On the Shelf Almost Surely Dead By Amina AkhtarMindy’s Book Studio: 302 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Amina Akhtar was 4 when she first watched “The Exorcist.” It was a particularly memorable family movie night. But what … Read more
A Hollywood intersection was dedicated Thursday as Yma Sumac Square in honor of the record-breaking Peruvian singer and one of the best-known performers of exotic music in the 1950s. nine days after the centenary of his birth. Damon Devine, who was a Sumac representative, personal assistant, makeup artist and eventual caregiver for the last 11 … Read more
The movie ‘Sparta’ is in the midst of harsh accusations. A few days after its world premiere in Spain, San Sebastián, the film by the Austrian Ulrich Seidl was canceled in Toronto due to suspicions related to abuse and exploitation of minors during filming. However, that is not all, the media in his country of … Read more
After six years away in the industry, Beyoncé signed her return to the front of the stage on the 29th July last with a new album titled Renaissance. Barely released, the opus like all its previous albums was propelled with a bang despite the not insignificant gap that exists between these last two albums. How … Read more
More than five months after the slap of Will Smith during the 94ᵉ edition of the Oscars in March 2022, the subject continues to animate the news. While Will recently apologized to the comedian in a video that went around the world, Oscar producer Will Packer just hailed the act. Will Packer applauds actor Smith’s … Read more
The macroconcerts and festivals multiply every summer throughout the country and this has not been an exception, but far from the big cities there are still many places where live music -among other things- does not quite arrive as its inhabitants would like. Thinking of all those towns of what they call ‘the emptied Spain’, … Read more
“It’s not TV, it’s HBO”. The famous slogan of the American platform, halfway between credibility and arrogance, was all the rage describing a style of making series. And yet, regardless of its spectacular catalog of audiovisual stories by chapters, HBO also has a wide inventory of cinema. Of course, not too well structured and with … Read more
