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Alexis Taylor – songwriter/producer/singerHot Chip was just a duo in the beginning. Joe and I met at Elliott School in Putney in 1991, when I was 11, and bonded over making music. We performed covers – Pavement, the Velvet Underground – at school and started writing and recording our own songs on Joe’s 4-track tape recorder. We listened to alt-country artists, such as Will Oldham and Smog, and to dance music, R&B and pop from the US, productions by the Neptunes and Timbaland and tried to make something of our own…

A few years ago, the popular Dragon Quest XI released on various platforms but didn't come to Nintendo Switch until a few years later with the release of the Definitive Edition. Now things have turned around a bit with Dragon Quest Treasures releasing exclusively on Switch and no indication on whether it will come to other platforms in the future. The story follows two children, Erik and Mia — siblings that were introduced in Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age. After freeing a mysterious flying pig and flying…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJudi Dench has described Clint Eastwood as “the most laidback man” she’s ever met.The British actor is a guest on a forthcoming episode of Louis Theroux Interviews… during which the presenter visited her at her Surrey home to talk through her life and career.During one discussion, Theroux quizzed Dench about some of her most notable film roles, with the 87-year-old admitting that…

John Phillips / Getty Images Years ago, the film Love Actually featured a murderers row of talent. Several have since gone on to greater industry acclaim, and now, film star Bill Nighy (who played Billy Mack in the 2003 piece) may earn an Oscar and he is a bit relaxed about the notion. The 72-year-old reveals the sentiment today in a new Variety article published around his new film Living. In the piece, Nighy plays a civil servant dealing with the end of his life in 1953. It has earned him some of the best…

Image via RADiUS-TWC Is there anything more relaxing than closing the curtains, turning out the lights, and unwinding under the blanket with a bag of popcorn and a scary movie? Of course, it helps if said movie presents a particular “chill” vibe that reminds you that monsters, ghouls, and goblins are nothing but fairytale lore — and that some horror movies showcase a heavy dose of melancholy that somehow keeps the viewer calm. Over on r/horror, after user u/MidnightFlight requested that fellow Redditors suggest…