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AnOther • 6th December 2023

Queer Revenge Thriller Femme Puts Masculinity Under a Microscope

As Femme is released in cinemas, co-director Sam H Freeman talks about his love of late-night neo-noir thrillers by Nicolas Winding Refn and the Safdies, and capturing the darkness

the Guardian • 18th September 2023

‘No one gave me the finger more than David Crosby!’ Legendary photographer Henry Diltz on shooting music’s giants

‘Sometimes,” says Henry Diltz, “the great picture is the one that happens before you set everything up.” The legendary music photographer, speaking from his home in north Hollywood, has taken shots that became stamped into the annals of rock history.

Variety • 21st December 2022

How Channel 4’s ‘I Am’ Anthology, From Me+You Productions, Reels in Heavy-Hitting Actors and Dares to Tell Female-Centric Stories

It takes a special and often elusive alchemy for a show to resonate with critics and the public alike. Dominic Savage’s BAFTA-nominated “I Am” anthology series has managed that very trick, drawing praise from both quarters for its searing kitchen sink realism told squarely from a female perspective.

Variety • 5th December 2022

Kate Winslet Was ‘Impressed’ by Daughter Mia Threapleton’s Performance in Drama ‘I Am Ruth’

Kate Winslet has discussed her experiences acting alongside her daughter, Mia Threapleton, for the first time.

Dazed • 31st May 2022

The Sex Pistols lift the lid on Danny Boyle’s hotly anticipated series

“We were all 19, 20 years old. Kids. Kids who basically didn’t have a fucking clue,” fizzes Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones down the line from his LA home. “We came along at the right time. We turned everything on its arse.”

BFI • 8th April 2022

Juho Kuosmanen on his train romance Compartment No. 6: “Smartphones are destroying this kind of journey and the need for other people”

It would be an understatement to say that neither a train setting, nor an odd-couple romance are new devices when it comes to creating a narrative platform. They are terrains as well-traversed as the Trans-Siberian railway.

NME • 18th January 2021

'Robin's Wish': what the new doc tells us about Robin Williams' final days

When news broke in August 2014 that beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams had died by suicide, an outpouring of public grief soon followed. As the tributes poured in, the media was rife with speculation and reporters were quick to blame Williams’ historic issues with drugs and alcohol. New document

NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM • 12th August 2019

Bob Dylan needs to save from himself, and call time on The Never Ending Tour

For the purpose of an experiment go and gather all of your prized possessions. Now walk to the window, toss them onto the street and run wild-eyed down the stairs with a can of petrol in hand. Dance around the heap, douse it in the flammable liquid before striking a match in the full glare of your (quite possibly terrified) neighbours.

Dazed • 8th December 2020

Debbie Harry: ‘Maybe sexual explicitness has come of age’

Debbie Harry doesn’t believe in harbouring regrets. “I have made many, many errors, but nobody leads a perfect life,” she reflects down the telephone from New York. “So, should I regret anything? No. It is a waste of time. It really is a waste of time.” Dial back to the turn of the 70s and the life that Harry led before fronting Blondie – prior to her image being burned onto the retina of popular culture – was colourful to say the least.

Dazed • 20th October 2020

Interview: Stevie Nicks is still dreaming

Stevie Nicks has had “a hell of a day”. Not only is it 3am at her home in Los Angeles when we first speak on the phone, the power has gone out in her house.

NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM • 8th May 2020

'The Eddy' review: moody Netflix drama from the director of 'La La Land'

Netflix have bagged quite the coup with The Eddy. An eight-episode drama, it sees filmmaker Damien Chazelle – who gave us the joy of sticks in Whiplash and bittersweet musical La La Land – take to the TV serial format for the very first time.

NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM • 20th December 2019

Best films of the year: 2019 in movies

Let’s be honest: most of the films you watched this year were either old favourites or shite rom-coms on Netflix.

The HotCorn • 26th September 2019

From Bond to the Syrian War | The many faces of Rosamund Pike

The press love to help the public pigeonhole people, objects, places and things into tidy little boxes. This brand of reductionism makes life simpler, tidier and more palatable – or so the theory seems to go. We all know that the reality in this funny old thing called ‘life’, however, is that no one is that one dimensional. No, not even Trump.

Hackney Gazette • 13th June 2019

Asif Kapadia: 'This Place Never Leaves You'

The concept of home consistently runs through the recent output of Hackney-born filmmaker, Asif Kapadia.

Curzon Blog • 2nd May 2019

Make It Easy on Yourself? Scott Walker, Vox Lux and the Allure of the Film Score —

Born in Ohio in 1943, Walker was gifted with a plush vocal timbre that would find a home on evergreen ‘60s hits such as “Make It Easy on Yourself” and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore” as part of The Walker Brothers. As time progressed, however, his interests strayed from the mainstream.

The HotCorn • 26th March 2019

Why We Can’t Wait For The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Most fledgling filmmakers harbour a dream to touch down at a major international festival cradling their debut feature and walk away almost two weeks later with an award or two tucked under their arm.

The HotCorn • 13th January 2019

You can never count him out: Christian Bale gatecrashes the Oscar Race

You can never count him out. Never. Count. Him. Out. Just when we all thought we had our contenders locked and loaded for the annual awards season jamboree, a new trailer has dropped and Christian Bale (who else?) has stormed a late charge as Dick Cheney in Vice: Adam McKay’s follow up to 2015’s great ensemble piece, The Big Short.

The HotCorn • 11th January 2019

Clint Eastwood is back in the game with The Mule - The Hot Corn

Ten years after he first indicated that he had put his acting repertoire to bed, at the age of 88 the inimitable Clint Eastwood has been deployed back in front of the camera in a leading role.

The HotCorn • 14th November 2018

Why you should listen to Thom Yorke's Suspiria soundtrack

“I found myself going into some fantastically dark spaces,” Radiohead’s Thom Yorke confided to the BBC when asked about his first foray into the soundtrack realm. And it is hard to argue that this has not been translated outwardly in his suffocating and cacophonous score to Luca Guadagnino’s self-avowed ‘cover version’ of Dario Argento’s Suspiria.

The HotCorn • 10th October 2018

Exclusive: LFF Artistic Director Tricia Tuttle reveals this year's hidden gems

The curtain is soon to be raised on the 62nd London Film Festival and who better to seek the odd tip or two for what to see out of what is a gloriously plump and promising 225 feature film programme than the festival’s Artistic Director herself: Ms Tricia Tuttle?