News

    In 2019, Marvel President Kevin Feige sat down with HFPA journalist Anke Hofmann to talk about one of the biggest years in the company’s history following the success of Black Panther, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Avengers: End Game. Three years later, Marvel has reached even greater heights with blockbusters including Black Widow (2021), Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Eternals (2021), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Eternals (2021) and the recent release, Dr.

Has it really been 44 years since John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, as Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson, respectively, sang You’re the One That I Want to each other in Grease? The critically and commercially successful romantic comedy, set in the summer of 1958, stole our hearts and brought out our dancing shoes. Generations have been dancing and singing – some costumed as Danny and Sandy – to such songs as Greased Lightning, Summer Nights, and Hopelessly Devoted to You.

Thor: Love and Thunder, brings Golden Globe winner Christian Bale into the Marvel Universe as Gorr, the God Butcher. Anyone who is a Harry Potter fan will be a tiny bit distracted by how closely the Butcher resembles Voldemort.

The 56th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) took place from July 1 - 9, 2022, ending on Saturday evening with a Closing Night ceremony at the Grand Hall of the spa town’s Hotel Thermal.  Although canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, with a scaled-down physical event taking place in 2021, the Festival returned on a grand scale, bigger and better than ever.

A bar that reportedly hosted Richard Nixon and Robert F. Kennedy, even gangster Mickey Cohen.

La encargada del Arconia, edificio neoyorquino en el que transcurre la serie Only Murders in the Building, no es Bunny Folger (Jayne Houdyshell). Incluso antes de su asesinato, pieza central de la segunda temporada de esta serie candidata al Globo de Oro, una ilustradora española es la verdadera encargada de darle forma gráfica en la pantalla a este singular edificio.

Almost four decades after its release, Stand by Me – based on true events in Stephen King’s life – remains one of the most poignant Summer coming-of-age films. Set over a scorching Labor Day weekend in 1959, Stand by Me, Rob Reiner’s tale of four boys traipsing across a small Oregon town searching for the body of a missing boy, was based on King’s novella “The Body.

The Black Phone, based on a short story by Joe Hill, son of legendary horror master Stephen King, stars Ethan Hawke as The Grabber, a soulless miscreant who embodies every parent’s worst nightmare. Evil personified, The Grabber is a magician who spends his spare time as a sadistic masked serial killer-turned-kidnapper.

One thing is for certain: programmers at the Bologna Film Festival are equal opportunity film lovers. Cinema Ritrovato – the official name of this yearly celebration of cinema classics – is nothing if not eclectic.

Exactly 60 years ago, an unusual film opened at the Venice film festival. Smog had been filmed entirely in Los Angeles, a somewhat singular distinction for a time in which production mainly flowed in the opposite direction, with big American studios frequently filming sword-and-sandal epics at the famed Cinecittà studio (productions were so common that they came to be nicknamed “Hollywood on the Tiber).