Guardian

Marvel If you’re worried that the upcoming Thunderbolts movie, slated to premiere in 2024, will be the last you’ll see of Alexei Shostakov aka Red Guardian, you’re not alone. David Harbour is right there with you. The Stranger Things actor is a big fan of the character as well. And it isn’t just because he also happens to play him on the screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zljSIyu3tsw “I do. I love Red Guardian. I can’t wait to pull back the layers,” Harbour told GamesRadar in a recent interview.” The…

The Blair Witch ProjectHeather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project Photograph: Cinetext/Pathe/AllstarHas more than two decades of found-footage horror further blunted the impact of The Blair Witch Project, which plenty of folks were already shrugging off as boring and unscary back in 1999? Maybe, but not for me. I can’t claim that I saw Blair Witch early enough to mistake its convincing faux-documentary setup for reality, but I did manage to catch it before it reached a wide enough audience to inspire countless jokes and…

Screenshot: Marvel Studios/Disney+Finding the holiday spirit becomes a mission in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. Another Marvel Studios Special Presentation takes us back into the MCU for another side quest, this time with familiar heroes for the holidays after introducing new ones in Halloween’s Werewolf by Night.And in our first look at James Gunn’s take on the holidays we get to see the Guardians of the Galaxy kidnap someone special to cheer up Star-Lord (Chris Pratt). Namely Drax (Dave Bautista) and…

James Gunn at San Diego Comic-Con 2022.Photo: CHRIS DELMAS/AFP (Getty Images)The man who brought the Mystery Machine to the big screen is apparently working on something mysterious for DC. James Gunn, director of The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy (as well as, yes, screenwriter of the live-action Scooby-Doo film) is gearing up for a mystery DC movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter.According to the trade, Gunn is “angling for his own new DC project (or two)“ and that he, along with producer Peter…

Coolio, who has died suddenly aged 59, was an accessible star of the US west coast hip-hop scene whose 1995 single Gangsta’s Paradise became one of the most successful rap songs of all time, topping charts around the world.Although he had emerged in the late 1980s from the same Los Angeles neighbourhood as the combative hip-hop artists Dr Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube and the rest of the NWA crew, Coolio’s subject matter and demeanour were lightweight in comparison with some of his peers. Gangsta’s Paradise, which appeared in the…

Chat Pile – God’s CountryChat Pile: Slaughterhouse – videoIn search of absolution after realising that I had been streaming NTS Radio uninterrupted for a week, I took the most convenient route I know to finding something fresh to listen to: Pitchfork’s mailout of highest-rated new albums. In that week’s list was the debut album by Chat Pile. Emerging from the post-industrial wastes of Oklahoma City, the not-so-young four-piece channel that strain of American vitriol that made a punk-horror canon out of Dead Kennedys, the…

CaravaggioDexter Fletcher in Caravaggio. Photograph: RONALD GRANTAlthough lionised by the New Queer Cinema movement in the early 90s – then the cuttingest edge of the cutting edge – Derek Jarman in those heady days was hardly a new phenomenon; in fact (sad to say), by then he was approaching his personal endgame. His films since the mid-70s had dominated British experimental cinema – and my favourite of his films is still the first one I saw in the cinema: his mid-80s fever-dream vision of baroque painter Caravaggio, with…

The death of Dame Hilary Mantel brings an end to one of the most remarkable literary careers of the last half century. Her great historical trilogy, Wolf Hall, earned her two Booker prizes, dominating the cultural landscape of the early 21st century – on page, stage and television – for almost as long as her protagonist, Thomas Cromwell, reigned over the political one of the 16th.She gave readers permission to look afresh at this most overworked period of history: not only at Cromwell himself, who was previously mainly…

Berlin, Soaring energy costs are threatening the future of the electric car, industry bosses in Germany have warned, media reports said.A rise in electricity prices as well as in raw material costs and availability, a chronic shortage of parts, and a widespread reduction in disposable income are having a considerable impact on the production and sales of cars, The Guardian reported.If the trend continues, there is also concern that there will be a knock-on effect on investors who will lack incentives to build charging…

Russia’s take on Captain America, the Red Guardian, is coming back to our screens in Marvel’s upcoming Thunderbolts movie. The long-anticipated cast list was finally announced at D23, confirming that David Harbour would return as Red Guardian in the MCU’s answer to DC’s Suicide Squad. The one thing Harbour seems to be most excited about in regards to his return to the role – getting a new suit. The Marvel stars were out in force at the D23 expo where announcements were made, panels were had, and reveals were…