Several notable talents in music, television, film and pop culture died in 2025. On the first day of the year, Wayne Osmond, one-fourth of the original Osmond Brothers, died at age 73.

A few great performances can’t save a musical that fudges history and narrative stakes in service of sentiment and sparkle ...

He whined that Bedford Falls is populated by mostly whites “apart from a Black housekeeper,” and slammed Frank Capra, the ...

A free version streaming on Amazon Prime Video trims about 30 minutes out of the classic 1946 film, and viewers took to ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

Explore every song in Song Sung Blue (2025), the Craig Brewer-directed movie starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as a ...

Plus, the James Cameron request that surprised her, and how she honored Janis Joplin in one section of the original song.

This last column of the year propitiously comes out right around Christmastime, which gives me an opportunity to say happy ...

His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such ...

Finally, the magic of The Beatles makes sense as Sir Paul McCartney has admitted he is actually a ‘head wizard’. In recent ...

You’d be forgiven if you can’t hum the 18th-century Cumbrian folk song “Do Ye Ken John Peel.” But in 1942, a version of that ...