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...