Category Archives: Variety

Regardless of one's political allegiance, it's almost universally agreed that in recent years political expediency rather than truth has been, literally, the governing principle behind speeches from B...

Could Sean Penn make "Milk" today? It's a question the actor answered himself, in a recent profile by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. "It could not happen in a time like this," he said, of his per...

Season 4 of “The Bear” will be served shortly. The Emmy-winning show, starring Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, will return to Hulu on Wednesday, June 25 at 5 p.m. PT. Like the first th...

Aiming to expand its footprint within the scripted space, Banijay Entertainment’s French label Screenline Productions has formed a creative partnership with the writers duo Matthieu Rumani and N...

There hasn’t been a lot to celebrate at the box office in 2024. Ticket sales have languished. There’s been a dearth of blockbusters (a consequence of the strikes and COVID, which brought p...

A six-part adaptation of award-winning author Sandra Barneda’s bestselling novel of the same name on Apple TV+, “Land of Women” follows Gala Scott (Eva Longoria), a New York socialit...

West, in "Maxxxine," applies his genre-movie scholasticism to a form that seems, on the face of it, to be the definition of disreputable: the '80s sexploitation thriller - the kind of badly lit grindh...

“Squid Game” creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the show’s protagonists Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Jun will be attending Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games festival on Oc...

Future Frames, a program for up-and-coming European filmmakers, is celebrating its 10th anniversary at Karlovy Vary Film Festival next week. So far, 104 filmmakers from 29 European countries have take...

MALAYSIA FESTIVAL SELECTIONS The Malaysia International Film Festival (Miffest), which runs July 21-28, will open with horror film "Indera" by local director Woo Ming Jin and starring Shaheizy Sam and...