How Canadian R&B artists like Drake and Justin Bieber complicate ideas of race, music and nationality

Oct 15, 2023 04:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Drake and Justin Bieber are among the biggest popular music stars in the world. Part of their appeal has been blurring pop, hip-hop and RB music genres the music business has traditionally segregated along racialized...

The Black Book is a gritty new thriller that raises the bar for Nollywood

Oct 12, 2023 07:26 am UTC| Entertainment

Nigerian thriller The Black Book has been in the headlines for reportedly topping global figures at streaming service Netflix, with 5.6 million viewers in its first two days. Does it live up to the hype? In my view, as...

The Exorcist Believer: a real priest on why the film is 'potentially dangerous'

Oct 10, 2023 07:43 am UTC| Entertainment

Warning: this review contains some spoilers for The Exorcist: Believer. Nobody who watches The Exorcist: Believer could claim that they didnt get what they expected when they bought their ticket. Two children...

Fair Play: Netflix drama reveals the dark side of being a woman in the financial services industry

Oct 09, 2023 13:00 pm UTC| Entertainment

Warning: this article contains minor spoilers for Fair Play. Fair Play follows a young couple working as analysts at a high-flying, ruthless asset management firm in New York. They work hard and play hard while...

Jon Fosse: Nobel prize in literature winner is a playwright who puts outsiders centre stage

Oct 09, 2023 12:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

When Jon Fosse receives this years Nobel prize in literature in December, it will be collected by a playwright and novelist whose work examines the lives of ordinary people on the outer reaches of society, trying to cope...

Alienation and hidden histories: 'unsettling' new Australian stories reveal a distorted world

Oct 09, 2023 12:54 pm UTC| Entertainment

Three new Australian short-story collections are very different in their style and approach to short-form fiction. However, these books by veterans of the form David Cohen and Laura Jean McKay, and debut writer John...

Holly by Stephen King: a timely work of crime fiction about not judging a book but its cover

Oct 06, 2023 07:02 am UTC| Entertainment

At the age of 76, with nearly 70 novels and short story collections behind him, American author Stephen King shows few signs of slowing down. His latest novel Holly, hefty in scale and elaborate in plotting, is the work of...