TRENDZ Live in London: Epic and Powerful Performance – Concert Review

TRENDZ have finally made it to London, and what a journey it’s been! Since their debut in 2022, the seven-member group has proven itself to be one of the most exciting rookie acts in K-pop. Armed with sharp vocals, they do sing live!, powerful performances, and a clear artistic identity, TRENDZ have steadily built a…

78th Cannes Film Festival: “A Useful Ghost” Review

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature, A Useful Ghost, is a superb, part political reflection, part gentle love story, and part quirky ghost tale, all set in glowing fog and the remains of an industrial past. Playful and bold, the film moves through themes of death, memory, and class with ease, guided by a director who clearly…

78th Cannes Film Festival: “Meteors” Review

In Meteors, Hubert Charuel and co-writer Claude Le Pape deliver one of the most emotionally potent and visually singular films to emerge from this year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard. What begins as a gritty portrait of dead-end lives in France’s rural east evolves – unexpectedly, heartbreakingly – into a tender story about male friendship, addiction,…

Maya Kuriel on Her New Single “Alibi” – Exclusive Interview

Born and raised in Seattle and now based in Los Angeles, Maya Kuriel is a first-generation Korean American artist whose journey into music began at just four years old. By sixteen, she was already writing and recording her own songs, combining dark pop melodies with lyrics that reflect her true feelings. Her music often explores…

The Persistence of Memory: “Echo” by Jin – Album Review

The oldest of the BTS members, Jin, was the first to complete his military duties, having enlisted on 13th December 2022. On his return, he released Happy (15 November 2024), his debut solo EP, which consisted of six tracks. His second album, Echo, is made up of seven tracks – the lead single and only…

27th Far East Film Festival: “Organ Child” Review

Organ trading generates over $1.7 billion annually, and about 10% of all transplants are believed to be illegal, staggering figures that are steadily rising across the globe, particularly on Asian continent. Reading about the plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China sheds light on the horrifying reality behind these statistics. Organ trafficking thrives because of…

27th Far East Film Festival: “Angry Squad” Review

When tax collector Kumazawa Jino (Seiyo Uchino) is scammed out of his hard-earned bonus by a professional swindler he is, quite rightly, angry. He decides to go after the man, but when he does find Himuro (Masaki Okada) the scam artist does the unexpected, he offers him a deal: immunity in exchange for help taking…

27th Far East Film Festival: “Cells at Work!” Review

If you’ve ever wondered what happens in the human body then Cells at Work! has the answers, well, kind of.  Based on the manga of the same name by Akame Shimizu, Takeuchi Hideki has created a colourful, comical movie that is as hilarious as it is heartfelt. The story is set within the bodies of…