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In the worlds of both the best ‘90s movies and the upcoming 2024 movies heading to theaters, The Crow looms large. As the release of the Bill Skarsgård-led remake is now on the board for the same summer that celebrates 30 years of the original movie, director Alex Proyas hasn’t held back his thoughts on the long in-development reboot. In a new social media post, Proyas has elaborated on why he’s not a huge fan of director Rupert Sanders’ fresh take even existing. Through sharing photos from Lionsgate’s The Crow revamp,…

Breadcrumb Trail LinksLifeEating & DrinkingCultureBooksMake the London chef's chard, potato and celeriac gratin, duck, pea and cabbage hash and mushroom jalousie Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jan 19, 2024  •  Last updated 19 minutes ago  •  11 minute read Clockwise from left: chef Jeremy Lee of Quo Vadis in London; chard, potato and celeriac gratin; duck, pea and cabbage hash; and mushroom jalousie. PHOTOS BY ELENA HEATHERWICKReviews and recommendations are unbiased and…

Brenda Lee has smashed a series of US chart records as her perennial festive favourite Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, first released in 1958, has finally reached No 1 on the Hot 100.Written by Johnny Marks, the man behind Christmas favourites such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, the song was recorded when Lee was 13. Initially a flop, it rose to the US Top 20 in 1960 after Lee’s pop career had taken off and earned her back-to-back No 1 singles earlier that year.It found a new…

It’s a holiday gift — 65 years in the making! On Monday, Brenda Lee‘s holiday classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song’s distinction arrives a whopping 65 years after it was first released when she was just 13 years old, breaking the record for longest climb to No. 1. With this distinction, Lee also surpassed the 25-year gap between Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” release in 1994 and its ascent to the top in 2019. Billboard shared a video…

Posted in: Comics, Current News | Tagged: dave sim, jim lee, october 2023, Solicits, wildcatsDave Sim is switching temporarily from his War On Woke in his Cerebus In Hell comic book towards a war on pigs, courtesy of Jim Lee.Dave Sim is switching temporarily on his War On Woke in his Cerebus In Hell comic book solicited from Aardvark-Vanaheim in October, taking inspiration from Jim Lee and Image Comics – sorry, Inbred Comics, and transforming WildC.A.T.S. into WildP.I.G.S, or "porky, inbred gut sacks". I was not entirely…

George Lazenby had just left a restaurant in Kowloon, Hong Kong, where he dined with Golden Harvest founder Raymond Chow. The former James Bond actor was discussing with Chow the details of their next film that would pair him with Bruce Lee. Enter the Dragon, a Golden Harvest co-feature with Warner Bros., was about to be released and it was expected to make Bruce Lee a star in America. Lee was already a star in Hong Kong thanks to his groundbreaking kung fu films that are still revered to this day. The next film would…

It is not certain that Bruce Lee would have seen a kung fu duel involving sex toys as a fitting tribute to his legacy, but the Oscar triumph of Everything, Everywhere All At Once earlier this year is a reminder, 50 years after his death, of what a trail he has blazed. Lee smashed down the door for Asian representation pretty much single- (and bare-) handedly, even if he died too soon to be a beneficiary of it.Lee is one of those rare stars who is bigger than his movies. Despite leaving a slim body of work – just four…

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Stan Lee | Tagged: Femizons, Slam-Girl, Stan Lee HoldingsThe Omniverse Collection of IP comprises more than a hundred characters and storylines Stan Lee created, including the Femizons.In 1971, Marvel Comics published Savage Tales #1, a non-Code Conan anthology black-and-white comic magazine that featured Ka-Zar and the first appearance of Man-Thing, and The Femizons or The Sisterhood (the name differed on the cover and inside the comic) which was credited as being created and written by…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIn the summer of 2002, producer and screenwriter James Schamus went to Times Square to see Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. Schamus, a frequent collaborator with director Ang Lee, went for two reasons: to celebrate the star-making moment of Tobey Maguire, with whom Lee and Schamus worked on The Ice Storm; and to “scope out what was going in Marvel-land”. Lee and Schamus were deep into…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBruce Lee wanted to be the biggest box office star in the world. He said as much to his friend and martial arts student, Stirling Silliphant. Lee announced that he would one day be a bigger star than both Steve McQueen and James Coburn, A-list actors who were also students of Lee’s. Silliphant – an Oscar-winning screenwriter – replied in the negative: “You are Chinese in a white man’s…