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Metro
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
All 8 episodes of 'exceptional' thriller finally dropping on streamer for free
A free UK streaming platform is just days away from adding a twisty thriller that has been described as one of the 'best' examples of the genre. On May 11, crime drama Rabbit Hole will be available to binge-watch on ITV's streamer ITVX. It follows 24 actor Kiefer Sutherland, 58, as John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, who is framed for murder by powerful forces who can influence and control populations. Alongside The Lost Boys star, the gripping eight-part series features an impressive cast including Charles Dance, Meta Golding, Enid Graham, Jason Butler Harner, Walt Klink and Rob Yang. On Google, viewers have described Rabbit Hole as 'intense, twisty and very well acted' and urged others to add it to their watch lists. Among them is Kirstie Gray, who wrote: 'It's been a while since I've watched something that's been so gripping, instantly drawn in spinning my own theories, all of which were wrong LOL! Definitely, one of the best shows I've watched, the curveballs are so well written and you never see them coming, and you're just like woahhhh! Just watched the season finale, one word…Brilliant! I was on the edge of my seat from start to finish, and had to physically shift forward in my chair whilst I watched it play out.' Echoing their sentiment, Ronald Hee shared: 'One of the best things I've watched this year. It's like watching a season of 24; intense, twisty, very well acted. A twist in nearly every episode, so rabbit hole is accurate! Towards the end, you feel like the lead, completely uncertain of what is real. The chemistry between the two leads is very good, feels real. Solid supporting cast too.' Debbie Russell also added: 'This is one of the best shows of its type. It drew me in with the 1st episode. The only other series that was this good is 'The Old Man' with Jeff Bridges. The writing is unique & exceptional. Every episode brings unexpected revelations. I'm watching it as it airs 1 week at a time, & I hate waiting for another week. I'm also a huge fan of Kiefer Sutherland & Charles Dance. I gave this 5 stars because it's that good. Highly recommend this one.' Rabbit Hole originally ran on Paramount Plus in 2023. Months after its final episode, it was cancelled after one season as part of the streamer's cost-cutting measures. However, speaking about the thriller's new home on ITVX, Sasha Breslau, head of content acquisitions at ITV, said: 'Kiefer Sutherland is magnetic as the lead in this addictive and tense thriller. Rabbit Hole is a perfect fit for the kind of premium drama our audiences expect from ITVX.' If you can't wait until Rabbit Hole drops on ITVX, you can binge-watch 'high-octane' thriller Safe Harbor now. It stars Game of Thrones actors Alfie Allen and Jack Gleeson, as well as Peaky Blinders' Charlie Murphy, Hell on Wheels actor Colm Meaney and Maxima star Martijn Lakemeier. Inspired by true events, Safe Harbor follows gifted hacker Tobias (Alfie) and his best friend Marco (Martijn) as they try to crack into the tech billionaires club. They're plucked from obscurity and plunged into the chaos of organised crime when they come across an Irish gang lead by Sloane (Charlie) and her brother Farrell (Jack). More Trending The pair are enlisted to hack into the security of Europe's largest shipping port in Rotterdam harbour to secure undetected deliveries of drug shipments. On IMDB, kathrinstoffenstein raved:'I really love the show. Mainly dialogue driven, but the action pieces are really impressive! 'The first half of episode one left me wondering where it was going. But from that point onward I was completely hooked. The show is ambitious and has great action.' Echoing their sentiment, William said: 'I'm really enjoying this show and I'm on the edge of my seat. This coming from someone who is very critical of TV shows and is very hard to convince to start watching something.' View More » Rabbit Hole is coming to ITVX on May 11. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Spend your bank holiday Monday bingeing 'outstanding' thriller on Amazon Prime MORE: Netflix viewers rediscover 00s sci-fi thriller with 'unexpected' twist as it climbs the charts MORE: New 'deliciously twisted' thriller soars to number 1 on Amazon Prime Video
South China Morning Post
27-03-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
The rise of neighbourhood bars in Hong Kong, from Honky Tonks Tavern and The Pontiac to Bar Leone
For over a decade, Hong Kong has been at the forefront of Asia's bar scene . In 2011, Ozone opened, setting a record as the highest bar in the world, and 12 months later came the launch of Quinary, Hong Kong's ground zero for molecular mixology . In the years that followed, many other concepts specialising in high-end service and a more 'scientific' approach to bartending started to crowd the streets of Central – the likes of The Old Man, Argo and Artifact to name but a few. When The Old Man was ranked Asia's best bar in 2019, molecular mixology was well and truly king in Hong Kong. The staff at Honky Tonks Tavern. Photo: Handout Trends come and go, though, and in recent years there has been a shift in the bar scene, with guests opting for concepts positioning themselves as neighbourhood bars, rather than hotel-based venues and other high-end spots. This movement was solidified at Asia's 50 Best Bar Awards last year, which crowned Bar Leone first place in Asia , and second on the World's Best Bars list for 2024. Advertisement While there is more than enough room in the city for every kind of concept, we asked three bartenders and owners across the city – Honky Tonks Tavern's Jake Erder, The Pontiac's Jen Queen and Bar Leone's Lorenzo Antinori – for their take on this trend, and why Hong Kong might be steering towards a more casual beverage experience. Outside Honky Tonks Tavern for their fourth-anniversary celebration in 2024. Photo: Handout 'If you look around Honky, you'll find a museum of the American beverage world,' says Erder. 'Over the years, we've sourced vintage artworks, bottles, cans and other memorabilia from different eras. After working here for two years I still find little treasures as we are forever changing the decor.' For Erder, the main appeal of the city's neighbourhood bars is their comforting vibe. This is crucial as before a customer even opens the menu, the atmosphere, decor and overall feel of a bar are the first noticeable elements. Whether someone is blown away by the incredible interior design or has an irresistible urge to sing along to the playlist, a good atmosphere makes passers-by curious and keen to step inside. Antonio Lai, the award-winning Hong Kong mixologist behind bars like Quinary, Origin and The Envoy. Photo: Handout Some of Hong Kong's fancier bars can feel a little intimidating to the casual visitor. Upon entering Honky Tonks Tavern though, guests are immediately welcomed into a cosy and nostalgic space. The twinkling lights and wooden features give the bar a homely feel that guests can easily relax into. Advertisement
The Guardian
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Emotions? They're no big thing, man!' Jeff Bridges on satisfaction, silver linings – and his secret life in music
A rainy day in Santa Barbara, and Jeff Bridges sits in his garage, wondering where his favourite spectacles have got to. We are in the middle of a rangy conversation on a video call, meandering our way from Bob Dylan to the anthropomorphism of bees, via Crazy Heart, Cutter's Way and The Big Lebowski. There are sidetracks and double-backs and loose threads. Intermittently, an unseen assistant hands the actor pairs of glasses seemingly identical to the ones he is already wearing. Bridges, in a soft brown cardigan, inspects each pair and dismisses them. 'Where was I?' he asks. The garage here serves as Bridges' jam space and ceramics workshop. He has drums set up for his grandson, and a picture of Captain Beefheart on the wall. Since December, when his FX series The Old Man was cancelled, the 75-year-old has been spending more of his days here. 'Now I've got some time for letting some other things bubble up and I'm really happy about that,' he says. 'A lot of music, some more art stuff.' Bridges is good at finding the silver lining. Mention the recent loss of his Malibu home in the Los Angeles fires, for instance, and he is sanguine. 'We've lost five homes to fires, earthquakes, floods. We're waiting for the locusts,' he says. His 2020 diagnosis and subsequent treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma – or, in Bridges words, 'some real health issues' – is mentioned only in passing, as the catalyst for him to release more music: 'Hey,' he reasons, 'if you've got some stuff that you want to share, now's the time, man!' I tell him how despite it all he seems remarkably chipper, and he smiles. 'Absolutely,' he says. 'I'm happy.' The primary focus of our conversation today is intended to be Slow Magic, a collection of Bridges songs lost for close to 50 years and now due to be released on Record Store Day. The way the release came about, he says, 'is so mysterious and wonderful to me. Shall I give you a little history?' He launches into a story that involves the musicians Keefus Ciancia and T Bone Burnett, a Squarespace advertisement for the Super Bowl, the 1975 comedy Hearts of the West, the New Age music charts, and a single cassette tape of some tunes Bridges had set down with some old high school buddies, labelled 'July 1978'. One soon grasps that much of Bridges' life has moved this way, in bursts of what we might regard as cosmic serendipity and connection. Bridges was born into a well-known Hollywood family. His mother, Dorothy, and his father, Lloyd, were both actors, as was his older brother, Beau. Although the young Jeff showed promise in art and music, his father encouraged him to join the family business, taking him along to set, securing him minor roles on his productions. 'I had questions about what I was going to do, and my dad would say: 'Jeff, don't be ridiculous, that's the wonderful thing about acting, it's going to call upon all of your interests.'' All the family loved music. They would sit around the piano, singing show tunes together. One of Bridges' earliest memories involves the Broadway composer Meredith Willson visiting the family home to try to persuade his father to take the lead role in The Music Man. 'His wife, Rini, was playing the piano and Meredith Willson was coming up to me singing: 'You got trouble! Right here in River City!'' He was a teenager in the 1960s, just as music shifted gear from the early rock'n'roll of Chuck Berry and the Everly Brothers to the likes of the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. 'I mean every day, can you imagine, waking up going to school and here are the new Beatles songs?' he says. 'And that happened over and over! You take it for granted, kind of, but it's amazing!' Bridges' high school was largely made up of the children of the entertainment industry. He hung out with an artsy bohemian crowd, rather than the jocks, each school day starting by getting stoned in his Buick while he and his buddies listened to the radio: '[There was] a lot of drug experimentation you know, during those times.' On Wednesday evenings, a group of them would meet for a jam session at his friend Steve Baim's home. 'There was a main rule that there were no songs allowed,' Bridges says. 'Singing was encouraged, and making up songs, but nothing that would be played on the radio or anything like that. Just a big jam session.' As they left high school and moved through their lives, the Wednesday Night Jams continued – a way of rooting the group in their city, their friendship and their creativity. At some point around 1977, Bridges, who had been writing music alongside acting, invited his friends over to record some of his tunes. 'And the album is a result of that.' Despite his father's advice, music had always remained an alluring and viable career path for Bridges. In the late 60s he even sold two songs to Quincy Jones, who used one of them, Lost in Space, for the soundtrack of John and Mary, starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow. As time went on, the indecision continued. 'I'd done 10 movies, I'd been nominated for an Academy Award [best supporting actor for The Last Picture Show, 1971], and I still wasn't…' He pauses, and his eyes glance off to the assistant once more. 'Oh thank you dear, I appreciate that,' he says, taking the latest pair of spectacles. 'Those are the ones!' He says, then looks at them more closely. 'No, these are not the ones!' Something of a shift happened after making 1973 motor sports movie The Last American Hero. 'I had a great time making it, but usually after a movie your pretend muscle gets exhausted,' Bridges says. 'You don't want to pretend any more, you just want to be who you really are and not be in character.' Shortly after filming wrapped, his agent was approached by the director John Frankenheimer with a part in his adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. Bridges knew it would be a big deal – Frederic March, Robert Ryan and Lee Marvin were already signed up. Nevertheless, he was unsure. He told his agent to turn down the role. Five minutes later, he received a call from Lamont Johnson, director of The Last American Hero. 'He said: 'I heard you turned down The Iceman Cometh?' I said 'Yeah Monty, I'm bushed, man.' And he says, 'You're bushed? You're an ass!' And he hung up on me!' Bridges took stock and decided 'to do a little experiment on myself and go kind of against what my intuition is telling me'. He took the role, loved the movie, and decided he would throw his hat fully into the acting ring. It was an early example of Bridges exploring what he regards as the resistant element in himself. 'I find I have a lot of resistance, that's kind of how I roll,' he says. 'To do a movie, to bring me to the party, I resist, I resist. And there's such satisfaction in exploring that resistance and getting on the other side, not being afraid of it.' Lately, he has been examining his resistance to cold. 'I'm getting into the cold-plunging, I've been doing that for a while, and my relationship with cold has shifted a bit,' he says. 'Normally you think of cold as an enemy, but it's just a feeling. All of those different emotions that come up, they're no big thing man! Come on!' He was always this way, he says, always resistant. 'I don't think I've changed much since I was a little kid. I feel basically the same.' I ask Bridges how he would describe himself at his essence, and he leans back in his chair and thinks. After a moment, he smiles, broadly. 'Frightened, and game.' He is reluctant to be drawn on how different his relationship with music might be to his relationship with acting – whether it still holds any of that same resistance, if it requires him to use his 'pretend' muscle. 'It's a facet of myself,' he says. 'I don't think we ultimately know who we really are all the time. The task for all these different things, whether it's acting, music, painting, ceramics, the main task is getting out of the way, letting the thing come through you. And it can be frightening sometimes. But sometimes it just has its way with you, and when that happens, man it's a gas! And when it happens with a bunch of other artists and you're all doing it together, it's real magic. It's the magic of trees and flowers.' Music has often been the thing that has glued together the various facets of himself, and connected Bridges to others. 'Whether it's making a movie or music, you're harmonising,' he says. 'You're saying: let's combine our strengths here and see what we can come up with and make it beautiful and real.' Often, he will make a playlist for the character he's playing (for the Dude in The Big Lebowski, it was 'a lot of Creedence'). 'Then you play them in the makeup trailer,' he says. 'You get made up with all the guys in the show, you make that transition from who you are back into your characters. You get painted, you share music.' He recalls shooting 1984's Against All Odds in Mexico with Taylor Hackford, and how on their first night in Mexico 'we split a bottle of tequila, and went through the whole Beatles catalogue'. How, stuck for nine months on the set of Heaven's Gate in Montana, Kris Kristofferson and T Bone Burnett invited a string of musical friends to join them. 'And we would just jam all the time. When we weren't working, we were playing.' Later, when he was offered the lead in Crazy Heart, playing an alcoholic country singer trying to turn his life around, he took the part because Burnett signed on to write the score. In 2003, Bridges appeared alongside Bob Dylan in Masked and Anonymous. One day the director, Larry Charles, made a suggestion: 'Why don't you and Bob go off and you teach Bob some acting? Go and do some improvisation or something.' Bridges, resistant, eventually agreed. 'He was so great to work with,' he says. 'He's such an incredible actor. I mean his presence, right?' Not long afterwards, Bridges was in his trailer, playing guitar, when Dylan appeared in the doorway. 'He said 'Hey man, you want to jam?'' Bridges still looks flabbergasted. I ask if he saw A Complete Unknown. 'Yeah, yeah,' he says. 'They all did such a great job but …' He seems puzzled by the film's existence. 'You know, you got the real thing …' Lately, Bridges has been spending a little time going through what he calls his 'song mine', wondering what to do with all the tunes he's written. He is still writing. The songs fill his notebooks and his GarageBand files. Sometimes he sets them down with Cianca in their band the Abiders. Sometimes he puts them out as rough sketches on his website under the banner Emergent Behaviour. He asks only that if you dig them, you might make a donation to his chosen charities, No Kid Hungry and the Amazon Conservation Team. 'Let's create beautifully together,' the website suggests. 'I wrote a song recently about my old buddy John Goodwin,' Bridges tells me. He and Goodwin grew up in the same neighbourhood, and Goodwin became a professional songwriter – he provided material for the Crazy Heart soundtrack, which won an Oscar and two Grammys, and for Bridges' self-titled 2011 album, recorded after the film's success. Bridges has called his Goodwin tribute song We Know That One. 'I don't know what style you'd call it. It's my own style, kind of. Let me see if I can find it …' He picks up a tablet, peers at the screen. 'All right. Let's see here. Scrolling, scrolling, music, lyrics, my lyrics, my chorus, lyrics …' In the quiet of his garage, Bridges leans far back in his chair, hands behind his head, and begins to sing. His voice is dusky, and warm and kind, and as he sings, something about him seems to glow. The music is having its way with him, and it is real magic; the magic of trees and flowers. 'From the top it looks deep, from the bottom it looks high, Dive into the lake through the reflection of the sky. No need feeling lonely Johnny, on this road heading home, We're all heading that way, no one's really alone. Can't you hear us laughing as we cover our gold with the ashes, Our freedom, yeah we're ditching our souls. Johnny can't you see we use hilarity to numb. I think we're just too damn sensitive Johnny, we couldn't be that dumb. Do we need some kind of friction? Do we need some kind of brakes? Something dragging in the dirt, is that what it takes to get us home Johnny, get us home safe? In that case, maybe laughing ain't too bad while we wait. I can feel my soul waiting for me up ahead, tapping his foot, he's covered all bets. He's waiting with yours Johnny, they're playing in the sun, Hear that tune they're playing, we know that one …' Slow Magic, 1977-78 will be released on Light in the Attic on 12 April
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Casting News: Blue Bloods Vet to Dexter Spinoff and More
Steve Schirripa better watch his back. The Blue Bloods and Sopranos vet will recur in Paramount+ With Showtime's Dexter: Resurrection as Vinny, a greedy slumlord, our sister site Variety reports. More from TVLine 9-1-1: Nashville Taps NCIS: Los Angeles' Chris O'Donnell to Star Conan O'Brien to Return as Oscars Host in 2026 TVLine Items: Kiernan Shipka Joins Industry, Bosch: Legacy Castings and More The sequel series will see Michael C. Hall reprise his role as serial killer Dexter Morgan, with franchise vets David Zayas (as Detective Angel Batista), James Remar (as Harry Morgan) and Jack Alcott (as Harrison Morgan) returning as well. New cast members include Neil Patrick Harris, Uma Thurman, Peter Dinklage and Krysten Ritter. In other recent casting news… * Bobby Moynihan (SNL) will star opposite Tracy Morgan in NBC's untitled comedy pilot from 30 Rock team Tina Fey, Robert Carlock and Sam Means, our sister site Deadline reports. The project centers around Reggie (Morgan), a disgraced former football player on a mission to rehabilitate his image, with Moynihan playing his loyal former teammate. Also boarding the potential series is Erika Alexander (Living Single) as Reggie's ex-wife, who is still his agent and business manager. * Kai Caster (Yellowstone) has been cast in Prime Video's upcoming Marvel series Spider-Noir in an undisclosed role with a special connection to a previously announced character, per Deadline. * Janet McTeer (The Old Man, Ozark) has joined Guy Ritchie and Paramount+'s Irish crime-family drama MobLand, starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, per The Hollywood Reporter. McTeer's character, Kat, is 'as charming as she is violent' and someone whom crime bosses 'are anxious never to cross swords with,' reads the official description. Hit the comments with your thoughts on the above castings! Best of TVLine Stars Who Almost Played Other TV Roles — on Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Friends and Other Shows TV Stars Almost Cast in Other Roles Fall TV Preview: Who's In? Who's Out? Your Guide to Every Casting Move!
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
SAG Awards Nominees Who Skipped the 2025 Ceremony
When it comes to major award shows like tonight's Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG), most of the nominees make it to the award show. After all, even if they might not win, it is indeed 'an honor to be nominated.' With that said, however, a few of our favorite actors decided to skip tonight's star-studded event. Among them is Alisson Janney, who was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her role as Grace in The Diplomat, Jonathan Bailey, who was nominated in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role category for his role in Wicked and Jeff Bridges, who was nominated for his role in The Old Man in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series category. Check the full list of nominees who skipped the award show below. More from SheKnows Kylie Jenner Didn't Join Timothée Chalamet at the 2025 SAG Awards Amid a Personal Tragedy Best of SheKnows Pamela Anderson at the 2025 SAG Awards & 16 More Times Celebs Went Makeup-Free On The Red Carpet The Best SAG Awards Red Carpet Fashion Moments of All Time 54 Times Celebrity Women Stunned in Suits on the Red Carpet Jean Smart may have been in the video for the opening monologue, but the Hacks star didn't make it to the event. She won for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. Martin Short was a surprise win tonight for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series in his role in Only Murders in the Building. Sadly, he wasn't in attendance and presenters Joey King and Jack Quaid accepted the award on his behalf. Jeff Bridges was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for his role in The Old Man. He also didn't attend the event. Allison Janney was nominated tonight for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her role in The Diplomat but didn't attend the show. Jonathan Bailey was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for his role as Fiyero in Wicked. He sadly did not attend the event. Jeff Bridges at The 58th Annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on November 20, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón is keeping a low profile after her resurfaced racist, Islamophobic tweets sparked major backlash. Though she was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, Gascón didn't attend the 2025 SAG Awards. Ayo Edebiri is a double nominee tonight for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Sadly, it appears she hasn't made it to the show. Cate Blanchett didn't attend tonight's event. She was nominated for her role in Disclaimer in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series. Eddie Redmayne also couldn't make it to the event. He was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for his role in The Day of the Jackal. Javier Bardem at the 2024 LACMA Art+Film Gala held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 02, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Kline at arrivals for DGA Honors, DGA New York Theater, New York, NY October 18, 2018. Photo By: Jason Mendez/Everett Collection
