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Denice takes part in historic online Plygain event Plygain services where people come together to celebrate the festive season with traditional carols across Wales had to be different this year because of the pandemic. Instead of gathering, singers and groups were encouraged to submit a recording of their own performance and these were put together into two films, and shared as virtual Plygain across social media on December 20 and January 3. One of those taking part was Denice Jaunzens from Montgomery who said: “I had to consider carefully, as you cannot sing a song that someone el...

Now playing: A very covid Christmas Steven Zeitchik, The Washington Post Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail A scene from Adam Mason's film "Songbird." The movie is one of several pieces of entertainment that tackle the coronavirus this month, raising interest and questions.STXfilms This time of year tends to bring a reliable set of entertainment staples: Hallmark romances, cozy celebrity musical specials, theaters asplash with stories of cute kids and their dogs. But 2020 is topsy turvy. And it wants to make an important addition to the canon: pandemic jitters. Amid the cheer that Hollywood ...

Read the room, Mr Bay. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. Golly gee, if only someone could have warned Michael Bay that making a film in which COVID safety measures become state-sanctioned violence and the sick are weak horrific burdens was, perhaps, a bad idea. Songbird was the first major blockbuster produced under COVID-19 measures, and perhaps it’s best if that is its only legacy. Produced by Michael Bay, Transformers director, and written by Simon Boyes and Adam Mason — Songbird was written i...

It’s Los Angeles in 2024, and SARS-CoV-2 has mutated several times. People are suffering through the 213 th week of lockdown, the mortality rate of COVID-23 has risen to 56 percent, yearly deaths have topped 8 million, and the virus now attacks brain tissue. Only people who are immune and wear government-provided yellow bracelets can leave their homes. Everyone else gets their goods delivered by immune couriers, through airlock-type delivery doors that sanitize everything with UV light. Advertisement This is the world of the movie Songbird. The film’s director, Adam Mason, thought of the...

Songbird Review: When the announcement first came that Michael Bay would produce a pandemic thriller while we are in the midst of one and that it would be filmed entirely during this time, I tried to keep an open mind. On one hand, even if he’s not writing or directing it, Bay could easily glorify or exploit this issue, on the other, this is on opportune moment for something of value to offer some emotionally-charged thrills for a timely subject, as we’ve seen of late with films and shows exploring issues of systemic racism and police brutality. Unlike a majority of them, however, not onl...