Bad Bunny joins Austin Butler for Darren Aronofsky’s former baseball player turned criminal thriller Caught Stealing

Rapper-turned-actor Bad Bunny is taking to the field with Austin Butler for Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller Caught Stealing. Who’s on first? It’s Bad Bunny (Bullet Train, My Spy, F9: The Fast Saga)! The Puerto Rican rapper, singer, record producer, and actor is getting out on the field alongside Austin Butler (Elvis, The Bikeriders, Dune: Part … Read more

Who Is the Vertical Piano Player at the 2024 Olympics Closing Ceremonies?

A mysterious vertical piano player surprised viewers during the 2024 Paris Olympics closing ceremonies. The piano player emerged from the ground amidst the fog and ascended into the air as he played a sorrowful, contemplative piece called “The Hymn to Apollo,” impressively performed at a standing angle. Unfortunately, the commentators for the NBC broadcast did … Read more

They Shot the Piano Player movie review (2024)

Trueba has said in interviews that he didn’t instantly settle on animation as the movie’s format, but gravitated toward it after working on the 2010 animated romantic drama “Chico and Rita” with artist Javier Marsical, his collaborator on many projects (including record albums; Trueba, who did the great Latin jazz documentary “Calle 54,” is also a … Read more

TIFF 2023: Stamped from the Beginning, They Shot the Piano Player, Viva Varda! | Festivals & Awards

Williams then doubles back from that opening frame, retracing how slavery shifted from a color-blind system that included Slavs, before eventually becoming a practice primarily used to put Africans in captivity.  His film compares favorably with Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” as a work interested in the falsities that have informed the act … Read more