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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Justin Bieber surprise-drops his first album in four years, Blackpink reunite for a high-energy club banger, and Tyla serves up a sultry dance-hall inspired summer hit. Plus, new music from Mariah Carey, Burna Boy, Big Thief and more.

Justin Bieber, “Daisies” (YouTube)

Blackpink, “Jump” (YouTube)

Tyla, “Is It” (YouTube)

Mariah Carey, Luisa Sonza, “Type Dangerous (The Brazil Funk Remix)” (YouTube)

Burna Boy, “No Sign of Weakness” (YouTube)

Big Thief,...

The UK post-punk band shame are back, and have announced their fourth studio album, Cutthroat. Listen to the lead single and opening track, “Cutthroat,” below.

Due on September 5th via Dead Oceans, Cutthroat is the follow up to shame’s 2023 album Food for Worms, and spans 12 new songs produced by John Congleton. Speaking about the album in a statement, frontman Charlie Steen, said, “It’s about the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites. Let’s face it, there’s a lot of them around right now.”

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The band expanded on that attitude in a longer joint statement, hinting at a restless drive beneath the record’s surface. “It’s driven by hunger,” they said. “Hunger for something better. For something you’ve been told you don’t deserve. It’s primal. It’s raw. It’s unapologetic. It’s the person who turns up to the party uninvited.

The full list of 2025 BAFTA TV Awards winners is in!

This year’s ceremony celebrating all things television was held at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday (May 11) in London, England.

BAFTA previously announced that ITV won the Special Award for commissioning Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Kirsty Wark, the former BBC Newsnight presenter, won the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s top accolade.

The BAFTA TV Awards were hosted by Alan Cumming, who currently hosts The Traitors on Peacock.

The ceremony screened on BBC One in the UK and BritBox istatside.

Keep reading to find out more…

2025 BAFTA TV Awards

Drama Series

Blue Lights (BBC) - Winner

Sherwood (BBC)

Supacell (Netflix)

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC)

Limited Drama

Baby Reindeer (Netflix)

Lost Boys and Fairies (BBC One)

Mr Bates vs the Post Office (ITV) - Winner

One Day (Netflix)

International

After The Party (Channel 4...

Netflix's Emmy Award-winning Baby Reindeer led the 2025 BAFTA TV and Craft Awards nominations on Thursday with eight bids, including Best Limited Drama, a lead actor nomination for creator and star Richard Gadd, and two supporting actress nominations for Jessica Gunning and Nava Mau. The limited series won several honors last year and through the winter, including Emmy Award wins for Gadd and Gunning, and a Screen Actors Guild Award victory for Gunning.

Three shows tied for second behind Baby Reindeer with six nominations: ITV's Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office, Disney+'s Rivals, and Apple TV+'s spy show and Emmy winner Slow Horses.

Other nominations of note, particularly for this current Emmys cycle, include four bids for FX's limited series Say Nothing and two mentions for Industry. The latter includes a lead actress nomination for star Marisa Abela, who shined during the show's breakout third season last year,...

Exclusive: This year’s Manchester Film Festival is set to run from March 14 – 23 and will open with a screening of The Penguin Lessons, directed by British filmmaker Peter Cattaneo and starring Steve Coogan.

Based on the best-selling memoir, the film tells the story of an Englishman’s personal and political awakening during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history, brought about by his unlikely adoption of a penguin.

Manchester will screen 37 features, including 15 UK premieres and 4 world premieres. All films will be screening in Manchester for the first time. This includes the Manchester premiere of the UK’s Oscar selection Santosh from Sandhya Suri, Sundance, and Cannes hit Good One directed by India Donaldson, and South by Southwest Audience Award Winner My Dead Friend Zoe from Kyle Hausmann-Stokes.

Other highlights include the UK premieres of Y2K, A24’s latest horror comedy starring Fred Durst and directed by Kyle Mooney, the...

French sales agent Elle Driver has secured key deals on Alexandros Avranas’ refugee drama Quiet Life.

The film has gone to France (Wild Bunch Distribution), Germany (Wild Bunch Germany), Spain (Lazona), Japan (Klockworx), Benelux (De Filmfreak) and Brazil (Imovision).

Quiet Life has its Mena premiere in the Festival Favorites section at Red Sea on December 11.

The fifth feature from Greek director Avranas follows a Russian refugee family in Sweden whose youngest daughter falls into a mysterious coma following the rejection of their citizenship application. The drama debuted in Venice’s Horizons sidebar.

It is produced by Sylvie Pialat, Benoit Quainon...

Julie Delpy’s Meet The Barbarians will open the 21st edition of the Seville European Film Festival on November 8. The Spanish festival turns the spotlight on European films during this year’s awards season.

Meet The Barbarians is a satire about the arrival of a group of refugees in a village in Brittany.

The official selection includes 19 titles in competition for its top award: the Golden Giraldillo, named after the statue that crowns Sevilla’s Cathedral, La Giralda.

The prize comes with €40,000 for the Spanish distributor of the winning film or €20,000 for the company that submitted the film to the...

Venice Prize Winner ‘Familiar Touch’, ‘ ‘Black Dog & ‘Eephus’ Set For Red Sea Fest

In the first film program announcement for its upcoming edition, Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival has unveiled the 12 titles in its Festival Favourites line-up. The sidebar celebrates films that have enjoyed a high-profile outing on the festival circuit in recent months such as Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch, which won the Luigi de Laurentiis prize for best first film at Venice, and Cannes Un Certain Regard winner Black Dog by Guan Hu. The other titles comprise Agora (Tunisia), East Of Noon (Egypt), Eephus (U.S.), Freedom Way (Nigeria), The Inevitable Journey To Find A Wedding Dress (Egypt), The Legend Of The Vagabond Queen Of Lagos, Little Jaffna (France), Quiet Life (Greece), Santosh (UK) and U Are The Universe (Ukraine). “This year’s selection continues to demonstrate our commitment to showcasing diverse...

The Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has picked 12 movies for its Festival Favorites selection of standouts from the fest circuit, including U.K. Oscar submission Santosh, an Indian police procedural about two women who form an unlikely alliance directed by Sandhya Suri; and Chinese auteur Guan Hu’s Black Dog, which won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes.

Representing the U.S. in the lineup is Familiar Touch from director Sarah Friedland whose synopsis reads: “Arriving at an aged care facility, Ruth thinks she is in a fancy hotel on a date — with a man who is actually her son. Gradually, she reconciles herself to the life she has now.” The film had its world premiere in the Horizons lineup of the Venice Film Festival.

The Festival Favorites program also includes two films from Africa that played at the Toronto International Film Festival: The Legend...

In his latest film Quiet Life, director Alexandros Avranas takes on a challenging issue that few are aware of—child resignation syndrome. The movie first screened at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, where audiences were introduced to a family’s struggle against all odds.

Sergei, Natalia, and their daughters have fled their home in Russia, seeking asylum in Sweden to escape danger. There they eagerly learn the language and immerse themselves in their new community while waiting for a decision on their application. But faced with rejection, despair sets in.

Their younger daughter Katja suddenly falls ill with resignation syndrome, a condition where trauma causes children to withdraw completely into an unresponsive state. As Katja’s health declines and hopes of appealing the decision vanish, the family is thrust deeper into uncertainty.

Avranas does not shy away from depicting the bleak realities they confront—from indifferent bureaucracy to a clinic that...

Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” which challenges the carefully crafted public persona of one of Germany’s most controversial directors, who was forever tainted by working with the Nazis, is one of 17 German films playing in the various sections of the Venice Film Festival.

A deep dive into Leni Reifenstahl’s previously inaccessible archive, the 160-minute film lifts the lid on secrets the director of the 1935 Nuremberg propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” struggled more than half her life to keep hidden.

Veiel, who was brought onboard to direct by producer Sandra Maischberger of Berlin’s Vincent Films – who had gained unfettered access to Riefenstahl’s archive after the death of her longtime companion and husband Horst Kette in 2016 – is untroubled by the film’s out-of-competition berth as he believes the festival is the right venue for its first showing.

“For me, it is the right festival for the film,...

Madrid-based Paz Lázaro of Amore Cine, at the Venice Film Festival for “Kill the Jockey” by Luis Ortega and “Quiet Life” by Alexandros Avranas, has boarded Sergio Castro San Martín’s “A Thousand Pieces” (“Mil pedazos”), which is currently shooting in Chile.

Amore Cine joins Argentina’s Bikini Films and Pan Contenidos, Spain’s Maluta Films and Castro San Martín’s Chile-based company Latente Films, co-founded with Eduardo Pizarro, in the co-production that wraps early October.

Road movie follows Isabel (43) and Miguel (53) who are getting ready for a vacation with their only daughter, Emilia (9). Miguel is the most excited, hoping this trip will be an opportunity to heal the rift with his wife. But for Isabel, there’s no way out of the crisis they’re facing. Emilia, excited about the adventure, captures the desert scenery with her Cybershot camera, but everything comes to a halt when a tragic accident occurs midway.

Do You Know Where You’re Going To?: Avranas Analyzes Syndrome of a New Century

For his fifth narrative feature, Quiet Life, Greek Weird Wave alum Alexandros Avranas once again steps out of his native country to explore a culturally specific trauma phenomenon. The thrust of the narrative presents a scenario so maddening it seems to take place in a dystopic parallel universe as it examines the plight of Russian parents seeking political asylum in Sweden with their two young daughters in tow. The arduous experience triggers a medical condition recognized in Sweden (at least as a novel diagnostic entry as of 2014) called Child Resignation Syndrome, where emotional trauma specific to asylum seekers from former Soviet and Yugoslav countries causes an indefinite comatose state.…...

After winning the Silver Lion for Best Director with Miss Violence (2013), Greek filmmaker Alexandros Avranas returns to the Lido in the Orizzonti section with his latest work. This time, the focus is on a Russian family exiled to Sweden, where one might assume the biggest challenges would be adapting to the language, food, culture, and peculiar pop music. However, their true ordeal is only beginning. Known for his sharp exploration of human psychology intertwined with social issues, Avranas once again puts the family unit to the test. In his fifth feature, Quiet Life, parents Sergei and Natalia face the devastating aftermath of their asylum application being denied, which shakes their family to its core—especially when their youngest daughter, Katia, collapses into a mysterious coma.…...