10 h. ago Bruce Springsteen says new film Deliver Me from Nowhere is ‘anti

Musician said the film looks at a time when he went through ‘some difficult places’ when he was in his early thirties

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5 d. ago Bugonia review – Emma Stone might be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’s macabre conspiracy theory comedy

Venice film festivalJesse Plemons delivers an efficient punch as the fanatical Teddy who abducts Stone’s dead-eyed corporate ice queen in Lanthimos’s Korean remakeYorgos Lanthimos’s macabre and amusing new film has a predictably strong performance from Emma Stone, an intestine-shreddingly clamorous orchestral score from Jerskin Fendrix and, most importantly, a wonderful montage finale – but frankly it’s a very, very long run-up to that big jump.Added to which, there is the question of whether this bizarre if sometimes heavy-handed black comedy has fully earned its eventual pivot to serious tragic issues in the ending. Does the globally traumatised finale succeed in retrospectively upgrading the significance of what has preceded it? Do these avowedly important images and moods quite match up with the single-joke-single-punchline movie with all its violent slapstick grotesquerie that went before? Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Jeremy Allen White on taking 'a leap of faith' to play Springsteen in 'Deliver Me From Nowhere'

Jeremy Allen White grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen

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8 d. ago Spinal Tap II, Julia Roberts and Paul Thomas Anderson: the best films of autumn 2025

An original Alan Bennett screenplay, a classy star turn for George Clooney and a Bruce Springsteen biopic are all on their way to the big screen• See the rest of our unmissable autumn arts preview picks hereAll release dates are UK and subject to changeComic book author and novelist Charlie Huston adapts his own cult bestseller of the same title, Darren Aronofsky directs – and this comedy certainly signals a shift in tone after his last movie, body-image tragedy The Whale. Austin Butler stars as ex-baseball-player Hank Thompson who gets mixed up in the seedy underbelly of crime in 90s New York. • 29 August Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Christy review – outstanding actors and Cork landmarks shine in a moving and funny Irish drama

Diarmuid Noyes and Danny Power play two brothers finding their feet after time in care in a social-realist film with heart and humourHere is a terrifically warm and involving Irish movie about two brothers from Cork’s northside; it is moving and funny, with plenty of affectionate shots of the iconic Knocknaheeny water tower looming futuristically over the skyline like a 70s spaceship or one of eastern Europe’s Soviet-era war memorials. Screenwriter Alan O’Gorman and first-time director and story co-creator Brendan Canty deliver a social-realist film with heart, featuring outstanding performances of sympathy and strength, developed from Canty’s 2019 short film of the same name. It’s tough, but capable of delicacy and succeeds in conveying something very difficult to achieve without sentimentality: love of your home town. You can come for the drama and stay for the cheeky hip-hop sequence over the closing credits, a final stretch of sweetness and fun that the movie has more than earne...

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3 w. ago From the Stones to Cardi B, this college haunt has attracted big acts for 50 years

A Connecticut nightclub with a storied history is celebrating its 50th year in business

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4 w. ago Sting is seen kissing Bruce Springsteen's wife in Italy during power lunch with Steven Spielberg

Bruce Springsteen, Steven Spielberg and Sting recently gathered for a luxurious hangout in Salerno, Italy.

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4 w. ago ‘My daughter didn’t get emotional like I did’: the families who go gigging together

Concerts are now full of multigenerational fans who grew up on the music as a family. Whether Billie Eilish or Stevie Wonder, they explain the appealWhile some teenagers still wouldn’t be caught dead with their parents at a gig, there’s been a marked number of multigenerational gatherings of parents, kids, uncles and aunts at recent tours such as Pulp, Bruce Springsteen and the Oasis reunion. We spoke to four families about why they enjoy watching bands together. Continue reading...

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