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SXSW London returns for its second edition this June, bringing its multifaceted tangle of film, TV, music, technology and culture back to East London. This year, the festival has made things a little easier by centralising its campus around the Truman Brewery, while also dividing the Screen Festival into six strands: Headliners, Competition, Heartwarmers, Collisions, Shivers and Visionaries. In practical terms, that means a mixture of prestige premieres, global discoveries, genre oddities, crowd-pleasers and various uncategorisable items.The Screen Festival kicks things off with the Headliners strand, which includes Peter Glanz’s Savage House, a satirical takedown of the upper classes starring Richard E. Grant and Claire…

RIP Magic formed when Sorry’s Marco Pini linked up with Felix Bayley-Higgins, Beth Boswell-Knight, and Pedro Takahashi — creating a dance-rock outfit that thrives on kinetic tension.The group quickly built serious credibility: supporting LCD Soundsystem, collaborating with James Murphy, and currently opening arena dates for Tame Impala. Their upward trajectory now continues with a signing to section1 — sister label to Partisan Records and home to acts like King Princess.“Screwdark” is turbulent, self-produced, and unrelentingly charged. Built around distorted grooves and a restless rhythmic pulse, the track captures RIP Magic at their most volatile.There’s a sense of friction throughout — jagged textures…

You think it’s tough being the Punisher? Try being a Hollywood special effects artist.Their work is currently going viral all over social media, thanks to one particular shot in the new Marvel TV special, The Punisher: One Last Kill. Near the end of the show — and this is not really much of a spoiler — Jon Bernthal’s Punisher goes one-on-a-million against a nearly endless army of thugs. The battle spills out onto the rooftop of Frank Castle’s apartment building, where one of the goons shoves Frank over the side.In the shot in question, the Punisher falls and crashes into some kind of big…

If you were asked to single out Steven Spielberg’s most important collaborator, and you said John Williams, you’d probably be right, in all honesty. It’s hardest to imagine what Spielberg’s filmography would look like (or, more specifically, sound like) without the music of John Williams accompanying the vast majority of his films. They also go back more than 50 years, further than Jaws, even (which was understandably the first really iconic score for a Spielberg film), because their first collaboration was for the rather overlooked and underrated The Sugarland Express (1974). But if you were asked to single out Spielberg’s…

Denise, Stuart, Barry, and Bert in Stuart Fails to Save the UniverseHBO This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is almost here and looks very trippy. Since The Big Bang Theory premiered in 2007, CBS has exclusively been the home of the nerd-centric franchise from Chuck Lorre. After Young Sheldon’s end in 2024, it was immediately followed by Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, which continues the universe’s lore on the broadcaster during the 2025-2026 TV season. In a couple…

There is an image I still find terrifying after almost 30 years. Picture the scene: you are five years old. Aside from a candle powdered with grey dust, your VHS tapes now fill the two lowest shelves of the pine cabinet, which smells resinous, faintly sweet. Make your selection. After you put the tape in and fast-forward through the ads – the big and little road safety hedgehogs singing ​‘King of the Road’, a trailer for The Borrowers, etc. – lo, it begins: Bean (1997). Get more Little White Lies The film revolves around Rowan Atkinson’s tweedy pinball of id, Mr. Bean, being sent to the U.S. as…

Mike D — born Mike Diamond — is best known as a founding member of Beastie Boys, one of the most influential genre-blurring acts in modern music history.Raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side during New York City’s turbulent fiscal-crisis era, Diamond’s early musical diet ranged from The Jackson Five and Motown to punk rock and early rap mixtapes. That collision of influences shaped the Beastie Boys’ groundbreaking fusion of hardcore, hip-hop, funk, and reggae — a formula that earned multi-platinum albums, Grammy Awards, and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.Beyond music, Diamond extended his creative instincts…

After almost three years, the second season of Ahsoka is finally headed to Disney+. Series star Rosario Dawson got to announce the news herself at Disney’s upfront presentation this week. The show will return to streaming on “early 2027.”“This season, the battles are bigger and the stakes are higher,” she added.The first season of Ahsoka, starring Rosario Dawson as the live-action version of the Jedi who previously appeared primarily as an animated character on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, debuted on Disney+ in August of 2023, running for eight weekly episodes. That’s a long time to keep a cliffhanger dangling.STAR WARS:…

Colin Farrell has become one of the biggest stars in the world in the last few years, featuring in some of the most successful movies and TV shows on streaming and in theaters. Back in 2022, Farrell made his feature debut as The Penguin, and his role was so beloved that HBO greenlit an entire spin-off series around the character, which arrived in 2024. The show earned widespread critical acclaim, including nine Emmys, but its future beyond Season 1 is still unclear at this time. Farrell also recently teamed up with Margot Robbie for the romantic fantasy adventure A Big…

One of Netflix’s most interesting niches over the past decade has been their various animated adaptations of iconic video game franchises, many of which saw them team with producer Adi Shankar. Beginning with Castlevania, the streamer has explored the worlds of Far Cry: Blood Dragon to Cyberpunk 2077, League of Legends, Tomb Raider and Splinter Cell, amongst others. Arguably, Shankar’s Devil May Cry immediately established itself as one of the best in its 2025 debut, expertly recapturing the Capcom games’ sense of style, action and tongue-in-cheek edginess, while offering a few solid tweaks to expand on their lore. Season 2…