Goth

Screengrab via YouTube/EDGAR RENTØN The month of May is associated with flowers blooming as Spring truly arrives, but one day of the month is a celebration of a decidedly different kind. May 22 is now recognized as World Goth Day after two BBC DJs — appropriately named Martin OldGoth and Cruel Britannia — started the tradition in 2009. Like many popular subcultures, Goth was born out of music; the first mention of “Gothic Rock” was when music critic John Stickney used the term to describe the music made by The…

After a tumultuous Coachella, where Frank Ocean tapped out between weekends, concert promoter Goldenvoice now turns to a summer season of genre- and era-driven festivals around L.A. Last weekend’s Just Like Heaven summoned elder millennials with sets from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and MGMT, while June’s Re:Set will lean younger with headlining performances from Steve Lacy, boygenius and LCD Soundsystem.Cruel World, which debuted in 2022 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl and returns there on Saturday, is arguably Goldenvoice’s most…

The next Insidious has its title. It prequel Welcome to Derry welcomes more people to its cast. Plus, the CW teases what’s coming on Gotham Knights, Superman & Lois, and The Flash. To me, my spoilers!The Woman Who Would Be PhotonLilo & StitchTHR reports Sydney Elizabeth Agudong has been cast as Nani, Lilo’s legal guardian and older sister, in Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch remake.TwistersVariety also has word Glen Powell has joined the cast of Twisters in a currently undisclosed role. BladeAccording to…

Image via A24 Mia Goth is back in action as Maxine Minx, the aspiring actress who escaped the horrific events of X. The third installment of Ti West’s slasher horror franchise, MaXXXine chronologically follows on from the events of his first film, as Maxine now tries to make her way in Hollywood, and according to Goth, it’s going to be heroic. Goth has wowed viewers and critics alike with her performance in West’s X trilogy, taking on two key roles in the first film, that of aspiring actress/porn star Maxine…

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy could make a comeback. Meet Jason Mamoa’s Fast X villain in new footage. Plus, Joe Chill comes to Gotham Knights, and a behind-the-sceneslook at The Boys season 4. Spoilers now!Astronauts Take on Earth-Killing Pollution in RubikonBladeDeadline reports Mia Goth has joined the cast of the MCU’s Blade in a currently undisclosed role. There are galaxy-class markdowns to be had right now on many of the biggest and best LEGO Star Wars model kits.Lilo & StitchDeadline also reports…

Earlier this month saw the UK release of Pearl, a prequel to Ti West’s retro-horror X, starring and co-written by the extraordinary Mia Goth. A uniquely arresting screen presence (check out the final-frame smile of Pearl for proof), Goth is back again in another jaw-dropping role that positively fizzes with playfully dangerous pizzaz. She may take second billing to Swedish star Alexander Skarsgård in this Canadian-Hungarian-Croatian co-production but make no mistake – it’s her anarchic energy that drives the deliciously…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLuxury holidays don’t come any grislier than the one endured by James (Alexander Skarsgärd), and his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) in Brandon Cronenberg’s luridly enjoyable new horror picture, Infinity Pool. James and Em are vacationing in a hotel compound in Li Tolqa, a corrupt and violent tropical state. James is a struggling author with one book to his name. He’s hoping the holiday…

Brandon Cronenberg’s new film serves up another slice of that luxury fear-porn that we’ve had on TV’s The White Lotus and Succession, or Triangle of Sadness in the movies. Here, the trappings and appurtenances of the leisured super-rich might turn out to be just the design features of a prison. Infinity Pool is set in a super-exclusive vacation resort, a razor-wired compound of pampering on an otherwise poverty-stricken fictional island – but the place turns out to have Hotel California-style rules about the respective…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLast year, Ti West was granted admission to an exclusive club whose members include Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, and Spike Lee. Like them, West can now say he has released two films in a single year. His Seventies-set slasher X and its lurid prequel Pearl were shot back-to-back and released within six months of one other in the US. The latter is now finally hitting UK cinemas,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeTi West’s X, released last year, was a Seventies-set slasher about pornographers working on the sly in a remote Texan farmhouse. It was a pleasingly nasty work, if limited by its questionable reliance on treating the ageing body as a source of repulsion. Pearl is its (far superior) prequel, a film written in two weeks by director Ti West and his star Mia Goth, shot in total secrecy and…