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Faster Pussycat singer Taime Downe is opening up about the tragic death of his late fiancée, Kimberly Burch, after she went overboard on a Royal Caribbean ship this March.

During a recent conversation with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Faction Talk, the musician addressed Burch’s “heartbreaking” death that occurred during Royal Caribbean’s 80s Cruise, where his band was one of many acts scheduled to perform. Trunk noted after the tragedy, he and some friends were “very concerned” about Burch’s death affecting his sobriety.

Downe, who has been sober for eight years, said, “What happened with Kimberly too was alcohol and prescription related. So you know, I blame alcohol and pills on it.” He added that he has “hatred for booze, because I know I love the hell outta Kimberly, and it was just hard to deal with.”

At the time of the incident, Burch’s mother, Carnell Burch,...

On the original casting call for "Star Trek: the Next Generation," authored in the late months of 1986, the Enterprise's security chief was to be a Latina character named Macha Hernandez, said to be modeled after the character Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein) from James Cameron's then-recent film "Aliens." Indeed, there was a brief attempt to hire Goldstein for the role, until writer D.C. Fontana pointed out that she wasn't actually Latina. The character was renamed Tanya as a result, then eventually Tasha. The new Tasha Yar was given an intriguing backstory. She was a survivor of an ambitious Earth colony that had, through greed and mismanagement, completely collapsed. She lived among lawlessness, rampant sexual abuse, and poverty before escaping and joining Starfleet.

Denise Crosby was ultimately cast as Tasha Yar, and the show's producers gave the character a position on the bridge, ensuring that Yar would always be on camera. Crosby,...

I officially became one of the 1,200 music industry members comprising the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s voting body in 2022 — the year that my long-snubbed favorite childhood band just so happened to be on the ballot for the first time. I could not check that “Duran Duran” box fast enough. And a few months later, there I was at Los Angeles’s Microsoft Theatre, excitedly cheering them on as they opened the Rock Hall ceremony and were inducted alongside the likes of Dolly Parton, Judas Priest, and Eminem.

Since then, I have not always gotten my way when it comes to the Hall’s inductions. But as a voter, I still take the responsibility seriously… well, most of the time, at least.

This year’s batch of 14 contenders is solid — it’s difficult to make a compelling argument for why nominees like Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Maná, Phish, or the...

Wherever you go, there you are. That iconic line has become a pop culture mainstay thanks to one of the strangest movies of the 80s, Buckaroo Banzai or, as it is formally titled, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. This 1984 science fiction movie has been a cult classic for four decades and remains a fan favorite thanks to its virtually unexplainable plot. Part comedy, part action, part scifi, part martial arts, part musical, part western, part satire and part of a franchise that never came to be, Buckaroo Banzai may be the single most bizarre movie we have ever covered for this series.

A box office bomb when it was released, grossing only six million against a seventeen million dollar budget, Buckaroo Banzai holds a decent 68% rating on Rotten Tomatoes where critics sum it up succinctly as “violating every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating...

A video shows Kimberly Burch jumping overboard from the ’80s Cruise, a source tells The Hollywood Reporter. Burch went overboard from the Royal Caribbean ship earlier this week, though it was unclear whether she fell or jumped. Security footage from the ship appears to show the latter.

The Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas is registered in the Bahamas, giving jurisdiction to the Nassau police who came aboard to review the case and subsequently cleared the woman’s fiancé, Faster Pussycat singer Taime Downe, of any wrongdoing. The band’s performances scheduled for Friday night have been removed from the cruise’s lineup.

According to a Facebook post by Riki Rachtman, a radio personality and the former host of MTV’s Headbangers Ball, who says he is in touch with Downe, “There is video of [Burch] committing suicide and Tamie was cleared of all charges.” Rachtman, who calls Downe his best friend,...

The band is, quite literally, playing on — only without its lead singer.

Faster Pussycat will still play its gig later this week aboard an ’80s nostalgia cruise after lead singer Taime Downe’s fiancée went overboard three days ago and is now presumed dead. According to a source close to the band, Downe will sit out the show, and Faster Pussycat will play cover songs instead of their usual set list.

Kimberly Burch, 56, fell off the Royal Caribbean ship Explorer of the Seas on March 2 following an argument with Downe, 60. It’s unclear whether she accidentally fell or jumped, but Burch’s mother told TMZ that she believes her daughter would not have intentionally hurt herself. According to Page Six, Burch has reportedly been in a relationship with Downe for seven years.

Yet his glam metal band will fulfill their cruise ship contract to perform a second show during the cruise.

A woman went overboard from the Royal Caribbean ship Explorer of the Seas during the first day of The 80s Cruise, a nostalgia cruise featuring musical acts such as Squeeze, Adam Ant, Tiffany and Men at Work.

The woman has been identified as Kimberly Burch, fiancée of Faster Pussycat singer Taime Downe. The rock group was one of the acts that were part of the cruise’s lineup. Her mother, Carnell Burch, told TMZ that Burch fell off the ship following an argument with Downe, though it’s unclear whether she accidentally fell or jumped. Burch’s mom believes she would not have intentionally hurt herself.

A Facebook post from Burch’s family on Tuesday said she “will be greatly missed by all that knew and loved her,” and asked for prayers “during this time for our family as we try to wrap our minds around this heartbreaking tragedy.”

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Faster Pussycat singer Taime Downe’s fiancée, Kimberly Burch, has died after falling overboard on an ’80s cruise that the band was playing.

According to a report from TMZ, Burch was accompanying Downe and Faster Pussycat aboard “The ’80s Cruise,” a decade-themed fest that the glam-metal band was booked to play alongside Squeeze, Adam Ant, Christopher Cross, Men at Work, and more. Downe and company were set to perform on Sunday (March 2nd) and Tuesday (March 4th).

Kimberly’s mother, Carnell Burch, told TMZ that her daughter fell to her death shortly after a heated argument with Downe — her partner of six or seven years — while aboard the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas cruise ship, roughly 20 miles away from Freeport, Bahamas.

It remains undetermined whether Kimberly jumped, was forced, or accidentally fell overboard. Carnell said Kimberly was drinking on the cruise, which was “out of character,” but that she...

Bond worked on avant garde films with Jane Arden in the 1960s and 70s and went on to work with 80s pop stars from Neil Tennant to Adam Ant

Jack Bond, a British film-maker who worked on a string of avant garde films in the 1960s and 70s with Jane Arden, and went on to collaborate with the Pet Shop Boys and Adam Ant, has died aged 87. Bond’s family told the Guardian that he died on 21 December at a nursing home in Twickenham.

The Pet Shop Boys, with whom he collaborated in the 1980s, said in a statement: “[Jack] was a warm and funny man who we very much enjoyed working with and we send our love and condolences to his family and those close to him.”...

Batman: The Animated Series boasted an unforgettable voice cast, but beyond the well-known actors who brought Gothams iconic characters to life, a number of famous actors quietly lent their voices to lesser-known roles in the DC series. Batman: Tas is reknowned for its mature themes and complex storytelling, fronted by Kevin Conroys Batmam and Mark Hamills Joker. From rockstars to TV legends, Batman: The Animated Series was also filled with celebrity guest appearances that might surprise even the most devoted viewers.

Airing from 1992 to 1995, Batman: The Animated Series was a landmark in television animation, combining noir aesthetics with mature storytelling. The shows influence reached far beyond its young audience, becoming a touchstone for fans and critics alike. Known for its dark tone and complex characterizations, it attracted top-tier voice talent to fill even the smallest roles, bringing unexpected star power to Gotham City. These guest roles spanned from minor Batman...

The actor and film-maker’s ingenious comedy sees her play a gamut of characters who meet gory ends chasing a not-worth-it love interest

The Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly – but couldn’t be sure if the butterfly wasn’t the one having the dream about him. Film-maker Alice Lowe dreams her way into a cosmically recurring persona in this likably chaotic, flawed comedy; she plays a woman who regenerates Blackadderishly throughout the years, from the 1680s to the 1980s, forever in love with the same man, forever destined to sacrifice herself for him, almost but not quite in possession of the knowledge that this guy is unworthy of her. At each stage, the incarnations of the past are perhaps dream-memories and the personae of the future are prophecies. Or … is she just very, very mad?

In 1688, Lowe is Agnes, a humble Scottish maidservant who is enamoured of...

The overdose death of Matthew Perry was a shock to anyone who grew up in the 90s watching Friends. Five people were arrested surrounding Matthew Perrys premature death, including a local physician and the actors live-in assistant. Additionally, Erik Fleming, the director of the childrens fantasy film My Brother the Pig, was charged as a middleman in the case. Fleming, who was known to Perry as a TV acquaintance, now faces up to 25 years in his federal case.

It's somewhat of a bizarre coincidence (or another tragic Hollywood downfall) that Fleming was involved in the scheme that killed the '90s star, considering he was once an up-and-coming director in the same decade. Fleming produced the first season of The Surreal Life, which starred Mc Hammer, Corey Feldman, Vince Neil, and others. He directed the bizarre 1995 sci-fi film, which starred a variety of '80s icons, such as Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet,...

The Umbrella Academy soundtrack in season 1 is an eclectic mix of classic and modern songs that perfectly complement the show's plot and vibe. The show has gained critical acclaim and viewership over its three seasons, with the latest season introducing a new group of heroes known as "the Sparrow Academy." Each song in the soundtrack is carefully chosen to enhance key moments in the series, creating iconic scenes that resonate with viewers and fans alike.

The Umbrella Academy soundtrack in season 1 is an eclectic mix, from classic songs by The Doors and Nina Simone to modern hits like Woodkid's "Run Boy Run," with a few more obscure numbers thrown in as well. The TV show, based on the comics by Gerard Way and Gabriel B, is about a group of kids with extraordinary abilities who are collected by an obsessive scientist and trained to become a superhero team. As adults,...

Early-aughts teen queen Lindsay Lohan is having a comeback moment, and her latest Netflix romance is here. The “Mean Girls” and “Freaky Friday” star previously teamed with the streamer on the hit holiday romance “Falling for Christmas.” Now, she’s back — along with director Janeen Damian — for the spring fling, “Irish Wish.”

Lohan stars as book editor Maddie who’s head over heels for the author she works with, Paul (Alexander Vlahos), until he falls in love with her best friend (Elizabeth Tan). Putting her feelings aside, Maddie travels to Ireland for their wedding, where sparks fly with a charismatic photographer (Ed Speleers) until an accidental wish turns her life upside down. She wakes up engaged to Paul and racing toward a walk down the aisle she’s not sure she wants anymore.

Like any good wedding playlist should be, the “Irish Wish” soundtrack is a mix of love songs and danceable,...

A number of big tours are set to launch in March 2024, including Noah Kahan’s “We’ll All Be Here Forever Tour,” Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday 2 World Tour,” Sunny Day Real Estate’s tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of Diary, and The Magnetic Fields’ 25th anniversary celebration of 69 Love Songs.

Fans can also look forward to new tours from John Mellencamp, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Zz Top, and Peter Frampton.

See what other acts are heading out on the road and learn how to get last-minute tickets…

Noah Kahan

The “Stick Season” singer-songwriter kicks off the latest run of North American shows as part of his “We’ll All Be Here Forever Tour” in Vancouver on March 26th. The lengthy tour runs through early August and includes multiple nights in Toronto, Nashville, Denver, New York, and Boston. [Tickets]

Nicki Minaj

The hip-hop queen will kick off the “Pink Friday 2 World Tour...

Coming up on March 1st from AppleTV+ is yet another joyful and whimsical British comedy ‘The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.’ Led by Mr Great British Back-off host Noel Fielding in the titular role and propped up by some of the biggest and best names in British comedy.

The six-episode Apple Original centres on Dick Turpin (Fielding), who sets out on a journey of wildly absurd escapades when he’s made the reluctant leader of a band of outlaws — and tasked with outwitting corrupt lawman and self-appointed thief-taker Jonathan Wilde (Hugh Bonneville).

In this irreverent retelling set in the 18th century, Turpin is the most famous but least likely of highway robbers, whose success is defined mostly by his charm, showmanship and great hair. Together with his gang of lovable rogues, Turpin rides the highs and lows of his new endeavours, including a brush with celebrity, all whilst trying...

Adam Ant has mapped out his 2024 “Antmusic” US tour with The English Beat as support on all dates.

The English singer’s first US trek in five years kicks off in St. Louis on March 21st and will include stops in Chicago, Detroit, New York City, New Orleans, and Las Vegas. It’ll wrap up on May 10th in Phoenix — one day ahead of his festival appearance at Cruel World 2024.

A Live Nation pre-sale will begin on Thursday, December 7th (use access code Crew) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, December 8th via Ticketmaster.

Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Adam Ant’s latest solo album, Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter,...

Goths, Eighties fans, and hungry wolves, this one is for you. On Monday, Cruel World Festival announced Duran Duran as the headliner for its 2024 edition, set to take place on May 11 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Interpol, Blondie, and Simple Minds are among the festival’s top performers.

Making appearances at the single-day festival are Soft Cell, Placebo, Adam Ant, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Tr/St, and the Faint. Ministry will also perform songs from Twitch, Gary Numan will play The Pleasure Principle, and Dreamcar — the supergroup...

The 2024 lineup for Cruel World Festival has been revealed, with Duran Duran serving as the headliner. Blondie and The Jesus and Mary Chain will also appear at the one-day festival, which returns to Brookside at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on May 11th, 2024.

Other notable acts slated to appear at the nostalgia festival include Interpol, Simple Minds, Placebo, Soft Cell, Adam Ant, Ministry, Gary Numan, Dreamcar, Lol Tolhurst x Budgie, and Tones and Tails, who will be reuniting for the first time since 1984. Ministry’s set will hearken back to their original new wave sound with performances of songs from their first two albums, With Sympathy and Twitch.

Tickets to Cruel World 2024 go on sale Friday, December 8th, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. Pt via the festival’s website. Available passes range from General Admission to VIP to top tier Clubhouse access. Registration is ongoing.

Once tickets are on sale,...

Clockwise from upper left: Curse Of Chucky (Universal Studios Home Entertainment), Hush (Netflix), Trick ‘R Treat (Warner Bros.), Creep (The Orchard)Graphic: The A.V. Club

Common wisdom dictates that when a film doesn’t get a theatrical release it’s a sure sign that it’s crap (see pretty...

The Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox is home to a variety of unique horror content, from originals and exclusives to cult classics and documentaries. With such a rapidly-growing library, there are many hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

Here are five recommendations you can stream on Screambox right now.

Pool Party Massacre

Summer is well underway, and if you’ve already exhausted all the seasonal classics, Pool Party Massacre can fill the void with a comedic send-up to ’80s slashers like Slumber Party Massacre and Sleepaway Camp (both also on Screambox). Written and directed by Drew Marvick, the 2017 low-budget indie embraces the era with 80 minutes of over-the-top characters, campy performances, and cheesy practical effects.

The titular party isn’t very festive; it’s more like a small gathering of vapid, Real Housewives rejects that barely tolerate one another while lounging by the pool. One by one, a character excuses themselves — including, in one instance,...

Do you remember what you were doing the evening of May 16, 1983? Well, you may have been one of the 47 million people tuned into NBC’s landmark special “Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever.”

It was the star-studded celebration hosted by Emmy nominee Richard Pryor which saw Michael Jackson reuniting with his brothers for a medley of their Jackson 5 hits including “I Want You Back,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There.”

But it was Jackson’s solo performance of his blockbuster No. 1 hit “Billie Jean” from his breakthrough album “Thriller” which galvanized the audience. It was an electrifying turn where he introduced the fedora, black sequin jacket and glove and his momentous moonwalk routine during the bridge of the song, all of which became his trademarks when performing “Billie Jean.” The New York Times described the routine as “astonishing. He is clearly the heir apparent to the dazzling androgyny...

On The Masked Singer season 9 theme nights, panelist Robin Thicke got into the spirit of each episode by dressing the part, and five of his wardrobe choices stood out as the most creative and imaginative. Robin and his fellow panelists, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Ken Jeong, and Nicole Scherzinger, have been having a blast with The Masked Singer theme nights since they were introduced in season 8. From special outfits to full costumes, their clothing captures the essence of each theme.

During The Masked Singer season 9, the panelists participated in nine theme nights. In the first round of the competition, there were three theme nights: Opening Night, Abba, and New York. These were followed in the second round by DC Superheroes, Sesame Street, and Country Nights. In round 3, the themes were '80s, WB Movie, and The Masked Singer in Space Night. Although Robin always looks great, there were five episodes in...

Cruel World Festival will return to Pasadena, California, with comeback performances from Siouxsie – whose last North American performance dates back 15 years – and Love and Rockets, who last performed as a group in 2008. The lineup also features Iggy Pop, Billy Idol, Adam Ant, and Echo & the Bunnyman.

Scheduled for Saturday, May 20, at Brookside at the Rose Bowl, Cruel World will host performances by the Human League, Boy Harsher, Modern English, Animotion, the Vapors, Riki, Gvllow, Urban Heat, the Soft Moon, Aurat, Gang of Four, Molchat Doma, Gary Numan, ABC, Twin Tribes,...

Vivienne Westwood, the rule-breaking, irreverent fashion designer who came to prominence along with the Sex Pistols in the 1970s, has died at age 81.

On its Instagram page, her fashion brand announced that the designer — one of the original architects of the punk fashion look — died Thursday “peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London.”

“Vivienne continued to do the things she loved, up until the last moment, designing, working on her art, writing her book, and changing the world for the better. She led an amazing life. Her innovation and impact over the last 60 years has been immense and will continue into the future,” continued the post.

In a statement, Andreas Kronthaler, Vivienne’s husband and creative partner said: “I will continue with Vivienne in my heart. We have been working until the end and she has given me plenty of things to get on with.

Give 2022 some credit—any year with Kate Bush crashing Top 40 radio can’t be all bad. So let’s celebrate a superbly crazy year for music, when brilliant tunes kept exploding all over the stylistic map. These are my 25 favorite songs of 2022. (Although many other gems are over on my albums list, to avoid duplicating all the same artists. Including, but not limited to: hits, flops, obscurities, pop kicks, rap hustlers, soul divas, guitar monsters, disco jams, reggaeton hipsters, punk rockers, alien superstars, and karaoke room-clearers. And Carly Rae Jepsen,...

Sometimes the real world can be terribly boring, but in the new Netflix movie "Slumberland," young Nemo's (Marlow Barkley) dreams are a delightful escape from her daily drudgery. The poor girl's an orphan, you see, and she wants to traverse the dreamlands to find a way to bring her father (Kyle Chandler) back. Along the way she will be helped by her father's old business partner, a horned dream creature named Flip, played by the always charming "Aquaman" star Jason Momoa. Flip looks sort of like if Mr. Tumnus rode a motorcycle and listened to Adam Ant, which means he's basically the coolest dream-buddy you could ask for. She also has a stuffed plush pig that comes to life, though he's a little more rough-and-tumble than that Piglet fella. 

The trailer for "Slumberland" has arrived, and it gives fans a better idea of what to expect from this high-flying family adventure.

Stars: Christine Prouty, Stuart Packer, Ryan Woodcock, India Lillie Davies, Jake Herbert, Michael Ironside | Written by Michael Varrati | Directed by Maximilian Elfeldt

It’s interesting to see that the classic monsters of yesteryear, the kings of horror storytelling – Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolfman – are all returning to the [small] screen in new and different takes on the existing mythos. Us Brits had a go with films like The Mummy Reborn and its sequel and the more recent Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing; both made on a low budget by indie filmmakers. Now it’s the turn of American indie king’s The Asylum to have a crack at a legendary horror icon with Dracula: The Original Living Vampire – a film whose title would suggest was Supposed to be a cash-in on the Sony/Marvel film Morbius… after all, in the comics Morbius if dubbed “The Living Vampire” too!

But this is definitely no Morbius.

Bloc Party have released “The Girls are Fighting,” the second single off the band’s upcoming album, Alpha Games. The video for the rollicking song, directed by Cameron Ward and produced by Luke Filz, is set in London’s iconic Repton Boxing Club, where the Kray twins famously trained.

The band previously released the album’s first single, “Traps,” a hard-hitting alt-rock number, in November.

“The Girls are Fighting” details a night out gone amiss, with frontman Kele Okereke singing, “There’s blood on the dancefloor, extensions on the bar.

Malcolm Marmorstein, screenwriter of the 1970s Disney hits Pete’s Dragon and Return from Witch Mountain and a decade earlier was a key element of the Dark Shadows writing staff when ABC’s gothic soap opera famously introduced vampire character Barnabas Collins, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 92.

The cause of death was cancer, his stepdaughter Romy Fleming told Deadline.

A New Jersey native, Marmorstein began his career as a stagehand and stage manager on Broadway, working on such iconic productions as A Streetcar Named Desire with Marlon Brando and Damn Yankees with Gwen Verden.

Before moving to Los Angeles in 1967, Marmorstein began writing for the New York-based soap The Doctors, where he was head writer before being hired away by Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis in late 1966. During Marmorstein’s early tenure on what was then a failing Jane Eyre-style melodrama, Curtis and his small writing staff began...

Summer’s canceled, so kick back with the latest batch of sizzling cinematic oddities, delivered to your door! July’s twenty four new releases celebrate Sun Ra, Roberta Findlay, John Saxon, Adam Ant, Ray Lovelock and Gloria Guida! Cool off with a wild wet T-shirt contest, then contort with your new Russian yoga instructors! Also, cash in …

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Folks who were clinging to hope of seeing a concert at the Greek Theatre this summer are succumbing to reality. The beloved outdoor amphitheater in Los Angeles has pulled the plug on its 2020 season as the coronavirus pandemic plays out.

It’s the first time in the Greek’s 90-year history that it has scrapped a season.

“Although we had hoped to celebrate our 90th anniversary season of providing live entertainment for the citizens of Los Angeles, we feel it is the right, responsible and safe thing for fans, artists, staff and our Griffith Park community to put a pause on live, large crowd events until 2021,” said AP Diaz, executive officer and chief of staff of L.A.’s Department of Recreation and Parks, which owns the celebrated facility.

Among the big-name acts scheduled to hit the Greek this year were Alicia Keys, John Legend, Smokey Robinson, David Gray, Jon Bonamassa,...

Generation C is being invaded by the B-Girls. 80s cult singer Josie Cotton, best known for blurring the angst of both liberals and conservatives with “Johnny Are You Queer?,” sees the science fiction claustrophobia arising from the coronavirus pandemic and wants to help. Cotton joined the Minutemen’s Mike Watt, the Runaways’ Cherie Currie, and Eddie Spaghetti on the song “Flatten the Curve,” to benefit the Jubilee Consortium and the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. Everyone else, she advises to cuddle up with a bad movie. Cotton ventured beyond the valley of the dolls in a “so-bad-they’re-good” movie hunt to accompany this real life B-Movie scenario and re-released Invasion of the B-Girls.

The album title is a twist on the Denis Sanders’ 1973 film Invasion of the Bee Girls, where giant killer bees masquerade as sexy women scientists who kill men for their blood during sex. The New Wave pioneer originally...

Before she married a Beatle, Linda McCartney was renowned photographer Linda Eastman. She was the first woman to shoot a cover for Rolling Stone — of Eric Clapton — and photographed icons like Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan (and, yeah, the Beatles).

From the 1970s until her death in 1998 at 56 from breast cancer, Linda turned her camera to her home life. The new book Linda McCartney: The Polaroid Diaries features intimate snapshots of the McCartneys, many of which were shot at their farm in Cambeltown, Scotland. “She would just see things,” Paul...

Yesterday WarnerMedia held a special event unveiling a lot of details regarding their upcoming HBO Max streaming service. They announced that it would launch in May of 2020 and revealed a bunch of projects that were being developed for it. We covered a few of them, but we have a list of all the films and shows that will be coming to HBO Max along with a sizzle reel that you can watch.

Check out the list below and let us know if it looks like it’s enough to make you want to sign up for HBO Max. Are there any projects that you specifically excited about seeing?

The titles that are marked with an asterisk are projects that were most recently announced.

Max Originals

Kids And Family

Adventure Time: Distant Lands

These four new specials will continue the Adventure Time stories that captured imaginations and introduced unlikely heroes Finn and Jake,...

Hot on the heels of the announcement of the HBO Max launch date and price, WarnerMedia's the new streaming platform which is coming in May of 2020, will offer an impressive direct-to-consumer experience with 10,000 hours of premium content for everyone, ranging from families with young children to adults of all ages.

Anchored with and inspired by the legacy of HBO's excellence, unparalleled quality and innovative, award-winning storytelling, the new offering will bundle all of HBO together with an extensive collection of new original programming produced exclusively for HBO Max (Max Originals), select favorites from WarnerMedia's enormous portfolio of beloved brands and libraries, and key third-party acquisitions.

HBO Max - Kids and Family

Adventure Time: Distant Lands

These four new specials will continue the Adventure Time stories that captured imaginations and introduced unlikely heroes Finn and Jake, best buds who traversed the mystical Land of Ooo and encountered its colorful inhabitants.

Stewart Talent has added two new agents in its Los Angeles office, as Ellen Drantch-Billet and Daniel Ortega have joined the theatrical department.

Drantch-Billet, a 30-year veteran, has worked on both the management and agency side. Working at ICM, Cna and most recently Media Artists Group, Drantch-Billet participated in the careers of Ricky Martin, Luke Perry, Raymond Cruz and Adam Ant, among others.

On the management side, Drantch-Billet worked at James/Levy/Jacobson for seven years and operated her own company, Edb Management, for 12 years. During that time, she participated in the careers of James Franco, Drew Seeley,  Emma Caulfield and Stephen Amell, among others.

Ortega has been in the film and television business for more than 15 years. He started his career in talent management representing actors, writers, and directors at Lighthouse Entertainment and Principato-Young Entertainment. For the past six years, he worked as a theatrical agent at Pantheon.

Vampires show off Staten Island's nightlife in What We Do in the Shadows' "Baron's Night Out."

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This What We Do in the Shadows review contains spoilers.

What We Do in the Shadows Episode 6

What We Do in the Shadows, episode 6, "Baron's Night Out," is the episode I was waiting for. It breaks the taboo of killing a member of the film crew, allows real peril to enter the series and finally unleashes Baron Afanas (Doug Jones) in all his inglorious flesh.

Afanas is a great character who has been kept on ice. He represents the real old world vampire of Nosferatu in the modern world. His approach to everything is anti-stealth. He offers no quarter and no one is safe. He gets very loud and boisterous and vampiry, drinking public urinators, doing shots direct from the tap of a carotid artery, and being an all-around over-the-top bloodsucker.

Just because...

Adam Ant will deliver a full album performance of his 1982 LP Friend or Foe on a North American trek this fall.

The month-long, 18-date trek begins September 4th in Milwaukee and concludes October 1st in Miami. At each stop, Ant will run through Friend or Foe – his most successful solo LP thanks to the singles “Goody Two Shoes,” “Desperate But Not Serious” and the title track – in its entirety.

Check out Ant’s site for more ticket information.

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— Adam Ant (@adamaofficial...

Richard Hell is known for many things — his short-lived stint in Television, his success with the Voidoids, his long career as a downtown poet. But maybe best of all, he’s known as the handsome lothario of the 1970s NYC punk scene. Yet when cultural historian Carlo McCormick asked Hell about the connection between punk and sexuality, Hell told him that wasn’t the point. “I remember Richard Hell saying to me, ‘Well Carlo, punk wasn’t really about sex,'” McCormick says with a smile in a gallery at...

In an affecting documentary, veteran director Jack Bond sketches Chris Moon’s personal struggles – and his startling way of creating art

Over his eight decades, director Jack Bond has accumulated one of the most cultured and quietly cultish filmographies in British cinema, having signed off on 1979’s avant-garde sci-fi Anti-Clock (rediscovered on the BFI’s Flipside label), the ripe-for-revival Pet Shop Boys curio It Couldn’t Happen Here (1987) and Adam Ant study The Blueblack Hussar (2014).

This profile of punkish Essex-based painter Chris Moon opens with a coup de cinéma to rank alongside anything in those defining art movies La Belle Noiseuse or The Quince Tree Sun: 10 minutes in which Moon, fag in mouth, daubs a jet-black canvas with coloured streaks that get stripped back to reveal new shapes and shades.

There was no harder-working rock star in the 1980s than Phil Collins. His solo career exploded in January of 1981 with the release of his debut single “In the Air Tonight,” the first of many massive hits he’d score throughout the decade. He also continued to record and tour heavily with Genesis and even established a career as an actor with a starring role in the 1988 movie Buster. Somehow, in the midst of all that, he also made himself available as a producer and drummer for an enormous cross-section of recording acts,...

Phil Collins surveys his eclectic catalog of collaborative tracks, session work, outside songwriting and production with the new career-spanning box set Plays Well With Others, out September 28th via Rhino Records.

The four-disc, 59-track project includes material from George Harrison, David Crosby, the Bee Gees John Cale, Argent, John Martyn, Gary Brooker, Al Di Meola, Adam Ant, Philip Bailey, Chaka Khan, Howard Jones, the Isley Brothers, Four Tops, Tears for Fears, George Martin, Lil’ Kim, Annie Lennox, Bryan Adams, Joe Cocker, the Phil Collins Big Band and the songwriter’s formative psych-pop group,...

Purple Rain pulled in ten times its budget, earned an Oscar for Best Original Song Score, and boasted a soundtrack that spent 24 weeks at Number 1. So let's purify ourselves in the waters of Lake Minnetonka and pay tribute to the Purple One. Here we'll take a look at 10 things you never knew about Purple Rain.

Purple Dreams

After a string of albums culminated in breakthrough success with 1999, multitalented Minnesota multi-instrumentalist Prince tasked his managers with getting him a movie. The budget was small, the studio once suggested John Travolta should star, but somehow, it all came together. William Blinn, executive producer of TV's Fame, penned the first draft, which he called Dreams. A recent USC film school grad with no feature film directorial experience, Albert Magnoli went on a late night drive with Prince and convinced him he was the man for the job. Magnoli reworked the script.

The origin...

To celebrate the release of A Ghost Story – available on DVD and Blu-ray 15th January 2018 – we are giving away a copy on Blu-ray.

Academy Award winner Casey Affleck and Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara star in this critically praised meditation on love and grief from acclaimed director David Lowery.

Casey Affleck follows up his Best Actor Oscar win last year with an extraordinary performance that will surely haunt next season’s awards ceremonies. Affleck stars alongside Rooney Mara, twice Oscar nominated for her roles in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Carol. There is a wonderful poignancy between the pair, who, torn apart by grief, must come to terms with the implications of their mortality.

Unforgettable and ambitious, like modern art house classics Personal Shopper and Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, A Ghost Story is a film that delves deep into the human psyche to explore what it means to exist,...

Catherine Pearson Nov 20, 2017

With reports of a Horrible Histories feature film in development, we salute the genius songs of a magnificent show...

Ah, Horrible Histories. The show that brings all the slapstick humour and wordplay of Blackadder and Monty Python to a young audience. It’s a rare and marvellously British televisual feast (points for citing the reference, there): a bunch of hugely talented actors charging around in historical outfits, singing songs and starring in genius pop culture-inspired spoofs to deliver the darker side of history to school children.

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Terry Deary’s famous books were an obvious choice for a Cbbc adaptation, but it was a bold choice to assemble a writing team and cast known for their work in the...

Catherine Pearson Oct 11, 2017

With the remake of the 1980s soap opera arriving today, what better time to take a nostalgia-filled lookback at Dynasty?

Cast your mind back, if you can, to the year of 1981. Bucks Fizz, Adam and the Ants and Soft Cell were storming the charts, Only Fools And Horses aired its first series on BBC One and Gregory’s Girl was playing in a cinema near you. Meanwhile, stateside, ABC had cooked up a suitably glamorous and scandalous competitor to Dallas, the CBS drama packed full of Stetsons and suspense. The world may have recently discovered who shot J.R., but there was still plenty of room for the Carringtons.

Enter Dynasty, a show based around the business and family of oil tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) whose recent marriage to his former secretary Krystle (Linda Evans) was making waves within the family mansion. With the Colby family...

Following the successful opening night of his Anthems – The Singles USA tour in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl, last night, pop icon Adam Ant, his band and team are safe after they were forced under a mandatory evacuation order to leave the area in advance of the pending arrival of Hurricane Irma. Adam will reschedule his […]

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Mark Harrison Jul 3, 2017

Music is a vital part of Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End. We take a look in more detail right here...

This feature contains major spoilers for Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End.

Edgar Wright's films are often likened to musicals, with his precise use of editing and shot choices giving us some of the most stylish comedy films of the century. His latest, Baby Driver, isn't a comedy per se, but “a musical with car chases”, or “An American In Paris on wheels and crack smoke”, as an elated Guillermo del Toro described it on Twitter.

Centring around Ansel Elgort's Baby, a getaway driver who does his best work while listening to a personal soundtrack, it seems like the film Wright was born to make. He had the idea for the film after making his first feature,...

Of all the youth subcultures New Romantic is the most arbitrary. It began in the London night club Blitz in 1979. It was a predominantly gay club that played a mixture of electronic pop and disco. The attitude of the patrons was that unlike punk it was important that you did 'something'. Such as write poems, write songs or (because of the proximity of the pre-eminent Fashion College; St Martin's) design clothes. At some point in the year the theatrical costumier (who supplied all the theatres in London) Charles Fox had the crashdown sale of it's long history. Consequently that week Blitz patrons came dressed in a mix of retro styles that spanned a thousand years. Chain mail, doublet and hose, ruffs and uniforms loyal to every flag. In one night New Romantic was born.

Blitz had been Billys, it became Satellites and I believe by the late '80s was called Shroom.