π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Horror films,Halloween,Film,The Shining,Midsommar,Paranormal Activity,The Innocents,Culture π‘ Main takeaway: Innocent people Photo: Everett Collection/AlamyβSometimes one can only imagine things.β Truman Capote helped adapt Henry James's ghost story The Turn of the Screw into the 1961 film The Innocents, directed by Jack Clayton, which remains one of the most disturbing horror films. To remember the unsettling rush of fear this film evoked, I only need a glimpse of Deborah Kerr's sweaty face or her handshake. She plays a nanny to two traumatized children in a remote home where life…
β¨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Games,Culture,Action games,Indie games,Halloween π‘ Key idea: TThe sound came first. In the San Francisco BART train tunnel, Don Fica took out his tape recorder and captured the train's metallic roar β "like demons in agony, beautifully ugly," he recalls. This recording became one of the most chilling sounds of 2008's Dead Space.βWe dropped that loud industrial noise at full volume right after the vacuum silence β creating one of the most controversial audio inconsistencies in the game,β recalls Vika, who made horror history as the sound director…
π Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Oscars,Television,BBC,Culture,Awards and prizes,Documentary films,Documentary,Factual TV,Media,Television & radio β
Key idea: Peter Watkins, the radical British director who won an Oscar for his controversial documentary drama The War Game, about a nuclear attack on Britain, has died at the age of 90. He died in hospital on Thursday in Burganeuve, near the small town of Fletin in central France, where he lived for 25 years, his family said in a statement. They added: "The world of cinema is losing one of its insightful, innovative and unclassifiable voices. We…
β¨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Oasis,Music,Culture,Melbourne,Pop and rock,Liam Gallagher,Noel Gallagher,Australia news π Main takeaway: TThe first time Oasis played a show in Australia in 1998, controversies accumulated to the point that some journalists speculated it was a media strategy. Liam was hit with a lifetime ban from Cathay Pacific due to the band's alleged bad behavior during the flight. (The ban was imposed when Liam told an Australian reporter: βI don't care about flying... I'd rather walk.β) Noel faced hot water over comments he made about Princess Diana, and Liam was…
β¨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music π Key idea: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Down Cemetery RoadApple TV+Summarize in a sentence Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson star in a fast-paced, twisty thriller based on Mick Herron's first novel in the Slow Horses series.What references do we have? He said "Down Cemetery Road is great. There's not a wasted moment, not a wasted word. Everything is there for a reason." Lucy ManganRead the full reviewFurther reading Slow Horses author Mick Herron: 'I like doing things that break the rules'Choose from the restPhysical:…
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Main takeaway: Margaret Atwood is doing her grocery shopping in her local supermarket in Toronto, and itΒ is taking longer than usual. This is not because TheΒ Handmaidβs Tale author turns 86 this month, but because she is checking the provenance of every item before it goes in her trolley: California satsumas out; Canada spuds in. Atwood is a passionate environmentalist, but at the moment she is more worried about boycotting anything that comes from over the border…
π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games π Main takeaway: Checkout: cinemaBugoniaOut nowYorgos Lanthimos, one of the fiercest directors of the 21st century, returns with something you might not expect from him: a remake. But this is not a Hollywood record amount. It's a dark comedy that sees Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons go to some really crazy places in the story of two conspiracy theorists who kidnap a CEO.relayOut nowRiz Ahmed plays the man you call when a dodgy company and an individual with the power to expose…
π Check out this trending post from BBC Culture π π Category: π Hereβs what youβll learn: It was released on November 26 in the United States, November 28 in Turkey and Taiwan, and December 12 in the United Kingdom and Ireland.Netflix11. Dead Man's Wake: A Knives MysteryDaniel Craig dons his tailored suit and extravagant Southern accent once again in Rian Johnson's Knives Out Whodunits III. The setting this time is a country church in upstate New York. The new vicar (Josh O'Connor) clashes with a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Josh Brolin) and several hostile parishioners, including a church caretaker (Glenn Close),…
π₯ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Books,Film,Culture,Biography books,Fiction,LGBTQ+ rights π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered at around midnight on 2 November 1975. His blood-soaked body was found the next morning on waste ground in Ostia, on the outskirts of Rome, battered so badly the famous face was almost unrecognisable. Italyβs premier intellectual, artist, provocateur, national conscience, homosexual, dead at the age of 53, his scandalous final film still in the editing suite. βAssassinato Pasolini,β the next morningβs papers announced, alongside photographs of the 17-year-old accused of his murder. Everyone…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Music,Documentary,Factual TV,Pop and rock,All Saints,Little Mix,Sugababes π Main takeaway: gEarlbands, then. Glittering icons of empowerment or Pygmalion projects for middle-aged men in A&R? Here's a radical idea β both. Two becomes one, my dear. That's the feeling from Girlbands Forever (Saturday, 9:20 p.m., BBC Two), the Louis Theroux-produced documentary that charts the fortunes of 90s bands like All Saints, Eternal, Atomic Kitten, Mis-Teeq and even 2000s stars Little Mix. If this lineup speaks to your older millennial soul the way it speaks to mine, then…
