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Movies based on video games have traditionally been a mixed bag. Some have been bad. Some have been very bad. Some, though they are rare, have been very very bad. Resident Evil is none of those. It instead manages to join a different list, one of works where adaptation has found the things that make…

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has announced revised guidelines for film certification, introducing stricter provisions around the depiction of drugs, violence, sexual violence, child abuse, and other sensitive subjects in films. The revised guidelines for the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) were listed by the ministry on September 18, replacing the earlier guidelines…

The nickname Mr. Irrelevant really exploded in awareness for football fans when Brock Purdy, the last overall NFL draft pick in his class, became the San Francisco 49ers’ starting quarterback — and one of the highest-paid players in the league. But another player before him also got that nickname and made an impact in his…

Here’s a challenge: adapt a lauded, Olivier- and Tony-winning play that has played the West End and Broadway, toured around the world, and been adapted into over a dozen languages into a feature film. Wait, stop, add in this: The original play is a one-woman show, essentially just one heart-stopping monologue, that has to be…

Jeremy Thomas put his weight behind some of the riskiest — and most fondly remembered — pictures in Hollywood across a nearly 60-year-long career. The UK-based Thomas died on September 11 at age 77, as confirmed by his family in a statement

A Palestinian woman and children rush away from the site of Israeli air strikes on a six-storey building in the Saftawi neighborhood west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 19, 2025. Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that 45 people were killed on August 19 by Israeli strikes and fire across the territory.…

8 September 2026 – Sandra Prinsloo is a cultural icon and one of South Africa’s undisputed queens of stage and screen. With a career spanning more than five decades and a legacy that will be remembered as much for her performances as for her courage in challenging social conventions, Prinsloo will receive an honorary doctorate…

The national film awards is one of the most prestigious accreditations to the Indian film industry. In accordance with this, it is a particularly famous tradition to hold the national film awards in the national capital of Delhi.

The Venice Film Festival is the oldest of the big three European fests, alongside Cannes and Berlin, and this year’s slate features a wide variety of films from known auteurs to promising up-and-coming talent. 

The term “nepo baby” had yet to be coined by the time that Sofia Coppola — prematurely defined by her punchline of a performance in daddy Francis’ “The Godfather Part III” — re-emerged in her late 20s as one of the most gifted filmmakers of her generation, but few celebrities in her position, before or since,…