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Welcome to the age of depressing musicals: Films that sing through tragedy and the apocalypse

Eneko Ruiz Jiménez — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:41:49 GMT

It’s the end of the world, so there’s nothing left to do but sing. The film The End makes its pessimism clear right from the title. We are indeed at the end — specifically, inside a bunker where a deranged family lives decades after the Earth was ravaged by climate change. What the title doesn’t reveal is that, in the midst of all the drama, the characters start to sing to cope with their despair. Because, although it may sound unusual for the genre, The End, is a musical.

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From J.Lo’s revenge dress to Zendaya’s futuristic suit: The most striking looks of 2024

Amaia Odriozola — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 04:38:03 GMT

Some have created a buzz, others have elevated new fashion icons, and some have shattered the last taboos of ageism. Here are the outfits that made the biggest impact of the year

Billionaires in a bunker: Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon’s apocalyptic musical

Gregorio Belinchón Yagüe — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:58:18 GMT

The family has been locked away for several decades, in a golden cage. There are paintings by the great masters, exquisite food, and luxury treatment. But in the end, it’s still a cage. On the surface, the Earth has been devastated by thousands of fires. For years, no intruder has bothered the family, which saved itself from the global catastrophe along with a group of friends who are useful because of their professions. The patriarch ran a large energy company — in other words, he is one of the people responsible for the disaster — and now he is dictating his memoirs to his children. An account aimed at whitewashing his image. And into this deadly boredom enters a survivor from the outside world.

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Villa Necchi, the mansion that survived Mussolini and conquered Hollywood

Ianko López — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 03:49:39 GMT

British actress Tilda Swinton said that, while she and director Luca Guadagnino were immersed in the pre-production stage of the Italian romantic drama film I Am Love (2009), they were looking for a house that was “part-palace, part-museum and part-prison.” They wanted a palace, because that was the ideal habitat for the haute bourgeoisie that starred in the film. They wanted a museum, because the members of the family were presented as objects, arranged in displays outside of time and space. And the structure also had to be a prison, because the passions that were trapped there were going to overflow, as occurs during a riot, threatening to alter the strict social order that repressed them.

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‘The Killer’: The unintentional comedy of the year?

Eva Güimil — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:07:11 GMT

Have you heard the joke about kreplach? A little boy hates this typical Jewish recipe and so his mother shows him how to make it. The ingredients are delicious: a pancake, a meatball, a dumpling... he claps his hands enthusiastically, but when he sees the completed dish he shouts in horror “Aaaaah, kreplach!” Many succulent ingredients do not guarantee a good outcome. We can blend Fincher, Fassbender, Swinton and Arliss Howard — I still long for the airtight and fascinating Rubicon — season it with gripping subject matter such as hired killers, and upon tasting it still be horrified: Aaaaah, The Killer!

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Wes Anderson on his new film ‘Asteroid City,’ AI and all those TikTok videos

AP Associated Press — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:33:25 GMT

When Wes Anderson comes down from Paris for the Cannes Film Festival in the south of France, he and his actors don’t stay in one of Cannes’ luxury hotels but more than an hour down the coast and well outside the frenzy of the festival.

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