A documentary about Algeria's protest movement on French TV has sparked not just another diplomatic standoff between the North African nation and its former colonial power, but anger among protesters themselves.
Science and technology hover around the film. Power outages are rumored to be caused by squirrels eating the wires. A strange sound interrupts the radio station's transmission. Something, people are saying, is in the sky
With cinemas emptied across the world because of the pandemic, drive-in screens have seen a resurgence in popularity, offering those who've been cooped up at home for months a safe way to go out.
Despite its enviable back-catalogue, media analysts are concerned about the new platform’s strategy. Costing $15 a month, HBO Max is the most expensive option at a time of soaring unemployment, and its 'more is more' smorgasbord approach is at odds with the HBO model of focusing on fewer, high-quality productions that 'really move the needle,' one observed, threatening 'to dilute what made HBO special.'
As the spread of the new coronavirus in the country slows, the governor of the region around the Italian city announced the festival would go ahead
'This is my deathbed confession,' says McCorvey, chuckling with the aid of oxygen during filming. 'I took their money and they put me out in front of the...
Two Ramadan television dramas on a Saudi-controlled network have stirred controversy as they test public perceptions of quietly warming relations between the...
Next year's Oscars could be postponed due to the disruption caused by the coronavirus in Hollywood, trade publication Variety reported Tuesday.
In lieu of public sector arts funding, many artists from the Middle East and North Africa who've abruptly become unemployed during the pandemic must fall back...
None of France's three most iconic tourist sites will reopen when the country lifts most of its remaining coronavirus lockdown restrictions next week. Some of...
Lockdown bans on live performances have left many British musicians on the breadline, fuelling a campaign for them to get a bigger share of the profits from...
There is evidence to suggest that singing produces especially high numbers of potentially infectious micro-particles. According to a 2019 study published in...
Born June, 1931, in the Cairo's Al Qalaa quarter, Hosni began acting in school and went on to collaborate with several generations of well known Egyptian...
'I like doing it. It’s nice to be able to have a paying job. I like being in films. I started directing films because I thought one day I’m going to look up...
'The Trip,' the first of the four film series, is still the best, but that hasn’t kept the sequels -- including this fourth installment -- from being...
With major titles eyeing July release dates, Tinseltown’s marketing gurus are scrambling for ways to safely roll out those carpets once again
Tom Hardy stars as the once great crime boss who is now hardly recognizable to himself or his family. With ashen skin, blood-red eyes and a voice so raspy as...
'Scoob!' is the kind of movie less predicated on original formulas than the contemporary dictates of corporate franchise-making. Scooby-Doo has been amplified...
The film's principal photography was shot by a security camera the filmmaker’s father installed after finding his car window had been smashed
When many were rushing to rewatch Steven Soderbergh’s eerily prophetic 2011 film about the outbreak of an easily transmitted virus, this writer was searching...
Movie-goers in Dubai frustrated by the closure of cinemas during the coronavirus pandemic will soon be able to watch films from the comfort of their own car...
The protocols were established in the late 1990s after a porn actor forged an HIV test and infected several others in the industry. Physician, and former...
While the cancellation represents a blow to the directors, actors, producers and distributors it serves, it has also devastated the legions of businesses and...
The Prague theatre -- which requires all guests to sit two metres apart -- is among the first to open in Europe, where strict lockdowns have hemmed in huge...
Carrie Fisher appears in the film, confessing that she took a lot of LSD in her life, including once in a park where she witnessed a talking acorn who...
Friederich imagine a world where an oppressive state has locked down all gatherings of people to minimise risk from a nebulous threat
Straightforward but compassionate, Wolf’s film affectionately documents the heady people and ambitious ideas that fuelled Biosphere II, relating an almost...
Jordan’s culture ministry launched the 'My talent from my home' contest in late March, and says it has since attracted more than 67,000 participants and 18...
'Umm Haroun' is being aired during Ramadan, when viewership soars after Muslims break the daylong fast. It’s like the Super Bowl for advertisers -- more so...
Director and producer Timur Bekmambetov, who is regarded as one of the inventors of the 'Screenlife' format, in which movies take place entirely on computer...
Artists in Iraq’s southern port city of Basra have adapted the beloved characters of “Bab al-Hara” (“The Neighborhood Gate”) -- a 10-season period drama...
The director, who co-wrote 'Black Panther,' delivers an inconsistent and disjointed but earnest and raw tale of a young African American man who grows up with...
Five Lebanese filmmakers contribute work to 'Living In Times Of Coronavirus,' a series of miniatures on life during Lebanon’s perfect storm of crises
Oscars eligibility has been a major question since stay at home and social distancing orders led to both the cancellation of major film festivals and the...
While few anticipated a skirmish would come over a glitter explosion like 'Trolls World Tour,' it has been long in coming. Netflix, Amazon and other streaming...