The idea for “Rain on the Graves” — the latest single from Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson’s upcoming solo album, The Mandrake Project, out March 1 — came to him while visiting the resting place of poet William Wordsworth. He’d been invited to a wedding in England’s Lake District in 2012, and, knowing that Wordsworth wrote a lot of his verses in Grasmere, he decided to visit his stone cottage and the church where his body was interred.
“It was a gloomy day, and there was rain,” he tells Rolling Stone...
“It was a gloomy day, and there was rain,” he tells Rolling Stone...
- 1/25/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
"Hunger Games" fans returned to Panem in 2023 with the release of the prequel "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," about the teen years of future President Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) and his ill-fated romance with folk musician Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). The movie did well enough at the box office and was mostly praised by critics (/Film's review was more mixed) — but is all that enough for a sequel?
Upon the release of "Ballad" in November 2023, several members of the cast and creative team sat down with People magazine to answer this question. The main takeaway from their answers? It depends on Suzanne Collins, author of "The Hunger Games." For reference, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" is adapted from Collins' eponymous novel (published in 2020), and she's given no indication that she's writing a sequel. Without literary source material, there won't be a film sequel either.
"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes...
Upon the release of "Ballad" in November 2023, several members of the cast and creative team sat down with People magazine to answer this question. The main takeaway from their answers? It depends on Suzanne Collins, author of "The Hunger Games." For reference, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" is adapted from Collins' eponymous novel (published in 2020), and she's given no indication that she's writing a sequel. Without literary source material, there won't be a film sequel either.
"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes...
- 1/23/2024
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
A class being offered at Harvard on Taylor Swift next semester is officially titled “English 183ts. Taylor Swift and Her World.” A critic who will teach the course has revealed why it is worthy of study.
But when her class was announced last month, many began to wonder out loud if a “millennial pop star deserves this kind of treatment at a world-class university.”
Stephanie Burt, a literary critic who will teach the course at Harvard, penned a convincing argument in The Atlantic and deftly argued that students “benefit from studying art that they love — art new and old, art in many genres,” reports etonline.com.
It’s not the first time a Swift class is available at an institution of higher learning. Stanford, NYU and the University of Texas at Austin are just some of the universities offering similar courses.
The hour-long class at Harvard will aim to explore...
But when her class was announced last month, many began to wonder out loud if a “millennial pop star deserves this kind of treatment at a world-class university.”
Stephanie Burt, a literary critic who will teach the course at Harvard, penned a convincing argument in The Atlantic and deftly argued that students “benefit from studying art that they love — art new and old, art in many genres,” reports etonline.com.
It’s not the first time a Swift class is available at an institution of higher learning. Stanford, NYU and the University of Texas at Austin are just some of the universities offering similar courses.
The hour-long class at Harvard will aim to explore...
- 1/14/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
I vividly remember, as a child, listening to Atomic Kitten’s hits “Eternal Flame” and “The Tide is High”, and my father loudly complaining that “all songs these days are covers”. Well, the child is father of the man, as William Wordsworth might say, and after seeing The Addams Family, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and, now, That ’70s Show rebooted for modern audiences, I have become my father. “Why did you open our house to chaos?” asks Kurtwood Smith’s cantankerous grandpa, Red, as Netflix’s That ’90s Show begins. “Again!?” That, Red, is a question for the studio executives.
We’re back in Point Place, Wisconsin, some time towards the end of the Nineties. Eric and Donna (Topher Grace and Laura Prepon) have, in the invisible Eighties, had a daughter, Leia (Callie Haverda). Over the course of a summer spent back with her grandparents (Debra Jo Rupp...
We’re back in Point Place, Wisconsin, some time towards the end of the Nineties. Eric and Donna (Topher Grace and Laura Prepon) have, in the invisible Eighties, had a daughter, Leia (Callie Haverda). Over the course of a summer spent back with her grandparents (Debra Jo Rupp...
- 1/19/2023
- by Nick Hilton
- The Independent - TV
Charlie Kaufman's surreal and heartsick film "I'm Thinking of Ending Things," based on the 2016 novel by Iain Reed, was handily one of the best films of 2020. Intellectually burning and pathetically self-involved — by design — "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" takes place in a psychological dreamscape where reality is mutable and every character appears to be representative of an oblique Jungian archetype. The lead character, played by Jessie Buckley, is only credited as "Young Woman," and throughout the film, she is called Lucia, Louisa, Lucy, and Ames. Her boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons) is a distant and vague figure in her life. Jake, it will eventually be revealed, might have been imagining Young Woman throughout the entire film. She is likely a symbol in his mind. That even an imagined girlfriend hates him and is thinking of ending things surely says a lot about Jake and his psyche.
As a filmmaker, Kaufman...
As a filmmaker, Kaufman...
- 11/20/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
It may well be an unconscious impulse but the writers are directly or indirectly influenced by their socio-political millieu, even when opposing it, and you don’t need to be a Marxist to acknowledge that.
As Edward Said showed in his examination of ‘Orientalism’, or recent works showcasing the overt or covert politics of such literary figures as William Wordsworth (Jonathan Bate’s "Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World") and Jane Austen, politics can intrude into the poetic realm or comedies of manners — or other forms of fiction, too. And this can span the entire gamut from literary classics to pulp fiction.
The Cold War is a fitting example. As two contrasting systems of social and political organisation vied for global influence, the conflict for influencing hearts and minds underpinned the diplomatic and military manoeuvres.
Duncan White’s "Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War" (2019) offers...
As Edward Said showed in his examination of ‘Orientalism’, or recent works showcasing the overt or covert politics of such literary figures as William Wordsworth (Jonathan Bate’s "Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World") and Jane Austen, politics can intrude into the poetic realm or comedies of manners — or other forms of fiction, too. And this can span the entire gamut from literary classics to pulp fiction.
The Cold War is a fitting example. As two contrasting systems of social and political organisation vied for global influence, the conflict for influencing hearts and minds underpinned the diplomatic and military manoeuvres.
Duncan White’s "Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War" (2019) offers...
- 9/4/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Marianne Faithfull has lived several lifetimes in her 74 years. She was only 17 when the pop song “As Tears Go By” turned her into a star overnight in 1964, and she was in her early twenties when her relationship with Mick Jagger made her a tabloid lightning rod. After that ended, she fell deep into drugs, living for a while on the streets, before making a stunning comeback in 1979 with Broken English, an album of dark-hued, New Wave–influenced music that complemented the way her voice had grown deeper and more profound.
- 4/30/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Marianne Faithfull has loved as deeply and lived as tragically as any of England’s celebrated romantic poets of yore, but unlike most of them, she has lived to tell her tales. So on She Walks in Beauty, a spoken-word collaboration with violinist/songwriter Warren Ellis on which she recites some of her favorite entries from Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, her warm, lived-in voice finds new depths in verses by Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, and others.
When she reads a line like “My heart aches, and...
When she reads a line like “My heart aches, and...
- 4/29/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Last April, Marianne Faithfull had begun working on a new album, her first in several years, when disaster struck: Then 73, she tested positive for Covid-19 and was hospitalized. Miraculously, Faithfull not only recovered but completed the album, She Walks in Beauty, which has just been announced for release on April 30th.
A collection of poetry set to “sound collage compositions,” She Walks in Beauty finds Faithfull reading from works by Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Lord Tennyson. Produced by Warren Ellis, a principal member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds,...
A collection of poetry set to “sound collage compositions,” She Walks in Beauty finds Faithfull reading from works by Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Lord Tennyson. Produced by Warren Ellis, a principal member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds,...
- 1/15/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Sold by Studiocanal, produced and distributed by Mars Films, “Love at Second Sight,” Hugo Gélin’s follow-up to Omar Sy-starrer “Two is Family” – which scored a noteworthy €62 million ($67.9 million) outside France in 2017 – begins with a post-catastrophe Winter.
Wasn’t this meant to be a romantic comedy? Images of Paris’ River Seine half-buried by a glacier of snow and cold-curdled ice mark of course a metaphor, though its sense will take some time to register. The opening gambit of “Love at Second Sight,” is echoed by the ambition of its parallel universe premise. At high school, Raphaël discovers Olivia, also a teen, playing the piano with extraordinary skill and emotion. It’s love at first sight. Though young, they get married. Raphaël has some vague ideas for a pulp sci-fi novel, set in a wintery dystopian post-Apocalypse Paris. With vital input from Olivia, who puts her own career on hold, the novel gets published.
Wasn’t this meant to be a romantic comedy? Images of Paris’ River Seine half-buried by a glacier of snow and cold-curdled ice mark of course a metaphor, though its sense will take some time to register. The opening gambit of “Love at Second Sight,” is echoed by the ambition of its parallel universe premise. At high school, Raphaël discovers Olivia, also a teen, playing the piano with extraordinary skill and emotion. It’s love at first sight. Though young, they get married. Raphaël has some vague ideas for a pulp sci-fi novel, set in a wintery dystopian post-Apocalypse Paris. With vital input from Olivia, who puts her own career on hold, the novel gets published.
- 1/28/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Ryan Lambie Jul 30, 2019
Few actors have slaughtered as many bad guys as Arnold Schwarzenegger. To prove it, here’s our list of his 10 most wince-inducing kills…
In honor of Arnold Schwarzenegger's birthday, Den of Geek UK dusted off this fun bit of violence for you...
If Arnold Schwarzenegger were a deity – and he may yet prove to be – he’d be the God of Death, Vengeance, and Gatling Guns, and his crown would be made from bullet cases and hand grenade pins.
Some actors build a career by physically changing, chameleon-like, into new, unusual characters. Others build a career by building up a familiar persona which audiences will happily pay to see again and again. Arnold inarguably did the latter, but the greater part of his career was defined by simply gelling his hair into a vertical position and killing bad guys.
Of all the '80s muscle-bound action stars,...
Few actors have slaughtered as many bad guys as Arnold Schwarzenegger. To prove it, here’s our list of his 10 most wince-inducing kills…
In honor of Arnold Schwarzenegger's birthday, Den of Geek UK dusted off this fun bit of violence for you...
If Arnold Schwarzenegger were a deity – and he may yet prove to be – he’d be the God of Death, Vengeance, and Gatling Guns, and his crown would be made from bullet cases and hand grenade pins.
Some actors build a career by physically changing, chameleon-like, into new, unusual characters. Others build a career by building up a familiar persona which audiences will happily pay to see again and again. Arnold inarguably did the latter, but the greater part of his career was defined by simply gelling his hair into a vertical position and killing bad guys.
Of all the '80s muscle-bound action stars,...
- 6/27/2012
- Den of Geek
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