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The rites of summer: as the country boils and ocean breezes cool the shores of San Diego, fanboys and fangirls, cosplayers, trekkers and assorted enthusiasts of all things sci-fi, fantasy,horror, comix or pop/geek culture descend upon the city's Convention Center for an immersive weekend of comraderie and celebration. Gone are the days of 1970, when a small group of friends banded together to create what was, at the time, just a comic-book convention (the first in Southern California).

Garry Marshal left a deep mark on American film, television and on the popular culture with shows like Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley and Happy Days. For many years the programs he created defined the art of sitcom.

Movie stars get the best stylists and clothing fashion has to offer. Looking for casual but a notch above? These guys seem to love their checks, either beneath a jacket or on the jacket itself.

Two weeks of terrible news and horrific events are likely the reason why audiences worldwide opted for cute talking animals over any other cinematic offer. Internationally, Fox’s Ice Age: Collision Course took the number one spot for the second consecutive frame, amassing $53.

Ghosts of all kinds were very much in the minds of Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray when they came to see us back in June 1984. “Beyond American cinema, even Bergman loves the use of ghosts and devils visiting the Earth and that kind of thing”, Dan Aykroyd told us.

It’s another big victory for Uisenma Borchu as her drama Don’t Look At Me That Way  (Schau mich nicht an ) wins the Grand Prize of the International New Talent Competition at the 18th Taipei Film Festival. The Award Ceremony was held at the historic Zhongshan Hall.

“Sadly, someone who taught vision to other filmmakers has closed his eyes and cannot see anymore. But the impact of his vision will last forever.

2016 may go down in history as the year when Hollywood came to the unsettling conclusion that sequels are no longer a guarantee of success and audiences had enough of seeing movies that so often look and feel the same. Sequelitis, they call it.

Gal Gadot has the freshness of a summer breeze. She laughs a lot and loudly.

When we interviewed Tom Hanks for the first time, in September of 1986, he was mere two and a half years away from his first Golden Globe. Hanks was finally making strides in his career as a feature film actor, after a false start in 1980 in the horror flic He Knows You’re Alone (his character was supposed to die at the hands of the psycho killer, but director Armand Mastroianni found him so engaging that he decided to ax the death scene in the editing suite).