‘They Shot the Piano Player’ Review: When Breezy Bossa Nova Met Deadly Fascism, Told ‘Chico & Rita’-Style

Thania Garcia A gloomy Los Angeles weekend ushered in the first day of October on the same evening the Arctic Monkeys put a cap on three sold-out nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood. The band was appropriately dressed for the occasion, conjointly sporting black and white suits while frontman Alex Turner masqueraded behind a pair of oversized, brown aviators through the first half of the sold-out arena show.

With the colder, autumn weather now kicking in, it can be tempting to turn your heating on as soon as you feel a slight chill. But in the midst of the cost of living crisis, homeowners need to refrain from switching their heating on too early if they want to prevent soaring energy bills.

There’s no question that Melissa Etheridge is an inviting performer, whether she’s beckoning through her window or simply asking us to enjoy some of the great rock singing ever – and, yes, at 62 she is still a great rock singer, her raspy voice as rangy, powerful and, when she wants, as subtle as it was during her 1990s breakthrough days.

The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom can be beaten without ever touching Hyrule, according to this player’s unusual approach to playing the acclaimed game.Reddit user Black_Hand_Gotthard proved the feat by posting a screenshot of their game map on the Tears Of The Kingdom subreddit. Sure enough, the only parts of the world that are cleared from fog are the aerial fast travel points.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music When Megan Thee Stallion pulled out of her scheduled performance at the Global Citizen festival in New York earlier this month due to an “unforeseen scheduling conflict,” it took about five minutes to do the math and realize — oh, Beyonce’s playing in Houston that night. Not only did she and Megan team up for the “Savage Remix” back in 2020, they’re both from Houston.

Some families are blessed and born into wealth and privilege, ala the royal Roys; others have to fight tooth and nail for scraps to survive. And some, born from tragedy but still ambitious— maybe believing a cruel and sh*tty world owes them—well, they might be willing to do anything, sell their souls even, for everything they’ve dreamt of.

Emmerdale star Matthew Wolfenden has spent 17 years on our screens playing David Metcalfe but soon, the character will be leaving the village for good. The actor has already confirmed that he'll be leaving the role on the ITV soap during an emotional appearance on This Morning.

Ice Spice comes from a talented family. Her brother Joey Gaston, is forming a career in high school football.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music It’s not hard to understand why Doja Cat sometimes seems to have a chip on her shoulder. She rode in five years ago on an unabashed novelty song called “I’m a Cow” (choice lyrics: “Bitch, I’m a cow / Bitch, I’m a cow / I go ‘Mooooo’”) and was originally positioned as a Dr. Luke-produced, sassy and solid if unspectacular pop-R&B singer.

J. Kim Murphy Mankind is barreling further into an age of climate disaster, but whether it has the speaking vocabulary, much less a cinematic one, to accurately interpret its rapidly changing environment is another matter. With his astonishing new experimental feature, “The Human Surge 3,” Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Williams proposes a new analogue for the sensation of modern living: It’s kind of like seeing panoramas shot with a 360-degree camera, navigated via a VR headset and then translated back to a traditional cinematic frame, completely and utterly distorting the imagery in the process.

Eva Mendes is living her best life selling sponges, reading books, and finding her light for epic Instagram posts. On Wednesday, the 49-year-old beauty shared a sultry video on Instagram standing on a balcony with the wind perfectly blowing through her luscious hair.A post shared by Eva Mendes (@evamendes)Shot from outside the window, Mendes’ video looks like it could be from a movie.

Debby Friday is the winner of the 2023 Polaris Music Prize. The Nigerian-born, Toronto-based electronic artist's latest project Good Luck, which featured the Song You Need-playlisted "So Hard To Tell," was selected by a panel of Canadian journalists and industry professionals as the country's best album of the year.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Attentive music fans have had some time now to become familiar with who and what the singer Laufey is: a young Icelandic-Asian-American woman whose traditional balladry often recalls the pre-rock era. Still, for a few of us, it might have come as a very slight surprise to see her step onto the outdoor stage of the Ford in Hollywood over the weekend and be reminded that she is 24 and not 124.

A number of Wilko stores have been snapped up by rival brands after the popular retailer fell into administration last month.

Fall Spoilers are out, and just as most would expect, the change of seasons will bring more than cooler weather to the residents of Genoa City. Doom and Gloom will roll into town just in time to wreak havoc on a few key members of the city’s most prominent families.Here is what looks to be brewing on the surface so far for “Young and the Restless” fans to look forward to in the upcoming weeks. Victor Newman knows that his time as king is somewhat limited at his age, so he plans to make every moment count.Victor has tried to slowly step aside and let his children try to step in and start to take over Newman Enterprises.

Now we see in detail how Pet Sematary‘s Jud Crandall came to the conclusion that sometimes dead is better.

Soap favourites Amy Walsh and Toby-Alexander Smith have revealed they have got married after three years of dating.

Soap lovebirds Amy Walsh and Toby-Alexander Smith have revealed they have tied the knot in a breathtaking ceremony surrounded by the stunning mountainous views of Montenegro.

It was not just incomings that dominated the headlines at Old Trafford over the summer.

Freddie Mercury’s piano – which he used to compose Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ – has sold for £1.7million at auction.Held at Sotheby’s on Wednesday (September 6), the auction saw 1,500 pieces of the late singer’s possessions go under the hammer, including handwritten lyrics for some of Queen’s most famous songs, jewellery worn by Mercury, and his collection of artwork.The item that fetched the most at the auction house earlier this week was the piano that Mercury used to compose the hit song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ – a 1973 Yamaha Grand, which sold for £1.7million. This surpassed the amount that John Lennon’s piano, which he used to write ‘Imagine’, reached in a previous auction.