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On the 11th of September, The Royal Opera House officially announced its program for its autumn and winter season cinema performances. This comes at a time where in-person opera events are still closed due to the […]

There is no shadow of a doubt that school is stressful. Lockdown was stressful. Homeschooling provided both parents and children with a host of new problems. However, a recent report from the University of […]

The King’s and Festival Theatres in Edinburgh have written to the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warning of their risk of closure because of their inability to access financial relief as a result of t […]

In April, Olivia Wilde excitedly announced the cast for her second feature film, Don’t Worry Darling, including big stars such as Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, and Shia LaBeouf.

Yesterday, however, the d […]

Award-winning actress Dame Diana Rigg, best known for her roles in Game of Thrones and the James Bond franchise as well as a number of West End productions, has died of cancer aged 82, her daughter announced on […]

Introducing: Mysie

Hometown: South London

Listen to: ‘Bones’, ‘Sweet Relief’, ‘Heartbeat’

As the worthy first winner of the Ivor Novello Rising Star Award, Mysie is certainly one to watch for the latter […]

Following criticism last year regarding the lack of diversity among Oscars nominees, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced new diversity and inclusion rules for films seeking consideration […]

Themes of identity and connection abound in the trailer for Monsoon, released on 25 September.

The film stars Henry Golding as Kit, a British-Vietnamese man who returns to Vietnam for the first time since he […]

Last week was a ‘bumper week’ for UK booksellers as sales hit £33.6 million in seven days. This is an 11% increase on the previous week, and the best first week of September on record.

When lockdown rele […]

When Humphrey Bogart says “We’ll always have Paris” to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, he probably didn’t anticipate a deadly global pandemic that would prevent most travel and seriously test his romantic […]

Netflix’s all-black Western thriller, starring Idris Elba and Jonathan Majors, has added more big names to its starry ensemble.

The Harder They Fall follows outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors), who discovers t […]

Billie Eilish has partnered with Global Citizen on their Just Vote campaign, joining her brother Finneas, Taylor Swift, Usher and DJ Khaled.

The nonpartisan campaign urges young people in the US to register to […]

It has been twenty-one years since the release of Alkibar, Afel Bocoum’s wandering debut so titled to mean ‘messenger of the great river’. Those two decades have seen Bocoum’s Mali transform from a fledg […]

Exactly ten years ago, Katy Perry announced her arrival as a pop megastar with Teenage Dream. The album received mixed critical reviews on release but would go on to be nominated for seven Grammy […]

We’re going back to the theatres with Back to the Future! It’s true – the musical, based on the 1985 blockbuster and pop culture phenomenon is coming back for its second run on the stage after the pandemic cut it […]

At a lower-key Venice Film Festival than normal thanks to the COVID crisis, Chloé Zhao Nomadland has picked up the Golden Lion award.

Having received rave reviews since its premiere in Venice and subsequently […]

The tale as old as time is set to be told again as Beauty and the Beast sets off on a tour of the UK and Ireland next year.   

With music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and based on th […]

The pleasure of a trip to the theatre, with its limited tickets and overpriced ice-creams, is often an expensive hobby that leaves working-class communities behind. This exclusivity is not helped by the fact […]

Taylor Swift, Charli XCX and most recently Bruce Springsteen. What do these artists have in common? Surprisingly, all three have announced album releases throughout the pandemic. 

Springsteen’s next studio al […]