Focus Features is re-teaming with the sibling duo behind the band Sparks for a new musical epic at the studio titled X Crucior. After appearing as the subjects of Edgar Wright's documentary The Sparks ...

Taking some cues from the Marx Brothers, the Mael Brothers have remained rooted in all manners Sparks. With Ron’s stone-faced Charles Chaplin-like facade and Russell’s flamboyantly delivered falsetto, ...

In Cameroon, there is surprise at David Pagou's decision to call up Arnaud Mael Kamdem for AFCON 2025. The reasons behind this selection have now been revealed. From the Cameroonian camp, it is ...

It has been a very busy period for the legendary and influential Los Angeles-based rock/pop duo Sparks, which consists of co-founders and brothers Russell and Ron Mael. Following the release of their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. “When we did our first album with Todd Rundgren [for 1972’s Sparks], he ...

At the risk of sounding like an old curmudgeon, they don’t make bands like Sparks any more. The Mael brothers have always been joyously, uncompromisingly weird – and are now in their sixth decade of ...

Pop music brothers Ron and Russell Mael, who perform as Sparks, were ‘meta’ before it became a thing, and certainly before Mark Zuckerberg decided to call his company by that name. They’re meta in the ...

Edgar Wright has been directing scripted films, music videos and episodic television for over 25 years, but he had yet to make a documentary feature—until now. In The Sparks Brothers, he explores two ...

Mael Lambung (Zizan Razak) is a well-known car transporter in Kuala Lumpur. His life takes a chaotic turn when he meets Maria (Juliana Evans), who asks for his help in eluding the villains who are ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features.