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‘Glicked’ is looking to rival ‘Barbenheimer’ for box office success

The forthcoming release of Gladiator II and Wicked could be set to have the same impact as last year’s Barbenheimer phenomenon. Read More: ‘Gladiator 2’ review: back to Rome for Paul Mescal’s Colosseum-sized sequel Dubbed the Glicked effect, both movies are set to take the box office by storm in the coming days when they are simultaneously released much like Barbie and Oppenheimer last year. According to Deadline, Jon M. Chu’s Wicked and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II are set to pull in huge takings on their openings with the former expected to pull in over $80million (£62.8million) and the latter $65million (£51million) domestically. Wicked is also expected to popular with women while Gladiator II is set to pull in men and also older women. At the #AcademyMuseumGala, Paul Mescal explains why he would love to see #GladiatorII x #WickedMovie‘s #Glicked release become a #Barbenheimer type moment pic.twitter.com/BzfQmD5Ahi — The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 20, 2024 Advertisement When asked about the potential Glicked phenomenon, Gladiator II star Paul Mescal told The Hollywood Reporter: “I don’t wanna jinx anything. How amazing would that be for this industry? I think that was such a massive moment for the industry last year and if we can replicate anything next… Read More →

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Sunny War announces new album, Armageddon In A Summer Dress

Sunny War returns with a new album, Armageddon In A Summer Dress, which is due on February 21 from New West Records. You can hear the first track from the album below: “Walking Contradiction” featuring Steve Ignorant from Crass. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Armageddon In A Summer Dress follows on from 2023’s Anarchist Gospel and was produced by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Hurray for the Riff Raff) and features guest appearances by Valerie June, X‘s John Doe of X, Tré Burt, the Raconteurs‘ Jack Lawrence, Kyshona Armstrong and John James Tourville of the Deslondes as well as Ignorant. The tracklsting for Armageddon In A Summer Dress is: One Way Train Bad Times Rise Ghosts Walking Contradiction (feat. Steve Ignorant) Cry Baby (feat. Valerie June) No One Calls Me Baby Scornful Heart (feat. Tré Burt) Gone Again (feat. John Doe) Lay Your Body Debbie Downer When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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Throwing Muses share new single, “Drugstore Drastic”

Throwing Muses return with new single “Drugstore Drastic“, out today on Fire Records, with an extensive 2025 UK and EU Spring/Summer tour on sale now. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! “Drugstore Drastic” follows the Muses 2020 album Sun Racket and is the first salvo from a batch of new material due to come next year. Meanwhile, Throwing Muses tour: May 12: Blå, Oslo, Norway May 13: Vega Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark May 14: Lido, Berlin, Germany May 15: Gebaude 9, Cologne, Germany May 17: Waterfront, Norwich, UK May 18: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK May 19: The Cluny, Newcastle, UK May 20: The Garage, Glasgow, UK May 21: Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland May 22: Roisin Dubh, Galway, Ireland May 23: Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland May 24: Academy 2, Manchester, UK May 25: Bearded Theory, Derbyshire, UK May 26: The Fleece, Bristol, UK May 27: Electric Ballroom, London May 28: White Rock Studio, Hastings, UK May 29: Chalk, Brighton, UK May 30: Cactus Club, Bruges, Belgium May 31: La Marberie, Paris, France June 2: The Chelsea, Vienna, Austria June 3: Strom, Munich, Germany June 4: Santeria Toscana 31, Milan, Italy June 5: Molotov, Marseille, France

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Watch the trailer for Netflix K-drama ‘The Trunk’, starring Gong Yoo and Seo Hyun-jin

Netflix has dropped the full trailer for its upcoming mystery K-drama The Trunk, led by Gong Yoo and Seo Hyun-jin. Read on for everything you need to know about the show’s plot, cast, release date and more. What is the plot of The Trunk? Based on the 2015 novel Trunk by Kim Ryeo-ryeong, the upcoming mystery K-drama follows Jung-won, a man who enters a one-year contract marriage with a woman named In-ji, who works as a temporary spouse for the wealthy. They enter their contract marriage through NM Company, which Jung-won’s ex-wife Seo-yeon introduces to him. While Jung-won initially misses Seo-yeon dearly, he soon begins to grow closer to In-ji. One day, a mysterious trunk is recovered from a lake, revealing secrets about NM Company. As the police investigate the matter, Jung-won begins to find out there is more to the company than meets the eye. Who will star in The Trunk? Gong Yoo (Squid Game, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God) stars in The Trunk as Jung-won, an anxious and lonely man. Starring opposite him is Seo Hyun-jin (Why Her, Beauty Inside), who plays the disillusioned In-ji. Advertisement Joining them is Big Bet’s Jung Yun-ha as Seo-yeon, Jung-won’s mysterious… Read More →

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Jelly Roll claims unnamed artist aggregated 40,000 fake album sales in bid for Number One: “That’s just slimey”

Jelly Roll has claimed that an unnamed artist collected 40,000 fake album sales in an attempt to reach Number One on the charts. The singer and rapper appeared as a guest on The Pat McAfee Show and discussed how his 10th studio album ‘Beautifully Broken’ debuted at Number One on the US Billboard 200 chart with 161,000 album-equivalent units, including 114,000 pure album sales. According to Jelly Roll, there was allegedly another artist who was releasing their album as the same time as his which had not been projected to be within a specific number of sales for the top spot on the charts. However, the day before the end of the sales count, the artist ended up selling close to the sales number for the top spot on the charts. The ‘Wild Ones’ rapper shared that he had spoken to his manager about the chart race and was told to not get caught up on the “dirty” side of the music business. Advertisement [embedded content] “There was an artist that looked like HITS Daily Double projected they wasn’t even gonna be within 50-60,000 albums of me and Rod Wave,” said Jelly Roll. “And then Thursday night, before the Friday… Read More →

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Bobby Gillespie: “I’m trying to work out what you do with a band that’s been going as long as we have”

Primal Scream’s twelfth album Come Ahead marks a distinctive break with recent records. In this extended version of the interview in this month’s Uncut, Bobby Gillespie talks us through the radical changes in the Scream’s music-making from the ‘80s through Screamadelica to the present, social justice, his deep bonds with Andrew Innes and his late dad, and writing age-appropriate songs as a sixty-something rocker. UNCUT: It seems like the lyrics on Come Ahead follow on from some of the breakthroughs you made on Utopian Ashes, the album you made with Jehnny Beth. BOBBY GILLESPIE: Definitely. I wrote the lyrics for Utopian Ashes just before I wrote my book Tenement Kid, and between those two releases something was unlocked and made free. Advertisement Had you become more confident that you could stand up and make art outside of Primal Scream? With the book, definitely. We could actually have released Utopian Ashes as a Primal Scream album because I wrote 90% of the lyrics and about 90% of the melodies, and Andrew [Innes] and myself did all of the chords. But also with that record my writing process was different. Since Vanishing Point in ’96, it would be Andrew and myself in… Read More →

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, O2 Arena, London, November 9, 2024

“Fucking London!” bellows Nick Cave with affectionate gusto, surveying the vast crowd who have come to pay homage in the city where he first made his name. “It seems like we’ve been on tour forever, but now we’re here.” Cave is a pretty good showman these days, so it’s possible he says this kind of thing wherever he plays. But there must be a part of him that thinks back to those famously confrontational Birthday Party shows at West Hampstead’s Moonlight Club almost 45 years ago and wonders exactly how he ended up headlining two nights at the O2. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! It’s been a long and sometimes troubled journey, but Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are defiantly an arena band now. 2024’s Wild God is the first album they’ve written specifically to fill venues of this magnitude, and an awesome opening one-two punch of “Frogs” and “Wild God” demonstrates how well they’ve judged the situation. Advertisement With a bank of four gospel singers offering an omnipotent wall of sound, Cave immediately assumes the mantle of… Read More →

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Elon Musk reacts to ‘SNL’ impression: “They are so mad Trump won”

Elon Musk has reacted to Saturday Night Live‘s (SNL) parody of him following Donald Trump‘s election win last week – see what the Tesla and X owner had to say. The Republican nominee won the required number of electoral college votes in the November 5 election to secure the presidency for the second time, also defeating Democrat candidate Kamala Harris in the popular vote. On the November 9 episode of SNL, comedian Dana Carvey debuted his new impression of Musk, which came during the episode’s cold open in which the cast jokingly claimed they had been supporting him all along in fear of being hunted down. [embedded content] Advertisement For the impression, Carvey jumped up and down and danced before breaking out an exaggerated South African accent: “Check it out: dark MAGA. Yeah! But seriously, I run the country now. America’s going to be like one of my rockets. They’re super cool and super fun, but there’s a slight chance it could blow up and everybody dies. Haha!” Now, Musk has shared his thoughts on the impression on X: “They are so mad that [Donald Trump] won. In a separate post, he directly responded to Carvey’s impression: “Dana Carvey just sounds like… Read More →

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Listen to Nation Of Language’s eerie cover of Darlene Love’s ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’

Nation Of Language have shared a cover of Darlene Love’s festive classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ – check it out below. The Brooklyn indie synthpop trio – made up of Ian Devaney, Aidan Noell and Alex MacKay – have put a distinctive spin on the 1963 track that was famously part of Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift For You compilation. Nation Of Language join the likes of U2, Cher, Mariah Carey and Death Cab For Cutie in covering the song, which Spector also wrote alongside Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry. In this version, the band infuse the track with eerie, spacious production and slower pacing, eking out the song’s bittersweet emotional inner life. Listen here: Advertisement [embedded content] It is just the latest new Christmas-themed release in recent weeks: Laufey shared a cover of ‘Santa Baby’, complete with a video starring Bill Murray, Charlie Puth has put out a Wham!-inspired new single ‘December 25th’, while BTS’ V has teamed up with the Bing Crosby estate for a new version of ‘White Christmas’. Black Star Riders frontman Ricky Warwick has also given a heavier festive option with ‘All I Want For Christmas…Is Christmas!’, alongside The Cult’s Billy Duffy and Def Leppard’s… Read More →

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Alien Ant Farm’s Dryden Mitchell kicks CKY off tour after frontman Chad I Ginsburg punches him in the face

Alien Ant Farm’s Dryden Mitchell has said CKY have been sent home from their joint UK and European tour after the band’s Chad I Ginsburg punched him in the face. The two bands announced the tour back in April and a string of shows on the continent began last month, with the opening night of the UK leg set to take place in Margate’s Dreamland tonight (November 9). But in a post on Instagram earlier today, Mitchell has confirmed that CKY will play no further part in the tour after a physical altercation between the two frontmen. “Sadly, Chad from CKY hasn’t figured out how to cohabitate with others after all these years,” Mitchell began his message. “They will no longer be on the Alien Ant Farm Tour through the rest of the UK shows after Chad punched me in the face earlier today.” Advertisement “I’ve watched him treat multiple crew members and opening band members like trash through the Europe shows and cause general drama around our camp. Before the last Europe shows I went to Chad and asked if he had any issues with anyone specifically and if he wanted to have a meeting with the whole crew… Read More →

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Olivia Colman compares ‘Paddington’ musical number to Beyoncé performance

Olivia Colman has compared her musical number in Paddington In Peru to a performance by Beyoncé. The film is the third in the series of films revolving around the marmalade-loving bear created by Michael Bond, and sees Ben Whishaw returning as the voice of Paddington, alongside Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent and Antonio Banderas. The film sees Paddington and his adopted Brown family visit the bear’s aunt Lucy in Peru, where they have to search the Amazon rainforest and Andean mountains to find her. Colman stars as the Reverend Mother who prepares the Home For Retired Bears for the visit of Paddington and the family, and she features in a one-off musical sequence that is inspired by The Sound Of Music. Advertisement Olivia Colman in ‘Paddington In Peru’. CREDIT: StudioCanal Speaking to Digital Spy, the Oscar-winning actor has reflected on the difficulty in filming the sequence. “It turns out people who can sing and play the instrument and move, it’s really hard,” she said. “I had to do one song, but it just makes suddenly you think of going to see anyone performing on stage, like Beyoncé with dance routines and singing.” “I had a very long skirt and thankfully… Read More →

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Inside this month’s free Uncut CD – the Best Of 2024

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Jack White, Beth Gibbons, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings and more appear on our latest free CD compilation. All copies of the Review Of The Year 2024 issue of Uncut come with a free, 15-track CD – Best Of 2024 – that showcases many of the albums that appear in our Albums Of The Year. See below for the full tracklisting… Advertisement THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! 1 NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Wild God Advertisement [Taken from the Bad Seed Ltd album Wild God] 2 FONTAINES DC Death Kink [Taken from the XL album Romance] 3 GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS Empty Trainload Of Sky [Taken from the Acony album Woodland] 4 JACK WHITE That’s How I’m Feeling [Taken from the Third Man album No Name] 5 MABE FRATTI Kravitz [Taken from the Unheard of Hope album Sentir Que No Sabes] 6 RICHARD THOMPSON Freeze [Taken from the New West album Ship To Shore] 7 BETH GIBBONS Reaching Out [Taken from the Domino album Lives Outgrown] 8 THE SMILE Read The Room [Taken from the XL… Read More →

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This is what Ryan Reynolds believes is the biggest Oscars snub of all time

Ryan Reynolds has revealed what he believes to the be the biggest Oscars snub of all time. READ MORE: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ review: a sarky, time-skipping superhero send-up Speaking on Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast, the Deadpool & Wolverine star said that he wants to see more comedies recognised by the Academy, which then led him to share his biggest snub. “One of the greatest, most, greatest injustices is that Eddie Murphy doesn’t have an Oscar for The Nutty Professor,” he said. [embedded content] Advertisement Also on the podcast, Reynolds revealed that he and Hugh Jackman are teaming up for another film that is unrelated to Marvel. After being asked if he’d like to one day host the Oscars, he replied: “It would be a dream to do it one day. But I’m writing a movie for myself, Hugh [Jackman] and Shawn [Levy] to do that is not Marvel. That’s it.” The actor didn’t reveal any plot details at this stage, but has said he will be working on the project for the next year. Recommended The film will also mark Reynolds third project with Levy following Deadpool 3, Free Guy and The Adam Project. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in… Read More →

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“…a 1960s alternative reality where Dusty Springfield, Françoise Hardy and Brenda Lee worked in the same warehouse and smoked hash together on breaks…”

Since we introduced My Life In Music back in Take 108*, in 2006, it’s become an essential component of Uncut, an opportunity for the artists we most admire to reveal all about the albums that have inspired them. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! As this is our Review Of The Year issue, we thought it might be fun to tweak the My Life In Music format accordingly. So we asked the stars of 2024 to tell us about the musical discoveries that have blown them away this year, from new albums and reissues to music books, documentaries and gigs. The result is a 32-page A5 book given away free with our Review Of The Year issue. Advertisement As with the very best examples of My Life In Music, the 23 entries in this My Year In Music book are full of revelations and surprises. As a consequence, we hope you’ll find some exciting treasures of your own – much as you would, really, in a regular issue of Uncut. Notebooks at the ready, then, for some precious recommendations direct… Read More →

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Watch the moment Benedict Cumberbatch, FKA Twigs, Cate Blanchett, Taika Waititi, Richard Gadd, Marisa Abela, Sienna Miller, Ghetts, Idris Elba, Riz Ahmed and more all raved on stage with Wyclef Jean in London

Benedict Cumberbatch, FKA Twigs, Cate Blanchett, Taika Waititi, Richard Gadd, Marisa Abela, Sienna Miller, Ghetts, Idris Elba, Riz Ahmed and more all raved on stage with Wyclef Jean in London last night (November 7) – check out footage of the moment below. The entertainment stars were present at KOKO Foundation’s Letters Live fundraiser – an event that saw Cumberbatch, Blanchett, FKA Twigs, Elba, Minnie Driver, Gadd, Ahmed, Waititi, Marisa Abela and Damian Lewis read letters to those in attendance, while Celeste, The Cavemen and Wyclef Jean put on musical performances. The show culminated in an encore with the majority of these guests on stage with Jean. Last month, Cumberbatch was announced as the newest global ambassador for environmental advocacy as part of the KOKO Foundation – the registered charity of London’s iconic venue of the same name. At the time, Twigs was also announced as the ‘A Night In The Theatre’-themed event’s first performer. Over the last two weeks, more celebrities including Blanchett, Ghetts and Wyclef Jean were announced for the event. However, once the event began, the likes of Elba, Driver, Celeste, Ahmed and more were also unveiled as surprise special guests. Advertisement The evening was introduced by Sophia… Read More →

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BLACKPINK’s Rosé says her best songs were written when “life has been pretty bad” on ‘Hot Ones’

BLACKPINK singer Rosé has opened up about her songwriting process during a brand-new appearance on Hot Ones. In the latest episode of First We Feast’s Hot Ones, Korean-Australian singer Rosé appeared to discuss her upcoming album ‘rosie’, songwriting and BLACKPINK’s strengths. During the episode, she shared that some of her best songwriting sessions have come out of difficult times in her life. When asked about her ideal conditions for creativity the singer shared: “I don’t want to say this, but usually when I’m kind of, for me, it’s been like an experience of ‘wow, life has been pretty bad lately’.” “It’s always been the best sessions,” she shared with a laugh. “Because I’ve left all that there, and I end up walking out with a great song. This album is a representation of my past three or four years and all the raw and honest emotions that I’ve never talked about before”. Advertisement Rosé added that the upcoming album contains her “heart-breaking” stories and vulnerable emotions. “I think that’s the beauty of it. That’s what I like most about creating, that you can take something not so great [and turn it] into something beautiful,” she said. [embedded content] Later, Rosé also… Read More →

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‘Outer Banks’ season four ending explained: who dies in the finale?

Ahead of its confirmed fifth and final season, Outer Banks delivered a dramatic feature-length conclusion to season four. Starring Chase Stokes and Madelyn Cline, the action-adventure teen drama follows the conflict between two groups of teenagers, the Kooks and the Pogues, as they search for treasure in North Carolina. Outer Banks is created by Josh Pate, Jonas Pate and Shannon Burke, and first season debuted on Netflix in April 2020. The show’s fourth season was divided into two parts, with the final five episodes released in November 2024. Other cast members in the series include Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss, Rudy Pankow, Austin North, Drew Starkey, and J. Anthony Crane. What happens in the Outer Banks season 4 finale? Advertisement JJ meets a dramatic end in the season four finale CREDIT: Netflix The finale follows the Pogues, along with Rafe (Drew Starkey), as they attempt to find the blue crown in Morocco against Dalia’s (Pollyanna McIntosh) mercenaries, which includes JJ’s (Rudy Pankow) biological father Chandler Groff (J. Anthony Crane). Groff pretends to be aligned with Dalia’s crew again after betraying his son in the previous episode, but his scheme doesn’t last long. Seeing him as a means to an end, Dalia… Read More →

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LCD Soundsystem share new track, “X-Ray Eyes”

LCD Soundsystem have released a new track, “X-Ray Eyes”. You can hear it below. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! The band debuted the track on NTS Radio in October. Advertisement The band’s James Murphy has also shared a statement that acted. as an update on the band’s mooted fifth album. Their last was American Dream in 2017. [embedded content] so there’s a new lcd song now called x ray eyes. it’s the first single of what’s shaping up to be a new album. don’t ask me when that is, because we’re still working on it. but it feels very good to be putting out new music. we made a small run of silkscreened 12❞s that will sell at the upcoming LA and NYC shows, and DFA will have a limited grip of them, but don’t freak out if you don’t get one because there will be a more readily available commercial release of the same record when we can get it together. we just made a pile of white labels and are screening 100 at a time for each… Read More →

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Echo & The Bunnymen album gets debut vinyl release

Echo & The Bunnymen‘s 1999 album What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? is getting its debut release on vinyl in time to mark its 25th anniversary. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! The album – the last to feature Les Pattison on bass – is released on November 29, both on crystal clear vinyl and on limited edition rust orange vinyl. Advertisement Fully remastered, the 1999 album will also be reissued on an expansive 34-track double CD edition featuring B-sides, alternative takes and live versions of Bunnymen classics and tracks from the album. The video for the album’s lead single “Rust” has been newly restored in HD. [embedded content] The tracklisting for the expanded CD is: Disc 1What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?RustGet In The CarBaby RainHistory ChimesLost On YouMorning SunWhen It All Blows OverFools Like UsThe Fish Hook Girl *See The Horizon *Sense Of A Life **Beyond The Green **The Wood +Rust (Video Edit)Fools Like Us (Alternate Extended Mix) +Baby Rain (Alternative Mix 1) +History Chimes (Piano and Guitar Version) + Disc 2What Are… Read More →

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Robert Pattinson’s ‘Mickey 17’ has been delayed again

The release date for Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson has been pushed back a couple of months – find out more about the film’s new release window below. READ MORE: ‘Parasite’ review: Bong Joon-ho’s darkly comic thriller is a modern masterpiece (yes, even with subtitles) Per a Variety report, the upcoming Bong Joon-ho-directed sci-fi black comedy film is being delayed by three months, moving from its January 31 release to April 18, 2025. The film – which is being distributed by Warner Bros. – will now be available for screening in IMAX during its April run, according to a statement from a spokesperson to Variety: “When the April 18 date became available, we quickly moved to secure it for Mickey 17. We’re thrilled with the new date, and very happy the film will be available to audiences in IMAX.” Bong Joon-ho and Robert Pattinson. Credit: RONDA CHURCHILL/AFP via Getty Images Advertisement The change in schedule stems from the Michael Jackson biopic Michael being delayed from the April 18 slot to October 3, which was announced earlier this week. The first full trailer for Mickey 17 arrived in September, and offered a look at various clones of Robert Pattinson’s Mickey dying during… Read More →

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Aphrodite’s Child – 666 – The Apocalypse Of St John: 50th Anniversary Boxset

If The Rolling Stones’ notorious free concert at Altamont in December 1969 signalled the end of the ’60s’ hippie ideal, then Aphrodite’s Child’s 666 is the sacrificial ceremony where the hopes and dreams of that decade are finally turned to dust in a beautiful, cacophonous, ridiculous melange of progressive rock, psychedelic folk, Greek myth, Christian scripture, Monty Python surrealism and countercultural conspiracy. The victims at this ceremony? Aphrodite’s Child themselves, whose four members went their separate ways long before this controversial 83-minute double-album based on the Book of Revelations was released in June 1972, two years after the band had delivered it to their label, Mercury. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Stewarded by the Greek maestro Vangelis Papathanassiou – the visionary behind the Blade Runner and Chariots Of Fire scores – and fronted by the singer and bassist Demis Roussos – later, the kaftan king of ’70s kitsch – alongside guitarist Silver Koulouris and drummer Lucas Sideras, Aphrodite’s Child began life as Athens’ answer to The Byrds or The Beatles. Drawing on psych-rock, flower power and the lush balladry… Read More →