performances

It might sound like stating the obvious, but sometimes the best way to elevate motion picture material is to simply sit back and let the actors act. A raft of stellar performances can often drag a film up to the level of commitment and effort being put in by the cast, something that’s very true of Robert Budreau’s slow-burning crime drama Delia’s Gone, which comes to theaters tomorrow, before hitting VOD on September 9. That’s not to say it’s a terrible movie by any stretch of the imagination, but the adaptation of…

Kristen Stewart will make a brilliant Evil Queen one day, but in this CGI-heavy retelling of the oft-filmed fairytale she seems miscast as the passive Snow White. Charlize Theron gets all the witchy fun as her wicked stepmother, while Chris Hemsworth hovers handsomely.Stewart gives a boring girlfriend role more depth than it deserves in this smarmy action comedy about a charmless small-town stoner (Jesse Eisenberg) who, to his surprise, finds he is a sleeper agent with mad killing skills. The Long Kiss Goodnight this is…

Though these days we generally hear the Brahms symphonies performed by a full-sized symphony orchestra of 70 or 80 players, the composer himself is said to have preferred smaller forces. The orchestra in Karlsruhe, which introduced his First Symphony, had 49 players, the Meiningen Court Orchestra, responsible for the premiere of the Fourth, numbered 48. Thomas Dausgaard recorded the four symphonies with a band of that size for BIS, and now Adam Fischer has followed his example; the exact number of players he uses isn’t…

YouTube Music has reportedly started showing users “other performances” of a song in the Now Playing section of the playlist. The new section appears in the Related tab below the "You might also like" and the "Recommended playlists" sections on the platform. Users will reportedly be able to see concert clips, live performances, covers, and remixes related to the songs they are listening to. This feature was reportedly available for a few users a month ago, but now is being available widely on the iOS, Android apps, as…

Rolling Loud Miami is back.The 2022 music event kicks off Friday at Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium, where some of the biggest names in the game will deliver three days of live performances. This year’s festival will be headlined by Future, Kendrick Lamar, and Kid Cudi, who was recently tapped to replace original headliner Kanye West.“We were looking forward to Ye headlining Rolling Loud Miami 2022. We spent months working with him and his team on the performance,” Rolling Loud co-founders Tariq Cherif and Matt Zingler…

Apple Music premiered the Apple Music Sessions — exclusive live releases from revered and emerging artists from all over the world recorded in Spatial Audio — on Friday. It launched with releases from Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes, who recorded their Sessions at Apple Music's new state-of-the-art studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Apple Music Sessions has lined up a host of country artists with upcoming live releases from Ronnie Dunn, Ingrid Andress, and many more. Apple plans to expand this series to other music…

This morning Apple announced Apple Music Sessions, a series of live performances that will be available exclusively to subscribers of the company’s music service. Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes are the first two artists to be featured, and for now, the sessions will mostly be geared toward country. That’s likely because they’re being recorded from Nashville, Tennessee, in what Apple describes as a “state-of-the-art” studio. The company plans to tap into other genres (and other recording studios around the world)…

There is, it’s fair to say, nothing more important to the movies than actors.The right performance can tip a film into the realm of greatness; a bad one can doom an otherwise promising project to mediocrity or ridicule.What would There Will Be Blood be without Daniel Day-Lewis at its centre? Would The Godfather still sparkle without Al Pacino and Marlon Brando? These are not questions anyone is keen to know the answer to. The best performances are irreplaceable; they are key to the very essence of cinema.But what happens…

The 2022 BET Awards have kicked off, and while the winners and losers are the big focus, there are plenty of exciting performances to look forward to as well.The list of artists playing at this year’s edition of the awards is extensive, with the likes of Lil Wayne, Jack Harlow, and Lizzo all lined up to deliver a track or two. Chance the Rapper and Joey Badass are set to perform “The Highs & the Lows,” while Chlöe has promised to bring a surprise track. Others taking the stage include Ella Mai, Latto, Muni Long,…

There is, it’s fair to say, nothing more important to the movies than actors.The right performance can tip a film into the realm of greatness; a bad one can doom an otherwise promising project to mediocrity or ridicule.What would There Will Be Blood be without Daniel Day-Lewis at its centre? Would The Godfather still sparkle without Al Pacino and Marlon Brando? These are not questions anyone is keen to know the answer to. The best performances are irreplaceable; they are key to the very essence of cinema.But what happens…