Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Whitney Houston

Amazing video shows boy, 11, wowing crowds with Whitney Houston ballad on Market Street

Talented Alfie regularly attracts an audience of shoppers in Manchester city centre

Manchester Evening News

Fans fuming after Celine Dion, others snubbed by Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone has defended its 200 Greatest Singers of All Time list after fans found that a number of famous voices weren't mentioned.

The New Daily

I Wanna Dance With Somebody review – doggedly formulaic Whitney Houston biopic

The singer’s voice is mostly lip-synced, by British actor Naomi Ackie, but this by-numbers film falls well short of capturing Houston’s mega-watt appeal

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The anti-hibernation culture guide: something to enjoy for every day in January

You can spend the next few weeks under the duvet and in front of the telly, or enjoy world-class art, theatre, music, film and standup – here’s an event for each of the next 31 days

The Guardian - UK

Twitter maven Dionne Warwick wants a meeting with Elon Musk: 'Where's your head?'

LOS ANGELES — There's no shortage of topics Dionne Warwick can talk about: Her status as one of music's most beloved and enduring singers. A six-decade career marked by a catalog of huge hits including "Walk on By," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and "I Say a…

Los Angeles Times

Why a kiss was worth fighting for in the Whitney biopic 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'

Not long before Whitney Houston's career takes off in the Sony Pictures musical biopic "Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody," the young singer shares a romantic kiss with her best friend, Robyn Crawford. It's sweet, intimate and relatively brief, but juxtaposed against the epic highs and lows of the…

Los Angeles Times

The music in I Wanna Dance With Somebody proves Whitney Houston's voice is incomparable

Described as "the greatest voice of her generation", it goes without saying that Whitney Houston's original vocals just had to be heard in newly opened biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

ABC News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

From animation to arthouse, something for (almost) everyone on Boxing Day

Boxing Day films in 2022 include a Puss in Boots sequel and a Whitney Houston biopic

Newcastle Herald

New movies in cinemas and on Netflix and Prime Video from Christmas Day to New Year’s Day

Tom Hanks as a grump, Emma Thompson as a villain, Daniel Craig as a flamboyant detective, Antonio Banderas as a cat - plus docos, awards-season contenders, family films, biopics and more.

ABC News

What links Whitney Houston to Raiders of the Lost Ark – and Stanley Tucci’s recipes?

From a biopic of the singer to the adventures of the whip-cracking archaeologist, all via a galaxy far, far away

The Guardian - UK

Twixmas movies: From Avatar to Bones and All, the best films to see at the cinema over the Christmas break

From thrillers to period dramas, the new films just keep coming

Evening Standard

Whitney Houston reminds us we're human, says biopic director Kasi Lemmons

When news broke that a Whitney Houston biopic was in the works, many folks had the same question: Why?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Whitney Houston biopic is ‘honest, accurate’, says the music industry guru who made her famous

The man who discovered Whitney Houston, Clive Davis, says the new biopic about the star's life will answers a lot of questions fans have.

The New Daily

Whitewashing or reclaiming? A new Whitney Houston biopic spotlights musical highs over personal lows

The new Whitney Houston biopic climaxes with a detailed reenactment of the pop superstar's show-stopping performance at the 1994 American Music Awards.

Los Angeles Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Review: Naomi Ackie dazzles as Whitney Houston in 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'

Clive Davis is both the producer behind "Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and the second biggest character, and you'll never guess who's depicted as the hero of the movie.

Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody’ is a well-acted biopic about not just a voice, but The Voice

Mostly, almost entirely, it is not British actor Naomi Ackie’s singing voice you hear as Whitney Houston in the smooth, enjoyable new biopic “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody.”

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Whitney Houston’ biopic gives good love to the troubled singer

Naomi Ackie seems to channel the pop star in a film that doesn’t dig too deep but consistently entertains.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Review: Clumsy Whitney Houston Biopic Mars Its Star’s Skill

Whitney Houston’s voice was one of a kind and the creative team behind a new big-budget biopic of the singer had no choice but to agree. Naomi Ackie, who plays Houston in “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” turns in a fierce performance but is asked to lip-sync throughout to Houston…

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: 'Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody' biopic hits a flat note

When remembering the iconic life and career of Whitney Houston, there are many defining moments that instantly spring to mind: when she obliterated the “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl, thereby rendering all other versions subpar, her soaring rendition of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” from “The…

The Independent UK

I Wanna Dance with Somebody review: The first authorised biopic turns Whitney Houston into a product

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ screenwriter Anthony McCarten strips a miraculous talent of her messy, beautiful humanity

Evening Standard

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody movie review – budding superstar Naomi Ackie nails it

The Walthamstow actress shines in this biopic that follows the musical icon from her teenage years to the end of her life

The Guardian - UK

I Wanna Dance With Somebody review – smooth Whitney Houston biopic

Naomi Ackie is excellent in the title role and the film delivers all the singer’s big hits, but it swerves the difficult questions

Evening Standard

Who is Naomi Ackie, the actress playing Whitney Houston in a new biopic?

Ackie plays one of the most successful recording artists of all time alongside Stanley Tucci

Tribune News Service

Television Q&A: Is Ben Affleck making a 'Ghost Army' movie?

You have questions. I have some answers.

Wales Online

Love Island's Paige Thorne admits she is 'really struggling' following stint on ITV2 show

The reality star attended the I Wanna Dance With Somebody London premiere and said she felt she was "not in a safe place"

1 … 6 7 8 9

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.