singer Robert Smith announced on Twitter that the band would also tour South America but that dates were still being decided.

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Smith has previously teased a new Cure album with their last release coming out in 2008. After being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019, he said, “If I’m optimistic it will be finished before the start of this summer.” However, the album still hasn’t been finished.

In recent years, Smith himself has collaborated with Gorillaz, Chvrches, Deftones and Noel Gallagher. In 2022, the band reissued their album, Wish (1992) for its 30th anniversary.

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After their successful world tour in support of their 2022 album, Brightside, The Lumineers have announced an encore set of performances that will take place this fall.

The folk-rock band, which is led by Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz, will begin their tour in Maine in August. They will be joined by James Bay as the opening act and end their tour in Los Angeles on September 15.

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Last year, The Lumineers performed 62 tour dates around the world. It was the band’s first tour since the cancelation of shows from their III: The World Tour due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Lumineers will go on a European leg of their tour during the summer, starting in Dublin, Ireland on June 2 and ending in Halifax, UK on July 9.

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The below setlist comes from the band’s performance at Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta, Georgia...

John Cleese couldn’t help but view the recent coronation of British monarch King Charles III as a satire worthy of one of his classic Monty Python sketches.

In an interview with Gb News, the legendary British comedian — who also famously dressed down a certain British noble named King Arthur in 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail — admitted he “lost it” after starting to watch the historic televised event with his wife. “I couldn’t stop laughing,” he shared, barely able to contain himself through his harsh-yet-candid recollection. “All these people in these silly costumes, all taking things so seriously. I thought it was a [Monty] Python sketch.”

Cleese further clarified that he “wasn’t laughing at the people because they were playing their parts really well” but had one note for the “marvelous” Archbishop of Canterbury, who had to make several adjustments while bestowing the crown on the new monarch’s head.

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino discussed the recent controversy surrounding The Cure’s ticket on sale and a host of other topics during an appearance on The Bob Lefsetz Podcast.

For their upcoming North American tour, The Cure opted out of Ticketmaster’s “platinum” and “dynamically priced” ticket options, and restricted ticket transfers in markets where the band was legally allowed to do so. Even so, frontman Robert Smith discovered the system to be “far from perfect,” as numerous tickets still ended up on the secondary market, while those fans who were able to purchase tickets complained of excessive transaction fees. Smith ultimately compelled Ticketmaster to offer fans a reimbursement of $5-10.

“We were proud of Ticketmaster’s side,” Rapino said. “We did a ton of work with Robert, making sure [tickets] were non-transferable, that it would be a face value [ticket] exchange and verified, doing all we could to put all...

Scarlett Johansson and Gwyneth Paltrow have set the record straight on past rumours that they clashed on the set of Iron Man 2.

Over a decade ago, Johannson made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Black Widow in the 2010 superhero sequel, alongside Paltrow who reprised herrole as Tony Stark’s assistant, Pepper Potts.

At the time, rumours swirled that the two did not get along on set. And while they have previously denied them, people still seem stuck on the notion that there was tension.

“People ask me, ‘Is it true that you and Scarlett Johansson didn’t get along on Iron Man?’” Paltrow told Johansson on the latest episode of her self-hosted podcast, The Goop Podcast.

“Is that a rumour?” Johansson asked. “You were so nice to me on that movie. I was so petrified. You were so nice to me! You could’ve been awful. I was so...

It’s Robert Smith‘s birthday so, naturally, fans of the singer are sharing what is commonly believed to be one of his greatest moments.

The musician, who is the frontman of The Cure, turns 64 today (Friday 21 April).

In 2019, he became a viral sensation on Twitter thanks to his hilariously deadpan response to an excitable reporter.

Smith was in attendance at that year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, where The Cure were being inducted alongside Stevie Nicks, Janet Jackson, Def Leppard, The Zombies, Radiohead and Roxy Music.

The singer approached a chipper interviewer at Brooklyn’s Barclays Centre, who said to him: “Congratulations, The Cure – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees 2019! Are you as excited as I am?”

Smith, without missing a beat, replied: “Um, by the sounds of it, no.”

The interviewer, brushing off the response, laughed in response, and asked him: “Oh, no, what are we going to do?...

A world expert on William Shakespeare has compared Taylor Swift to some of history’s greatest writers – including the Bard himself – and said she is a “real poet”.

Scholar Sir Jonathan Bate, a former Shakespeare professor at Warwick University, said he believed the popstar is more than “just high-class showbiz” and has a “literary sensibility” that was apparent from her debut album.

In a piece for The Sunday Times Magazine titled Why Taylor Swift is a literary giant, he wrote that he had “one of the best nights of [his] life” at one of Swift’s concerts.

“Listening to her lyrics, which most of the rapturous (mainly female) audience seemed to know by heart, I came away with confirmation of a thought I first had 15 years ago: this isn’t just high-class showbiz, Taylor Swift is a real poet,” he said.

Sir Jonathan analysed how the singer has been inspired by...

Hollywood was in the midst of its Brat Pack fervor when the director/screenwriter team of Tim Hunter and Neil Jimenez jolted moviegoers with "River's Edge." It was the grimy, dead-souled antithesis to John Hughes' peppy tales of suburban woe. The Northern California high schoolers in Hunter's film are dead-enders who, aware of their paltry worth to society, have little value for human life. When their friend John (Daniel Roebuck) claims he's murdered his girlfriend Jamie (Danyi Deats) and takes them to see her nude corpse, which he's discarded like a dog toy next to a riverbank, they do not recoil in horror. They are at most dumbstruck, and at worst eager to aid John in covering up the crime.

We should be shocked by their lack of revulsion, but Hunter lets us hang out with these kids for a good 15 minutes before taking us to Jamie. They're future burnouts...

Surprise! Ahead of her very, very, very sold-out Eras worldwide tour, which kicks off in Glendale, Arizona, this weekend, Taylor Swift has presented us with four previously unreleased songs from her discography. So while we’re sobbing at home on show night with only an old Swiftie merch tee to wipe away our tears because we couldn’t bag tickets, we at least have some new music to cry to.

Three of the four titles to have been released come from the singer’s re-recorded projects, meaning you can now happily listen to “Eyes Open”, “Safe and Sound”, and “If This Was A Movie” on Spotify in the knowledge that you’re not contributing to Scooter Braun’s bank account. But most of the attention is on “All of the Girls You Loved Before”, a track that was initially recorded for 2019’s Lover. It didn’t make the final cut on the album,...

Jack White has responded to the debate over Meg White’s drumming ability by posting an original poem in support of his former White Stripes bandmate.

A row errupted this week after writer Lachlan Markay called her a “terrible” drummer.

“The tragedy of The White Stripes is how great they would have been with a half decent drummer,” he wrote in a now-deleted tweet.

“Yeah, yeah I’ve heard all the ‘but it’s a carefully crafted sound mannnn!’ takes. I’m sorry Meg White was terrible and no band is better for having s****y percussion.”

Since then, numerous fans and friends including Questlove, Karen Elson, and Jack himself have jumped to defend Meg and criticise Markay for his comments.

Elson, who was married to Meg’s ex-husband and bandmate between 2005 and 2013, tweeted: “Not only is Meg White a fantastic drummer, Jack also said the White Stripes would be nothing without her.

After several days filled with complaints about excessive fees on the $20 tickets to see The Cure – including complaints from its frontman Robert Smith – a report indicates Ticketmaster will give back some of its fees.

Rolling Stone reports this evening that Ticketmaster is giving a discount on its fees that more than doubled the price of a ticket to see The Cure.

“After further conversation, Ticketmaster have agreed with us that many of the fees being charged are unduly high, and as a gesture of goodwill have offered a $10 per ticket refund to all verified fan accounts for lowest ticket price transactions,” Smith tweeted.

“And a $5 per ticket refund to all verified fan accounts for all other ticket price transactions, for all Cure shows at all venues,” he added. “If you already bought a ticket you will get an automatic refund; all tickets on sale tomorrow will incur lower fees.”

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Robert Smith has lashed out at Ticketmaster after fans sent him screenshots of the high fees they were being charged when buying tickets to see The Cure live.

The frontman used Twitter to express his frustration at the pricing system by the ticket site, which he says artists cannot “limit”.

Tickets to the band’s North American shows went on sale on Wednesday (15 March). The band had already announced that tickets would be non-transferable to reduce resale and overpriced tickets.

Smith had tweeted addressing the decision to do this earlier in the day, claiming that the band had been assured that Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan process would help them “fight the scalpers”.

“We had final say in all our ticket pricing for this upcoming tour, and didn’t want those prices instantly and horribly distorted by resale,” he wrote.

“We didn’t agree to the ‘dynamic pricing’ / ‘price surging’ / ‘platinum ticket’ thing…...

David Baddiel has weighed in after Hugh Grant was called out on social media for what some called “obnoxious” behaviour on the Oscars red carpet.

The actor, known for his dry sense of humour, was interviewed by model Ashley Graham, at the ceremony last night (12 March).

Graham did not seem prepared for Grant’s very short answers to questions about the Knives Out franchise and what he was wearing to the event.

Posting on Twitter on Monday 13 March, comedian Baddiel wrote: “Those on here having a go at Hugh Grant for being rude on the Oscars red carpet have perhaps mixed up the word rude with the word real.”

He added: “Those piling on to him reveal, again, how much social media has become a scolding machine.

“All Grant does is respond naturally to the questions, but the opportunity is seen to tell him off, and therefore to say, underneath...

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for The Last of Us, Season 1 Episode 8, “When We Are In Need.”]

HBO’s new series The Last of Us premiered to the approval of fans of the video game and viewers who are new to the franchise. Though the thrilling story has just begun, the first episode established the importance of the soundtrack in setting the mood for the post-apocalyptic world.

Created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann (the latter also wrote and directed the video game), The Last of Us stars Pedro Pascal as grizzled survivor Joel and Bella Ramsey as a teenage girl named Ellie. Taking place after a fungal plague has ravaged the globe, it centers around Joel fulfilling his task of smuggling Ellie beyond a quarantine zone in Boston.

Depeche Mode’s 1987 hit “Never Let Me Down Again” played a significant role during the series premiere. After Joel and his partner Tess (Anna Torv) set out for their journey with Ellie,...

The Cure have taken a number of steps to ensure fans who wish to attend their upcoming North American tour will have access to “affordable” tickets.

Aside from having no “platinum” or “dynamically priced” tickets, the band has announced that tickets will not be transferrable.

“We want the tour to be affordable for all fans, and we have a very wide (and we think very fair) range of pricing at every show,” the band said in a statement released on Friday. “Our ticketing partners have agreed to help minimize resale and keep prices at face value. Tickets for this tour will not be transferrable.”

If a fan is unable to use a purchased ticket, they will have the option to resell it on a face value ticket exchange. There are, however, a few caveats as New York, Illinois, and Colorado have all enacted legislation protecting resellers. For shows in those states,...

The Cure announced they’ve added a North American leg to their “Songs of a Lost World” tour. The band will kick off their North American dates on May 10, 2023 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. They’ll hit cities including Dallas, San Diego, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Atlanta before wrapping up on July 1st in Miami.

The Cure’s just-announced leg includes 30 dates spread out over May and July. The Twilight Sad will join The Cure as opening act on all North American shows.

Tickets will be available via Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan Sale (and we all know just how well that worked for Taylor Swift). The sale begins on Wednesday, March 15 and you’ll need to register to access the site. Per The Cure: “We have priced tickets to benefit fans and our efforts to block scalpers and limited inflated resale prices are being supported by our ticketing partners.

“Joker” was a very New York movie — so much so that tourists flocked to the Bronx staircase where Joaquin Phoenix danced in a montage.

But the sequel, “Joker: Folie á Deux,” will shoot in Los Angeles, thanks to 12.6 million in tax credits to Warner Bros. from the state of California.

The California Film Commission announced its latest round of credit allocations on Monday morning, awarding 93.7 million to 18 projects. The recipients include an untitled indie film from Sofia Coppola and Amazon’s MGM, which will get 19.6 million to make the latest iteration of “The Thomas Crown Affair.”

Netflix — which has dominated recent rounds — once again took the lion’s share of the funding, with 37.1 million — or 40 of the total.

The streamer got 16.6 million for “Rebel Moon: Part 2,” just a year after getting 18.5 million in California tax credits to make the first “Rebel Moon,” a space epic from Zack Snyder. The two...

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Netflix led the way in the latest round of tax credits granted to productions by the state’s film office.

The streamer was awarded 37.1 million in incentives to shoot in California, besting MGM (19.6 million) and Warner Bros. Pictures (12.6 million), the California Film Commission said Monday. HBO led the way in the previous allotment of credits and Netflix twice before that.

Netflix was given credits for two features, Rebel Moon: Part 2 and an untitled film. The first installment of the Zack Snyder project was also awarded tax credits last year to shoot in California. The sci-fi adventure follows a young woman, played by Sofia Boutella, in a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy forced to seek out help from neighboring planets to ward off an invading tyrant.

Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux headlines the four studio films given incentives — though it was granted the least.

David Buckley didn't want a traditional score for "The Sandman." It's an unconventional fantasy series about dreams, so why stay grounded to reality? Buckley wanted to create music that was beautiful, lush, and often strange and indescribable. Most of all, he wanted to respect the audience. He didn't need to always shout at them with music to be excited, to be afraid, or to be wowed. 

It's a graceful score from Buckley, who's nothing if not versatile. He previously worked on "The Town," "The Nice Guys," "Nobody," and CBS' "Evil," to name just a few of his many projects. He's scored plenty of action in his day, but with "Sandman," beauty was the key word. Recently, Buckley told us about his approach to the long-awaited Netflix series and scoring some standout moments in the first season.

Note: Spoilers ahead. This interview has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity.

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Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s Rogue Agent star James Norton with Anne-Katrin Titze: “We didn’t want it to feel like a predictable charm, the kind of suave spies in the James Bond vein.”

In Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s percipient Rogue Agent we first encounter James Norton (the tutor John Brooke in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and Oliver Ashford in Amma Asante’s Belle) as Robert Freegard in the process of applying for a job as bartender in a rural English pub, located near a small agricultural college.

Robert Freegard (James Norton) with Alice Archer (Gemma Arterton) listen to The Cure (Just Like Heaven) and he does a “bad-dance” to George Michael’s Faith.” Photo: Nick Briggs, IFC Films

Shot by Larry Smith, the year is 1993, the Ira bombings flood the news and we learn that MI5 is recruiting freelance spies to inform on those suspected of plotting terrorist activities.

Exclusive: Sharon Stone has optioned the rights to Lisa Barr’s upcoming novel Woman on Fire, inking a deal to produce and star in a film adaptation.

In the novel set for release via HarperCollins on March 1, a savvy, young journalist gets embroiled in a major international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece, and must contemplate whether finding the painting and exposing its dark history is worth her life. The thriller laced with sex, art and history forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge.

Stone is a Golden Globe and Emmy winner, and an Oscar nominee known for turns in films including The Laundromat, The Disaster Artist, Bobby, Basic Instinct and Basic Instinct 2, Alpha Dog, Broken Flowers, Catwoman, Cold Creek Manor, Casino, Last Action Hero and Total Recall, among others. Her TV credits include Murderville,...

Filippo Scotti is the 21-year newcomer starring in Italy’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, “The Hand of God.” The film is written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, whose film “The Great Beauty” won the Oscar in this category eight years ago. The Netflix movie is Scotti’s breakout feature film and his newfound fame is still something he’s coming to terms with. Watch the exclusive interview above.

“One thing that I love the most about this job is definitely to meet new people,” Scotti says. “This movie now, with all the travel for the promotion, I’m meeting new people and I’m sharing a lot. That’s what has changed the most.” “The Hand of God” competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year where it won the Grand Jury Prize. Scotti received the Marcello Mastroianni Award,...

Warning: This post contains spoilers from Dear White People’s final season. Read at your own risk.

Dear White People’s final season, which is now streaming on Netflix, is a fun and vibrant ‘90s musical extravaganza as Winchester’s finest tackle their senior year with iconic tunes from the decade.

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There are many standout musical numbers in the show’s final 10 episodes,...

It’s impossible to forget Shania Twain’s video for “You’re Still the One,” where she strolls down the beach in a hazy blue light under a full moon (don’t confuse it with “Forever and for Always” — that’s a different beach vibe). The song is one of the many, many singles from 1997’s Come On Over, her biggest album that now hits millennials with pangs of nostalgia. Case in point: Christian Lee Hutson just dropped a cover of “You’re Still the One” with Julia Jacklin, and it’s excellent.