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The term “mama’s boy” used to be a pejorative, loaded with connotations. It could signify anything from a man’s relationship deemed unhealthily close with his mother, to a sensitivity out of step with conventional societal views on masculinity, to a general “failure to launch” into adulthood.

If you were a fan of 2008’s In Bruges, you may be pleased to learn that The Banshees of Inisherin provides the same amount of black humor, chaos, and general shenanigans between Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Once again, under the writing and directing tutelage of Martin McDonagh – who grew his teeth as a playwright – the exchanges between Farrell, who plays the dimwitted yet loyal Pádraic, and Gleeson, playing the intent yet fickle Colm, are dramatic and brutal, biting and tender, and often terrifying.

In the early years of the Golden Globes, in addition to the Best Foreign Film category that started in 1955, there was a special award called the Samuel Goldwyn International Film Award, which was presented from 1959 to 1964. At the Golden Globes ceremony held on March 10, 1964, at the Cocoanut Grove, the winner of that prize was Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

Callina Liang is among the six new young talents who star in the new ITVX coming-of-age drama from the creators of Skins. In Tell Me Everything, she plays the mysterious new girl, Mei, who joins a group of five college friends.

Ryan Murphy’s success with the true crime and serial killer genre continues with the monstrous hit Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. With the journalist-turned-showrunner/creator/producer/director/writer’s drama on Milwaukee Monster Dahmer reaching No.

Six years ago, Selena Gomez began a change in her life after suffering a great physical and emotional crisis. She was diagnosed with lupus, depression, and anxiety and even had a kidney transplant in 2017.

From the dawn of humanity, we took notes of something our ancestors always knew how to do: war. But in the bloody and sad records of the Roman “De Bello Gallico” and the Chinese “The Art of War,” one element is lacking – the soldier who survived all horrors and came back home.

While Lawrence of Arabia has become an enduring classic almost 60 years after winning six Golden Globes, the film could have looked very different if director David Lean had gotten one of his first choices for the starring role.

Few people noticed Cameron Crowe when he attended the last Broadway preview of Almost Famous, a musical based on the movie he wrote and directed, partially based on his last teen’s years. There in the audience, he politely, if tangentially, answered one question.

In the vein of Strictly Ballroom, Muriel’s Wedding, and more recently, The Sapphires, comes another Australian musical comedy, Seriously Red, about a redhead realtor who turns her life around when she achieves her dream of becoming a Dolly Parton impersonator. Directed by Gracie Otto (Under the Volcano), the film, which premiered at the recent Brisbane International Film Festival on October 27, was written by Krew Boylan who takes on the leading role as Raylene ‘Red,’ Delaney.