Sam Kemp

3 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Wed 4 June 2025 14:27, UK Even as the 1960s came to an end, the run of identikit bands was beginning to take hold. The decade is renowned for being one of the most potently creative in modern history, but as the big bucks rolled in, so too did the managers and executives looking to press “repeat” on uniqueness and make themselves some money. In a world of endlessly similar acts, Jimi Hendrix was truly one in a million.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Sam Kemp

“We’re heartbroken, and we’re asking for their safe return”: Nancy Wilson says two “irreplaceable” instruments have been stolen ahead of Heart’s tourHeart have revealed that two “irreplaceable” instruments have been stolen from them, just as they were due to embark on their June tour. The band had …

3 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

You’d think a director so transfixed by his own work would be hard to impress, but Alfred Hitchcock raved about other people’s movies almost as much as the public did about his own. It’s not necessarily a unique position. Filmmakers have a sincere habit of shouting up the work of their peers. Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino may be the most beloved directors working in movies today, but they spend almost as much time celebrating films as they do making them.

3 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Looking at the plethora of film movements that emerged in Europe over the course of the 20th century, British cinema is easily ignored. It was never quite as chic as the French New Wave nor as organic as the work of the Italian neorealists. But that’s not to say pre- and post-war British cinema isn’t worth our time. In fact, it would be a great injustice to write off British cinema as staid and artificial when it is far more diverse than that. Quentin Tarantino would agree.

3 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Mon 2 June 2025 18:41, UK Making it in Tinseltown is really tough to do. And the majority of actors fall by the wayside. Tom Cruise makes achieving Hollywood stardom look easy. After walking away from a life in the priesthood, he moved to New York, where he quickly set about dazzling casting agents and landing roles in some of the highest-grossing movies of the 1980s, including Top Gun, The Color of Money, Rain Man and Born on the Fourth of July.