9 h. ago Erupcja review – Charli xcx gives acting a trial run in shallow friendship drama

Toronto film festival: the star fails to make much of an impression in a slight and unpolished project filmed in Warsaw over the Brat summer of 2024The singer Charli xcx is, by her own admission, a workaholic – no sooner had she released Brat, the most dominant pop album and aesthetic of 2024, than she began work on its sequel, dropped just four months later. Insouciant and party-centric as her image may be, the pop star born Charlotte Aitchison is a sharp student of pop culture; she knows the audience demand for pop stars’ constant reinvention. The next career phase, it seems, is acting, with no less prodigiousness than music; the 33-year-old has seven films in the pipeline as a supporting or lead actor.Charli is neither the full star nor the anchor of Erupcja (Eruption), directed by Pete Ohs, but she will inevitably be the reason most English speakers hear of it. Filmed over a few weeks in Warsaw, Poland, in August 2024, in the heat of Brat summer, Erupcja seems, on paper, like a ...

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10 h. ago First look at Charli xcx acting debut sees fans predicting Oscar success in telling clip

Pop star Charli xcx has been seen in her first acting role as she takes on a number of huge film projects which has left fans all saying the same thing about her future

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14 h. ago Emerald Fennell's first trailer for Wuthering Heights is here and it looks freaky as hell

The first look features erotic bread kneading, bodice ripping and fingering a fish. Emily Brontë fans are on the warpath

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28 h. ago Wuthering Heights trailer FIRST LOOK: Charli XCX fans go wild as she soundtracks Emerald Fennell's raunchy new movie starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

Charli XCX has shared a first look at Emerald Fennell's 'aggressively provocative' upcoming movie Wuthering Heights on Instagram on Wednesday.

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42 h. ago Taylor Swift and Charli XCX tours help drive record year for UK live music

Total consumer spending on the sector reached £6.7 billion in 2024, industry body Live said.

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5 d. ago AG Cook review – the hyperpop auteur delivers a thrilling Brooklyn show

Brooklyn Paramount, New YorkThe super-producer, whose big name collaborators include Charli xcx and Beyoncé, goes maximalist for a euphoric, high-energy Friday-night triumphEveryone is trying to out-scream and out-diva each other at AG Cook’s sold-out Brooklyn Paramount show. Midway through his Friday-night DJ set for his Britpop 25 tour, the producer and moptopped dungeon master of the hyperpop universe has put on his Von Dutch remix, a standout single from last summer’s Brat invasion that brings pop princesses Charli xcx and Addison Rae together for some prima donna repartee atop a distorted, industrial production. When the bridge’s thumping hydraulic bass drops and opens up its warped wormhole of sound, the packed room suddenly fills with skilled (too skilled) impressions of Rae’s piercing six-second shriek. Cook, who has been bopping behind the DJ booth up until now, collapses to his knees at the center of the stage, bowled over by the sheer energy in the room.Such are the deman...

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6 d. ago Nova Twins: Parasites & Butterflies review – fearless rock duo balance anthems and introspection

(Marshall)Trailblazers Amy Love and Georgia South push the boundaries of their trademark hybrid rock sound while confronting mental health and naysayersNova Twins’ 2022 album Supernova received Brit nominations and the first ever Mercury prize shortlisting for a Black rock band, and earned singer/guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South fans in Rage Against the Machine and Elton John. Their third album packs more of the trademark hybrid of rock, metal, punk and hip-hop that elbowed them to the front of a still male-dominated genre, but pushes at their boundaries and tiptoes towards pop.Working with Foo Fighters/Charli xcx producer Rich Costey and a supporting cast including former Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin and (via their first use of sampling) Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat, the sound is bigger and more blatantly anthemic. Soprano playfully flirts with sugary harmonies and semi-operatic pop. Hummingbird – a kaleidoscopic collage of multi-layered vocals, unusual guitar proc...

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7 d. ago Charli xcx and Emma Corrin’s ‘100 Nights of Hero’ to Close BFI London Film Festival

Charli xcx and Emma Corrin’s ‘100 Nights of Hero’ to Close BFI London Film Festival  The Hollywood Reporter

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7 d. ago Julia Jackman’s ‘100 Nights Of Hero’ Starring Charli XCX To Close London Film Festival

Julia Jackman’s ‘100 Nights Of Hero’ Starring Charli XCX To Close London Film Festival  Deadline

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7 d. ago Charli xcx and Emma Corrin to Close BFI London Film Festival With ‘100 Nights of Hero’ U.K. Premiere

Charli xcx and Emma Corrin to Close BFI London Film Festival With ‘100 Nights of Hero’ U.K. Premiere  The Hollywood Reporter

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8 d. ago New fantasy drama perfect for Outlander fans staring Charli XCX and The Crown icon

An upcoming historical fantasy film written and directed by Julia Jackman, and stars Charli XCX and a major The Crown icon is slated for release this year

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8 d. ago 'Spectacular' new period drama including Netflix star and Charli XCX releases trailer

The new film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Isabel Greenberg, which is inspired by the Middle Eastern folktales

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8 d. ago Netflix The Crown icon stars beside Charli XCX in 'spectacular' new period drama

The trailer for 100 Nights of a Hero has been released and it stars Charli XCX, Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Richard E. Grant and Felicity Jones

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1 week ago Celebrity hotspots in London: The favorite restaurants of Dua Lipa, Stanley Tucci and Charli XCX

Celebrity hotspots in London: The favorite restaurants of Dua Lipa, Stanley Tucci and Charli XCX  Falstaff

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2 w. ago Pop princess! King of Norway's granddaughter Leah Behn puts on a VERY glamorous display in hotpants watching Charli xcx at a Swedish festival... before flying back to Oslo to walk the runway

Leah Isadora Behn, 20, the granddaughter of the King and Queen of Norway, took to Instagram today to show off a glamorous selection of snaps from Way Out West, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift soaking wet in skimpy diamond bikini and fishnets in risqué album pics

Taylor Swift recently announced that her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, will be released on 3 October and the artwork for her upcoming project is jaw-droppingly gorgeous

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3 w. ago Mandrake – the rural life sim that lets you befriend a river and eavesdrop on the dead

Failbetter’s beguiling take on country life has its comforting routines but slowly reveals a richer and stranger life than you expectWith dulcet Welsh tones, an actor bearing an uncanny aural resemblance to Michael Sheen introduces players to the world of Mandrake. The village of Chandley is “small” and “complicated”, he says warmly. “Everyone’s got their own story.” The action cuts between cosy, wooden cottages and a moss-covered forest filled with folkloric creatures. We see the protagonist, a horticulturist wizard “steeped in the green and growing arts”, returning home and tending to an abundance of vegetables. Some you’ll find in your local supermarket; others are of a decidedly more magical variety.As a rural life simulation, Mandrake is odder and more beguiling than most. It possesses the same undeniable allure as classics such as Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, inviting players to slip into the seasonal flow of crop cultivation, countryside exploration and conversations with...

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3 w. ago Flow Festival 2025, review – Charli xcx, Burna Boy and FKA Twigs headline but Finland’s own hold their ground

Finnish artists went toe-to-toe with some of the world’s biggest headliners at the European festival last weekend, and often had a bolder reception

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3 w. ago Way Out West review: this music festival is bursting with Scandi cool

With a blockbuster line-up and buzzing city waiting to be explored, Gothenburg is the perfect place to escape the UK’s festival crowds

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3 w. ago 'I no longer wake up soaking wet – here's all the essentials you need in the heat'

EXCLUSIVE: Daily Star news editor Abigail Hunt is always waking up drenched in the heat of the summer so set herself on a mission to fix this soggy mishap. Here's all the products you need in the hot weather

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