News

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever remains at number 1 at the French box office.  Directed by Ryan Coogler with Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Danai Gurira, the movie is about the people of Wakanda fighting to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.

Films, food, friendship, family, and future: Last Film Show has it all. Nothing gives us as many emotional highs and lows when one is mesmerized by cinema.

Il Boemo tells the life story of an 18th century composer who traveled from Prague to Venice, Italy in 1763 at the age of 25 to pursue his dream of creating music and succeeded. His name being Josef Mysliveček, which was difficult to pronounce, he was nicknamed “il Boemo” by the Italians, meaning a man from Bohemia, a historical kingdom now part of the Czech Republic.

Barbra Streisand has always been a trailblazer: as a singer, an actress, and a filmmaker. So it’s not surprising she also became the first female filmmaker to win the Golden Globe for Best Director, for the musical Yentl in 1984.

“My friend and I thought, why are there no movies about an action grandma?”That’s how Martika Ramirez Escobar conceived Leonor Will Never Die, her audacious feature directing debut which won a special jury prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the Amplify Voices Award at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and just recently earned a best international feature nomination for Film Independent’s Spirit Awards. Escobar, in our interview via email, said that the absence of an “action star grandma” in Philippine cinema propelled her to write Leonor Will Never Die.

The new hit TV drama, Fire Country, explores the world of firefighting from the unique point of view of the inmates who fight alongside local firefighters in a special California camp program.   While the Northern California town where the show is set is fictional, the California Conservation Camp Program is very real.

  As we continue our 80-day countdown to the 80th anniversary of the Golden Globe awards on January 10, 2023, we look back on 1985, the year that Kathleen Turner won her first Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical, opposite Michael Douglas in Romancing the Stone. In a special Rewind edition of the Golden Globe Around the World podcast series, we hear the five-time nominated actress talk about that role, that award and her incredible history with the Globes beginning 40 years ago with her first nomination as Best New Star in Body Heat.

The Moroccan film, The Blue Caftan, by director Maryam Touzani, is about cultural identity, traditions, liberties, and acceptance. It is about the breaking of taboos.

In Mediterranean Fever, Palestinian director Maha Haj indirectly chose to address the crisis of the Palestinians and their existential plight poetically seen through the unexpected friendship between two men. Living in Haifa, Waleed (Amer Hlehel), is a depressed man in his forties who lacks the desire to live.

Muru reminds us about the wealth that films from even the most remote corners of the planet have to offer. How else would we be able to gain insights, however fleeting, into worlds most of us don’t even know exist?In this particular Non-English Language film we meet the Ngāi Tūhoe community of Rūātoki, the home of indigenous people in New Zealand.