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The Young and the Restless spoilers for Friday, March 7, find the two titans of Genoa City reaching out to the younger generation…one with a threat, one with a promise. (We’re sure you can guess which is which.)

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Victor (Eric Braeden) did his usual bark-and-froth-at-the-mouth routine when he snarled at Jack (Peter Bergman) that no Newman will ever love an Abbott. Again. This time. Starting now.

What he meant was that Victor had decreed that Claire (Hayley Erin) was not to fall for Kyle (Michael Mealor). Now that he’s told Jack…and Diane (Susan Walters)…and Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott).. and Kyle…Victor is back to tell Claire. Again. Indeed, she misunderstood him the first time. And, this time, he’s not sweetly advising her. He is giving her an ultimatum.

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On the February 3 episode of The Young and the Restless, Victor ordered Jack to keep his cootie-filled son, Kyle, away from Victor’s perfect, innocent, only slightly felonious granddaughter, Claire. The Newman bloodline is way too pure to be mongrelized with stinky Abbotts…again. Victoria and Nick protested. Jack smirked. Nikki really wished her beloved husband would dial it back a bit. But Victor would not be silenced. He knows best! Who will he be playing the anti-Cupid for next? We think we know!

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Now that Heather’s (Vail Bloom) murderer has been caught—and neutralized without costing the Genoa City taxpayers any money—and Billy (Jason Thompson) has invited Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) and Daniel to work for him, it’s time for Lucy (Lily Brooks O’Briant) to return home. If she’s going to stay in Genoa City long-term, she needs what everyone in Genoa City...

As one Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) says, “Pack your bags, we’re going to Hollywood/the movies!” Only Murders in the Building is about to be a major murder picture.I

Season 4 of Hulu’s cozy murder mystery series arrives Tuesday, August 27, and the ensemble cast will make it the biggest installment yet. The story will go bicoastal with yet another murder in the Arconia and the Hollywood treatment of Mabel’s (Selena Gomez), Charles’ (Steve Martin) and Oliver’s podcast in Los Angeles.

For the full episode release guide, find details about Season 4 below:

When does Only Murders in the Building Season 4 premiere?

Season 4 debuts on Tuesday, August 27.

How many episodes are in Season 4 of Only Murders in the Building?

Season 4 contains 10 episodes, just as the past three seasons have.

Mabel (Selena Gomez) and Tobert (Jesse Williams) in Only Murders in the Building

Are new episodes streaming weekly or all at once?...

Quick Links The Bad Improv Scene is One of the Funniest in the Entire Series Despite Being "Bad", These Two Scenes Hit All the Improv Stops It Takes a Thorough Understanding of Comedy to Make Bad Improv Good

The following article contains spoilers from Only Murders in the Building Season 4, now streaming on Hulu.

Only Murders in the Building is a comedy-drama series that follows two elderly men and their millennial friend as they investigate murders in the Arconia, the building they all live in. The trio documents their investigation in a titular podcast they call Only Murders in the Building. While this series does handle some heavy topics, the overarching tone of this murder mystery series tries to keep things light with comedic elements.

The best comedy scene in the entire series happens in Season 4, Episode 3, "Two for the Road." The scene in question pairs Steve Martin's Charles-Hayden...

Right in the midst of their co-headlining tour with The War on Drugs, The National have announced Rome, a new live album set for release on December 13th.

The album was recorded live, without any overdubs, during a June 3rd, 2024 show at Rome’s Cavea at Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. It’s comprised of 21 tracks and will be released as both a digital and 2xLP vinyl set. Members of The National’s Cherry Tree fan club will also be able to purchase a red, green, and white triple LP (a la the Italian flag) with five additional songs.

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Mixed by Peter Katis, Rome is The National’s first live album since 2019’s Juicy Sonic Magic and spans 20-plus years of material — including tracks from the band’s pair of 2023 albums, First Two Pages of Frankenstein and Laugh Track. Meanwhile, they’ve shared Rome...

Quick Links Mabel, Oliver and Charles Made a Crucial Mistake in Their Investigation Who Would Want to Kill Sazz?

The following contains spoilers for Only Murders in the Building Season 4, Episode 3, "Two for the Road," now streaming on Hulu.

Only Murders in the Building Season 4 has already featured some intriguing twists. From the podcasters' slow realization that Sazz Pataki had been murdered to the "Christmas All the Time" guy, Rudy, secretly hating Christmas, the first three episodes have been full of unexpected turns at every level. As a murder mystery series, it will surely have even more as Mabel, Oliver and Charles get closer to the truth, but the latest episode, "Two for the Road," may have subtly exposed a major twist in Season 4's story.

At the end of Only Murders in the Building Season 4, Episode 3, Mabel, Oliver and Charles use Dudenoff's ham radio to contact someone who might...

Selena Gomez and Eva Longoria completely owned Only Murders in the Building Season 4, Episode 3.

Sure, Martin Short and Steve Martin had their fun moments with their movie twins, but let’s be real — Mabel and Mahbel were the undeniable queens of the episode!

Not that I’d ever want Mabel ditching Oliver and Charles — she totally belongs with them –but just imagine if Gomez and Longoria teamed up for their own show. It would be the bomb! They were an absolute blast together!

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Our trio’s movie twins arrived in New York City for a one-day “character study,” as Oliver called it, courtesy of the Brothers sisters.

Naturally, it couldn’t have happened at a worse time — Detective Williams had just dropped some juicy intel on Sazz’s murder.

Mabel and Charles were totally against the idea of Longoria, Levy, and Galifianakis following them around when they were knee-deep in an investigation,...

Only Murders in the Building: What Was the Radio Song Mabel Sang in S4E3? - Main Image

What was the radio song Mabel sang in Only Murders in the Building season 4 episode 3? Before the third episode ends, the trio ends up singing a song that somehow leads them to their next clue.

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Mabel's Radio Song Leads To Only Murders in the Building's Next Clue

Charles, Oliver, and Mabel are closing in on the potential killer behind Sazz's death in Only Murders in the Building season 4 episode 3 titled Two For the Road.

Apart from uncovering the Dudenoff apartment 14F in the West Tower building, Mabel may be onto something when she decides to rent the place, too, alongside the room's other tenants, in hopes of discovering who the killer is.

Charles and...

Only Murders in the Building: What's Up with the Dudenoff Apartment in S4E3? - Main Image

After the trio had been researching clues as to who Sazz's killer might be, they stumble upon a new name in the picture: Dudenoff. Who is he and what's with his apartment in Only Murders in the Building season 4?

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Who is M. Dudenoff and What's Up with His Apartment? Fan Theories Explored

While the trio, Charles, Oliver, and Mabel, are no closer to the legitimate killer behind Sazz's death, Detective Williams's team finds out that the gunshot came from West Tower's Apartment 14F across the Arconia.

According to their findings in Only Murders in the Building season 4 episode 3 titled Two For the Road, M. Dudenoff is a "retired professor" who was conveniently not in town and...

Who is Helga in Only Murders in the Building? Fans Suspect She May Be a Returning Character - Main Image

Sazz gets murdered in the finale of season 3, leaving season 4 to pick up the case and start investigating. Among the clues Sazz left behind, who is Helga in Only Murders in the Building season 4? Here's what fans picked up.

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Who is Helga in Only Murders in the Building Season 4?

While Sazz's body is nowhere to be found in Only Murders in the Building season 4 premiere, her desk is filled with potential clues that could lead the trio to what happened behind her death.

One of those that stuck out was the name "Helga" printed on a boarding pass for Lax to JFK. But who is this Helga and why does Sazz have her own copy of it?...

This week’s Only Murders in the Building does a perfect job of bringing together this season’s two primary storylines as the Only Murder group teams up with their movie counterparts for what shaped up to be one of the funniest episodes of the season so far.

Now, before we get into the thick of things, it goes without saying that spoilers are ahead for this week’s episode, so if you haven’t yet watched be warned that spoilers are coming!

As the episode opens, Mabel, Oliver, and Charles are putting together their murder board when they get some unexpected assistance from Detective Donna. Turns out the feds have taken over the case and they don’t want to work with her, so she’s come to give the Only Murders group a few pieces of intel to help them out – knowing full well they won’t drop their investigation.

In the third episode of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building fourth season, titled “Two for the Road,” Charles, Oliver, and Mabel find themselves reluctantly paired with new investigators—or rather, their movie counterpart actors. Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis, and Eva Longoria join the trio as they tackle their latest mystery. This year the central trio […]

Only Murders in the Building: Two for the Road...

The idea of a non-linear time-spanning look at a marriage is not new. The absolute pinnacle of the idea still to me is director Stanley Donen’s and writer Fredric Raphael’s wonderfully sophisticated 1967 comedy Two For the Road, in which Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney flip back and forth in the course of their 12-year marriage. It was so ahead of its time, not just with the idea but in the editing technique used throughout. An absolute classic that didn’t get its full due in its day.

Now the latest in this subgenre is We Live In Time, the romantic comedy from director John Crowley and writer Nick Payne, which attempts to chronicle the decade-old relationship and marriage between Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield). The style isn’t as tricky as Two For the Road’s, but what it undeniably shares in common...

What Message Did Sazz Write in Her Blood in Only Murders in the Building S4E2? - Main Image

Sazz may have been murdered in cold blood, but she left a cryptic message in Only Murders in the Building. The trio of Charles, Oliver, and Mabel are left to decipher it. Thankfully, season 4 episode 2 shows us exactly that.

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Sazz Technically Didn't Disappear Without Saying Anything

Sazz (played by Jane Lynch) was murdered in the finale episode of Only Murders in the Building season 3, and the mystery behind her death continued in the premiere of season 4.

This leaves Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) with a few clues to examine in Charles's apartment. One of these clues includes the bloodstains she left on the floor.

While the stain had been wiped off,...

“Only Murders in the Building” is back for Season 4, once again bringing a murder with it. Charles, Mabel and Oliver really don’t have great luck in avoiding that.

But the show will also bring some very famous faces into the mix as story for the fourth season finds the trio getting a proper Hollywood movie made about them. In addition to the actors playing them, fans will also see some beloved returning cast members. But more on that momentarily.

First and foremost, we need to get into when you can actually watch the new episodes. Well, here’s everything you need to know.

When does “Only Murders in the Building” season 4 come out?

Season 4 premieres on Tuesday, August 27th.

Where is it streaming?

Once again, new episodes of the series are streaming exclusively on Hulu.

Are the episodes released weekly or all at once?

In keeping with past seasons,...

ABC's Lost ran for six seasons and produced 121 groundbreaking episodes of television, but the series immediately found success as soon as its pilot episode aired. Lost was television that set new standards for serialized storytelling and dramatic mysteries, and the show is still a major influence on the medium more than a decade later. Lost drew in viewers through its mysterious island, grander mythology, and non-linear storytelling that indulged in flashbacks, flashforwards, and even "flash-sideways." Lost generated suspense in many diverse ways, but character deaths were always major events that would change the series' status quo.

One of Lost's most striking details was the massive size of its cast. Season 1 had more than a dozen characters, and each new year would bring more individuals into the mix. A huge cast and a dangerous island meant that many of these characters were destined to become casualties. Lost is full of losses,...

Lamb of God have released a remix of their song “Laid to Rest” by Health, an inclusion on the upcoming Ashes of the Wake 20th Anniversary Edition, out August 30th.

The remix arrives a day before Lamb of God kick off their co-headlining tour with Mastodon on Friday (July 19th) in Grand Prairie, Texas (get tickets here). The “Ashes of Leviathan Tour” will see Lamb of God playing Ashes of the Wake in full and Mastodon performing Leviathan in its entirety. Notably, Slayer guitarist Kerry King and his solo band will provide direct support.

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Meanwhile, the remix of “Laid to Rest” re-imagines Lamb of God as an industrial metal band. Health pull off a crafty edit of the original stems, melding the guitars into a punchy techno beat and leaving Randy Blythe’s vocals isolated on top.

“When we were discussing ideas for the...

Creed launched their “Summer of ’99” North American reunion tour at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Wednesday night (July 17th), marking the kickoff of the band’s first outing in 12 years (tickets available here).

Singer Scott Stapp and company delivered a 16-song set heavy on tracks from their Diamond-certified 1999 album Human Clay, including tunes like “Are You Ready?,” “What If,” and the main-set-closing one-two punch of massive hits “With Arms Wide Open” and “Higher” (No. 1 on Consequence‘s recent list of the 50 greatest post-grunge songs).

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The set started out with “Bullets,” one of four songs played from 2001’s Weathered, including the encore of “One Last Breath” and the show-closing “My Sacrifice.” Meanwhile. the band’s 1997 debut, My Own Prison, was also well represented with four songs, among them the title track and “What’s This Life For.”

The kickoff show featured support from Switchfoot and Finger Eleven.

Editor’s note: this list was originally published in July 2023. It has since been updated with new entries.

To quote Alice Cooper (and poorly paraphrase “High School Musical 2”), school’s out for summer. With Boppenheimer hitting air-conditioned theaters midway through July — just as countless actors and screenwriters head into the heat to join picket-lines in New York and Los Angeles — summer 2023 will no doubt prove a memorable one for Hollywood. What better time then to consider how the movies themselves represent the reason for the season?

The best summer vacation movies range in subject matter and can appeal to all sorts of different audiences. Kid-centric flicks, like “The Parent Trap,” and adult slashers, like the “Friday the 13th” films, explore the traditions and perils of sleep-away camp from spectacularly different view points. Meanwhile, road trip flicks, like the Audrey Hepburn-starring “Two for the Road” and Hindi film “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara,...

Before John Williams became the flagship film composer-conductor anyone thought of when they thought about the Hollywood Bowl, that honor belonged to Henry Mancini. And in some years, when Los Angeles is particularly lucky, it still does, even though the scorer behind “The Pink Panther,” “Days of Wine and Roses” and other classic scores has been gone for 30 years now. This Sunday, the LA Phil will devote the Bowl’s traditional opening night to a 100th birthday celebration for the man who, arguably more than any other, turned movie scores into a truly populist artform… and who conducted at the Bowl 29 times.

It’s not even the only major event involving Mancini’s legacy this weekend. Friday will see the release of a tribute album, “The Henry Mancini 100th Sessions – Henry Has Company,” that features among its guests Lizzo, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock and, not incidentally,...

Cillian Murphy obtained one of acting’s most coveted achievements when he won an Oscar for his leading role in “Oppenheimer.” But his award season run for the acclaimed Christopher Nolan film didn’t end with his big night at the Dolby Theater. The Irish actor went on to receive his home country’s highest acting honor on Sunday at the Irish Film and TV Academy Awards when he won the Lead Actor — Film category for “Oppenheimer.”

The ceremony honored the best Irish film and television of 2023, with Pat Collins’ “That They May Face the Rising Sun” winning Best Film. Other notable winners included Paul Mescal taking Supporting Actor for “All of Us Strangers” and Alison Oliver winning Supporting Actress for “Saltburn.”

Keep reading for a complete list of winners from the 2024 Irish Film and TV Academy Awards.

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“Double Blind”

“Flora and Son”

“Lies We Tell”

“Lola”

“That They May Face the Rising Sun...

The 21st Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards, which highlight Irish filmmakers, television creators and performers, saw Pat Collins’ That They May Face The Rising Sun win Best Film in an upset. Despite earning a second-best 11 nominations, the top award was its only win.

Lies We Tell all with three wins: for Director Lisa Mulcahy, Lead Actress Agnes O’Casey, and Best Script. It came in with 13nominations.

Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy repeated his Best Actor win at the Academy Awards for Oppenheimer with a win for Lead Actor. In the supporting categories, Paul Mescal won for All of Us Strangers and Alison Oliver topped all for Saltburn.

Oppenheimer was named Best International Film, Emma Stone was Best Actress, and Paul Giamatti won International Actor for The Holdovers.

In the television drama categories, Kin was the winner for series, directing, script, lead actress Clare Dune, and supporting actress Maria Doyle Kennedy.

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The late Stanley Donen was born on April 13, 1924. The legendary filmmaker — the last of the directors from Hollywood’s golden age — passed away on February 21, 2019, leaving behind a legacy of classic movies filled with color, song, and dance. Let’s take a look back at 15 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Donen got his start as a dancer. It was in the chorus line for George Abbott‘s production of “Pal Joey” that he met Gene Kelly. The two became quick friends, and Donen started working as Kelly’s assistant, helping him choreograph his intensely acrobatic dance sequences.

The two turned to filmmaking with “On the Town” (1949), a lavish Technicolor musical about three sailors on a 24 hour shore leave in New York City. They teamed up again for perhaps the greatest movie musical of all time: “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952). A satire of Hollywood’s rocky transition from silent cinema to sound,...

Fresh from his Academy Award win for best actor, “Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy now has a chance to claim the same honor at his local awards.

The Irish Film and TV Academy (IFTA) has unveiled the nominees for its 2024 awards, with Murphy going up against “Saltburn’s'” Barry Keoghan and “All of Us Strangers” star Andrew Scott in the best actor category. Elsewhere, Jessie Buckley (“Fingernails”) and Saoirse Ronan (“Foe”) are among those nominated for best actress, while Paul Mescal (“All of Us Strangers”) and Kenneth Branagh (“Oppenheimer”) are in the running for best supporting actor.

But it was actually Irish features leading the pack of nominees, with Lisa Mulcahy’s “Lies We Tell” landing 13, followed by “That They May Face the Rising Sun” and “Double Blind.”

The IFTAs ceremony will be take place on April 20 at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre with Irish TV personality Baz Ashmawy on hosting duties.

Nominations are out for the 21st Irish Film & Television Awards with Lisa Mulcahy’s thriller Lies We Tell leading the pack on the feature side at 13, and crime drama Kin heading up the TV fields with 11 (scroll down for the ful list of nominees). The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) will hand out its prizes on April 20 in Dublin.

Alongside Lies We Tell in the Best Film category are Double Blind, Flora and Son, Lola, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Verdigris. Each of those films also scored a mention for their directors.

In what was a banner year for Irish talent, there are several awards season notables vying for Best Actor as well, including Oppenheimer Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan and All of Us Strangers’ Andrew Scott.

The Best International Film race includes All of Us Strangers, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things, Saltburn and The Holdovers.

Wolfgang Van Halen and the Van Halen family have made a $100,000 donation to the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation to benefit music programs in schools. The financial contribution kickstarts the nonprofit’s “Adopt a School” campaign.

The donation will be spread across 100 schools across the country, with each school receiving $1,000 toward its music program.

“Music has been a huge part of my life, and it is our family’s great pleasure to help support music education programs and bring the gift of music to students across the country,” said Wolfgang. “Music education has proven to be a huge contributor toward a student’s success in school and in life.”

Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation CEO Tricia Williams added, “Our mission is to make sure there is an instrument in the hands of every student who needs and wants one. By increasing schools’ inventories of quality, playable instruments, music teachers will...

Wolfgang Van Halen has reacted to a recent rant in which he was verbally assaulted by David Lee Roth for incidents that allegedly occurred when they were both in Van Halen.

Back in January, Diamond Dave posted a video to his YouTube channel that essentially served as a long voice-over monologue insulting Wolfgang. The clip started with Roth suggesting that the late Eddie Van Halen’s son benefitted from nepotism, and then went on to accuse the young musician of trying to throw Roth’s guests out of Van Halen shows. Throughout the entire rant, Roth continuously referred to Wolfgang as “this fuckin’ kid.”

In a new interview with the radio show The Morning X With Barnes & Leslie (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Wolfgang was asked why he thinks Roth would spew such “vile” venom toward him. He responded, “I guess I’m honored he even thinks about me as much as he seems to.

Static-x and Sevendust have added a third leg to their co-headlining US tour.

The bands already teamed up for a Fall 2023 leg, and they previously announced a Winter 2024 leg set to launch in February. The newly announced Spring 2024 dates kick off April 28th in Salt Lake City and running through May 18th in Minneapolis. Dope and Lies of Loyalty will support these shows, in addition to opening the February leg.

Various ticket pre-sales are ongoing for select dates, and general ticket sales start Friday (January 12th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

The outing is billed as the co-headlining “Machine Killer” tour, named after Static-x’s sophomore album, Machine, and Sevendust’s latest studio LP, Truth Killer, which dropped back in July.

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Next year marks the 30th anniversary of The Offspring’s mainstream breakout album, Smash. To celebrate, the punk rock veterans are headed back to Orange County for a special concert being held in Anaheim on June 1st, 2024.

During their performance at Honda Center, The Offspring will play Smash in its entirety along with their biggest hits. “We’ve got some celebrating to do in Orange County,” the band said in a press statement. “Look out Honda Center…we’re coming for you!”

An artist pre-sale will begin on Tuesday, December 12th (use access code SMASH30) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Thursday, December 14th via Ticketmaster. A limited amount of special $30 tickets will be available.

Once tickets are on sale, you can look for deals at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value,...

Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth Wvh have announced a two-leg headlining 2024 US tour. The winter leg will feature special guest Nita Strauss, while a spring leg will include support from Intervals.

The first leg kicks off February 21st in St. Louis and runs through a March 10th show in Albany, New York. The second leg launches May 4th in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and runs through a May 17th gig in Louisville, Kentucky.

A Live Nation pre-sale for the newly announced dates begins Wednesday (December 6th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Crew, while a general onsale starts Friday (December 8th) via Ticketmaster. Fans can also check for deals or pick up tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

Mammoth Wvh are proving to be real road dogs. They’re currently wrapping up a fall tour, also featuring Nita Strauss as support,...

The Offspring‘s recently wrapped “Let the Bad Times Roll” tour featured support from Sum 41 and Simple Plan — one of the strongest pop-punk tour packages in recent memory.

The trek ended earlier this month, but during the second to last show on September 2nd at the Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York, members of all three bands shared the stage for a surging run through of The Offspring’s ska-tinged number “Why Don’t You Get a Job?”

The epic moment occurred toward the end of the main portion of The Offspring’s headlining set. For the first time on the tour, the band was joined onstage by tourmates Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 and Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan.

The two form a veritable punk-rock triumvirate with The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland, as their voices stack in joyous harmony during the song’s chorus refrain. The pro-shot footage...

One of cinema's most beloved stars, Audrey Hepburn, is best remembered for her romantic roles in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Holiday, but the screen icon also collaborated with the legendary filmmaker behind Singin' in the Rain, Stanley Donen, on three separate occasions. Donen first worked with Hepburn in 1957's Funny Face, a musical that co-starred Fred Astaire. Ten years later, the pair reunited for a marriage drama called Two for the Road, but in between these films in 1963, they worked on what ended up being Donen's most financially successful picture, Charade.

The 35th Galway Film Fleadh ended Sunday evening with the Competition jury handing the festival’s top prizes of Best Irish Film to Apocalypse Clown, directed by George Kane, and the Generation Jury Award to Scrapper by Charlotte Regan.

Written by Demian Fox, George Kane, Shane O’Brien, and James Walmsley and produced by Morgan Bushe and James Dean, Apocalypse Clown follows a troupe of failed clowns as they embark on a chaotic road trip of self-discovery after a mysterious solar event plunges the world into anarchy. Scrapper, which stars Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness), follows Georgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.

Also among the winners on the night was Lie of The Land, directed by John Carlin. Written by Tara Hegarty and produced by Chris Patterson and Margaret McGoldrick,...

A surprise Fantômas reunion took place Wednesday night (May 24th) in Oakland, California, during the final show of Mr. Bungle’s “Geek Show” tour with Melvins.

The reunion wasn’t too far out of the realm of possibility considering three of the band’s four members — Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, and Dave Lombardo — are currently in Mr. Bungle. Once Buzz Osborne of Melvins took the stage, the supergroup’s lineup was complete, along with the bonus additions of Bungle guitarists Trey Spruance and Scott Ian.

Osborne sat in with Mr. Bungle for a rendition of The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo track “Sudden Death” before the group launched into Fantômas’ cover of Henri Mancini‘s “Experiment in Terror” (featured on the band’s 2001 album The Director’s Cut). Fan footage captured the performance, which went off without a hitch as the band nailed the intricate loud-soft dynamics.

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Spanish-born fashion designer Paco Rabanne, who was best known for his metallic space-age outfits, has died in France at the age of 88 years old.

The self-taught designer broke into the Parisian Haute Couture scene in the early 1960s with a collection composed of 12 unwearable experimental metallic dresses.

His designs soon became favorites with stars and models of the time such as France’s Anouk Aimée, Françoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot and the U.K.’s Twiggy.

He soon connected with the cinema world, designing the iconic costumes for Jane Fonda in Roger Vadim’s 1968 cult film Barbarella, which are still on display in MoMA in New York.

Other cinema credits included Roberto Enrico’s The Last Adventure and Joël Le Moigné’s Les Ponyettes.

Rabanne also created individual pieces for Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 drama Two Or Three Things I Know About Her…, Stanley Donen’s Two For The Road and John Huston’s Casino Royale.

Rabanne retired in 1999 but his mothballed label was revived by Spanish company Puig in 2011, which relaunched it as a fashion house and fragrance business that it now controls.

“The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honour our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88,” the company said in a statement posted on its website.

“Among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th century, his legacy will remain a constant source of inspiration.”...

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Julien Dossena remembers the exact Paco Rabanne collection where he felt as though he had really hit his stride. “It was Fall/Winter 2018,” recalls the house’s creative director. “It was an homage to Paco Rabanne by mixing chain mails and iconic pieces and generic wardrobe elements. It ended up being super balanced and felt real, and it allowed me to turn a page and open a new chapter of my work there, as if I knew I understood the house and I could move on to something more personal.”

House founder Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo, born in Spain in 1934, worked under the pseudonym of Paco Rabanne. An enfant terrible of Paris fashion, he sought out unconventional materials to craft designs that became synonymous with 1960s Mod fashion. Jane Fonda famously wore his costumes in 1968’s Barbarella, while Audrey Hepburn eschewed her preferred Givenchy...

Exclusive: CBS is accelerating development of Hsi: Puerto Rico, a drama from Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter’s Two for the Road Entertainment and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, where Two for the Road is under a deal. The network has set up a writers room led by the project’s writer/executive producer Lisa Morales (Queen Sugar), which will be generating five scripts and a season one bible for a potential scripts-to-series order.

Like its other broadcast counterpart, CBS has been exploring other development paths and alternatives to the traditional development model, a process that was accelerated by the pandemic.

In Hsi: Puerto Rico, eyed as a prospective CBS crime drama franchise, a passionate Homeland Security agent reluctantly returns home to Puerto Rico where she works with her talented but jaded training officer as part of an elite Hsi team working tirelessly as the first line of defense against...

Leslie Bricusse, Oscar- and Grammy-winning songwriter whose songs for Broadway and Hollywood include “What Kind of Fool Am I?” and “Pure Imagination,” died Tuesday in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. He was 90.

Bricusse wrote the lyrics for James Bond theme songs “Goldfinger” and “You Only Live Twice,” as well as songs for movies including “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (including “The Candy Man”), “Scrooge,” “Hook,” “Doctor Dolittle” and “Superman.”

His close friend, Dame Joan Collins, announced the death on Instagram this morning, calling him “one of the giant songwriters of our time.” Bricusse’s son Adam also announced it on Facebook; neither indicated a cause of death.

Over seven decades, the London-born writer-composer was in demand for his clever, witty and tuneful songs, sometimes in collaboration with others and sometimes serving as both lyricist and composer.

“The music illuminates the meaning of the lyric, just as the lyric can have only that melody and no other,...

Now in its third and final season, Netflix hit comedy The Kominsky Method sees Michael Douglas resume his role as acting teacher Sandy Kominsky, only this time Sandy is without his best friend, king of the sardonic aside, Norman Newlander, played by Alan Arkin. Douglas says it was “delicate doing without Alan for this season”, but that Arkin “did a lot without showing up”, as Norman seems to orchestrate the action even after his departure. With over 40 years of industry experience, both acting and producing—his first foray into the latter being One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975—Douglas is currently relishing work on another installment in the Ant-Man franchise. Here, he muses on his career memories and recalls some film and TV favorites.

My First Film Lesson

The very first day of The Streets of San Francisco, the Ad said, “Michael, we just need to do a fast...

Some heartfelt moments aside, this documentary is an exasperating, Hello-style hagiography that pays too little attention to Hepburn’s film work

There are some heartfelt moments in this documentary portrait of Audrey Hepburn, with touching contributions from her son Sean Hepburn Ferrer, and granddaughter Emma Ferrer – as well as spirited comments from critic Molly Haskell as well as Peter Bogdanovich, who directed Hepburn in his ill-fated 1981 movie They All Laughed. But by and large, it’s an exasperating, simpering, Hello-magazine-interview of a film, blandly celebrating her “iconic” presence in the horribly overrated Breakfast at Tiffany’s, in which she was absurdly unrelaxed and self-conscious.

The film gives due weight to the unaffected loveliness and charm of her first leading role, in Roman Holiday. But amid the waffle, her very good performances in Stanley Donen’s Two For the Road and Richard Lester’s Robin and Marian are just ignored. The...

Edward Albee could write an argument. In “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” George and Martha rip into each other, showing how a couple with some wear on its tires knows just where to drive in the nail to inflict maximum damage. Screenwriter Zac Stanford is no Edward Albee, and his low-key lovers’-spat dramedy “The Argument,” directed by Robert Schwartzman, pales in comparison with pretty much all the great relationship-on-the-rocks movies you can think of — “Blue Valentine,” “Marriage Story,” “Two for the Road,” to name just a few. But we’re in a pandemic, cooped up as couples (for better or worse), and watching an argument with your partner is better than having one.

The thing that might bring Stanford’s broken-record comedy too close to home is also its defining feature: Jack (Dan Fogler) and Lisa (Emma Bell) have a squabble, and rather than letting it go, or discussing it like adults,...

Nothing But the Best (1964) signifies a turning point in the British new wave: a sudden flip from grim northern drama to swinging London archness, here under the controls of three masters of that tone.1. Frederic Raphael is best known for writing Two For the Road (impossibly arch) and Eyes Wide Shut (strange... very strange), and this film does have some kind of commonality with those: glamorous young people, sporty cars, hard-to-get-into parties in sprawling country houses... but in essence it's more like a glib black comedy version of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Raphael had previously adapted the source story (by American crime writer Stanley Ellin) as a TV play, and in expanding it for cinema he threw out the ironic twist of fate that dooms the murderous, social-climber anti-hero, perhaps seeing it as an old-fashioned harking-back to Kind Hearts and Coronets (whose ironic twist was imposed by the censor). Now...

Audrey Hepburn would’ve celebrated her 90th birthday on May 4, 2019. The Oscar-winning actress only appeared in a handful of movies before her death in 1993 at the age of 63, but many of them remain classics. In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Hepburn was born in 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels. Her family moved to the Netherlands in 1939 after Britain declared war on Germany, and when Hitler’s army invaded in 1940, they were forced to remain for another five years. Hepburn was affected by the occupation both physically and psychologically, witnessing atrocities and suffering from malnutrition when food became scarce. (She would owe her famously slim waistline to this.)

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Once the war ended in 1945, Hepburn began ballet training in Amsterdam and started appearing as a chorus girl in several musicals after moving to London.

Audrey Hepburn would’ve celebrated her 90th birthday on May 4, 2019. The Oscar-winning actress only appeared in a handful of movies before her death in 1993 at the age of 63, but many of them remain classics. In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Hepburn was born in 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels. Her family moved to the Netherlands in 1939 after Britain declared war on Germany, and when Hitler’s army invaded in 1940, they were forced to remain for another five years. Hepburn was affected by the occupation both physically and psychologically, witnessing atrocities and suffering from malnutrition when food became scarce. (She would owe her famously slim waistline to this.)

Once the war ended in 1945, Hepburn began ballet training in Amsterdam and started appearing as a chorus girl in several musicals after moving to London. She popped up in small roles...

The late Stanley Donen would’ve celebrated his 95th birthday on April 13, 2019. The legendary filmmaker — the last of the directors from Hollywood’s golden age — passed away earlier this year on February 21, leaving behind a legacy of classic movies filled with color, song, and dance. In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1924, Donen got his start as a dancer. It was in the chorus line for George Abbott‘s production of “Pal Joey” that he met Gene Kelly. The two became quick friends, and Donen started working as Kelly’s assistant, helping him choreograph his intensely acrobatic dance sequences.

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The two turned to filmmaking with “On the Town” (1949), a lavish Technicolor musical about three sailors on a 24 hour shore leave in New York City. They...

Chicago – He moved deftly from British matinee idol to formidable movie star to reliable character actor, and was nominated four times for an Academy Award (no wins). Albert Finney had a nearly 50 year stage and screen career that encompassed virtually all types and genres of acting. He died in London on February 7th, 2019. He was 82.

He was born Albert Finney Jr., and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating at age 20 in 1956. He became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company shortly thereafter, and appeared on the stage throughout the late 1950s, and throughout his career. His debut film role was “The Entertainer” in 1960. He was the title character in the Oscar Best Picture “Tom Jones” (1963), and other films in that decade included “Night Must Fall” (1964), “Two for the Road” (1967) and “Charlie Bubbles”.

An Early Career Albert Finney

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His most fruitful film era was arguably the 1980s and ‘90s,...

Each year the Academy Awards pays tribute to those actors and industryites who died during the preceding year with a heartfelt montage sequence. This year’s In Memoriam segment unspooled with John Williams’s theme from “Superman” played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Gustavo Dudamel, over photos of actors, filmmakers and many others who died between March 2018 and February 2019. Although the montage usually features the most prominent names getting slightly longer clips at the end, this year’s segment didn’t follow that tradition.

Stanley Donen, the co-director of “Singin’ in the Rain” and director of “Two for the Road,” who died Saturday, was not included.

Those who were recognized included “Big” director Penny Marshall, “Deliverance” star Burt Reynolds and major filmmakers including Bernardo Bertolucci, Milos Forman, Nicolas Roeg, Neil Simon, Marvel legend Stan Lee and “Princess Bride” author William Goldman. Other prominent acting talents remembered in the montage were Albert Finney,...

Stanley Donen, the director of Singin’ in the Rain and one of the last architects of Hollywood’s Golden Age, has died at age 94.

One of his sons confirmed the news to the Chicago Tribune on Feb. 23 — perhaps fittingly, on the eve of the Oscars, a night when Hollywood celebrates its legacy of style, glamour and moviemaking talent.

A former Broadway dancer and choreographer, Donen co-directed 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain — widely regarded as the best movie musical of all time — with its star, Gene Kelly. He went on to direct more classic musicals, including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,...

Us film director and choreographer whose hits included Singin’ in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Two for the Road

In 1998, Stanley Donen, the director and choreographer of classic musicals such as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face and, with Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain, was presented with an honorary Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was in his 70s but, in the way of many former dancers, could have passed as much younger.

As part of his witty, modest thank-you, he did a little flourish of tap. It was possibly the last significant live act by anyone from the great age of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals, and now that Donen has died, aged 94, only the films remain.

A big thank you to Dancin Dan, Chris Feil, Eurocheese, and Ben Miller who shared favourite acceptance speeches with us as we got hyped up for Oscar. There are so many more speeches we could have highlighted if we have more time or a bigger team, but well wrap up th speech appreciation with something that seems totally appropriate for a number of reasons: Stanley Donen's Honorary Oscar acceptance speech for, and we'll quote the Oscars here:

in appreciation of a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation.

The speech is a thing of complete and utter beauty and wit and gratitude and every time we see it we're reminded of how much Oscar night lost when it opted to no longer included the Honoraries on the broadcast.

As you may have heard cinema lost Donen this week at age 94. He was one of Hollywood's purest pleasure-makers,...