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A tiger, a young Indian castaway, a boat, an ocean: those are certainly not the typical ingredients of a Broadway show, but the new production Life of Pie made it possible. The stage play Life of Pi is based on the book written by Canadian writer Yann Martel.

It's official: The Super Mario Bros. Movie hit the $1 billion global benchmark in the recent weekend.

What better occasion than International Workers’ Day, May 1, to celebrate films that have stirred awareness of the struggles of the working class throughout the century?  At least since Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), cinema has told that story, inspiring people to stand up for their rights, to unite, to become aware, and to act.      International Workers’ Day originated in the U.

A few years ago, Rolling Stone magazine claimed that we were experiencing a rise of modern female horror filmmakers, arguing that a new wave of "female-directed horror films have helped elevate the genre by opening the door to stories that unsettle audiences in new and different ways. " This does not mean that the irruption of women behind the cameras (or in the script) is something exclusive to the present times and to Western horror filmmakers.

May marks Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which celebrates the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. American Public Television has plenty to offer to immerse yourself in some of the high - and low points - in the often complicated but always fascinating relationship between those cultures.

Kent Donguines, a Filipino Canadian filmmaker, has always been fascinated by tattoos. He proudly shows us, during a Zoom interview, the many tattoos he got, including the ones he received from 106-year-old famed tattoo guru or mambabatok, Apo Whang-Od – who lives in the remote village of Buscalan, in the municipality of Tinglayan, Kalinga, Philippines.

More Hollywood films are being scheduled for release in China even though the market is not as lucrative as it has been. Sony’s Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse and Paramount’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will open day and date – the former on June 2 and the latter on June 9.

The insightful and cinematic documentary, Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law? will make its World Premiere at the upcoming HOT DOCS 2023 festival in Canada, running through May 7. The launch concludes a long journey for the filmmakers who were first introduced to the young Hong Kong protestor Nathan Law while making the 2017 documentary about his friend, Joshua Wong in Joshua: Teenager Vs Superpower.

Virunga, the Oscar-nominated documentary tells the incredible true story of four rangers who, during political and social unrest risk their lives to protect one of Africa’s most precious wildlife national parks and its endangered gorillas, some of the world’s last mountain gorillas. Directed by Orlando von Einsiedel and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, the powerful Netflix documentary showcases incidents that occurred in Congo’s Virunga National Park during the rise of the violent M23 Rebellion in 2012.

“Those of us who’ve been called upon, sort of outrageously, to defend it [cinema] over the last few years are often accused, I’m often accused, of magical thinking, of nostalgia, of daydreaming as opposed to a sound business plan and it’s taken the last few years for us all to realize that when you’re talking about movies, magical thinking, nostalgia, daydreaming – that is the sound business plan. It’s the only sound business plan.