Category: Art & culture

A film starring late Glee actor Cory Monteith has won a top award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

By David Blaustein Well, if you’re going to continue to exploit a tired Mafia stereotype, you might as well do it with the best.

The next installment of Disney’s (NYSE:DIS) Pirates of the Caribbean franchise might have a name, but it no longer has a release date, and some critics are blaming it all on The Lone Ranger’s notorious box office flop this summer.

While artists like Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus have sparked debate over the use of provocative lyrics and performances, research by Birmingham City University has revealed that the overtly sexualised representation of women in pop culture can negatively impact on…

By Gideon Long

Musical Miss Saigon, which returns to the West End next year, has set a new box office record with takings of £4.4m on the first day of ticket sales.

Police investigating thefts of “priceless items” from museums and auction houses in England have arrested 19 people in dawn raids.

A previously unknown landscape painting by Vincent van Gogh has been identified by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

A brand new festival will be opening its gates to thousands of partygoers on the northwest coast of Croatia on Monday.

Actor Vin Diesel has shot to the top of the US box office with Riddick, his third outing as the titular convict turned anti-hero.

The film version of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom is to have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September.

An Italian documentary, which explores the lives of people living along Rome’s notorious ring road, has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” came to Toronto on Friday night, and it left audiences in the same state they were in after it screened in Telluride last week: drained, shaken and on their feet cheering.

Every winter of each year the International Film Festival of Marrakesh is held for a stretch of four days. It is renowned for its prestige in terms of cinematographic production and is comparable to the Cannes film festival in the…

Critics have savaged “Diana”, a biopic of the late princess of Wales who died in a Paris car crash 16 years ago, just hours after its world premiere.

Muslim-majority Malaysia has pulled the plug on a planned concert by US heavy metal group Lamb of God after Islamic authorities declared the band’s music religiously offensive.

UPDATE, 5:32 PM: Charlize Theron just got a new movie mother, and it is Christina Hendricks. The Mad Men actress has gone from a supporting role to a lead in the adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling 2009 thriller Dark Places,…

A young, idealistic rebel from a desert planet seeks to fight an unjust, tyrannical emperor with a space station capable of destroying planets. “Star Wars” the 1977 film? Not quite.

The sitdown with MTV appears to be part of a longer documentary Cyrus is currently working on. ‘It’s been done before,’ the singer said of her VMAs performance.

Classic Beatles albums including Revolver have finally gone platinum after the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) changed its sales award rules.

Following months of gossip and speculation that literally began before the most recent season of “American Idol” was even over, The Hollywood Reporter and Us Weekly are reporting that the Season 13 “Idol” judging panel has at long last been…

PHILADELPHIA — The Budweiser Made in America Festival grounds along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway went from empty and waiting to swarming in a matter of star-spangled seconds Saturday afternoon.

An artist is attempting to paint a portrait of every resident living in his home city.

A traditional boat race on the river Chitra marking world famous painter SM Sultan’s 89th birth anniversary was held on Thursday August 29.

Fifty two drawings by Leonardo da Vinci – including his famous study of the body – have gone on show in Venice.

Hollywood stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock have arrived in Venice to open the city’s film festival with their sci-fi thriller Gravity.

With news earlier this week that Ben Affleck had signed on to play Batman in Warner Bros.’ (NYSE:TWX) sequel to Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder, the Internet immediately went into a frenzy. The uproar had reached a fever-pitch…

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DHAKA — A young Bangladeshi artist specialising in miniature works of art is hoping to have his works included in the Guinness Book of World Records, Xinhua news agency reported.