Despite working with Wes Anderson more than any other actor, Bill Murray has still yet to see his debut, Bottle Rocket.

Having debuted in the UK at 2023’s FrightFest Halloween, it has taken a little while for The Last Video Store to get a release. The wait is almost over however, as the film, which also screened at ...

A new opera by Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek, directed by Ivo van Hove, aims to capture the lavishness of Ingmar Bergman’s ...

Remember those dusty VHS tapes gathering cobwebs in your basement? What if we told you they might be worth more than just ...

John Waters once famously suggested that if you go home with someone and they don’t own any books, you shouldn’t fuck them. I ...

How to define a cult classic? Is it a shoestring exploitation film from the world of Ed Wood? Off-beat movies made outside ...

It is opera fantastique, after all!” One definition of the French word fantastique is: a term for a literary and cinematic genre and mode that is characterized by the intrusion of supernatural ...

Photo from the Japan Mint A company in Japan found thousands of “phantom” coins, believed to have been destroyed after World War II, in a warehouse. Photos show the rare ceramic currency.

Director Damiano Michieletto and his versatile team (Paolo Fantin sets, Carla Teti costumes, Alessandro Carletti lighting) have given Offenbach’s rambling “Fantasy Opera” a postmodern ...

Hoffmann (Juan Diego Flórez) in Luther's tavern with drinkers and companion-parrot Nicklausse (Julie Boulianne)All images by Camilla Greenwell That’s a shame, because a lot of Michieletto’s busy-ness ...

In Damiano Michieletto’s new production at the Royal Opera House they chart a trajectory from puppy love through a more mature, empathic relationship to the fateful liaison with a courtesan in a ...

From the very beginning, Michieletto comes up with ideas that are gorgeous to look at as well as full of cultural references. Clearly, the drinkers in Luther’s tavern have been on the absinthe as well ...