‘Landfall,’ ‘Five Years North’ Win Top Awards at DOC NYC Festival

As venues around the world open and shutter in sync with the fits and starts of local pandemic containment measures, it's reassuring to know that one of London's most cherished institutions, the jazz club Ronnie Scott's, founded in 1959, is still chugging along. (It's reopening after a short lockdown again Dec.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAt the end of 2014, Charli XCX was on top of the pop world. She’d enjoyed a global smash with “Boom Clap,” she’d co-written and sang on both Iggy Azalea’s chart-topping “Fancy” and Icona Pop’s global hit “I Love It.” She was 22 years old, had just released her sophomore album “Sucker” to rave reviews, and the pop world was her oyster.So she turned it all upside-down.Attracted by the music from British producer-songwriter A.G.

“There are eight million stories in the naked city,” went the voiceover in Jules Dassin’s classic Big Apple-set film noir. Two such stories make up the crux of the documentary Five Years North, which follows a pair of New Yorkers who couldn’t be more incompatible, even if their lives are connected in larger, more meaningful ways.

Dermot Kennedy is officially the first Irish act to land a Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart in over five years.

Matt Berry‘s hit sitcom Toast of London is set to return after five years off screens.The series follows Berry’s eccentric actor Steven Toast as he tries to navigate his problems both on and off the stage.Co-creator Arthur Mathews has now confirmed that he has written a new series of the show with Berry, this time set in America, which is likely to begin shooting next year.Titled Toast in America, the writer also said that the show may move away from Channel 4 to a new broadcaster and that there

An intellectual inquiry with burning present-day resonance, The Meaning of Hitler is also a road trip through some of the darkest chapters of European history. In one of the artfully constructed film's visual motifs, we watch the road itself through a windshield, a not-to-be-ignored Mercedes-Benz hood ornament positioned prominently in the frame.

Prolific, lyrical, and possessed of that entrepreneurial optimism which afflicts some who have seen the worst of what the world has to offer, David Wojnarowicz was a multivalent artist who survived a tormented childhood and decanted that bone-deep fury into his work.

Not to take anything away from filmmaker Dana Nachman, but her new documentary certainly benefits from the timing of its release. The film focuses on the 107-year-old Operation Santa program run by the U.S.

When it comes to baseball sayings that apply to real life, the term "swinging for the fences" couldn’t be more suitable for the three major-league hopefuls at the heart of Sami Khan and Michael Gassert’s gripping new sports documentary, The Last Out.

When Gary Duncan was arrested on trumped-up charges, essentially for being Black, his situation was hardly unique. But his readiness to fight the bogus case was nothing short of heroic, especially in 1966 Plaquemines Parish, near New Orleans, part of a region that one of the interviewees in Nancy Buirski's film calls a "totalitarian nation." The word "totalitarian" is uttered several times in A Crime on the Bayou, and on the evidence of this real-life drama, it isn't hyperbole.

Bobby Brown Jr., son of singer Bobby Brown and Kim Ward, has been found dead in Los Angeles, according to police reports.The 28-year-old was discovered after police were called to his home on Wednesday to attend a “medical emergency.” Although the cause of death is not yet clear, no reports are suggesting foul play was involved. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

Prayers and condolences to #BobbyBrown. This man has truly been through so much and suffered such significant loss.

In her 60-some years on Earth, Lorine Padilla has seen, done and endured enough to fill several lifetimes.

The kind of story at the heart of Baby God is sadly familiar from news reports. As text at the end of the documentary points out, "More than two dozen U.S.