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It’s hard to understate the impact Takashi Matsumoto has had on modern Japanese pop and rock music. Known to most for his role in the influential group Happy End, the drummer and lyricist boasts a song catalog that puts him in…

Anime is booming. Netflix has announced the production of 40 new anime titles this year, an indication of the genre’s global popularity. Meanwhile, in Japan, the three biggest box-office films of 2021 were all animated. But as…

After winning his high-profile defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, a former Disney boss believes Johnny Depp could make a swift return to screens.A former Disney executive has predicted that Johnny Depp, 58, could reprise his…

The stars of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis have arrived on the red carpet for the film’s Australian launch.Told through the eyes of Elvis’s manager Colonel Tom Parker, the movie follows the star’s life from his beginnings in Tupelo, Mississippi,…

Music fans, this summer looks to be a good one. After two years of cancellations, being told not to cheer and Zoom raves, the festival lineup appears to be returning to normal for 2022. The biggest news on this front is the return…

It’s a familiar tale: a gifted artist finally gets a big break, only to find their creativity blunted by commercial demands and industry politics. I’m not talking about the medieval pop star protagonist of Masaaki Yuasa’s “Inu-Oh,”…

With almost nothing to redeem it, this Netflix movie starring Elsa Pataky and produced by Chris Hemsworth is truly one of the worst of the year.You have to respect the scrappiness of small movies which do a lot with almost no money. Even…

Based on a true story, The Forger follows young Jewish man Ciama Schonhaus (Louis Hofmann) in 1942 WWII Germany.He lives alone in his family flat, the rest of his family having been taken out to the concentration camps, with an exemption…