Category: 5. Entertainment

From the November 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here.

It is 30 years since Tilda Swinton lay in a glass box in the Serpentine Gallery in London. The performance called The Maybe required Swinton to sleep, or pretend to…

As announced on The Scott Mills Radio 2 Breakfast Show this morning, Madness will make their BBC Radio 2 In Concert debut with an exclusive intimate performance. The set will be recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in London’s New Broadcasting…

It was derided by some critics as self-indulgent and “gimmicky” when it was released in 1975 but has since been marked a perfect 10 and inspired exhibitions and postage stamps.

Now to mark the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s album Wish You…

Benz Hui, a veteran Hong Kong performer dubbed the “King of Suppporting Actors” during a career which spanned more than five decades, has died at the age of 76.

He passed away in the early hours of Tuesday at a hospital in Hong Kong after…

In a potential turning point for vertical video, COL Group has greenlit a sequel to its hit microdrama “From Rags to Rank One,” a rarity in a format that typically tells stories in a single season.

The move signals ambitions beyond the…

A new campaign from UK charity GamCare depicts the often invisible feelings of gambling harm. The campaign, created by purpose-led agency 23red, personifies the feelings of anxiety and dread that people can feel to encourage people…

Towards the end of Knife, his 2024 book about the assault at a public event in upstate New York that blinded him in his right eye, Salman Rushdie offers a thought experiment:

Imagine that you knew nothing about me, that you had arrived from…

Japanese actor Lily Franky will appear in Wayne Wang’s next film “Diary of a Mad, Old Man,” revealed co-star Fan Bingbing at a Q&A session for the film “Mother Bhumi,” in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival.

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In My Own Words: Tom Jones

10.40pm, BBC One
A lovely, intimate trip down memory lane as the Welshman with the voice watches back smile-raising footage of his life. From working-class life in Pontypridd to breakout hit It’s Not Unusual, his first…