The courtroom drama seems to be undergoing a revival these days, with samples of the genre surfacing at both the Cannes and Venice film festivals this year.
The eighth edition of Beirut Art Fair opened its doors yesterday, hosting 51 galleries from 23 countries at BIEL, with sections for promoting young talents and celebrating established artists.
Featuring work from the Amine El Bacha Foundation collection, “Partitions and Colors: Homage to Amine El Bacha” captures the diversity and beauty of Bacha’s paintings across the different cities and landscapes.
After five years of renovations, the Goethe-Institut Lebanon is celebrating the completion of its new residence in Gemmayzeh with a packed cultural program and a new media lounge.
Interest in the 1940 cross-channel evacuation of British soldiers amid the French collapse in World War II has sprung to life this summer – thanks to...
The “secret” art collection amassed by Claude Monet, the father of impressionism, is on display for the first time in Paris, 90 years after the great...
Martin McDonagh’s darkly hilarious film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” won the Toronto film festival (TIFF)’s audience prize for best picture...
U.S. President Donald Trump never won an Emmy, it’s true, but his presence was felt at this year’s television awards ceremony more than any actor, writer or...
Experimental rocker Frank Zappa, prolific in his life and even in death through a string of posthumous releases, is heading back on tour as a hologram.
Lady Gaga on Monday called off the European leg of her world tour, saying she was suffering from severe physical pain and was seeking medical treatment.
As the cast and makers of “Stronger” collectively rose to take a bow after the film’s TIFF premiere, Jake Gyllenhaal realized that Jeff Bauman, whom he plays...
Sean Spicer says his surprise Emmy Awards appearance was a chance to have some fun, and suggested Tuesday that people who were upset by it were taking things...
The second sexual assault trial of American television legend Bill Cosby will open on April 2, 2018, the presiding judge ruled Friday
Grant Hart, the drummer and vocalist for pioneering indie rock band Husker Du, which was seen as a major influence for Nirvana, the Pixies and other bands,...
If trees could talk, what stories would they tell? This question is at the heart of “Diary of a Mulberry Tree,” which opened at Masrah al-Madina over the...
The French artist JR made headlines last weekend with his huge “Kilroy was here” photo of a Mexican toddler leaning over the border wall with the United States.
Mitch Rapp is an action hero in the vein of Jack Ryan or John McClane. He’s an impossibly tough and determined everyday guy out to save the world.
The Japan Art Association held its annual award ceremony this week. Its high-profile laureates, winners of JAA’s Praemium Imperiale, include such...
No question. When a filmmaker embraces genre – tightly enough to see the sweat-stained shirt collar and smell the nicotine smoke in the hair – some...
Special set of skills or not, Liam Neeson says he’s finished making thrillers. In an interview, Neeson said that he plans to stop even though it’s hard to...
Turkish police Friday detained the main opposition party leader's lawyer as part of a probe into the group led by the U.S.-based Islamic preacher blamed for...
Egyptian director Amr Salama pays homage to the late Michael Jackson in his new film “Sheikh Jackson,” a tale of how a young imam struggles to reconcile his...
American author George Saunders is favored to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction, according to British bookmakers, with his novel of the...
Here’s the good news: Pennywise is as creepy as ever in the new “It.”
Finalists in one of photojournalism’s most prestigious awards competition came away with far more than pictures while covering the fight for Iraq’s Mosul, the...
Stopping by Lebanon on her world tour, Algerian-born folk singer Souad Massi gave a laid-back and intimate performance at MusicHall Waterfront Tuesday evening.
Seven years have passed since Allan Sekula and Noel Burch released their magisterial documentary “The Forgotten Space.”
Nearly a decade after shattering the glass ceiling of Islamic jurisprudence, the first woman judge to be appointed to a Shariah court in the Middle East says...
Oscar nominees Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon electrified audiences at the Toronto film festival Sunday with their portrayals of Thomas Edison and...
“Distant Remains,” the latest exhibition by Syrian-Lebanese painter Fathallah Zamroud, shows the beauty of dilapidated urban architecture and abandoned...
In the suburbs of China’s capital, a 32-year-old engineer creates the kind of larger-than-life, shape-shifting robots that most have only seen in...
Kamel El Basha was awarded the Venice Film Festival’s Best Actor prize Saturday for his role in Ziad Doueiri’s “The Insult.”
The famous spy duo of author John le Carre and his protagonist George Smiley are back for new adventures with a novel harking back to the Cold War but...
Though seldom a smash on the big screen, tennis took center court at the Toronto International Film Festival Thursday, opening with “Borg/McEnroe.”
The fourth feature of Lebanese-born writer-director Ziad Doueiri navigates a provocative line between fiction and nonfiction.