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Fresh off a surprise appearance at Coachella, Childish Gambino —a.k.a. Donald Glover —has announced two new albums, which serve as his first new solo projects in four years following 2020’s 3.15.20. Last year, he dropped an EP featuring Ni’jah for Swarm, his horror series that aired on Prime Video.

It was a busy weekend for the actor-rapper. On Saturday, he was a surprise guest during Tyler, the Creator’s headlining set, where the two performed “Running Out of Time” from 2019’s Igor.

On Sunday, Gambino took to social...

Childish Gambino is going out with a flourish. During a Gilga Radio Instagram livestream on Sunday (April 14th), the musical alter ego of Donald Glover confirmed he will be releasing a “finished” version of his 2020 album, 3.15.20, under the title Atavista.

As a follow-up, Gambino will release Bando Stone & The New World, a brand new project doubling as the soundtrack for his upcoming film of the same name. “We’re releasing Atavista, but after that, there’s the final Childish Gambino album — a soundtrack for the fans,” he said.

While the rapper-singer didn’t reveal a release date for either album, he did say a music video for “Little Foot Big Foot” (originally titled “35.31”) directed by longtime collaborator Hiro Murai is coming in “the next couple weeks.”

Gambino also played a few previously unreleased tracks, including “Human Sacrifice” and the aforementioned “Little Foot Big Foot” featuring Atlanta rapper Young Nudy. Listen...

On Saturday night, Tyler the Creator headlined Coachella 2024 with a stunning, immersive performance, augmented by special guests like Childish Gambino, Kali Uchis, A$AP Rocky, and more.

With the stage decorated by massive sets and a wrap-around screen depicting an idyllic desert scene, Tyler’s set was a theatrical triumph. Throughout the set, the visuals morphed between cool starry nights and warm, sunshiney bliss, as Tyler exploded out of a camper van, donned an epic park ranger fit, scaled a cliff, and brought out his many guests.

The night’s surprise features began with Childish Gambino taking the stage for the Igor track “Running Out Of Time.” After that, A$AP Rocky helped deliver “Potato Salad” and “Who Dat Boy,” and Charlie Wilson loaned his voice to “Earfquake.”

A highlight of the set was its second-to-last song, “See You Again,” for which Tyler and Uchis dueted across the desert landscape.

Tyler, The Creator headlined the second day of Coachella on Saturday night — a momentous occasion for one of rap’s biggest stars, coming 13 years after his Coachella debut as a member of Odd Future in 2011.

Tyler pulled out all the stops for his show, bringing out a star-studded guest list that included Childish Gambino, A$AP Rocky, Kali Uchis and soul singer Charlie Wilson, the famed lead vocalist of The Gap Band.

“These are Epstein hours!” exclaimed the 33-year-old rapper at the start of his set, which he began at 11:40 p.

Tyler, the Creator is no doubt one of the greatest showmen working today in hip-hop. During his headlining set on Saturday night (April 13) at Coachella, the rapper once again proved just that, transforming the main stage into a desert canyon and using lighting and projections to create an ambiance so vivid and entrancing that it could only have sprung from an imaginative mind as his own.

To that, Tyler made the most of his first headlining show at the festival, where he has performed numerous times before. “The first time I played Coachella was 2011,” he told the crowd midway through the set. “I didn’t know what the fuck Coachella was, but me and my friends at the time, we went by Odd Future. And it was great. We were in a house. We rented a crib, went to target n—a, bought some snacks, and performed. The performance was terrible.

Paramore have returned with Re: This Is Why, an all-star reimagining of their sixth studio album, This Is Why, by artists like Foals, Julien Baker, Wet Leg, Remi Wolf, and more. Stream the album below.

Paramore first announced Re: This Is Why earlier this week, sharing on Twitter that they’ve “long wanted to recognize the connection we have with some of the artists who’ve influenced us as a band and/or who have cited our band as an influence.” Thus, the new version of the album features an exciting plethora of voices bringing new perspectives to the songs, whether that be through remixing them, or through making new arrangements altogether.

Along with the aforementioned artists, Re: This Is Why also features Panda Bear, Bartees Strange, The Linda Lindas, Zane Lowe, Romy, Claud, and DOMi & Jd Beck. Additionally, the album includes a previously-unreleased demo, “Sanity.” Check out the full...

Earlier this week, Paramore announced Re: This Is Why, an almost remixed version of their latest album This Is Why.

The trio – Hayley Williams, Taylor York and Zac Farro – dropped their new album earlier this year, and now, have brought in other artists to re-work the songs off of the album.

“We’ve long wanted to recognize the connection we have with some of the artists who’ve influenced us as a band and/or who have cited our band as an influence,” they shared on Instagram. “Re: This Is Why is almost a remix album. Some of the songs have been remixed sort of classically, while others were reworked or rewritten. It’s incredible to hear all our worlds colliding.”

So, who’s on the album?

See the tracklist and all of the features inside…

Remi Wolf, Zane Lowe, Julien Baker, The Linda Lindas and more all featured on...

Paramore is celebrating the first anniversary of their album This Is Why with a revisit.

On Monday, the Hayley Williams-fronted group announced that Paramore will release LP Re: This Is Why, which they described as an “almost a remix album” version of the album they dropped last year, on Oct. 6.

“We’ve long wanted to recognize the connection we have with some of the artists who’ve influenced us as a band and/or who have cited our band as an influence,” the band posted on social media. “Re:...

Hong Kong multihyphenate Andy Lau may just be ready to star in a Hollywood movie after long being a box office king and pop star in Asia. But only if the major studios will meet him on his terms.

“I’m ready for Hollywood, as long as Hollywood is ready for me,” Lau said during an informal conversation at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday after a more than four-decade career stopping short of following his contemporaries and heading to Hollywood.

In Toronto to receive a special tribute award ahead of the Sept. 15 world premiere of Ning Hao’s The Movie Emperor, Lau said he always enjoyed playing the bad guy in movies as a change of pace early in his career. “I don’t know why in the beginning, everyone saw me as the good guy,” he insisted.

Lau, who sits near the top of China’s A-list...

Toronto International Film Festival has announced the participants for this year’s “In Conversation With…” series, including headliners Pedro Almodóvar, Andy Lau and Lee Byung-hun and Park Seo-jun.

“TIFF’s 2023 In Conversation With… series exemplifies our belief that film can ignite perspectives and fuel transformation,” said TIFF Chief Programming Officer Anita Lee. “We are delighted to welcome a powerhouse lineup of international iconoclasts from Spain, South Korea, and Hong Kong for film lovers of all genres.”

The 2023 lineup represents a global and diverse gathering which will weave together unique perspectives that contribute to shaping the global entertainment landscape.

Almodóvar will receive this year’s Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media at the TIFF Tribute Awards. The Oscar-winning director of “All About My Mother,” “Talk to Her” and “Pain and Glory” will present the North American premiere of his short feature “Strange Way of Life.” The western romance, starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal,...

TIFF has begun announcing their Conversation With… (Icw) series for this year’s fest with Oscar winner Pedro Almodóvar, Hong Kong actor Andy Lau and Concrete Utopia Korean stars Lee Byung-hun and Park

Seo-jun set to sit down for chats.

“TIFF’s 2023 In Conversation With… series exemplifies our belief that film can ignite perspectives and fuel

transformation,” said Anita Lee, TIFF Chief Programming Officer. “We are delighted to welcome a powerhouse lineup of international iconoclasts from Spain, South Korea, and Hong Kong for film lovers of all genres.”

Almodóvar is already set to receive TIFF’s Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media this year at the fest’s Tribute Awards. His short, Strange Way of Life, which played at Cannes, will also make its North American premiere at TIFF. Short follows the relationship between a sheriff (Ethan Hawke) and a rancher

(Pedro Pascal) and their shared past.

Concrete Utopia stars...

Two deep cuts from Paramore’s latest album, This is Why, made their way onto the setlist for the band’s current tour. After a stretch of shows in England and Ireland, the band kicked off the North American leg in Charlotte, North Carolina, last night, where they performed “Figure 8” and “Big Man, Little Dignity” live for the first time.

Figure 8 live debut #ParamoreCharlotte pic.twitter.com/48cypJvTKa

— Paramore Tour Updates (@paramore_tour) May 24, 2023

Paramore mixed the new additions in with snapshots from each of their albums, from After Laughter...

Hey, "20/20" fans. We are back to let you guys know that ABC will be giving you another new episode of 20/20 tonight, March 31, 2023. That's right, guys. After serving up a repeat episode last Friday night, ABC will get back to serving up some new episodes tonight. Tonight's new episode will be the 26th one for 20/20's current season 45, and we've got a preview session for it. The ABC people served up a new, official press release for tonight's new, March 31, 2023 episode. So, that's what we'll be taking a look at for this preview session. Let's get into it. To start, ABC let us know that tonight's new episode does have an official title. It's called,"Running Out of Time." In tonight's new, March 31, 2023 episode, the 20/20 team is going to take a deep look at a story about a girl named Lauren McCluskey. She was a student-athlete at The University of Utah.

During the peak of their careers, Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng join Johnnie To’s light farce “Love on a Diet”. The romantic comedy that follows up on To’s “Needing You” (2000) looks more superficial on first sight, but underneath the fat suits and slapstick interludes awaits us a social commentary movie.

Sammi Cheng (“Infernal Affairs” 2002) plays exchange student Mimi Mo from Hong Kong who goes to Japan and falls in love with pianist Kurokawa (Rikiya Kurokawa). Kurokawa leaves to study music in the USA and returns to Japan as a big hit. Meanwhile, Mimi is depressed and compensates her downtimes with food, causing her to gain 200lbs. As Kurokawa returns, he does not recognize her anymore. Mimi meets Fatty (Andy Lau), who motivates her to lose weight in order to fulfill a promise that Mimi and Kurokawa made 10 years ago. But Mimi and Fatso fall in...

Before founding his own production company Milkyway Image in 1996, Johnnie To directed a few movies for Shaw Brothers, among them a messy action comedy called “The Mad Monk” (1993). In 1997, To delivers “Lifeline”, a swansong to the Hong Kong studio system and a milestone for his independent career.

The fiery action adventure tells the story of a group of firemen in Hong Kong, their rescue missions and personal dilemmas. The fire station seems to be cursed because bad accidents occur on a daily basis. In the beginning, the new grimly chief Raymond Cheung (Alex Fong) gets in charge and gives everyone a hard time. Even the veteran firefighter Yau-Sui (Lau Ching-Wan) is not spared. He has to moderate between the firefighters and the new boss. Sunny (Ruby Wong) is the only woman in the station and is struggling with her husband, who does not accept her profession. Yau-Sui...

After several years in television and the release of three romantic comedies including “Seven Years Itch” (1987), Johnnie To comes up with his first Action Movie “The Big Heat”. The extremely rare movie, famously known for its DVD release that falls short in terms of synchronization and subtitling, holds the blueprint of many later films of the director.

“The Big Heat” centers around the policemen John, played by Waise Lee also known as the bad guy from “A Better Tomorrow” (1986) and “Bullet in the Head” (1990), who has to solve the murder of his former partner before he can retire. Like many other of To’s heroes John has a disability. Due to a nerve damage, his hand is temporarily paralyzed.

Speaking of Johnnie To, one cannot dismiss the aspect of the auteur. Johnnie To is a prime example of a director that changed the nature of a genre...

With the success of his predecessor becoming imminent, it was perhaps just a question of time before cinema audiences would be given a sequel to Johnnie To’s 1999 film “Running Out of Time”. Even though Andy Lau’s character is naturally out of the picture in this film, we have Lau Ching-wan reprising his role as Inspector Ho, who, once again, has to engage in a game of deception and trickery with a skilled thief. And although there is always a high risk of sequels not living up to their predecessors, “Running Out of Time 2” at least features some aspect which prooves the directors’ predilection for illusions, since they essentially create a film about the nature of performing.

Several years have gone by since Inspector Ho (Lau Ching-wan) had to face a criminal who would deceive him and make a game of evading being arrested. However, he...

Due to winning the prestigious Best Asian Film award at Fant-Asia Film Festival as well as Andy Lau the award for Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2000. “Running Out of Time” has to be one of the most popular movies directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To. Its success even led to a sequel produced and co-directed by To in which Lau Ching-wan would reprise his role as Inspector Ho of the Hong Kong police department. However, as with “The Mission”, which was also made in 1999, production was quite stressful as To has admitted in several interviews, especially since working with Andy Lau proved to be quite difficult given his busy schedule that year. Regarding the title of their collaboration this fact seems somewhat ironic since Lau’s character is also constantly pressed for time, although the reasons for that differ of course.

After...

While it seems most critics and cinephiles think of Takashi Miike when it comes to a director who displays a certain work ethic, there is, however, very few talk about Hong Kong director Johnnie To. Over the course of his long career, To has maintained a steady and constant pace consisting of three to four and sometimes even five features per year and while the quality of some of these features may vary, there is no denying the director has also many strong years under his belt. For example, in 2005 and 2006 he produced and directed “Election” and its sequel as well as “Exiled”, three movies which are perhaps among the best of To’s filmography. Along with works such as “Fulltime Killer”, the “Running Out of Time”-films and “Vengeance” To has proven to be a director who follows the footsteps of filmmakers like John Woo, but who expands their...

Exclusive: Fox 2000’s The Hate U Give has been selected as the closing night film at the 22nd annual Urbanworld Film Festival, which runs from September 19-23 in New York. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Ava DuVernay with director George Tillman Jr. and stars Amandla Stenberg and Algee Smith in attendance.

In addition, Steve McQueen’s Viola Davis-starring heist thriller, Widows has been added to the fest’s screening lineup, as well as the Bet original film Running Out of Time, and Smallfoot, the Warner Bros animated film that features the voices of Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common, LeBron James, Danny DeVito, Gina Rodriguez, and Yara Shahidi.

The festival will also be celebrating the 30th anniversal of the John Landis-directed cult classic Coming to America with a special spotlight screening of the film Friday, September 21 and a Q&A moderated...