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Dahomey review: Mati Diop's probing documentary on restitution of stolen artefacts makes for essential viewing
1 week, 1 day ago

Dahomey review: Mati Diop's probing documentary on restitution of stolen artefacts makes for essential viewing

Hindustan Times  

Mati Diop's new documentary is unlike anything else you'll see this year. The statue gets a voice, and this is where Diop's razor-sharp observation on cultural history, institutionalized monopoly and colonialism begins to take shape. A sharply made documentary The film's most electric part is when Diop turns the action to a meeting of university students to search for an …

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Roy Haynes, bebop jazz drummer who played with Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and John Coltrane
1 month ago

Roy Haynes, bebop jazz drummer who played with Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and John Coltrane

The Telegraph  

Four years later he moved to New York to join Luis Russell’s big band, then in 1947 he joined the influential tenor saxophonist Lester Young, and two years later featured on the seminal album The Amazing Bud Powell alongside the eponymous pianist and bebop pioneer. That year, he also became Charlie Parker’s go-to drummer, replacing the great Max Roach. “I …

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Review: Jazz, African independence, secret agents — it’s all in ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’
1 month, 1 week ago

Review: Jazz, African independence, secret agents — it’s all in ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’

LA Times  

Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words and sounds, recounting the moment during the Cold War when Congolese independence, hot jazz and geopolitical tensions made a sound heard around the world. The film’s organizing narrative swings back and forth from …

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Anna Moschovakis' taut riddle of a novel navigates shaky ground
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Anna Moschovakis' taut riddle of a novel navigates shaky ground

LA Times  

Book Review An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth By Anna Moschovakis Soft Skull: 208 pages, $16.95 It you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Anna Moschovakis’ “An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth” is my kind of novel: …

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13 movie franchises that should have quit while they were ahead
2 months, 3 weeks ago

13 movie franchises that should have quit while they were ahead

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Vin Diesel behind the wheel of a …

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Nasa unfurls giant solar sail – and you can see it from Earth
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Nasa unfurls giant solar sail – and you can see it from Earth

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Nasa’s solar sail aims to unlock interstellar space travel “The advanced composite solar …

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Review: Pop culture and populist revolt collide in Old Globe’s thrilling ‘Henry 6’
4 months, 1 week ago

Review: Pop culture and populist revolt collide in Old Globe’s thrilling ‘Henry 6’

LA Times  

Mike Sears, from left, as Cardinal, Ian Lassiter as Gloucester, Elizabeth A. Davis as Margaret, Keshav Moodliar as King Henry VI, and Victor Morris as Salisbury in “Henry 6.” Productions of “Henry VI,” an early history play by Shakespeare written in three parts, don’t come around all that often. The Shakespeare of “Henry VI” isn’t yet the Shakespeare who wrote …

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Martin Phillipps, founder of New Zealand’s influential Chills, dies at 61
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Martin Phillipps, founder of New Zealand’s influential Chills, dies at 61

LA Times  

Martin Phillipps, whose band the Chills was a mainstay of the 1980s New Zealand indie-rock scene that served as a formative influence on the likes of R.E.M. The statement didn’t say when or where Phillipps died or specify a cause but noted that he’d died “unexpectedly.” A 2019 documentary about Phillipps and the Chills chronicled the musician’s struggles with hepatitis …

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Review: In fizzy facts-optional ‘Fly Me to the Moon,’ faking Apollo 11 and falling in love
5 months, 1 week ago

Review: In fizzy facts-optional ‘Fly Me to the Moon,’ faking Apollo 11 and falling in love

LA Times  

It may not have all the right stuff, but what “Fly Me to the Moon” lacks in narrative coherence and tonal consistency it makes up for, in part, by simply existing. Little does she know she’s being tracked by Moe Berkus, a shadowy operative working for then-President Richard Nixon, who hires Kelly to help sell the looming moon mission to …

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‘Kill’ movie review: Lakshya rampages in propulsive bloodfest
5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Kill’ movie review: Lakshya rampages in propulsive bloodfest

The Hindu  

The tide has finally turned at Dharma Productions’ action department. Kill Director: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat Cast: Lakshya, Tanya Maniktala, Raghav Juyal, Harsh Chhaya Run-time: 105 minutes Storyline: A New Delhi-bound passenger train explodes into violence when two off-duty commandos take on a band of robbers Once Kill gets down to business, it explodes. The drapes of an AC sleeper coach …

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Kristen Stewart, Oscar Isaac to headline ‘Mandy’ director Panos Cosmatos’ vampire thriller ‘Flesh of the Gods’
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Kristen Stewart, Oscar Isaac to headline ‘Mandy’ director Panos Cosmatos’ vampire thriller ‘Flesh of the Gods’

The Hindu  

Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac are teaming up for Flesh of the Gods, a new film directed by Panos Cosmatos, known for his work on 2018’s Mandy. Filmmaker Adam McKay expresses enthusiasm for the collaboration saying, “This director, this writer, these incredible actors, vampires, choice ’80s punk, style and attitude for miles… that’s the film we’re bringing you today. Flesh …

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Dune sandworms: How do they move so fast? We asked scientists.
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Dune sandworms: How do they move so fast? We asked scientists.

Slate  

The sandworms of Dune have more than earned their spot atop the pantheon of iconic sci-fi creatures. Dune author Frank Herbert’s gargantuan autotrophs have served as the blueprint for generations of other monster designs, like Beetlejuice’s sandworm, the tunneling graboids from Tremors, and at least two Star Wars creatures. Though the sandworm is inspired, plotwise, by dragons, part of its …

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How composer Ludwig Göransson channels J. Robert Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan too
1 year, 1 month ago

How composer Ludwig Göransson channels J. Robert Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan too

LA Times  

“The audience needs to feel what he’s feeling. “I’ve always viewed the music as needing to be integrated early into the DNA of the film,” Nolan says, “and not applied afterwards, you know, like a sauce on a piece of meat.” So Göransson — the Swedish wonder who has worked his aural magic on “Creed,” “Black Panther” and “The Mandalorian” …

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Movie Review: The movie version of a beach read arrives in Amazon’s ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’
1 year, 4 months ago

Movie Review: The movie version of a beach read arrives in Amazon’s ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’

Associated Press  

“ Red, White & Royal Blue ” is a harmlessly enjoyable fantasy rom-com. The LA Review of Books described it as “propulsive” and “pulpy” and “fantastical.” López keeps “Red, White & Royal Blue” in a solidly fantastical space. “Red, White & Royal Blue” tries to keep things modern and cool, with its best approximations of CW-style “West Wing”- meets-“Veep” White …

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Review: Propulsive and risky, ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ is just what you want from young filmmakers
1 year, 5 months ago

Review: Propulsive and risky, ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ is just what you want from young filmmakers

LA Times  

‘They Cloned Tyrone’ The offbeat science-fiction comedy “They Cloned Tyrone” has a high-concept premise, delivered with a distinctively skewed, slapstick-esque comic rhythm. Available on Netflix ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated’ The title of Peter Nicks’ documentary “Stephen Curry: Underrated” is provocative, given that Curry is a two-time NBA MVP with four championship rings. Available July 21 on Apple TV+ ‘The Deepest Breath’ …

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‘Class of ’09’ series review: A time-travelling thriller that isn’t as propulsive as it should be
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Class of ’09’ series review: A time-travelling thriller that isn’t as propulsive as it should be

The Hindu  

If one could turn back the clock, and do something different to alter the course of events, spend some more time with a loved one, say that one thing you did not, secure in the knowledge that you had all the time in the world — even James Bond suffered for that fallacy. So Tom Rob Smith’s Class of ’09, …

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Review: The quirky Swiss curio ‘Unrest’ unwinds timely issues
1 year, 7 months ago

Review: The quirky Swiss curio ‘Unrest’ unwinds timely issues

LA Times  

If you took the terms “watchmaking” and “anarchy” and fed them into a sophisticated AI program along with, say, “Frederick Wiseman documentaries” and “Guy Maddin visual style,” the end product might resemble “Unrest,” a meticulous and mischievous unconventional first feature by Cyril Schaublin. Standing in for Schaublin’s female ancestors is the wide-eyed Josephine Grabli whose fine motor skills are put …

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Infinity Pool casts Alexander Skarsgård as a holidaygoer who falls prey to hedonism and the wily Mia Goth in a sinister island paradise
1 year, 7 months ago

Infinity Pool casts Alexander Skarsgård as a holidaygoer who falls prey to hedonism and the wily Mia Goth in a sinister island paradise

ABC  

Of all the deranged images in Infinity Pool, there was one that became catnip to a certain sect of filmgoers months before its release: the sight of Alexander Skarsgård, that famously Adonic Swede, crawling around on all fours, bound by a leash and glaring maniacally into the distance. The effect is shorthand for the sheer weirdness that's about to erupt …

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And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine review: A brief history of the image
1 year, 9 months ago

And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine review: A brief history of the image

Hindustan Times  

In Swedish directors Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck's joint feature-length documentary debut ‘And the King Said, What a Fanstastic Machine’, which premiered at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival 2023, the world slowly but surely turns into an ever-widening nexus of looking into the camera. The series of archival footage and interviews that co-directors Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van …

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Review: Gustavo Dudamel and Yuja Wang lead an exceptional, propulsive Rachmaninoff festival
1 year, 10 months ago

Review: Gustavo Dudamel and Yuja Wang lead an exceptional, propulsive Rachmaninoff festival

LA Times  

Two days after the announcement that in a full 43 months, or approximately 1,300 days, Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director faced his public in Walt Disney Concert Hall. The festival marks the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff’s birth on April 1, along with the 80th anniversary next month of …

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‘The White Lotus’ season 2 review: A dazzling exploration of jealousy, desire, and sexual politics
2 years, 1 month ago

‘The White Lotus’ season 2 review: A dazzling exploration of jealousy, desire, and sexual politics

The Hindu  

The White Lotus gang has moved to Sicily in the second season of Mike White’s gorgeous social satire. The White Lotus Creator: Mike White Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Jennifer Coolidge, Adam DiMarco, Beatrice Grannò, Meghann Fahy, Tom Hollander, Sabrina Impacciatore, Michael Imperioli, Theo James, Aubrey Plaza, Will Sharpe, Haley Lu Richardson, Simona Tabasco, Jon Gries, Leo Woodall Season: 2 Episodes: …

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At superstar stadium spectacle, Lady Gaga crashes through the surface
2 years, 3 months ago

At superstar stadium spectacle, Lady Gaga crashes through the surface

LA Times  

Did she know he’d be there? Calling him a “wonderful human being,” Gaga said the producer had come to her house every day while she was going through a “really rough time” — a time when she was “so angry I never thought I wouldn’t be angry.” She said she’d sit on her porch and chain-smoke three packs of cigarettes; …

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Beyoncé returns with liberating house jam ‘Break My Soul’
2 years, 6 months ago

Beyoncé returns with liberating house jam ‘Break My Soul’

LA Times  

On her new single, Beyoncé celebrates “the queens in the front and the doms in the back.” “I’m on that new vibration,” Beyoncé sings in her new single “Break My Soul,” and indeed she is: The first taste from the pop superstar’s highly anticipated “Renaissance” album is a thumping 1990s-style house jam that arrives just days after Drake dropped his …

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Top Gun Maverick Review: Tom Cruise Soars in a Worthy Sequel Which is Better Than the Original
2 years, 7 months ago

Top Gun Maverick Review: Tom Cruise Soars in a Worthy Sequel Which is Better Than the Original

News 18  

A neatly framed autograph of Tom Cruise taken during his visit to India while promoting Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol hangs on the wall of one of my rooms. Probably because watching Top Gun: Maverick took me back in time, reminding me of how, as a child, I would enjoy watching all his films with my father, especially the Mission Impossible …

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