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Dylan Moran, who wrote and starred in cult show “Black Books” alongside Bill Bailey, is returning to television with a new comedy series “Stuck,” starring Morgana Robinson (“The Windsors”).

The series, which will begin shooting in Belfast this month, is described as “sometimes dark, sometimes surreal.” It is produced by Hat Trick Productions with Ian FitzGibbon (“Hullraisers”) set to direct.

“Stuck” explores the relationship between Dan (played by Moran) and Carla (Robinson) a couple with an age gap who are at a cross-roads. Dan has been made redundant; Carla is dissatisfied with her life. When Carla’s ex-girlfriend Maya re-appears, things start to get even more tricky.

As well as “Black Books,” Moran has appeared in “Shaun of the Dead,” “Notting Hill” and TV series “Uncle.” He can currently be seen as Uthrok One-Nut in “The Witcher: Blood Origin.”

Robinson played Mrs Jenkins in “The Witches” and has appeared in...

Tierra Whack has released a pair of new songs, “Peppers and Onions” and “Feel Good.”

“Peppers and Onions” boasts a playful beat centered around whistling, the percussive but melodic click of a tongue against the roof of a mouth, and some booming bass hits to hold down the low end. Whack’s versatile vocal performance perfectly matches the production, although her lyrics grapple earnestly with the pressures of fame and human fallibility: “I don’t wanna be judged, I just wanna be me,” she raps, “Even though we buy chains,...

A man (Kasimir Poh) is ready to go to work in the morning, and he has just finished brushing his teeth after breakfast. But something is not quite right. The exit door leads him into a room that is identical to the previous and then again and again. No matter what he tries to do – even jumping out of the window – but he always ends up in the same old room.

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Beside the several allegories and metaphors that can be associated to the entrapment motif – mental illness, introversion, displacement alienation, not to talk about echoes of the recent Covid isolation – Alistair Quak’s brief 5-min work “Stuck” is an amusing and well-crafted piece of entertainment.

Aided but the dissonant avant-garde-style jazz score of drum and strident violins, the bafflement mounts gradually to became highly claustrophobic, and to end on a humorous note,...

Herbert Wise’s 1989 TV gem wowed critics, inspired Oscar-winners and ruined Christmas for a generation. Then it was never seen again … until now

“I saw it when it was first shown,” says the film critic Kim Newman. “Christmas Eve with my mum and dad. We all just wanted to watch a spooky ghost story. But there were after-effects, a mood that carried on after the film ended. You wake up next morning, Christmas Day, you’re still scared …”

He laughs darkly. “The Woman in Black ruined Christmas.”...

Johnny Mandel, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning songwriter of “The Shadow of Your Smile,” “Emily” and the theme from “Mash,” has died. He was 94.

“I was so sad to learn that a hero of mine, Johnny Mandel, passed away,” wrote Michael Buble on Twitter. “He was a genius and one of my favorite writers, arrangers, and personalities. He was a beast.”

“A dear friend and extraordinary composer arranger and all-around brilliant talent, Johnny Mandel, just passed away,” wrote Michael Feinstein on Facebook. “The world will never be quite the same without his humor, wit and wry view of life and the human condition. He was truly beyond compare, and nobody could write or arrange the way he did. Lord will we miss him. Let’s celebrate him with his music! He would like that.”

Mandel was considered one of the finest arrangers of the second half of the 20th century, providing...

It's the most beautiful time of the year, and Justin Bieber is putting a holiday twist on his version of carpool karaoke. The superstar singer delighted his fans with an impromptu karaoke session on Christmas Day. In a series of home videos, shot by Hailey Bieber and posted on Instagram, the 25-year-old can be seen driving in his car while listening to his 2011 Christmas album, Under the Mistletoe. The first video shows Justin, dressed in green and red pajamas for the holiday, singing along to his song, "Christmas Eve." Justin, who recently announced a new single and tour, captioned the first video, "Merry Christmas #bieber2020." The next video shows Justin singing his...

Kevin Spacey alerted the media as he recited a poem about himself at the National Roman Museum next to a chiseled naked statue. The actor, who has not been seen out in public a whole lot since over a dozen men accused him of sexual misconduct, made a rare appearance to recite Gabriele Tinti's poem, "The Boxer." Museum goers were reportedly shocked to see the actor out and about, dressed in a tobacco-colored suit delivering lines from the poem, which he obviously used to refer to himself.

Gabriele Tinti's "The Boxer" is about a "tired and broken fighter who has been punched and beaten, and is left bleeding by the ringside." Kevin Spacey read the poem while standing next to the Greek bronze Boxer at Rest statue and while the air conditioning was broken. A big crowd gathered to watch the actor read the speech, which he then read...

Today is Earth Day, a moment when children all over the world are taught valuable lessons about the wonders of the planet we live on and editorial writers who spend the rest of the year ignoring or mis-representing environmental issues and climate change feel compelled to say something sentimental about this big rock in space that we all live on.

Earth Day was inspired by a single photograph, known as “Earthrise,” which was taken by the crew of Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve, 1968. It shows the earth, shadowed by the moon,...

Exclusive: Almost two decades after The Other Side of Heaven became one of the buzz titles that would help propel the faith-based movie market, original director Mitch Davis and star Christopher Gorham are ready to take the wraps off the sequel. The pic, titled The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith, is now set to hit theaters June 7, 2019 via Davis’ Two Roads Productions, the company behind inspirational films including 2016’s The Stray, 2015’s Christmas Eve and 2008’s Language of the Enemy.

The original The Other Side of Heaven, which co-starred Anne Hathaway, grossed $4.75 million at the box office via Excel Entertainment and found even more traction on home video via Disney, centered on the true story of Mormon Elder John H. Groberg (Gorham) and his missionary adventures in Tonga in the 1950s as a 19-year-old bachelor. The sequel also based on true events tells of his return to...

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton make a great team! During her upcoming takeover for TuneIn’s “Holiday Hits” channel, the 48-year-old singer explains the wonderful inspiration behind her song, “Christmas Eve.” “When I think of the holiday season, I’m always going to think of this song, because this is a song that I wrote when I […]...

Gwen Stefani is unwrapping some of her favorite holiday tunes (including some of her own originals!) for TuneIn’s “Holiday Hits” channel.

The You Make It Feel Like Christmas singer, 48, will guide listeners through a personal, curated experience of her go-to modern and classic holiday jams, including her inspiration behind her song “Christmas Eve” featuring boyfriend Blake Shelton.

“When I think of the holiday season, I’m always gonna think of this song because this is a song that I wrote when I was on Blake Shelton’s ranch. I was out for a run and it was this gorgeous...

They purchased the haunted mirror on eBay and hung it on a wall in their flat with hopes of winning the $1 million Paranormal Prize offered by the James Randi Foundation. But as they film their application for the fortune of a lifetime, three young friends learn that being truly haunted comes with potentially fatal consequences. Written and directed by Edward Boase, The Mirror is now available on iTunes and we have an exclusive clip in which the flatmates break out the Ouija board.

Synopsis: “Three flatmates buy a haunted mirror on eBay to claim the One Million Dollar Paranormal Prize offered by the James Randi Foundation. Their desire to win blinds them to the evil forces they have brought into their world, which exact a terrible revenge. Based on a true story.”

Cast: Jemma Dallender (I Spit On Your Grave 2), Joshua Dickinson (Holby City), and Nate Fallows (Stuck).

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The Bronze was the first movie that I saw up at Sundance this year, and it was a doozy. Like most of the movies I'll see at the film festival, I have no idea what I'm getting myself into when I sit down to watch these things. It almost always a complete surprise.

I was hoping the first film I saw this year would blow me away, just like Whiplash did for me last year, but that wasn't the case with The Bronze. The movie was directed by Bryan Buckley, and it was good. The film has a handful of really funny moments, but for the most part it's a mediocre movie with an insanely annoying main character named Hope Ann Greggory. She is played by Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory) in the feature, and the actress also co-wrote the script.

The story centers on a former Olympic gymnast...

Exclusive: Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG award nominee Sir Patrick Stewart has made it so with ICM Partners. The agency has signed the Star Trek and X-Men thesp as he prepares to return to TV in Starz’s 2015 series Blunt Talk, which he’ll star in and produce with American Dad‘s Seth Macfarlane and Jonathan Ames. The acclaimed stage and screen star, whose theater kudos include Olivier Award and Drama Desk award wins, is best known for playing the Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek franchise. He also reprised his other iconic role of Professor Charles Xavier in this summer’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past.

Stewart, 74, starred earlier this year as an aging Juilliard dance professor in the Tribeca dramedy Match, which writer-director Stephen Belber adapted from his Broadway play. ICM Partners sold it to IFC in June. Stewart next appears in Mitch Davis’s...