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thestandard.com.hk - The Standard 英文虎報 - Hong Kong Cinema Day attendance jumps as Rosanna Law touts strong year for film
Hong Kong Cinema Day attendance jumps as Rosanna Law touts strong year for film
The Standard

Hong Kong's annual 'Cinema Day' saw a significant surge in attendance, with moviegoers flocking to 52 cinemas across the city to enjoy 54 local and international films for a special price of just HK$30 per ticket. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT…

bbc.co.uk - Pauline McLean - River City films last ever scenes after 24 years on the BBC
River City films last ever scenes after 24 years on the BBC
BBC

Pauline McLeanScotland arts correspondent It was a bittersweet day in Shieldinch as the cast and crew of BBC drama River City filmed their last ever scenes. Actor Stephen Purdon, better known as 'Shellsuit' Bob O'Hara, said it was 'emotional…

bbc.co.uk - Pauline McLean - River City films last ever scenes after 24 years on the BBC
River City films last ever scenes after 24 years on the BBC
BBC

It was a bittersweet day in Shieldinch as the cast and crew of BBC drama River City filmed their last ever scenes. Actor Stephen Purdon, better known as 'Shellsuit' Bob O'Hara, said it was 'emotional, surreal, hard to put it into words' on their…

hotair.com - Mark Judge - The Anti-Communist Film Festival Invite List: Adam Driver and George Pelecanos
The Anti-Communist Film Festival Invite List: Adam Driver and George Pelecanos
HotAir

This fall, the Victims of Communism Foundation is hosting an Anti-Communist Film Festival. The idea for the festival came to me last year, and the Victims of Communism Foundation is the perfect sponsor for the event. Over the past year, I've…

hollywoodreporter.com - Brian Davids - 'Sleepers' at 30: Director Barry Levinson Is Still Perplexed by the Film's Controversy
'Sleepers' at 30: Director Barry Levinson Is Still Perplexed by the Film's Controversy
The Hollywood Reporter

[This story contains spoilers for the 30-year-old Sleepers.] Nearly 30 years later, Sleepers director Barry Levinson still believes that the discourse surrounding his star-studded drama lost the plot. Based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's book of the same…

express.co.uk - Emmanuella Ngimbi - Clarkson's Farm issues major announcement after filming halted
Clarkson's Farm issues major announcement after filming halted
Daily Express

Clarkson's Farm's future has been confirmed Jeremy Clarkson has issued a major announcement as fans eagerly await the season five release of his hit Prime Video series, Clarkson's Farm. Major developments have emerged for the Diddly Squat Farm…

examinerlive.co.uk - Sebastian McCormick - Nearly 500 films capturing Bradford life saved from being lost forever
Nearly 500 films capturing Bradford life saved from being lost forever
Yorkshire Live

Across cities like Bradford, hundreds of films are made every day on people's phones, by filmmakers, or by families just recording some of their day-to-day life. Sadly, very few of these films are preserved, and many could one day be completely…

deadline.com - Glenn Garner - Donnie Wahlberg Offered Half His Paycheck To Film 'Boston Blue' In Boston
Donnie Wahlberg Offered Half His Paycheck To Film 'Boston Blue' In Boston
Deadline

With Boston Blue heading into Season 2, Donnie Wahlberg is gearing up to head back to Canada to film the CBS offshoot's sophomore season. The 2x Emmy nominee recently explained that the show films in “both” Toronto and Boston for the…

hollywoodreporter.com - Ryan Gajewski - 'Backrooms': How Kane Parsons Turned YouTube Project Into 'Lonely' A24 Film With 30K-Square-Foot Set
'Backrooms': How Kane Parsons Turned YouTube Project Into 'Lonely' A24 Film With 30K-Square-Foot Set
The Hollywood Reporter

Filmmaker Kane Parsons is ready to take Backrooms from YouTube to the big screen. The 20-year-old Parsons, who will become A24 ‘s youngest feature director when the studio releases his horror movie in theaters on May 29, took the stage at…

collider.com - Andrea M. Ciriaco - 10 Most Undeniable Film Noir Movie Classics, Ranked
10 Most Undeniable Film Noir Movie Classics, Ranked
Collider

Classic film noir is more than just a genre; it's a distinct mood of cynicism, corruption, and deception set in shadowy alleyways and smoke-filled rooms with questionable characters and stories seeping in crime, danger, and betrayal. The birth of…

collider.com - Jasneet Singh  - Sam Rockwell's Intense Psychological Thriller With Vera Farmiga Is a Modern Hitchcock Film
Sam Rockwell's Intense Psychological Thriller With Vera Farmiga Is a Modern Hitchcock Film
Collider

There are still plenty of filmmakers still inspired by the works of Alfred Hitchcock, from the way he crafted suspense to how he dropped ordinary people into extraordinary situations. In 2007, director George Ratliff took the psychological thrills…

variety.com - Naman Ramachandran - Anthony Chen Warns Social Media Is 'Hurting Our Humanity' as Singapore Trilogy Closer Opens Far East Film Fest
Anthony Chen Warns Social Media Is 'Hurting Our Humanity' as Singapore Trilogy Closer Opens Far East Film Fest
Variety

Anthony Chen used a panel at the Far East Film Festival, Udine, on Saturday to deliver a sharp critique of social media's effect on human attention, cinema culture and what he called the fundamental experience of being human – remarks that…

thehindu.com - Rahul Karmakar - Assam-born writer-actor's film screened at international festival in Mexico
Assam-born writer-actor's film screened at international festival in Mexico
The Hindu

A British-produced and Portuguese-directed film with an Assam-born actor in the lead role was screened at the 41st Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico on Friday (April 24, 2026). A Teacher's Gift was a part of the Premio Maguey…

collider.com - Jasneet Singh  - Shudder's Most Overlooked Horror-Thriller Is the Found Footage Film You've Been Waiting For
Shudder's Most Overlooked Horror-Thriller Is the Found Footage Film You've Been Waiting For
Collider

We've watched intrepid investigators and wise priests battle against the supernatural, but what about your run-of-the-mill cops? This year, Bodycam landed on Shudder with an ambitious approach to the found footage genre and has yet to find an…

nypost.com - Shane Galvin - Trove of leaked documents prove US lab where two missing scientists worked was studying UFOs: film
Trove of leaked documents prove US lab where two missing scientists worked was studying UFOs: film
New York Post

A trove of documents from the now-dead cybersecurity chief of Los Alamos National Laboratory — where two of the 11 missing or dead US scientists worked — purport to show that the US government secretly conducted UFO-related…

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