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Tatler Asia
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Tatler Asia
Father's Day binge guide: From the galaxy of ‘Andor' to the thrills of ‘Mission: Impossible'
'From the World of John Wick: Ballerina' Here's another franchise that's packed with the sort of adrenaline-pumping, stunt-heavy action that dads generally gravitate toward. A spin-off of the popular John Wick movies, Ballerina stars Ana de Armas as Eve Macarro, and in true Wick fashion, she's out for revenge. With solid action-movie credentials from standout roles in No Time to Die and The Gray Man , de Armas delivers balletic beatdowns with precision and style and even manages to hold her own against the Baba Yaga himself (yes, Keanu Reeves makes a cameo). Don't miss: Female action heroes: 8 women who redefined courage long before 'Ballerina' pirouetted in 'Fountain of Youth' Fountain of Youth , starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman as sibling adventurers Luke and Charlotte Purdue, channels the spirit of Indiana Jones , National Treasure and even a bit of the early Mummy films through the lens of Guy Ritchie. Think: a daredevil hero, a brainy, voice-of-reason sister, a mythical artefact, a shadowy organisation sworn to protect it, a power-hungry villain—and yes, pyramids. If Dad's a fan of archaeological mysteries, globe-trotting adventures and slick action-comedy, then this one should be right up his alley. 'Shogun' If prestige series are more his thing, FX's award-winning Shogun , based on the 1975 historical novel by James Clavell, is essential viewing for Father's Day 2025. The performances are exceptional across the board, especially breakout star Anna Sawai's powerful portrayal of Lady Mariko. Populated by richly drawn characters and driven by a plot steeped in Japanese history, culture and political intrigue, this sweeping epic is as intellectually engaging as it is visually stunning. 'The Fall Guy' A glorious ode to stunt performers, The Fall Guy is a romantic-comedy remake of the classic '80s TV show. Ryan Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a stuntman sidelined by an on-set accident who agrees to come out of retirement—not so much to double for Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Hollywood action-star-with-a-heart-of-lead, but to win back the heart of the film's director—and his ex-flame—Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt). With Gosling and Blunt's effortless chemistry and some of the most thrilling practical stunts in recent cinema, this film is a sure bet for dads looking for a lighthearted, fun action movie for Father's Day 2025. 'The Last of Us' HBO Max's The Last of Us is perfect for gamer dads or those drawn to post-apocalyptic storytelling. Based on the acclaimed video game of the same name, the series has been praised for its rich character development, emotional depth and immersive world-building. Starring Bella Ramsey and man-of-the-hour Pedro Pascal, it's fundamentally a story about survival and revenge, with their compelling father-daughter dynamic anchoring the emotional core. For dads, the themes of sacrifice, protection and retribution resonate deeply—delivering gut-wrenching moments of love, loss and quiet resilience amidst the chaos. 'Andor' The most grounded entry in the Star Wars universe, Andor —the prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story —offers an unflinching look at what it takes to mount a rebellion. Shifting the focus from space warfare, it tells the stories of the people on the ground, revealing the harsh realities people face in the fight for freedom—the sacrifices, the compromises, the casualties. Critically acclaimed and often called the best in the Star Wars series, Andor delivers a gritty, nuanced narrative that should resonate with longtime fans and newcomers alike. 'The Pitt' Hailed for its attention to detail, medical accuracy and for capturing the physical and emotional toll of working in an ER, HBO Max's The Pitt , starring Noah Wyle as the stressed-out senior senior emergency attending physician on duty, is being called one of the best shows of the year and the most realistic medical drama to date. With its unrelenting pace and raw portrayal of what goes on in an emergency room, the series is like ER meets 24 . The 15-episode first season unfolds in real-time, documenting a single 15-hour shift. Gritty, harrowing and authentic, it pulls no punches in showing the chaos, tough decisions and profound humanity behind hospital doors.
New York Times
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Bringing a Modern Sensibility to a Historical Drama
This personal reflection is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: What is history? You can read more by visiting The Big Ideas series page. The 2024 television series 'Shogun,' a historical drama set in feudal Japan, was a worldwide hit. The show and its actors won a record 18 Emmy Awards, as well as four Golden Globes. Critics and viewers praised it not only for its writing, acting and production, but also for its devotion to accurately portraying Japan and Japanese culture in the early 1600s. The historical drama, which has been renewed for a second season, is based on a novel of the same name by James Clavell, published in 1975 and adapted into a mini-series in 1980. The story focuses on the relationship between Lord Yoshii Toranaga, a warlord struggling to fend off his political rivals, and John Blackthorne, a marooned English navigator who becomes an adviser to Toranaga. The 2024 series gives a more prominent and complex role to Toda Mariko, Blackthorne's interpreter. The characters' historical counterparts are Tokugawa Ieyasu (Toranaga), the 'shogun,' or military ruler who helped to unite Japan; William Adams (Blackthorne), the first Englishman ever to reach Japan; and Hosokawa Gracia (Mariko), a Japanese noblewoman and converted Catholic. The novel and two series show varying degrees of faithfulness to the events they're based on. The newest 'Shogun,' however, is built around its Japanese characters and culture in ways that the 1980 series was not, foregrounding those characters' points of view and their presence as drivers of the plot. And the accuracy the show embraces in details as small as gestures and fabric colors makes it a striking recreation of some parts of historical Japanese culture. It does include changes — some modernized language, for example, or stylistic omissions — to make it understandable to modern viewers around the world. But its commitment to authenticity makes 'Shogun' a compelling lens through which to examine television's role in interpreting and portraying history, as well as how actors inherit and embody history and culture in their performances. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Yahoo
Man jailed after shots fired at trio fleeing car
A man has been jailed for more than eight years for his part in a Birmingham shooting in which three men were targeted as they fled their rammed car. Kasim Ali was one of four men in a Mitsubishi Shogun which rammed a black VW Golf into another car on Trinity Road, Aston, during the evening of 2 October. Three men inside the Golf fled on foot towards Birchfield Road while another man from the Shogun fired at them. Ali, 24, from the Handsworth area of the city, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday after admitting possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life at an earlier hearing. West Midlands Police said the area was particularly busy at the time of the shooting due to fans leaving Aston Villa's Champions League fixture against Bayern Munich. Ali used the handle of a so-called Rambo knife to smash the Golf's windscreen, the force said. For that act, Ali also pleaded guilty to possession of a bladed article and received 12 months' imprisonment concurrent to his sentence of eight years and four months for his firearms offence. Police said Ali fled the country shortly after the shooting, but forensic tests linked him to the scene and he was arrested when he returned to the UK. The motive for the attack remained unknown and inquiries continued to identify the other occupants of the Shogun, including the gunman, police stated. Follow BBC Birmingham on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram. West Midlands Police
Chicago Tribune
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Hokusai & Ukiyo-e exhibit featuring Shogun-era art makes its U.S. debut at College of DuPage
The College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan's iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. 'Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collection,' a 70-piece collection, will be on display through Sept. 21 at the college's Cleve Carney Museum of Art and McAninch Arts Center. The heart of the exhibition are pieces on loan from the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa, Italy, including 53 paintings and woodblock prints by the masters of ukiyo-e, a major artistic genre that flourished during Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). Among the highlights are Katsushika Hokusai's iconic masterpiece, 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa,' and eight more of his original works. There also are 15 works by Utagawa Hiroshige, particularly known for the 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' series, along with works by 15 done by their contemporaries and 17 handcrafted artifacts. The exhibition is an immersive cultural dive into Japan's Shogun era, said Diana Martinez, executive director of the McAninch Arts Center. It includes centuries-old artworks, anime, digital art, children's activities and other interactive features, she said. 'That Edo period was a time of the Samuri and the geisha and the kabuki actors,' she said. 'It was a very animated time in Japan. These ukiyo-e artists were literally painting and drawing and woodblock-cutting the most popular characters of that culture — the sumo wrestlers, the kabuki actors, the geisha — and they learned how to make prints and were mass-producing these popular images of this time in their history. 'It's like the pop-art of Edo Japan. It's a very interesting show. It's never been seen before, this collection, here in the United States. I think this is going to be really spectacular,' she said. 'The collection shows a really broad array of what the masters did during this period.' The collection is coming from a museum in Italy because Edoardo Chisossone was an accomplished engraver who moved to Japan in the 1700s when he was hired to update the engraving techniques of the country's bank notes, said Justin Witte, curator of the Cleve Carney Museum of Art. While there, Chisossone discovered a wealth of artwork and culture unseen by the rest of the world, he said. 'It is really fantastic that with all the fun things happening with the exhibit, all the information and historical aspects, that at its center in the museum galleries is this amazing collection that visitors will be able to encounter,' he said. 'They see a lot of history … really unfold in those objects and artworks.' The exhibition also has a Japanese streetscape scene set during the Samuri time with recreations of Hokusai's home, a woodblock print shop, tea shop and market, Martinez said. The Great Wave Garden is a curated outdoor space with live plants, including bonsai trees, and a Japanese bridge. 'We have a kid's area that's really beautiful. The windows look like you're looking over Mount Fuji out the window,' Martinez said. 'It will have original anime in there.' Guests can explore the evolution of manga, or Japanese comics, through a fully designed environment, she said. 'Everything is painted white and outlined in black so it looks like you're walking into a comic strip,' Martinez said. 'A lot of people don't know that Hokusai was the grandfather of manga … he did 10 different best-selling editions of these sketchbooks. It was called Hokusai's manga. His intention at that time was to teach people to sketch. 'Graphic novels were the rage in Japan in the Edo period. He was teaching people how to draw different characters, animals, nature in these 10 volumes of sketchbooks. So you see the beginning of anime in Hokusai's time through now in six different rooms that feel like you're walking through a graphic novel.' There will be a dedicated selfie area complete with mannequins wearing recreations of Samuri, Shogun and geisha costumes from Warner Brothers Studios, she said. Even the café will sell themed food and drink. 'The photo ops are really phenomenal for this one,' Martinez said. And guests of all ages will enjoy the experience, Witte said. 'I think it's a balance to meet audiences at different levels and I think we definitely value the proper presentation of the actual works and hold that history, but we recognize that … we also have to provide things that will engage our audiences in different ways and engage a wide range of audiences,' he said. 'From our younger visitors to people who are interested in a more traditional museum approach.' In a partnership titled 'Waves of DuPage: Beautiful Cities,' Naperville artist Rich Lo will create ukiyo-e style images of locations and buildings in DuPage County that will later be transformed into large-scale murals and installed in the community it represents. The murals will be unveiled in towns throughout the summer, she said. That's not the only way the county is getting into it. There are more than 95 related events happening this summer, she said. 'It's so heartwarming that everybody is jumping on board and coming up with their own ideas,' she said. To complement the exhibition, The Mac will host lectures, films and classes on Japanese calligraphy and woodblock print-making, she said. There also will be a free 'Hokusai Japan Fest' from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at the Mac's Lakeside Pavilion. The day will include a drumming performance by Tsukasa Taiko, Odori Japanese folk dance, musical performances with Japanese instruments, martial arts demonstrations, a Japanese calligraphy demonstration, origami lessons, food vendors and more. The exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays; 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays; 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays; and 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 21. Tickets range in price from $12 to $32. The last ticket will be sold 45 minutes before closing. For more information, go to
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Roy Wood Jr. Mocks White House, CNN and Patti LuPone in Peabody Awards Monologue
After announcing its full list of winners last month, the Peabody Awards celebrated those honorees in person Sunday night with a ceremony hosted by Roy Wood Jr. in Los Angeles. The comedian kicked things off inside the Beverly Wilshire by joking, 'Last year's host was Kumail Nanjiani, so that is back-to-back years with a minority host. The Peabodys standing up for diversity, how about that? Which means in a few months, the White House will cut their funding and so they'll have John Mulaney, that's on y'all.' More from The Hollywood Reporter How Reginald Hudlin and Shola Lynch Put Together the Greatest Call Sheet Ever Are Music and Other Celebrity Films Killing the Documentary? Questlove Reveals the Standout Musical Performance He Omitted From 'Ladies & Gentlemen ... 50 Years of SNL Music' - And Why The event honored 34 winners across entertainment, documentary, news, podcast/radio, arts, children'sand youth, public service, and interactive and immersive programming, with a focus on storytelling that reflects the social issues and emerging voices of today. Baby Reindeer, Ripley, Shogun and Will & Harper were among the recognized Hollywood projects. 'We're celebrating the fact that everyone in this room has done one of the boldest things you can do in these times, and that is just straight up tell the truth,' Wood told the crowd, acknowledging the stress of having to know all of the horrible things going on in the world to tell the truth. 'It's hard to create stuff about terrible things without knowing all of the terrible things. It's hard — that's why I quit The Daily Show, it was too much stress.' He then deadpanned, 'I work at CNN now [with comedy show Have I Got News for You], I ain't got to do nothing but plug Jake Tapper's book.' Elsewhere in his monologue, Wood told the winners — who knew they'd be winning ahead of time — to be short and sweet, joking, 'We want your acceptance speeches tonight to be brief and full of sincerities that you don't really mean, like an apology from Patti LuPone.' (The Broadway star apologized Saturday for previous comments she had made about Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald.) 'We're celebrating the storytellers who risk, who did, who investigate, who create and illuminate,' the comedian declared before launching into the categories, which featured a star-studded roster of presenters including Aloe Blacc, Anna Kendrick, Andrew Lack, Benito Skinner, Indya Moore, Joel KimBooster, Jurnee Smollett, Linda Perry, Mandy Moore, Marissa Bode, Michael Schur, Nava Mau, Niecy Nash, Randall Park, Stephen Merchant, Uzo Aduba, Van Jones and Yvonne Orji. The night also featured two special honors, the first being the Peabody Institutional Award, given to Saturday Night Live. Jon Hamm presented, musing the 'secret sauce of the show has always been 'holding up a mirror and reflecting America's culture to us — politics, contradictions, all of it, right back at you. Yes, SNL is wigs and cue cards and gigs and gags and all of this stuff, but it's always something that dares to confront who we really are.' Lorne Michaels was on hand to accept, accompanied on stage by alums Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon and Fred Armisen. 'I don't really deserve this, but in a way I do,' Michaels teased, noting, 'During SNL 50 this year, which is stunning to even say, all of those people coming back from the first season on, all being in one room, performing and applauding, I think was one of the most moving experiences of my life. I'm not planning a 60th, but I think that getting to do what I get to do is sort of everything that makes me happy; it also makes me angry.' To close out the night, Andrea Mitchell was given the Career Achievement Award, as she reflected on her early days in news and how far women have come in the business. She added, 'All of us journalists have to be fearless. It is no exaggeration to say that strong journalism, providing accurate information to the American people, is critical to the survival of our democracy. As Thomas Jefferson wrote to the continental Congress in 1787, 'Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.'' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
