Watch Foo Fighters’ acoustic set from LA’s The Troubadour for #SaveOurStages festival

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticAs if sensing that the election would provide enough nail-biting excitement to last Americans for days, distributors have largely backed off the first weekend in November.Focus Features is releasing a solid Kevin Costner-Diane Lane thriller with serious Red State appeal in “Let Him Go,” for those with access to theaters, and there are a number of backlogged festival movies picking this weekend to open: the best of them is “Proxima,” featuring Eva Green as a French

Diana Ross in celebration of the news that Joe Biden has taken the lead in the presidential election in Pennsylvania.Current President Donald Trump did have a big lead in the state, but that has now vanished as mail-in ballots have been added to the results.Pennsylvania is a key battleground state in the race for president, with Biden only needing to be called the winner there to be named the 46th President of the United States.

Tenet will be released on home entertainment next month.The film, which opened in cinemas across the UK in August, is on its way to a Blu-ray and VOD release in December worldwide.Fans will be able to buy Tenet on Blu-ray and across digital stores on December 14 in the UK, December 15 in the US and December 16 in Australia.Earlier this week, Christopher Nolan defended the film’s box office results, saying he was “thrilled” with the fact that Tenet grossed nearly $350million (£269million) at the

With the American presidential election taking place on Tuesday, it was only right for Jimmy Kimmel to bring in some politicians to read mean tweets this week!

Royce Da 5’9″ turned up at the US election polls in Detroit, Michigan yesterday to perform for voters waiting in line.The rapper, who released his latest album ‘The Allegory’ in February, joined in with Election Defenders’ #JoyToThePolls campaign, which set out to provide entertainment to those who’d headed out to vote yesterday (November 3).Footage has since emerged of Royce performing in his hometown while wearing a protective face mask.

We’re just one day away from Adele on Saturday Night Live!

The final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will take place on Thursday, moderated by NBC journalist and White House correspondent Kristen Welker. Held at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, the 90-minute debate will include topics relevant to the 2020 election such as fighting COVID-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.

The Trump administration runs on lies, but one of the most egregious has to be their so-called “support” of the LGBTQ+ community.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterWe’re only days away from the second coming of Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, and Variety has an exclusive clip of one of his many misadventures.From producer and star Sacha Baron Cohen and distributor Amazon Prime Video, the sequel to Cohen’s hit 2006 mockumentary returns again to the United States to probe cultural divides — this time, with his teen daughter (reportedly played by Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova) in tow.On a pit stop in the Carolinas, Borat

The truth is, there are a lot of film fans that are still very apprehensive about going to indoor movie theaters and watching a film on the big screen in the US. This is evidenced by the fact that box office numbers have been incredibly low, even by pandemic standards, which has forced many films to be delayed out of the current fall film slate into 2021 and even skipping theaters and going to VOD or streaming.

Miley Cyrus has performed a cover The Cranberries ‘Zombie’ for the #SaveOurStages (#SOS) festival.The raucous rendition of the Irish band’s 1993 hit was one of two covers sung by the singer for the festival, which fundraised to preserve US grassroots music venues affected by the coronavirus pandemic.Cyrus, who played a short set with her band at LA venue Whiskey a Go Go last night (October 17), also covered The Cure‘s ‘Boys Don’t Cry’.

The National‘s Matt Berninger has brought his debut solo album to US television – watch his performance below.The performance on CBS This Morning today (October 17) followed the release of Berninger’s debut solo album ‘Serpentine Prison’ yesterday.On the show, Berninger played the album’s title track, recent single ‘One More Second’ and ‘Collar Of Your Shirt’, with his backing band all wearing masks.See the three performances below.Giving ‘Serpentine Prison’ a four-star review, NME wrote: “Sure,

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThe sheer range of genres represented by this week’s new releases — from Liam Neeson thriller “Honest Thief” to romantic weepie “2 Hearts” — suggests that distributors of all kinds are doing their best to give audiences the kind of selection they enjoyed before the lockdown.Well, nearly all kinds of distributors.The major studios are still playing it safe and holding their tentpoles for a time when they can pack the megaplexes, although Paramount has stepped in

Foo Fighters appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night (October 15) to perform an acoustic version of ‘Learn To Fly’.It comes ahead of this weekend’s (October 16-18) #SOSFest which will see the band take to the stage together for the first time since the beginning of quarantine at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.Put on in support of the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), the three-day virtual festival will see 35 artists performing from 25 venues across the US, with proceeds going to

David Byrne‘s American Utopia is free to watch online tonight (October 14).The film of the Talking Heads frontman’s Broadway smash will be streaming on BFI Player as part of the 2020 BFI London Film Festival.American Utopia is a live recording of a Broadway performance of the show at the Hudson Theatre in New York City, itself a modified version of Byrne’s solo album of the same name released in 2018 via the musician’s label Todo Mundo.The show sees Byrne performing alongside 11 musicians,

American Gods has been released – you can watch it below.The third season of the Amazon Prime Video series, which stars Ricky Whittle and Emily Browning and is based on Neil Gaiman’s best-selling novel, is set to arrive early next year.The new season will see Shadow Moon (Whittle) angrily push his apparent destiny away, settling in the idyllic snowy town of Lakeside, Wisconsin — to make his own path, guided by the gods of his black ancestors, the Orishas.“But he’ll soon discover that this town’s

Seinfeld role of Newman, Jerry Seinfeld’s postman and nemesis, for a new political advert.In the build-up to the US election on November 3, Knight appeared in an advert organised by the Democratic political action committee Pacronym in which he attacks Donald Trump‘s attempts to restrict mail-in voting.The ad, titled ‘A Friendly Message From Your Neighbourhood Mail Carrier’, was written by former Seinfeld writer David Mandel.In the two-minute clip, Knight attacks the “systematic, premeditated