Emma Stone tops Forbes list of best paid actresses

LOS ANGELES – Oscar-winning Emma Stone capped a perfect 12 months on Wednesday as she knocked Jennifer Lawrence off the top spot on Forbes’...

China blockbuster joins top 100 grossing films worldwide

SHANGHAI – Fresh from shattering China’s box-office record, patriotic blockbuster Wolf Warriors 2 has claimed another slice of history by becoming the first non-Hollywood...

Marvel’s battle-scarred The Defenders find teamwork tough

NEW YORK – Riding the slipstream of the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four, The Defenders is promising to bring a more tortured and cerebral...

John Cleese says comedians needed more than ever

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Monty Python star John Cleese said Wednesday that the need for comedy was greater than ever, as he accepted...

Handhell

MOVIE REVIEW Salvage Directed by Sherad Anthony Sanchez By Noel Vera Sherad Anthony Sanchez’s Salvage (2015) takes its title from the common Filipino slang word for summary execution,...

M:I6 shoot halted as Cruise breaks ankle in stunt

LOS ANGELES – Mission: Impossible 6 has halted filming after Tom Cruise broke his ankle in a botched stunt, the director confirmed Wednesday, while...

Children of the mist

MOVIE REVIEW Hamog Directed by Ralston Jover By Noel Vera Ralston Jover’s Hamog (Haze, 2015) starts appropriately enough with just that: a thick cloud hovering low over humid...

The history of objects is what is important

THE PICKERS know what they’re doing: they go to America’s back roads and pick through junk in the hopes of finding treasure. The television...

Birdshot: inspired by a true story

MIKHAIL RED was only 23 when he and his film crew shot his second full-length feature Birdshot (his first was Rekorder) over 23 days...

Elvis’s jumpsuit tops $1.5-M memorabilia auction

FORTY YEARS ago, Elvis Presley left the building – permanently. The original rock-and-roll superstar died Aug. 16, 1977, of a myocardial infarction, but his...

Craig confirms he’s back as 007… one last time

NEW YORK – Daniel Craig, the British actor who famously complained he’d rather slash his wrists than play James Bond a fifth time, has...

RIP. LOL

YOUR ESTRANGED FATHER, Hesus, has died, and your mother asks you and your siblings (including the family dog Hudas) to go on a road...