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Award shows are funny things. On the face of it an award show’s sole function is to honour the year’s best and most important work, whether it be in film, music, or some other creative form. It’s at once a simple and complex task,…

One of the great strengths and weaknesses of Netflix is the streaming service’s willingness to try just about anything to an almost nonsensical degree. Their range of film and TV production is varied and extensive, boasting a catalogue of…

A couple of years ago when I was still a fresh-faced college student a friend of mine asked me who my favourite actresses were. I found myself surprisingly stumped by the question. There was no shortage of great actresses I could point to…

"If you know what's good!"  So goes the opening line to Justin Timberlake's single "Filthy", the first off his upcoming album Man In The Woods and his first since the dull yet catchy hit "Can't Stop The Feeling!". There was a time when…

Sex sells. That has long held sway as maybe the most salient truth in the entertainment industry, an unchanging foundation on which so much of our world is built. HBO has never been afraid to embrace this ethos with it’s programming, a…

My youth, like anyone else’s, is a story in which certain artists are inseparable from the telling of that story. Some of these artists are perennial features of most people’s lives, universally appreciated as integral to their respective…

No one can accuse Tamara Schlesinger of remaining idle for long. Before a career in music, Schlesinger used to represent Scotland in international gymnastics and then moved onto the radically different world of fashion design until she…

Jack Antonoff is an industry guy. You know him even if you don’t think you do. Check under the hood of any pop album released in the last few years and there’s a decent chance that Antonoff’s fingerprints are in there somewhere. Antonoff…

Back in 2008 Kevin Feige had a lot riding on Iron Man. The producer and president of Marvel Studios had had a hand in a number of successful franchise launches (Blade, Spider-Man, X-Men) but Iron Man was something different. Something…

Forget song of the summer. Who cares about the summer? The song of the year has already been decided and the ballots have been closed since March. The race was won when this particular song somehow made the line “I don’t really care if you…