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Pink Villa
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Wind Breaker Season 2 Episode 12: Bofurin's Four Heavenly Kings Gather—Recap, Release Date, Where To Stream And More
The eleventh episode of Wind Breaker Season 2, titled 'After the Storm,' begins with a quiet hotel dinner as Sakura remains unsettled by Yamato Endo's reappearance. A flashback shows Endo confronting the first-years, revealing he kidnapped Shizuka and sought out Suzuri. Though Sakura is unimpressed, Endo says Sakura belongs alone. Suzuri begs Endo to leave others out, and he agrees for now, vowing to return. Later, the group finds comfort in video games together. That night, Tsubakino summons everyone to the rooftop, and the episode ends with Umemiya appearing as well. Expected plot in Wind Breaker Season 2 Episode 12 Wind Breaker Season 2 Episode 12 will likely open on the rooftop where Umemiya and the Four Kings have gathered with the first-years. Umemiya's response to Yamato Endo's ominous threat to return will likely be the central topic of discussion. With Endo's ties to Bofurin revealed, the episode will likely explore his past within the gang and why he abandoned them. The episode may expose deeper issues within Furin's hierarchy and reveal how the Four Heavenly Kings plan to respond to the looming danger Endo now represents. Release date and where to stream As per the official website, Wind Breaker Season 2 Episode 12 is scheduled to air in Japan on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 12:26 am JST. Due to global time differences, some international viewers may be able to watch it as early as Thursday, June 19. Wind Breaker Season 2 Episode 12 will stream on various platforms, including ABEMA, Netflix, U-NEXT, Disney+, and Prime Video. Crunchyroll will also stream it worldwide, offering dubbed versions in several languages for international audiences. For more updates from the second season of the Wind Breaker anime, keep an eye on Pinkvilla.
Vogue Singapore
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue Singapore
The best films that celebrate fatherhood in all its joys and complexities
This weekend marks Father's Day—the time dedicated each year to honouring the profound impact and invaluable contributions that fathers and father figures make in our lives. Be it with a new watch or a celebratory meal, take this Sunday to express your appreciation for Dad. Afterwards, wind down with a pertinent film from Vogue Singapore's lineup that shines a spotlight on fatherhood. Admittedly, for some of us, the holiday is more poignant than it is celebratory. Not all of our relationships with Dad are perfect. Navigating it can be tricky; communication may go awry, boundaries may be overstepped, and a rift grows. How then, do we go about mending old wounds and patching up an imperfect relationship? An age-old question that hits close to home for many grappling with imperfect parent figures—many films have sought to explore these nuances of fatherhood and the sacrifices we each make in the name of love. Heartwarming and indubitably moving, these films paint a powerful portrait of the unique challenges and responsibilities our fathers bear. They provide a glimpse into the multifaceted experience of fatherhood—the struggles of achieving work-life balance and, as per the Will Smith film title, the pursuit of happiness—as they endeavour to create a nurturing environment for their children given their circumstances. Through the lens of cinema, these are the titles that promise to open our eyes to the joys and challenges of fatherhood and perhaps allow us to glean a newfound appreciation for the father figures in our lives. Here, see Vogue Singapore's curation of films to delve into this Father's Day. Courtesy of A24 1 / 7 The Whale (2022) The Whale sees Brendan Fraser's glorious return to the big screen as Charlie, a lonesome English teacher in Idaho struggling with severe obesity. He desires to reach out and make amends with his teenage daughter (Sadie Sink), and have one last shot at reconciliation. Courtesy of Fuji Television 2 / 7 After the Storm (2016) Hirokazu Koreeda has a knack for family films, and After the Storm proves no different. Hiroshi Abe plays struggling writer Ryota Shinoda, who is now working as a private detective. A quiet, understated capture of a man whose life bears the weight of his own choices in the past—when he divorced his ex-wife Kyōko (Yōko Maki), and thus left his 11-year-old son without a stable father figure. Harbouring a complicated relationship with his mother and his ex-wife, the film takes a vulnerable turn one stormy night, when he blatantly attempts to have Kyōko and their son, Shingo, stay the night—revealing his yearning for the family he had once estranged himself from. Courtesy of Amazon Studios 3 / 7 Beautiful Boy (2018) In this biographical drama, Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell star as father and son—Nicolas and David. Beautiful Boy explores Nic and his father's lives from his adolescence into his twenties as he battles his drug addiction and the torturous cycle of recovery and relapse. Courtesy of A24 4 / 7 C'mon C'mon (2021) In C'mon C'mon , Joaquin Phoenix takes on the role of an emotionally stunted radio journalist unexpectedly saddled with the responsibility of caring for his young nephew Jesse (Woody Norman). Their bond, deeply moving and utterly transformational, stand as proof that fatherhood goes beyond blood. Courtesy of A24 5 / 7 Aftersun (2022) On a summer holiday with her father (Paul Mescal), 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) treasures the rare time they spend together. For Sophie, who's on the precipice of adolescence, her father's struggle with the weight of life outside parenthood escapes her eye. 20 years later, as she attempts to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't, her memories of their last vacation together paint a tender, heartbreaking picture of their relationship. Courtesy of Fuji Television Network Inc. 6 / 7 Like Father, Like Son (2013) When a blood test reveals that two babies were switched at birth, their disparate families are forced together to make a difficult decision. Made to choose between his biological son and the one he raised as his own, wealthy businessman Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama) is confronted with what it means to truly be a father. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures 7 / 7 King Richard (2021) In this biographical sports drama, Will Smith plays Richard Williams, father and coach of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams (Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton respectively). Coming from an unprivileged background, it is with his support and guidance that the sisters rise to dominate the field of women's tennis—eventually becoming the famed athletes we know them as today. With both sisters listed as executive producers on the project, Serena Williams has expressed that the film is a great opportunity for audiences to see how amazing African-American fathers are.
The National
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Turner Prize shortlist includes Iraqi artist Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa's work at Sharjah Biennial
The shortlist for this year's Turner Prize has significant regional representation, with an artist from Iraq and work from the Sharjah Biennial both nominated for the prestigious award. Mohammed Sami has been shortlisted for After the Storm, his solo exhibition at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England. The Iraqi painter is known for his sprawling, vibrant scenes that are often devoid of human presence. His depictions of empty dining tables and bedrooms serve as poignant representations of exile, showing how everyday objects trigger memories and feelings of loss. His work springs from his own experiences as a refugee. After the Storm ran at Blenheim Palace between July and October 2024. Sami produced a new series of works for his solo exhibition, blending personal history with that of Blenheim Palace, which was built in the early 18th century. The castle was presented by Queen Anne to the First Duke of Marlborough after this victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough and was where Winston Churchill was born. As such, the castle is a monument to military triumph. The castle is filled with portraits and narrative artworks, themes contrasted in Sami's work, which allude to absence and the consequences of war. A presentation from the 2025 Sharjah Biennial has also been nominated for the Turner Prize. The work was created by Korean-Canadian artist Zadie Xa, in collaboration with Spanish artist Benito Mayor Vallejo. It features several disparate elements, including a chandelier-like piece that takes cues from wind chimes made from seashells and rattles from Korean shamanic traditions. It comprises more than 1,000 brass bells that are arranged in the shape of a conch shell. The artwork is part of a room-filling installation called Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything. One of the highlights is a mixed-media artwork that features a surreal scene that visualises the title of the presentation, with whales swimming atop an arid landscape. Other shortlisted artists include Scottish multimedia artist Nnena Kalu, who has been nominated for her installations at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Manifesta 15 in Barcelona. The vibrant sculptures are made of disparate materials, including paper, textiles, cellophane and tape. Finally, Rene Matic is in the running for As Opposed to The Truth, a solo exhibition at CCA Berlin. The exhibition by the UK artist presents personal photographs alongside installations and sound. Works by all four shortlisted artists will be presented in an exhibition at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford from September 27 to February 22. The winner of the annual prize will be announced during a ceremony in Bradford on December 9. The first place winner will receive £25,000 ($33,334), whereas runners-up will be awarded £10,000 each. Last year's winner of the prize was Jasleen Kaur. The UK artist famously called for a ceasefire in Gaza as she accepted the prestigious art award at a ceremony in London. The annual Turner Prize, named after the landscape painter J M W Turner, is awarded every other year at the Tate Britain. Venues outside London host the award-winning ceremony during alternate iterations.
The Herald Scotland
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Glasgow-born autistic artist Nnena Kalu shortlisted for Turner prize
She creates large-scale abstract sculptures and drawings that hang down from the wall or ceiling, made from colourful streams of repurposed fabric, rope, parcel tape, cling film, paper and reels of VHS tape. Kalu, a resident artist at ActionSpace's studio, which supports learning disabled artists across London, at Studio Voltaire, is supported by Charlotte Hollinshead, her artist's assistant. Kalu is unable to articulate complex thoughts verbally, so Hollinshead speaks on her behalf, and provides her with colourful streams of repurposed fabric, rope, parcel tape, cling film, paper and reels of VHS tape to create her art. She is nominated for her installation Hanging Sculpture 1-10, which Manifesta 15 Barcelona commissioned her to create at a disused power station, and her presentation in Conversations, a group exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Mohammed Sami's After the Storm at Blenheim Palace (Image: Tom Lindboe/Blenheim Palace) The works contain 10 large brightly coloured sculptures that hung among the grey concrete pillars of the industrial site, and a work in pen, graphite and chalk pen on two pieces of paper. She was commended for 'her unique command of material, colour and gesture and her highly attuned responses to architectural space'. Also nominated are Peterborough artist Rene Matic and fellow London-based artists Mohammed Sami, who first moved to Sweden after leaving Iraq, and Canada-born Zadie Xa. Matic, 27, was praised by the jury for expressing 'concerns around belonging and identity, conveying broader experiences of a young generation and their community through an intimate and compelling body of work'. READ MORE: Their work looks at themes including 'the constructed self through the lens of rudeness', which they have taken from rudeboy culture, a Jamaican subculture in the UK. It includes personal photographs of family and friends in stacked frames, paired with sound, banners, and an installation at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Berlin, Germany. They also have an ongoing collection called Restoration, which focuses on 'antique black dolls salvaged by the artist' and a flag quoting political leaders who called for 'no place for violence' in the wake of the attempted assassination of US President Donald Trump. Xa, 41, who studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and the Royal College of Art in London, is influenced by her Korean background and its 'spiritual rituals, shamanism, folk traditions and textile practices'. Rene Matic's work in Berlin (Image: Diana Pfammatter/CCA Berlin) She is nominated for Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything (2025), which was created with Spanish artist Benito Mayor Vallejo and shown at the United Arab Emirates' Sharjah Biennial. It has a sound element inspired by Salpuri, a Korean exorcism dance, and a mobile sculpture inspired by seashell wind chimes and Korean shamanic rattles, which has 650 brass bells that make harmonised sounds. Painter Sami, 40, born in Baghdad, has studied at the Belfast School of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. He says: 'My paintings seek to capture the state of confusion that occurs because of the cut thread between reality and the imagination; between war narrated and war witnessed.' Sami was given the nod for After the Storm: Mohammed Sami at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, which has 14 paintings that respond to the history of Sir Winston Churchill's birthplace, and contain 'hints and references to conflict in Iraq'. The paintings do not have human figures, while one shows the 'shadow of a helicopter blade over a table and empty chairs', and another appears to suggest body bags. An exhibition of works will be held at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery from September 27 2025 to February 22 2026 during the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. The winner will be announced on December 9 2025 at an award ceremony in Bradford. Last year, Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur - also from Glasgow - who put a doily on a car, won the prestigious art prize, which awards £25,000 to its winner and £10,000 to the other shortlisted artists. Previous recipients include sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor (1991), artist Damien Hirst (1995), and filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen (1999).
Telegraph
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The 2025 Turner Prize shortlist has been announced – and there's one clear favourite
Last year, when the Turner Prize turned 40, there were calls for it to be retired. While they were excessive – the 2024 edition was hardly egregious, and I relished the energy provided by the winner, Jasleen Kaur – there is a legitimate sense that the annual, £25,000 award is in the doldrums of a midlife crisis, and nowadays attracts mostly lukewarm enthusiasm, or, worse, indifference. This year's shortlist – announced on April 23, the 250th birthday of the radical British artist, JMW Turner (after whom the prize is named) – may not allay such concerns. It's respectable and hard to fault, rather than controversial. And, with four artists nominated for far-flung shows and presentations in Barcelona, Sharjah, Berlin, and (unusually, for an award supposedly celebrating contemporary art's cutting edge) at Blenheim Palace, the 18th-century Oxfordshire seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, I worry that it may reflect a view you often hear these days: that London's pre-eminence as an international centre for contemporary art has dissipated. Chosen for After the Storm, a first-rate show at Blenheim dealing with war's spectral repercussions, the 40-year-old, Iraqi-born, London-based painter Mohammed Sami is the frontrunner; he'd be a popular winner, too, given that, as an artist, he so clearly operates within the tradition of Western European painting. His inclusion this year also makes up for the fact that he was short-changed last time around, when he should have been nominated for another brilliant solo exhibition, at Camden Art Centre in 2023. When, though, push comes to shove, and it's time to select a winner, will he seem like an unduly conservative choice to the curators on the jury, who may pride themselves on being more avant-garde in their tastes? The surreal paintings of the 41-year-old Canadian-born Zadie Xa – who also produces fabric pieces inspired by the patchwork aesthetic of traditional Korean textiles, in homage to her heritage – are less sad and wistful, and, in a sense, more 'now'. As a 'nonverbal' artist, the 58-year-old Glaswegian-born Nnena Kalu – nominated for an installation of exuberant suspended sculptures at a biennial in Barcelona, as well as a presentation of swirling graphic works that were shown in Liverpool – will attract attention. She also extends a trend since the prize was expanded in 2017 (to include artists over the age of 50) to nominate older, and previously overlooked, black female artists – including two, in Lubaina Himid and Veronica Ryan, who went on to win. Yet, it would be unfair to describe Kalu's inclusion as a box-ticking exercise, given the bold, beguiling energy of her work. Which leaves 27-year-old Rene Matić, who's about to open a show of new work at London's Arcadia Missa gallery. They (Matić's preferred pronoun) were a rare ray of excellence and hope illuminating Tate Britain's otherwise benighted rehang of its permanent display in 2023. While their photography may be in thrall to that of a former Turner Prize-winner, Wolfgang Tillmans, it has a mesmerising, frisky informality, and electrifying grasp of the effects of colour. I'll be delighted if they carry off the prize, if Sami doesn't bag it.
