Derek

11. The Angelic Conversation (1985)Judi Dench reads 14 Shakespeare sonnets over 77 minutes of homoerotic imagery, backed by compositions by Benjamin Britten and experimental band Coil in this romantic and dreamy film. While not as powerful as Jarman’s best queer works, which channelled anger as well as beauty in their rebellion against oppression, Dench’s readings and the woozy imagery work beautifully together.10. Jubilee (1978)Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) time travels to punk-era Britain and discovers a desperate,…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, Oni Press | Tagged: Derek Charm, Toxic SummerOni Press is publishing a new comic book series, Toxic Summer, from Derek Charm starting in May, in three bi-monthly issues.Article Summary 'Toxic Summer' comic series debut by Derek Charm published by Oni Press in May. Bi-monthly issues combining beach movies, horror, and madcap teen adventures. Story features a toxic spill transforming a beach town, with monstrous consequences. Part of ONI 2024's new…

Derek Evernden, known for his work on "Bogart Creek," stands out in the art world with his exceptional single-panel comics and illustrations, known for their rather engaging and humorous style.The artist has a rather distinctive approach to dark, gallows humor, usually offering a fresh and quirky perspective in contrast to traditional comics.More info: bogartcreek.com | patreon.com | Instagram | twitter.com | Facebook Derek Evernden, known for his work on "Bogart Creek," stands out in the art world with his…

Hayley Erbert, dancer and wife of “Dancing With the Stars” judge Derek Hough, underwent emergency brain surgery after a Tuesday performance just south of Washington D.C.In a statement shared Thursday on Instagram, Hough said that after he and Erbert performed in Oxon Hill, Md., at the MGM National Harbor Hotel & Casino earlier this week, “Hayley became disoriented and was taken to the hospital.” “She was diagnosed with a cranial hematoma from a burst blood vessel and required an emergency craniectomy. She is in…

The charges come a week after the former police officer who killed George Floyd was stabbed in federal prison in Tucson, Arizona The federal inmate who allegedly stabbed Derek Chauvin — the former police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020 — has been charged with attempted murder, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office District of Arizona said on Friday. Prosecutors said that the inmate, 52-year-old John Turscak, stabbed Chauvin “approximately 22 times with an improvised knife.”…

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of George Floyd’s murder, was reportedly stabbed and injured Friday at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, where Chauvin is currently serving a 21-year sentence for his role in Floyd’s May 2020 death. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed an unnamed inmate was stabbed at approximately 12:30 p.m. Friday, with sources telling the Associated Press and the New York Times that the victim in the assault was Chauvin. Following the incident, “responding…

Midnight Cowboy26 September 1969The word “masterpiece” is already ringing in our ears about John Schlesinger’s first American movie, Midnight Cowboy, which comes to the London Pavilion almost stale from the accolades that have pursued it relentlessly across the Atlantic. One recalls similar immediate reactions to the overblown and flashy Darling, and is suitably forewarned. Like Darling this story, of a penurious young blade who arrives in New York with the confidence of his single conviction – that he’s one helluva guy…

‘He always looked as though he was up to mischief’Stephen Frears, directorFrears in 2010. Photograph: Arun Nevader/WireImageHe’d come up to you at solemn occasions with some wonderful, deflating phrase. With his wickedly impish face, he always looked as though he was up to mischief.He wrote of My Beautiful Laundrette that it was “groundbreaking” and what he said changed my life and the lives of others. He was endlessly irreverent and yet absolutely committed to the best of cinema.‘He let us all speak, then told us which…

Derek Malcolm, who served as the Guardian’s film critic for more than 25 years, has died at the age of 91.His death on Saturday was confirmed by his wife, the historian Sarah Gristwood. He died at home in Deal, of heart and lung failure, after a few months of illness.Malcolm joined the Guardian in the early 1970s and wrote a weekly film column until 1999; the longest post in a strikingly successful and varied career.After the Guardian, he joined the Evening Standard and, after his departure as their chief film critic in…

Derek Malcolm was a brilliantly funny, convivial, professional film critic and memoirist, the last survivor of that great Guardian generation of arts journalism titans that also included Neville Cardus and WL Webb. Derek was simply a legend and an international treasure on the film festival circuit. He was the indefatigably globetrotting president of Fipresci, the international film critics’ circle, and a passionate champion of Indian and south Asian cinema.Well into his 80s, Derek wrote and broadcast about film – and…