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When you think of Sam Raimi, it's common for one of two things to pop up in your head: the Spider-Man franchise starring Tobey Maguire (Babylon) and Kirsten Dunst (Civil War) or the Evil Dead horror movies led by Bruce Campbell(Hysteria!). You hardly think about Raimi when listing Westerns, but the filmmaker took on the challenge of stepping out of his comfort zone back in the mid-'90s in order to film The Quick and the Dead. As the movie celebrates its 30th anniversary, it has suddenly climbed the Netflix global charts to become one of the top 10 most-watched movies of the week on the platform.

It's not difficult to see what attracted Raimi to this particular Western. Since Westerns were traditionally led by macho figures like John Wayne (True Grit) and Clint Eastwood, The Quick and the Deadsubverted the genre by centering around a woman gunslinger played by...

Following its disappointing box office takings three decades ago, the star-studded Western The Quick and the Deadis gaining belated attention on the Netflix streaming charts. Coming from director Sam Raimi and starring Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Sharon Stone, this cult favorite underperformed at the time and only grossed $47 million against its $35 million budget.

As a revisionist Western about a female gunfighter joining a deadly dueling competition in the Old West town of Redemption, The Quick and the Dead delivers a stylish, genre-bending spectacle that wasn’t appreciated in its own time. With over-the-top early performances from future Hollywood stars, in hindsight, it’s striking just how much talent was involved in this underappreciated Western.

The Quick And The Dead Is A Top 10 Streaming Hit On Netflix This Sam Raimi Film Has Seen Renewed Success On Streaming

The Quick and the Dead has earned some reactive attention as it’s...

Director Sam Raimi may be known for movies like Army of Darkness and the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies, andDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but in 1995, he directed a revenge western that, while it was a box office flop, is now making its way up the global streaming charts. The Quick and the Dead is the No. 7 most-streamed movie on Netflix, as of July 9, per FlixPatrol.

The film, which starred Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Roberts Blossom (Home Alone), and Gary Sinise, is ahead of About My Father, Thug Life, and The Royal Hotel on the global Top 10 Netflix chart. The Quick and the Dead was written by Simon Moore (Traffic) and included contributions from Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), although he was not credited.

“The Lady” Seeks Revenge

The movie follows Sharon Stone’s character, a gunslinger known as “The Lady,” who arrives in...

If you’re in need of a Western fix, but you’ve already had your fill of Yellowstone and every other project to come from Taylor Sheridan, Tubi has the answer. After he blew minds everywhere with Evil Dead but before he dipped into the comic book world of Marvel with his Spider-Man trilogy, Sam Raimi said what the heck, let’s go full on gunslinger. What came next is a genre classic that has been buried in the past — until now. Thanks to the free streamer The Quick and the Dead, which stars Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct), the late Gene Hackman (The French Connection), Russell Crowe (Gladiator), and a young Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street), is climbing its way up the charts and out of obscurity, currently clocking in at the seventh spot on the platform’s Top 10.

It’s safe to say that the Western genre...

Where exactly does an artist go after globe-spanning, stadium-size, record-shattering success? Karol G, the Colombian megastar whose career went completely stratospheric after her last album, 2023’s Mañana Será Bonito, made history, wondered the same thing. For a while, she played around taking a total departure from her previous work: “I started thinking maybe I should do an album in English or I should experiment with new sounds I’ve never tried before,” she told Rolling Stone recently. “I started thinking about all of these weird concepts that would never make sense for Karol G.”

Instead,...

Alright, Studio Ghibli fans, gather ’round. You love Spirited Away, you cry every time Totoro appears with his umbrella, and Howl’s Moving Castle is basically your aesthetic dream, right? So, imagine this: there’s a film that’s full of all that Ghibli-level emotions, fun, and jaw-dropping animation, and you haven’t watched it.

What if we told you it even has a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes? Yes, this little masterpiece is called Penguin Highway, and trust us, you’re going to want to drop everything and dive in.

Penguin Highway: A Studio Ghibli spirit in a new studio’s skin

So here’s the deal: Penguin Highway is this really awesome and slightly weird anime film by Studio Colorido (they’re like the cool new kids on the block). It’s an adaptation of a novel by Tomihiko Morimi, the genius behind The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl,...

Other than love and lust, some anime notoriously portray a common trope and that is, thirst. First things first, oops, thirst things thirst, this is often used as a gag that makes a character almost caricaturish. One of the common examples of this is Sanji in One Piece.

The drooling, swaying, floating, and not-so-occasional nosebleeds make it all too hilarious. It would have most viewers and readers in splits, but there’s the king of perverseness and thirst who is on par with the love chef. He is the only one who can potentially outrival him.

So much so that his entire demeanor is downright questionable. There’s thirst and then there’s dehydration, and this guy takes the trophy. His shenanigans make him a total pervert, yes, but he is only second to the Black Leg chef when it comes to sleaziness.

The anime character who personifies perverseness

When we think about thirsty characters,...

Brook Lapping is producing a new documentary series charting the story behind the Live Aid concerts, one of the largest global music events in history which is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

The documentary series, which will air on BBC and CNN, will look at the concerts’ impact on music, politics and global awareness over the twenty years between Live Aid in 1985 and Live 8 in 2005; featuring exclusive interviews with Bob Geldof, Bono and Sting, along with U.S. President George Bush, President Obasanjo of Nigeria and Birhan Woldu.

On board as producers are Brook Lapping, a Zinc Media label, in association with Ronachan Films, with BBC and CNN Originals co-producing. Helmed by Tom Pollard, the series will air on the BBC as a three-parter titled “Live Aid at 40,” and as a four-part show titled “Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took On the World” on CNN.

Conceived by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure,...

From Michelle Branch’s cover of “Creep” in Season 2 to Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” in the Season 4 finale, “You” has always had great needle drops. From season to season, song to song, Netflix’s romantic thriller series always goes big with its tracklist and the Season 5 soundtrack is no different.

How packed is the “You” Season 5 soundtrack? Well, there’s another Taylor Swift song, a huge Olivia Rodrigo hit, one of Elton John’s most beloved classics and many, many more, including tunes from Chappell Roan, Hozier, Charli Xcx, Sade, Mitski and Nat King Cole. The list, truly, goes on. So here’s an episode-by-episode guide to all the songs in “You” Season 5.

Episode 1 “Too Sweet” by Hozier “One Night / All Night” by Justice/Tame Impala “If You Don’t Want My Love” by Jalen Ngonda “Your Love Is King” by Sade “Punika” by Delv!s “Burn My Bridges Behind...

2025 could be the year of gentle giants in R&b: Summer Walker’s icy “Heart of a Woman” has been inescapable on Black radio, marking her biggest solo hit since her mainstream breakthrough six years ago. Over the past few weeks, British singer Cleo Sol’s airy hymns landed her sold out shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl, hailed as sites of crying and catharsis for her cult fanbase. It seems When… — a new EP by Alex Isley, heir to soul royalty – out today,...

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It’s an idyllic, sunny Tuesday afternoon in early March, and Pink is getting ready to play some tennis at Desert Smash, the celebrity and professional tennis charity event held each year at California’s La Quinta Resort & Club.

“I love tennis and I love raising money for good causes. So easy, easy, easy combination,” the singer says about being a part of the event, which raised $1.3 million...

With his recent passing at age 95, Gene Hackman left behind a legacy few other actors could match. Despite retiring over 20 years ago, Hackman still loomed large in American movie culture, a testament to his commanding screen presence and deep wells of humanity. His versatility meant that he could comfortably slot into any number of genres, and the '90s saw him step effortlessly into a run of westerns, beginning in 1992 with his Oscar-winning turn as a corrupt sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven.

A few years later in 1995, Hackman took on another villainous western role in Sam Raimi's amped-up genre homage The Quick and the Dead, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. While the film flopped pretty hard upon release, it's come to be considered an underrated cult classic on the strength of Raimi's direction and strong performances from Hackman, Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, and a 20-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio.

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The new Formula 1 season is upon us and F1 drivers are revealing their favorite musical artists that help them get pumped up before a big race.

The official F1 Instagram account posted mock “first day of class” photos for some of the drivers, with chalkboards featuring their names, hometowns and number of seasons on the circuit. Each driver was also asked to list their favorite music.

Among the...

Last year, Durand Bernarr was hitting a new career peak — and a case of burnout. The Cleveland-born R&b artist had won a wide new audience in the spring with his En Route EP, which would go on to nab a 2025 Grammy nomination. But now he had just a month to crank out a new project. In need of new ideas and perspectives, he pivoted from his usual way of making music. “The difference between this project and the last one was there were way more hands and brains involved in the creative process,...

A throwback-filled Q&a with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in the middle of SNL50: The Anniversary Special suddenly felt very 2025 tonight.

As the former castmates joked with the A-lister crowd in Studio8H, and Tim Meadows and Quinta Brunson got a Sade reference in there, the news that is captivating Hollywood stood right up at Lorne Michaels’ celebration.

Near the front of the star-powered audience bit, a tuxedo-clad Ryan Reynolds rose to ask a question of the 30 Rock and Parks & Recreation stars. With his in-the-news spouse Blake Lively looking on, the Deadpool actor stood up to a “How’s it going?”

That’s when Reynolds turned on the comedy chops and innocently replied: “Great. Why, what have you heard?”

Needless to say, with Lively’s multi-lawsuit war with It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni over what occurred during production of the film and the alleged online smear campaign that followed,...

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunited at the “SNL50” anniversary celebration for a star-studded segment framed around a Q&a, in which the two former cast members took “Saturday Night Live” questions from the audience.

Among the contributors called on were Ryan Reynolds, Cher, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Quinta Brunson, Jon Hamm and Tim Meadows.

“Ryan Reynolds, how’s it going?” asked Fey and Poehler, to which he answered innocently, “Why? Have you heard something?” appearing to reference the recent Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni legal controversy. Reynolds went on to ask whether the material the Coneheads’ heads were made from was edible, and Fey and Poehler decided it was almost certainly very toxic.

The segment included a direct mention to the question that has swirled around “Saturday Night Live,” especially as the show has had a rebound in popularity over the past decade: When will Lorne Michaels retire?

The question was...

Rema, one of Nigeria’s biggest pop stars, has sampled British-Nigerian soul icon Sade Adu on his latest single, “Baby (Is It a Crime).” The sultry Afrobeats song borrows the titular refrain from the band Sade’s 1985 single “Is It a Crime.” The new track marks Rema’s first single since Bnxn’s “Fi Kan We Kan” in October.

Sade Adu’s voice is the first to break through the intro’s staticky crackle while slick drums kick in. “Baby/Baby sunmoni/You know say you match my steeze,” Rema...

Starting today, enjoy R&b ballads — from the classics to the ones you just fell for — as soul superstar Maxwell takes you through his favorite love songs and timeless slow jams, including hits from his own catalog, on Maxwell’s Serenade Radio.

Maxwell’s Serenade RadioAvailable February 3–March 3Listen on the App

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Maxwell’s Serenade Radio How to Listen

The channel takes over SiriusXM Silk 330 (Ch. 330) from February 3–March 3 and Heart & Soul (Ch. 47) from February 14–15.

Plus, stream it on the SiriusXM app from February 3–March 3.

Artists You’ll Hear

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Stevie Wonder

Alicia Keys

Isley Brothers

Boyz II Men

Sza

Luther Vandross

Sade

Babyface

Whitney Houston

About Maxwell

Maxwell has artfully managed to transfix music lovers for more than two decades, releasing five studio albums, all in his own time and all duly anointed as classics.

The soul singer redefined soul music in April of 1996 when...

Peacock’s comedy Laid, starring Stephanie Hsu, Zosia Mamet, Michael Angarano, Tommy Martinez, Andre Hyland, Ryan Pinkston and more, explores what would happen if a mysterious curse fell upon one’s ex romantic partners. Ruby (Hsu), with the help of her best friend Aj (Mamet), realizes that all of past sexual partners are somehow dying in gruesome ways.

This brings her and Aj to try and track down those who are still alive, and played by guest stars such as Finneas, John Early, Simu Liu & Philippe Francesca Reale, Kate Berlant, Brandon Perea, Alexandra Shipp and more, to warn them of what is happening. Aj also hopes to get to the bottom of why this is happening.

Several needle drops accompany both humorous and and more serious moments, starting with some Paul Simon and Chappell Roan in Episode 1 and ending with Billie Eilish and Sade in the finale. Find the full...

André 3000 has a request: Please stop calling his latest project a “flute album.”

On New Blue Sun, the rap genius does indeed play a number of woodwind instruments, but the eight-track ambient jazz set also features bells, chimes, keyboards, cymbals, piano, drums, sintir, a gong and a wind controller.

“The media has touted it as this flute album and I think it’s a misrepresentation of the album. It’s way more than a flute album. They belittle it by calling it a flute album because there are actual flutists that have made flute albums, like Jethro Tull and Paul Horn,” 3000 tells THR. “I think it could be a turnoff to some people if they think, ‘Yo, he’s just in a room playing this flute.'”

While the media may have tried to put the project in a box, the Grammys are singing its praises. New Blue Sun...

Seemingly ever-dwindling attention spans have given commentators anxiety that people simply won’t care to engage with albums anymore. But time and again, artists have proved that they’re still committed to using the format to communicate a Big Idea, make a creative pivot, or announce a new chapter in their career. The album is still the most coherent way for us to understand where music culture is in any particular moment.

Indeed, as you can see from this list, pop music has gone country. Not only do the Billboard receipts and Beyoncé’s sprawling Cowboy Carter bear this out, there are copious twangs, pedal steel weeps, and pastoral narratives infecting indie music too (see Jessica Pratt’s Here in the Pitch and Waxahatchee’s Tigers Blood). Folk music is also having a moment: Adrianne Lenker, Beth Gibbons, and Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, among others, employed stripped back arrangements to tell haunting,...

Billie Eilish shared a video of the singer and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, workshopping an early version of their hit, “Birds of a Feather,” which features on her third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.

The song, released in July, quickly became one of the summer’s top tracks, and has received 2025 Grammy nominations for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance.

In an Instagram video posted on Wednesday, Eilish wrote in the caption: “February 16th 2023 lil video of the beginnings of birds of a feather.

Sharon Stone, the Hollywood legend that starred in films like Basic Instinct and Casino, has called out Sam Raimi, her director in 1995’s The Quick and the Dead, for being disloyal to her after she reportedly gave so much to him: “He didn’t thank me, he didn’t hire me again, he didn’t acknowledge the relationship.”

Stone appeared at the Torino Film Festival, where she spoke about Raimi, and what followed after they worked together in The Quick and the Dead. Also a producer on the film, Stone was involved in making some very important decisions, as she recounted:

“I had my great Italian cinematographer Dante Spinotti, and I was very blessed to produce and to have the opportunity to cast this film. The director Sam Raimi, who I had an opportunity to bring from B movies to A movies, and then he directed Spider-Man and became a very big A movie director.

You’ve already seen your Spotify Unwrapped results and now it’s time for the Grindr Unwrapped 2024!

The social media app compiled anonymous aggregated data from its global user base and surveyed the community on an array of pop culture topics and trends. The results show how, where, and what Grindr users loved in 2024.

The data shows where the highest percent of tops and bottoms are located around the world, where the most people in open relationships live, and even where you can find the most feet lovers. The pop culture trends cover categories like Mother of the Year, Gay Power Couple of the Year, and Favorite Hate Watch.

Head inside to check out the full unwrapped data…

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Director Sam Raimi has directed some truly iconic movies, yet his Western, The Quick and the Dead, is one of his most underrated films of all time, despite poor reviews. Raimi's rise to fame began back in 1981 when he directed the cult classic horror movie, The Evil Dead. From there, the director took on various different genres, from crime thrillers to fantasies. Notably, he helmed the much-loved Spider-Man movies from 2002 to 2007. Yet, one Raimi movie that is often overlooked, and is only now getting the attention it deserves, is his 1995 Western.

The Quick and the Dead is the seventh movie Raimi directed in his career, and is his only Western to date. The movie includes an incredibly star-studded cast, including Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, and more. In the film, Stone plays "The Lady," a gunslinger who travels to the town of Redemption and enters a...

Sade Adu has unveiled a new music video for “Young Lion,” her recently-released single from the compilation album, TRAИƧA.

Marking her first new song in six years, “Young Lion” is a heartfelt tribute to Sade’s trans son, Izaak, celebrating who he is with loving lyrics like, “Run down the hills of your dreams/ Arms open wide, feel the light/ Shine like a sun.” Accordingly, the new music video features footage of Sade and Izaak during Izaak’s youth, eventually cutting to modern-day footage of the two together. Watch it below.

The single first arrived in September, and was included on the sample EP of TRAИƧA tracks, TRAИƧA: Selects. The full project was put together by the label Red Hot, and features contributions from many artists, including André 3000, Sam Smith, Jeff Tweedy, Faye Webster, Moses Sumney, Adrianne Lenker, Allison Russell, Fleet Foxes, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Green-House, Clairo, Bartees Strange,...

The reflective lyrics of Sade’s latest song “Young Lion,” her first in six years, consider feelings of lingering regret and sorrow. The musician’s son, Izaac Adu, serves as the subject of the record as she acknowledges her stumble in understanding during the early stages of his gender transition. After allowing it to live on its own for a few weeks, Sade has added another tender layer to the record through the use of old home footage that appear in its accompanying music video.

The opening shot of the video features a long,...

It is once again New Music Friday, and Consequence is back to recommend the best new albums to stream.

Among today’s highlights are How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb, U2’s previously unreleased “shadow album” to their Grammy-winning 2004 LP; the first solo album by The Breeders’ Kim Deal, and Red Hot’s new compilation album seeking to uplift trans voices. Plus, new music from Father John Misty, Hovvdy, Opeth, and Scarlet House.

Here are eight new albums to stream today.

Father John Misty – Mahashmashana

Josh Tillman, better known as the ever-eccentric Father John Misty, is back with Mahashmashana, the follow-up to his 2022 project Chloë and the Next 20th Century. Previewed by singles “Screamland,” “She Cleans Up,” and “I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All,” the celebrated songwriter showcases an even more expansive sound with this new set of songs.

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November is Hip-Hop History Month, and as we mark 51 years of the genre’s legacy (revisit our extensive 50th anniversary celebration here), a new study from viagogo has arrived highlighting how hip-hop continues to elevate Black artists on a global scale.

According to ticket sales data collected by viagogo, 19 of the 25 highest-selling Black live performers of 2024 are either hip-hop or hip-hop-adjacent acts.

Travis Scott — whose record-breaking “Circus Maximus Tour” earned over $150 million before wrapping last month — tops the list as the Black artist with the most ticket sales of the year, with the top five rounded out by Usher, Akon, Bryson Tiller, and Ne-Yo. Also placing in the top 25 are Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, PartyNextDoor, Childish Gambino, Nas, and more.

Minaj, who lands at No. 8 in the global ranking, leads the charge as the highest-selling Black female artist of...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Lady Gaga is back to claim her crown as the queen of dark pop, Tyler, the Creator shares a first glimpse of his seventh album, and Halsey gets brutally honest about her chronic illnesses. Plus, new music from Sade, Megan thee Stallion, Kelsea Ballerini, and Addison Rae.

Lady Gaga, “Disease” (YouTube)

Tyler, the Creator, “Noid” (YouTube)

Halsey, “Panic Attack” (YouTube)

Sade, “Young Lion” (YouTube)

Megan thee Stallion,...

TRAИƧA: Selects, a collection of five tracks from the forthcoming compilation concept album, TRAИƧA, has arrived, featuring new songs from Sade Adu (her first in six years), L’Rain, André 3000, and more.

Released via the activist and music production non-profit Red Hot, TRAИƧA will be a musical celebration of trans and non-binary people, featuring over 100 artists. Sade’s contribution, a track titled “Young Lion,” arrives as a loving composition for her son, Izaak, a trans man. Stream it below.

Other new songs include L’Rain’s tribute to Anohni featuring the NYC Trans Oral History Project, “People Are Small / Rapture,” and a new ambient composition from André 3000 titled “Something Is Happening and I May Not Fully Understand But I’m Happy to Stand for the Understanding.”

Also featured on TRAИƧA: Selects are two previously-released singles: “Ever New” by Sam Smith and Beverly Glenn-Copeland and a version of “I Would Die...

On “Young Lion,” Sade’s first song in six years and her contribution to the upcoming Transa compilation, the artist apologizes to her son, Izaak, for not understanding him better when he began transitioning genders. “Young man, I feel so heavy for you, you must have felt so alone,” she sings over a slow piano line and cinematic strings. “The anguish and pain, I should have known.” By the chorus, she recognizes his journey: “Young gun, see how far you’ve come.”

Izaak Adu, Sade’s son, recently told Rolling Stone...

Contains discussions of suicide.

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Strange Darling!

Strange Darling is gaining a whole new fan base since its streaming release, and the film's ending is so much darker after hearing about this tragic fan theory. Despite Strange Darling being one of the most fun thrillers of 2024, the film is incredibly dark and violent, with it centering around murders and other upsetting topics. However, this fan theory posits that Strange Darling was setting up an even darker fate for Willa Fitzgerald's The Lady, with her death at the end of the film stopping the movie from taking the character down an even more tragic past.

Strange Darling was one of the biggest surprises of 2024, with Jt Mollner's low-budget thriller getting critically acclaimed upon its release. Strange Darling follows The Lady (Willa Fitzgerald) as she is pursued by The Demon (Kyle Gallner), who wants to violently get...

It’s a sunny day in July, and the scene inside Gary’s Electric, a Brooklyn recording studio, is just as bright. Half a dozen musicians who all contributed to the upcoming compilation album Transa — an expansive celebration of trans people put together by the longtime music and healthcare nonprofit Red Hot Organization — are meeting each other here for the first time and immediately finding common ground. Some of the artists in the big room are trans; others are allies. The overall vibe is one of community.

After the hellos, everyone...

“Strange Darling” (2024) is one of those films where the less you know, the better. Instead of learning anything specific about its plot, let’s look at some of its other details. Right before the film begins, the filmmaker tells us it is shot entirely on a 35 mm film. Those who appreciate this style have another reason to look forward to it. Besides, these days, it is much costlier to shoot on film than on digital especially if you need to go through several takes.

The decision to shoot on film comes with caveats. Especially in an indie production, the entire crew must aim for precision in the fewest takes. Considering all the long takes and elaborate tracking shots in “Strange Darling,” it deserves even more praise. Beyond its storytelling approach, the film impresses us with Jt Mollner’s direction and Willa Fitzgerald’s brilliant central performance.

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Strange Darling...

There aren't many songs in the soundtrack of Wolfs, but the ones that do appear in the film pack quite a punch. Even though George Clooney and Brad Pitt's characters in Wolfs are never named, they have quite a bit of personality. That shines through in a few key ways, from how they both approach their jobs as fixers to the way they interact with one another and the rest of the cast of Wolfs, and it becomes most apparent at the end of Wolfs, when the fixers finally learn to let each other in.

Clooney's character gets to show off his own personality a bit more than Pitt's does, and that often came in the form of music. There are a few scenes where Margaret's Man has music playing on the radio, and those songs hint at who he really is. There are also a few...

Billie Eilish is just going with the flow of life — even if it might hurt in the end. On Friday, the musician released the video for “Birds of a Feather,” which watches the singer calmly dragged through an office building as she sings about her overtaking feelings.

The Aidan Zamiri-directed video opens with Eilish singing along to the track before her arms start jerking around as if she were a puppet tied to invisible strings.

Eilish — clearly unbothered as she smiles while singing — starts spinning in her chair before...

Plot: Two top-level fixers (Brad Pitt and George Clooney) with underworld connections must overcome their rivalry when a job goes awry.

Review: Wolfs is getting a curiously unceremonious release, considering the talent involved. There was a time when Brad Pitt and George Clooney doing a buddy action movie together would have been an event. And the movie’s good to boot! Yet, Wolfs, which comes from director Jon Watts, who made the Tom Holland Spider-Man Trilogy for the MCU, I only got a quiet one-week theatrical run before its debut on Apple TV Plus on September 27th. It’s playing on precisely one screen here in Montreal and was not screened for critics.

So, what’s going on here? Probably, Apple is still licking its wounds from the embarrassing failure of their mega-budget movies, Argylle and Fly Me To The Moon, which, despite huge casts, cratered at the box office.

Spoilers for "Strange Darling" follow.

Jt Mollner's "Strange Darling" lives up to its title as dolled-up sleaze (the make-up being 35mm film). Half-erotic thriller and half slasher, it's a 21st century "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" structured like "Pulp Fiction." The film plays with you by taking a cut-and-dry premise and experimenting with how far it can twist. The result, which never breaks, is one of 2024's best horror films. (Read /Film's "Strange Darling" review here.)

What will keep you especially glued to the screen is Willa Fitzgerald's performance as "The Lady," a bleeding and terrified woman seemingly in need of help. Fitzgerald (who has been acting since 2008) has earned fans for her parts in the MTV "Scream" series and "Reacher" season 1 as Roscoe Conklin. She was also in Mike Flanagan's "The Fall of the House of the Usher," where she played the young Madeline Usher. Even in that series' huge ensemble,...

Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike will make her debut at London’s National Theatre in 2025, and they’ve given her the starring role in the world premiere of a new work by Suzie Miller, the playwright who created Prima Facie, the legal drama that catapulted Jodie Comer to Olivier and Tony Award trophies.

Pike has been cast in Miller’s Inter Alia, in which she’ll play a British High Court judge forced to reckon with conflict in her private and professional life. The production will reunite Miller with director Justin Martin, who also directed Comer in Prima Facie in the West End and on Broadway.

Inter Alia will be part of the final season of National Theatre director and co-chief executive Rufus Norris, who steps down from his post on March 31, 2025 after a decade at the helm of the UK’s flagship theatrical institution. Norris...

Right at the end of summer, at the tail end of a movie season stuffed with whirling tornadoes, raging apes and a mouldy Michael Keaton, comes another welcome throwback: a low-budget thriller that emerges out of nowhere to bowl you over. With its enigmatic title and cast of relative unknowns, it was on few radars until recently. But it should be on your radar now — and not just because Stephen King himself has hailed it as “a clever masterpiece”. Strange Darling is a smart, slippery creation, one which largely lands its blows with a wallop, and which proves a major calling card for both its director and its female star.

“I’m going to have to ask you a question,” goes an early line of dialogue. “Are you a serial killer?” That question hangs over the whole bloody affair. We’re in a place called Hood River County, Oregon, an...

Warning: This article contains detailed spoilers for 2024's Strange Darling.The chronological order of the events of Strange Darling offers insight into the movie's full story as well as the reason it was told out of order. The 2024 serial killer thriller, which was written and directed by Jt Mollner, consists of six chapters and an epilogue presented out of order. This allows the twists and turns to play out with even more of a sense of disorientation and may be one reason the movie has earned a Certified Fresh 95% score on Rotten Tomatoes and an accolade from Stephen King, who called it a "clever masterpiece" on X.

The Strange Darling cast is led by two stars from different corners of the Scream franchise. While both characters are unnamed throughout the movie and only given generalized names in the opening credits, The Demon is played by Kyle Gallner, who portrayed Ghostface...

Sade Adu is returning to the music scene at last.

The 65-year-old music icon is set to contribute to a new compilation called Transa, produced by Red Hot in support of the transgender and nonbinary communities, with a song called “Young Lion,” dedicated to her trans son Izaak and his journey.

“You must have felt so alone, I should have known,” Sade reportedly sings on the track via Dazed.

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“It’s amazing to hear a legendary musician like Sade sing about her heartfelt experience as the parent of a trans child,” says album co-producer Massima Bell. “It’s incredibly powerful.”

The album, out November 20, is reported to feature over 100 artists across 46 tracks and eight chapters, which is a nod to the eight stripes on the Pride flag. Sam Smith, André 3000 and many more artists will be featured on the compilation.

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A scene from ‘Strange Darling’ (Photo credit: Magenta Light Studios)

The opening crawl of Strange Darling says that the movie is about the last few murders of a prolific 21st Century serial killer whose reign of terror moved from Colorado to Wyoming and ended up in the woods of Oregon.

And that’s pretty much all you should know about the plot of the movie before you go see it.

With Strange Darling, writer/director Jt Mollner (Outlaws and Angels) redefines the cat-and-mouse thriller. What seems like a one-night stand situation goes horribly wrong for the characters, who are known only as The Lady (Willa Fitzgerald from The Fall of the House of Usher) and The Demon (Smile’s Kyle Gallner). Strange Darling is a visceral film that checks off just about every content warning box imaginable – violence, sex, drug use, all of them. And there is a twist at every turn.

The activist and music production non-profit Red Hot have announced TRAИƧA, a new 46-song compilation of both originals and covers serving as a celebration of trans and non-binary people. The full project is out November 22nd, but Red Hot has already released TRAИƧA’s first single: Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U,” reimagined by Wendy & Lisa of Prince’s band The Revolution alongside London-based singer Lauren Auder.

The three-and-a-half hour tracklist is broken up eight chapters, and the project as a whole features over 100 contributing artists. In addition to a new song from Sade Adu titled “Young Lion” — serving as her first new song in six years — the compilation features contributions from André 3000, Jeff Tweedy, Faye Webster, Clairo Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Perfume Genius, Alan Sparhawk, Bartees Strange, Adrianne Lenker, Fleet Foxes, Julien Baker, Sam Smith, Laura Jane Grace, Moses Sumney, Kelela, Kara Jackson, L’Rain, Julie Byrne, Teddy Geiger, Frankie Cosmos,...

An ambitious new compilation, Transa, will collect music from Sade, Sam Smith, Jeff Tweedy, Laura Jane Grace, and more than 100 other artists to celebrate trans and nonbinary people. The album, which features nearly 50 tracks and runs nearly three-and-a-half hours, will come out Nov. 22 via the Red Hot Organization.

The first single is Lauren Auder’s interpretation of Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U,” a recording that features two artists who recorded the original song with Prince, the Revolution’s Wendy and Lisa. Where the original was more synth-pop focused, the...

Brad Pitt and girlfriend Ines De Ramon make their official public debut as a couple at the premiere of his new movie Wolfs at the 2024 Venice Film Festival on Sunday (September 1) in Venice, Italy.

The 60-year-old actor and the 34-year-old jewelry designer didn’t formally walk the red carpet together, but they were seen arriving for the event hand in hand, and even posed for a few photos with Brad‘s co-star George Clooney and his wife Amal.

Also stepping out for the premiere were co-stars Austin Abrams and Amy Ryan, as well as Cate Blanchett, who premiered her new Apple TV+ series Disclaimer a couple days earlier.

The Wolfs premiere drew a four-minute ovation, after it was delayed by 30-minutes due to fan crowding and , according to Variety. George and Brad also danced to Sade‘s “Smooth Operator” during the end credits.

Earlier in the day while attending the...

The Lido is in a frenzy for Wolfs.

Backed by the star power of its veteran A-list stars, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, the Jon Watts-directed film from Apple and Sony had a triumphant world premiere at the Venice Film Festival late Sunday night on the Lido. Expectedly, the crush of fans and media situated outside Palazzo del Cinema went wild for the pair as they arrived on the scene ahead of the screening. And once the final frames hit the screen and the credits rolled, Wolfs received a nearly five-minute standing ovation. Pitt and Clooney seemed to be soaking up the attention, with Pitt singing along to Sade and Clooney offering a “Grazie” to close it out.

Wolfs, also written by Watts, casts Pitt and Clooney as fixers who accidentally end up working the same job. Produced by Clooney’s Smokehouse and Pitt’s Plan B, the film also stars Amy Ryan,...

Continuing their 23-year onscreen collaboration, George Clooney and Brad Pitt brought their latest co-starring venture to the Venice Film Festival today as Wolfs world premiered out of competition. The official screening was greeted with a five-minute, 35-second ovation Sunday inside the Sala Grande.

The duo danced to Sade’s ‘Smooth Operator’ as the credits rolled and they greeted fans on the way out, during which they also received congratulations from Cate Blanchett and Benedict Cumberbatch in the audience.

Also in attendance were cast members Amy Ryan and Austin Abrams. A no-show, however, was writer-director Jon Watts who, Clooney told the press this morning, is sick with Covid, “He flew all the way here and he got Covid and he’s now in bed.”

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Brad Pitt and George Clooney hugged and danced at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday night as the two megastars’ latest film, “Wolfs,” received a polite four-minute standing ovation.

The premiere itself was delayed by more than 30 minutes as fans crowded into Venice’s Sala Grande in an attempt to catch a glimpse at Pitt and Clooney. When the duo finally arrived inside, the sound — and general vibe — in the theater could only be described as carnal. Both actors took to different sides of the carpet, signing autographs and taking selfies, before being whisked away to their seats by security.

As the two stars entered the theater, they greeted the eager crowd with a booming “Buonasera!,” prompting some fans to shout back in hopes of being noticed. Even as the film began rolling, the chaos continued, with those without tickets scrambling to find any empty seats. Some were ejected during...