It opens with the crescendo of a dark, sweaty gig, a mixture of throaty vocals and feedback and cymbals clashing, before cutting to the almost-silence of the morning. From the offset, Sound Of Metal makes you incredibly aware of what you are hearing as well as seeing on screen; not just the conversations, but the
Month: April 2021
One of Shakespeare’s most famous plays has been reimagined after a planned run at the National Theatre couldn’t go ahead because of the pandemic. Instead Romeo & Juliet has become the first original production for TV, filmed at the iconic venue. The Crown star Josh O’Connor, who recently won a Golden Globe for his work
Europe’s vaccination rollout has been “unacceptably” slow and is prolonging the pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. A WHO report says “variants of concern” are continuing to spread across the continent and the “strain on hospitals grows” so speeding up vaccination rollout was “crucial”. Dr Hans Henri Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe,
The prime minister’s most senior black adviser is to step down from the government. Samuel Kasumu will leave his role as special adviser for civil society and communities in May. It comes a day after a government-backed review of racial disparities in Britain was published. The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities’ 2458-page report was
“To everybody else they look at it and see a case. And I don’t see a case, I see my brother.” Philonise Floyd grew up sharing a bed with his older brother George. They did their homework together. They depended on each other. He’s now had to watch the harrowing final moments of his brother’s
What happens when you bring together two of the biggest (both literally and figuratively) sci-fi characters of all time and pit them against each other? You get new epic movie Godzilla vs Kong. The film acts as a sequel to both Kong: Skull Island from 2017 and Godzilla: King of the Monsters from 2019, and
Today, Lordstown Motors rolled the first two Beta versions of its Endurance electric pickup truck off its manufacturing line. These two Betas are the first of 57 planned in total for Lordstown, as it gears up for mass production of the Endurance this fall. Lordstown Motors is an EV startup based in the Ohio city
In this article GOOGL FB TWTR Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Stephen Lam | Reuters Google, one of the first major U.S. companies to send employees home last year because of the coronavirus, is setting new remote work guidelines
In this article .IXIC HYD XLF XLI XLB XLE XLK KRE US10Y Wilmington Trust’s Meghan Shue expects growth stocks, including Big Tech, to hit more turbulence over the next three months. “Our main takeaway was to lean a little bit more into value and trim some of our growth exposure,” Shue, the firm’s head of