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The Crow 2024's soundtrack sets a gothic mood with new songs, including FKA twigs and opera pieces. Notable songs like "Burn" and "Dead Souls" from the original movie are excluded for a fresh take. Each song in The Crow 2024 can be found online individually, but the full soundtrack is not yet released.

2024's The Crow soundtrack is filled with music and songs to help set the gothic mood of the comic book reimagining. With Bill Skarsgrd in the lead role as Eric Draven, The Crow's cast hinted at how music could be an integral part of the new adaptation. Singer FKA twigs is featured as the female lead of the movie, playing Eric's love interest, Shelly. While she is involved in the film as an actress first and foremost, the decision to include a prominent music star brought along some expectations that The Crow's soundtrack could...

The passing of a fabled star like Kirk Douglas always prompts obits that are respectful, if not adulatory, replete with a signature photo – Spartacus in Douglas’ case. But now a major re-think is overtaking the obit business. Yes, even death is getting a makeover, as evidenced in several arenas.

A new documentary, Overlooked, analyzing the evolution of obits will shortly emerge from Netflix and the Obamas’ production company Higher Ground. Paramount Television is partnering with the New York Times on a doc about the rituals of obit writing. Revisionist attitudes are also explored in Mobituaries, a witty if snarky new book by Mo Rocca, the CBS commentator.

The “new journalism” of obit writing may be good news for the deceased, but the revisionist trend may also stir political angst. “Men have to accept the fact that, in the new world of diversity, they may become second-class corpses,” confides one veteran...