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Russell Crowe’s Biggest Box-Office Hit of the Decade Is Officially Leaving HBO Max
Russell Crowe’s 2023 horror film “The Pope’s Exorcist” is due to be removed from HBO Max in the United States on 12 August 2026. The film, which grossed $77 million worldwide against an $18 million budget, remains Crowe’s biggest box-office success as a leading man since 2014’s “Noah”, highlighting his shift away from big-budget tentpole…
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‘Even the good guys were doing bad things’: the wild, twisted story behind the new Tiger King
HBO Max has premiered Monsters of God, a five-part documentary series from Eric Goode and Jeremy McBride, the team behind Netflix’s Tiger King, this time turning its focus to the murky, multibillion-dollar world of exotic reptile smuggling. The series explores how the trade in rare reptiles evolved from niche enthusiasm into a sprawling criminal ecosystem…
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Foriegner review – will drinking your own urine get you a US visa?
The Guardian reviews Foriegner, a deliberately misspelled “anti-comedy clown show” by US-based Iranian performer Sohrab Haghverdi, running at Summerhall as part of the 2026 Edinburgh festival. The show is described as punk theatre that sets out to unsettle its audience through coughing fits, shouting, wandering off stage and provocative political riffing, including a mock-serious claim…
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Luca Guadagnino Explains Why He Just Had to Produce Giovanni Tortorici’s Coming-of-Age Drama ‘Ketticè’ in a “Sterile” Italian Film Landscape
Director Luca Guadagnino used a press session at the 79th Locarno Film Festival to explain why he chose to produce “Ketticè,” the second feature from his former assistant Giovanni Tortorici, arguing that Italy’s film industry has become “sterile” and lacks a strong sense of language or life. He traced this decline to the rise of…
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Black magick in Kensington: When Jimmy Page opened an occultist book shop in 1973
Jimmy Page’s fascination with the occult, particularly the ceremonial magick philosophy of Aleister Crowley, shaped much of Led Zeppelin’s mythology and imagery, from the sigils and Tarot symbolism on Led Zeppelin IV to esoteric lyrical themes across the band’s catalogue. This interest went beyond artistic influence: in the early 1970s, flush with fame and money,…
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SWFC News: Why Louie Barry didn’t start Owls win – and what’s next for Harry Gray – thestar.co.uk
Sheffield Wednesday manager Henrik Pedersen has explained why new signing Louie Barry was left out of the starting line-up for the Owls’ 1-0 Carabao Cup win over Bolton Wanderers, saying simply that Barry had not trained in the days beforehand. His absence opened the door for 17-year-old Leeds United loanee Harry Gray, who impressed after…
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“We were all pushing each other. We all had ideas as to where it should go. It was an intense time”: The Pineapple Thief asked how the world went off-script with It Leads To This
The Pineapple Thief’s frontman Bruce Soord and drummer Gavin Harrison have discussed how a new, more spontaneous way of working shaped their 2024 album It Leads To This, which departed from their usual scripted approach to songwriting. The piece draws on a 2024 interview in which the pair, along with bassist Jon Sykes, described an…
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The “bullshit” band Roger Waters wishes his 1979 opus had never inspired: “Theatrical nonsense”
Roger Waters has criticised U2, saying he regrets inspiring the band’s large-scale concert style after they allegedly dismissed Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall as “theatrical nonsense”. The dispute matters because it highlights Waters’ long-running resentment of Bono and his view that U2 later adopted the very kind of spectacle they had criticised. Waters recalled…
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‘It was Mel C’s wedding day. Couldn’t Geri just avoid white for ONCE?’: Inside newly married Sporty Spice’s wardrobe clash with her ‘diva’ bandmate, as furious friends tell KATIE HIND about ‘unforgivable’ behaviour
Mel C reportedly clashed with Geri Halliwell-Horner over her choice of white outfit at Mel’s wedding, with friends of the newly married Sporty Spice said to be furious that her Spice Girls bandmate wore a colour traditionally reserved for the bride. Sources close to Mel C described the move as “unforgivable” and questioned why Geri…