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Isabella Rossellini Talks Lynch, ‘Green Porno’ and How Animals Became Her Favorite ‘Muses’: ‘They Fascinate Me’
Isabella Rossellini received the Excellence Award at the Locarno Film Festival, an honour she noted her father Roberto Rossellini won in 1948 for “Germany, Year Zero” and her brother Renzo received four years ago. During her masterclass at the festival, the actress discussed her career and her enduring fascination with animals, which she said became…
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Pokémon Pokopia’s new DLC finally reveals which universe the game is set in
New downloadable content for the Nintendo Switch game Pokémon Pokopia has confirmed that the title shares a universe with Pokémon Let’s Go, Pikachu! & Let’s Go, Eevee!. This matters because Pokopia’s setting had previously been unclear, being a spin-off in which humans have vanished and Pokémon govern themselves, with only scattered lore items hinting at…
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NYC Art Punks BODEGA Share New Single ‘Weather Me’
NYC art-punk band BODEGA have released a new single, ‘Weather Me’, ahead of their forthcoming album ‘All Inside Aquarium’. The track showcases the energy of the band’s live performances, described as a fast-paced post-punk song, and forms part of a busy period for the group that also includes a new UK tour and a film…
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Blind Channel Announce New Album ‘Painstream’
Finnish rock band Blind Channel have announced their new album, ‘Painstream’, due for release on 30 October via Century Media Records. It will be their first full-length record since 2024’s ‘Exit Emotions’, and the band have framed it around the theme of pain as a unifying human experience that ultimately reveals hope. The 12-track album…
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Kanye West sued by producer for allegedly refusing to pay him for two years
Kanye West is facing a lawsuit from an anonymous freelance producer, identified as “John Doe”, who alleges the rapper failed to pay him for nearly two years’ worth of work. The producer says he was brought in on an emergency basis just two days before the release of 2024 album “Vultures 2” and later worked…
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‘Drive’ director pays tribute to late composer Kavinsky: “An icon of French pop”
Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn has paid tribute to French composer and producer Kavinsky, who has died at the age of 50. Kavinsky, whose real name was Vincent Belorgey, was found dead at his Paris home on 28 July, with reports suggesting the cause of death was a stroke. His track ‘Nightcall’ became inseparable from…
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Getting Ill: Understanding the grossest horror game in development and how it takes more than a few cues from Valve’s seminal shooter Half-Life 2
Ill, a hyper-realistic and unusually gruesome horror shooter, has generated significant buzz since its debut trailer at Summer Game Fest 2025, despite almost nothing being publicly known about its small development team. Eurogamer spoke to creator Maxim Verehin, an Armenian concept artist whose credits include Diablo, Tomb Raider, Silent Hill and the TV series It:…
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Grace Elizabeth Harvey’s New EP Offers Wistful Alt-Folk
Liverpool-based songwriter Grace Elizabeth Harvey has announced a new EP, ‘Songs Of Devotion’, due for release on 16th October 2026. The record features spartan alt-folk arrangements paired with literary, wordplay-rich songwriting, and its announcement is accompanied by the release of a first single. The EP was recorded during sessions at producer Gus White’s residential studio,…
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Odd Slice Films Boards Documentary ‘Concrete Land’ Ahead of Locarno Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
Boutique sales company Odd Slice Films has acquired worldwide rights to “Concrete Land,” the debut feature documentary from Palestinian-Jordanian director Asmahan Bkerat, ahead of its world premiere in Locarno Film Festival’s Semaine de la Critique. The deal matters because it brings wider distribution to a personal, eight-years-in-the-making project chronicling the displacement pressures facing an Afro-Palestinian…
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40 Years Ago, The Actual Best Hannibal Lecter Film Was Released, and It’s Not ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
The article marks the 40th anniversary of “Manhunter” (1986), Michael Mann’s crime thriller that was the first cinematic adaptation of Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter character, predating “The Silence of the Lambs” by five years. The piece argues that despite being dismissed on its original release, “Manhunter” has since gained cult status and helped establish the…