It’s a good time to be a horror fan at the cinema. The next few weeks will be chock-full of frights. From the legacy sequel The Exorcist Believer to the other legacy in between-quel Saw X, to this week’s The Nun II, the latest installment of The...
TORONTO (AP) The premiere of the documentary Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero was delayed after a bomb threat was called in at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The Saturday night premiere of the film at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall was...
It’s 7:30 Saturday night at the Philip Sherlock Centre, Mona. Milling around you are scores of beautifully dressed people. The ones wearing multicoloured Pitchy Patchy T-shirts are focused on specific actions related to the main event of the...
The name Sharon Schroeter is synonymous with ‘Digicel Rising Stars’ (DRS), and that’s not surprising. Shroeter – or ‘Auntie Sharon’ as the contestants call her – has been with the talent competition since its inception 19 years ago, and she’s not...
NEW YORK (AP): Poet Rita Dove has a sharp, simple goal in response to receiving a National Book Award for lifetime achievement: “I want it to be a milestone, not a tombstone.” “It may seem like a rather macabre metaphor, but I simply meant – knock...
LOS ANGELES (AP): On Friday, Olivia Rodrigo – the Grammy-winner best known for her 2021 smash single, drivers license – released her highly anticipated sophomore album, GUTS. It’s an apt title, because audacious she is: Across 12 tracks, Rodrigo...
Recording artiste Ginjah is generating a lot of heat stateside with his new single, Immigration (Pressure Is On) that deals with hot-button issues of immigration and rising racial tensions. “The song was really inspired by the struggles of people...
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP): One person was shot and wounded at a Memphis concert headlined by rapper Lil Baby in what was believed to be a premeditated, targeted shooting, police said. The Memphis Police Department posted on social media that...
LOS ANGELES (AP): A judge sentenced That ’70s Show show star Danny Masterson to 30 years to life in prison Thursday for raping two women, giving them some relief after they spoke in court about the decades of damage he inflicted. “When you raped...
Singer, rapper, songwriter and producer Honorebel is prepping for an extremely busy last quarter of 2023, and he couldn’t be more excited. His 10th studio album, 444, will be officially released today, Friday, September 8, marking a significant...
Los Angeles (AP): The Grammy Museum announced Thursday that it is launching the ‘Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit’, celebrating 50 years of the music and culture’s global impact. The 5,000 square foot exhibit will include rare artefacts such as...
Los Angeles (AP): Drake has finally announced a released date for his highly anticipated eighth studio album: For All the Dogs will drop September 22. The follow-up to 2022’s Honestly, Nevermind – which released without warning – was announced on...
On Friday, respected jazz drummer Desi Jones will lead his Quartet into F&B Downtown Restaurant on Church Street in Kingston. The aggregation will feature the tasteful piano stylist Orville Hammond; Leon Duncan, a first-call upright bassist who...
Angela Bassett is going to have to wait a little bit longer to get her Oscar. The 14th Governors Awards has been delayed from November until January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Wednesday. The Academy, which puts on the...
Forty years after Lionel Richie released All Night Long, the song which would go on to become one of his best-loved classics, or as the NY Post termed it, “a cultural phenomenon,” Jamaican singer, Richie Spice has done a reggae cover. It is one of...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:10 AM
MIAMI (AP): Joe Jonas filed for divorce from Sophie Turner on Tuesday after four years of marriage and two children. The 34-year-old Jonas Brothers singer filed to end his marriage with the 27-year-old star of Game of Thrones and X-Men actor in...
Pitchy Patchy returns tonight with some new faces, including noted entertainer and YouTuber Wayne Marshall. Joining the group of actors and influencers, the charismatic Jamaican singer and deejay is eager to make his debut, telling The Gleaner he’...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:08 AM
The Nun II is a gothic horror film and a sequel to The Nun (2018), the highest-grossing film in The Conjuring Universe franchise. After a priest is murdered at a boarding school in France, Sister Irene once again comes face to face with Valak, the...
City University of New York (CUNY) is to offer five scholarships to honour the late entertainer and civil rights leader Harry Belafonte. This was announced by New York Governor Kathy Hochul at the West Indian Labour Day Parade, held in Brooklyn on...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:06 AM
NEW YORK: Producers of the new television series, From Yard, have announced a line-up of celebrity hosts for the Jamaican and New York screenings of the show’s pilot episode. Actor Nick Creegan; songstress Nadine Sutherland; actor and playwright...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:06 AM
In half a century of writing horror novels, Stephen King has created some remarkable villains. Who can forget the sing-song voice of Pennywise the clown, the devil incarnate Randall Flagg, or the drooling jaws of Cujo? The big bads in King’s latest...
Newly appointed film commissioner Jackie Jackson says she aims to be a “champion of the creative industries”. “Though I may not have envisioned myself in this exact role, my career journey, along with my passion for the creative industries...
LOS ANGELES (AP): The wait is over: The Rolling Stones will soon release new music. On Monday, the band announced that they are preparing to release their first album of original material in 18 years – since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. Titled Hackney...
Having learnt from his mistakes last year, dancer Shakeem ‘Skitta Star’ Thomas again put on his dancing shoes and entered the Red Bull Dance Your Style competition. By the end of the night on Saturday, he was crowned the 2023 national champion and...
Industry veteran and former festival director for Xodus Carnival, Pierre Goubault, has been appointed chief executive officer of the organisation. Goubault, a release stated, “brings a wealth of industry experience and entrepreneurial mindset...
