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Venice Jury Head Maggie Gyllenhaal Calls For Empathy In Politically Charged Times; Addresses Dearth Of Women In Competition: “It’s A Systemic Problem”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, president of the jury at the 83rd Venice Film Festival, used the event’s opening press conference to call for empathy in cinema at a time of heightened political division. Asked whether films should engage with politics, she argued that storytelling inherently opens space for understanding even the most flawed or corrupt characters, and…
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Jasmine Jobson Teases Details About Netflix’s ‘Top Boy’ Spin-Off Series ‘Jaq’: “She’s Going Down A Crazy Rabbit Hole”
Actress Jasmine Jobson has previewed Netflix’s upcoming Top Boy spin-off series, working titled “Jaq”, which follows her BAFTA-winning character Jaq Lawrence and will shoot next year as a six-part sequel to the original drama, which ended in 2023. The project forms part of a broader expansion of the Top Boy universe, alongside a prequel series…
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Musixmatch launches Pro for Labels to help record companies manage and distribute lyrics at scale
Musixmatch has launched Pro for Labels, a new hub aimed at helping record companies manage, enrich and distribute lyrics across their catalogues at scale. The tool is designed for labels of all sizes, from small independents to organisations handling thousands of artists and releases, and comes as labels report growing difficulty holding listeners’ attention on…
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Swansea sign Man City teenager Monga on loan
Swansea City have signed Manchester City teenager Jeremy Monga on loan for the remainder of the 2026-27 season, giving the winger a chance to gain regular first-team football as he continues his development. Monga joined City from Leicester City in July for a fee of around £10m plus add-ons, days after turning 17, and is…
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Trump and Rubio’s bold Venezuela oil pact could finally crush communism’s grip
A Fox News opinion piece argues that the new US-Venezuela oil partnership, announced by President Trump and negotiated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, could help end decades of Cuban, Russian and Chinese influence over Venezuela. The author frames the deal as a strategic and economic safeguard rather than…
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The Life of Gerda Taro, the First Female Photojournalist to Be Killed on the Battlefield, Captured in Venice’s ‘The Girl With the Leica’
Gerda Taro, the first female photojournalist to die while covering a conflict, is the subject of “The Girl With the Leica,” a new film by Alina Marazzi that opens the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival. The drama aims to correct decades of historical neglect of Taro’s work and legacy, much of which was…
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“We got dropped by our manager, our publisher and our label. The grand project suddenly didn’t seem quite right”: Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness once gave themselves an hour to write a No-Man song. Another time, they took 25 years
Progressive rock duo No-Man, comprising Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness, released their 2019 album Love You To Bits after a gestation period stretching back 25 years to 1994. The album’s origins trace to the sessions for their record Flowermouth, when the pair first conceived an ambitious, album-length exploration of a single song inspired by Donna…
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3 Rock Songs From 1971 You Heard While Shopping at the Mall With Your Friends
This piece is a nostalgic music feature highlighting three rock songs that were popular in 1971, imagining them being played over speakers in shopping centres of the era. It’s part of a light-hearted retrospective on early mall culture and the soundtrack that would have accompanied teenagers browsing shops with friends at the time. The three…
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10 Unforgettable ‘Far Side’ Comics About Dinosaurs
Polygon has rounded up ten memorable dinosaur-themed comic strips from Gary Larson’s The Far Side, the long-running newspaper cartoon that ran from 1980 to 1995 and produced over 4,000 strips. The piece highlights Larson’s recurring dinosaur gags, separate from his single most famous dinosaur cartoon: the 1982 “thagomizer” strip, which jokingly named the spiky end…