From Barbenheimer to Britney, these are the pop culture stories that kept us entertained in 2023

From Barbenheimer to Britney, these are the pop culture stories that kept us entertained in 2023

Let’s get the honourable mentions out of the way, first. Rihanna performed at the SuperBowl — and announced a pregnancy while she was onstage. The Beatles released a new song using an old demo from the late John Lennon, featuring additions by Paul McCartney, the late George Harrison and Ringo Starr, as well as a little help … Read more

Danielle Brooks Comes Full Circle

Danielle Brooks Comes Full Circle

Although Danielle Brooks has become most known for her role as Taystee, on the television show “Orange Is the New Black,” she is a creation of the stage. Our generation’s yen for Black-theatre revivalism is rooted in her gift for externalized performance: she is the kind of actor who interprets the monologue as she delivers … Read more

The Night They Came Home – Official Trailer | English Movie News – Hollywood

The Night They Came Home – Official Trailer | English Movie News – Hollywood

Dec 16, 2023, 01:45PM ISTSource: YouTube Watch the Official Trailer from English movie ‘The Night They Came Home’ starring Brian Austin Green, Robert Carradine, Tim Abell, Jesse Kove, Kelsey Reinhardt, Kassius Marcil-Green, Charlie N. Townsend and Danny Trejo. ‘The Night They Came Home’ movie is directed by Paul G. Volk. To know more about ‘The … Read more

Sexy movies are a hard sell to Gen Z. Can Poor Things change that?

Sexy movies are a hard sell to Gen Z. Can Poor Things change that?

While speaking with reporters about his film Poor Things earlier this fall, director Yorgos Lanthimos took a moment to address the spicy elephant in the room. “Why is there no sex in movies anymore?” the Greek filmmaker wondered. He was being somewhat facetious — his latest feature stars Emma Stone as a dead Victorian woman … Read more

Miller’s Girl – Official Trailer | English Movie News – Hollywood

Miller’s Girl – Official Trailer | English Movie News – Hollywood

Dec 15, 2023, 01:36PM ISTSource: YouTube Watch the Official Trailer from English movie ‘Miller’s Girl’ starring Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk, Bashir Salahuddin and Gideon Adlon.. ‘Miller’s Girl’ movie is directed by Jade Halley Bartlett. To know more about ‘Miller’s Girl’ Trailer watch the video. Check out the latest English Trailers, new movie Trailers, … Read more

Greta Gerwig will be jury president at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

Greta Gerwig will be jury president at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

Greta Gerwig will be president of the 77th Cannes Film Festival jury in 2024, making her the first female American director — and the youngest person since 1966 — to receive the honour. The role is widely considered to be a marker of career achievement and excellence within the international film industry. Gerwig most recently … Read more

Why Malaysian film Pendatang, a dystopian thriller playing on country’s ethnic tensions, aims to dodge censors with YouTube release

Why Malaysian film Pendatang, a dystopian thriller playing on country’s ethnic tensions, aims to dodge censors with YouTube release

“We also [wanted] those outside the country to watch it. Basically we want to reach as many people as possible.” From the beginning, Pendatang was conceived to be distributed freely online – a space where the LPF has no authority – provided it could be made by achieving a fundraising goal. Amir Muhammad, a book … Read more

What happened at the end of Netflix’s Leave the World Behind?

What happened at the end of Netflix’s Leave the World Behind?

Netflix’s newest apocalyptic thriller, Leave the World Behind, has people talking. Directed by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, the film stars Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon. It’s adapted from the 2020 novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam, and produced by Higher Ground Productions, the company founded by Barack and Michelle Obama.  Despite shooting to No. … Read more

The Boy and the Heron has a beautiful, secret backstory

The Boy and the Heron has a beautiful, secret backstory

There’s something Aristotle said in his Poetics about the effective use of metaphor. Boiling it down, he observed that while coming up with metaphors takes genius, overstuffing your story with beautiful — but confusing — symbols doesn’t leave you with a timeless piece of art. Instead, you end up with “nothing but riddles or gibberish.” Apparently, … Read more