Homecoming

Denise Dorrance’s graphic memoir, Polar Vortex, is enchanting, every page lovely to look at, so funny and plangent and full of sly wisdom. But it’s also (dread word) strikingly relevant. Its principal subject being old age, by rights it should bring vast crowds of new readers to comics. There can, after all, be few people now who haven’t at least some experience of caring for – or just worrying about – an older relative, as the author does in her book; even those who aren’t yet there know full well what lies ahead: the…

When the #Barbenheimer hashtag emerged last summer, encouraging filmgoers to watch two radically different blockbusters as a double bill, Christopher Nolan’s epic study of atom bomb pioneer J Robert Oppenheimer appeared almost as an afterthought to the frothy, comedic doll-centred Barbie, its seriousness and three-hour length weighing it down. The box office battle – Barbie’s $1.4bn worldwide revenue convincingly defeating Oppenheimer’s $959.9m – appeared conclusive. But as the awards season nears its climax, Oppenheimer…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. David Guetta and Future have been announced as the headliners for The h.wood Group and Uncommon Entertainment’s third annual “h.wood Homecoming” event. Taking place over Super Bowl weekend, the star-studded event brings together the worlds of music, sports and entertainment for an ultra-exclusive two-night party on the Las Vegas Strip. This year’s event kicks off…

When you’re 15, you start having big dreams. Your future possibilities start crystallizing the more you learn about how the world, and life in general, works. Your sense of self evolves, and you start getting ready to dive into the world of being an adult with responsibilities and expectations. Marcos “Tainy” Masís dove in when he was 15. At that young age, he became the youngest high-profile reggaeton producer and was thrust into the spotlight. By the age of 16, he had produced chart-topping hits, like “El…

The City of Heroes: Homecoming team has announced that they have been granted a license by NCSoft to continue hosting the classic 2004 MMO publicly. City of Heroes was taken offline back in 2012 despite still having a reportedly healthy player base. Fans were able to put up private servers for the game a few years ago. This was an extremely secretive thing a few years ago, but eventually it became more widely available as City of Heroes: Homecoming. The team behind it went as far as providing content updates to the game,…

A mysterious miracle is at the heart of this absorbing and superbly acted film from the Italian director Andrea Pallaoro, which refuses the cliched “issue movie” beats of confrontation, catharsis and resolution. Like his previous work Hannah, which starred Charlotte Rampling as the haunted, troubled woman of that name, Monica is marked by its cool compositional rigour: scenes from a life are evoked with studied, often wordless vignettes and middle-distance shots from fixed camera positions, combined occasionally with…

Towards the end of This Plague of Souls, a familiar sound calls out to its protagonist, Nealon. The world is changing: some great alteration seems about to unfold. Nealon gazes at a television, waiting for information. “The signature tune for the news bulletin calls out. A brass fanfare over an electronic jitter snags beneath the peal of the angelus bell.” So the close of this haunting tale calls back to the opening of Solar Bones, McCormack’s previous book, in which the Angelus is ringing out on All Souls’ Day: “the bell…

Earlier this year I visited my home city of Johannesburg after seven years away, to find – as I do every time I return – everything at once the same and entirely different: old houses and haunts nestled just as I left them, but surrounded by unfamiliar spikes of development and decay. “You can’t go home again” goes the old phrase, but we can and we do, the warmth of nostalgia constantly battling the shock of the new.That tension is why homecoming is a such a recurrent, irresistible theme in the movies, though Davy Chou’s…

Jamie T stands on the stage of Finsbury Park, takes a swig of lager, and thrusts his hands into his pockets. Almost two decades stretch out before him in a sea of 45,000 people. It’s a homecoming for the Wimbledon-born troubadour with the wonky teeth and cheeky grin, whose pint-sloshing indie anthems have been the soundtrack to the British coming-of-age story. Standing in the north London drizzle feels not only fitting, but like an act of patriotism.Since his 2007 Mercury prize nominated debut, Jamie T has continued to…

On April 11, 2023, Toronto rapper Nav played the biggest show of his career: a hometown headlining show at Scotiabank Arena. The XO artist brought out some huge stars for the occasion, including Travis Scott,Meek Mill, and Lola Brooke. Hours before hitting the stage, Nav sat down with Complex Canada’s Alex Narvaez to talk about this huge career milestone, having his family in attendance, and making music because he wants to, not because he has to.Whether listening to the hottest album, watching the next box…