Culture

Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has called on the Iranian government to allow his countryman and fellow director Jafar Panahi to attend the Cannes Film Festival. Panahi has been barred from leaving Iran since being found guilty...

A Diego Rivera painting set a record Wednesday night for the highest price paid at auction for a Latin American artwork, fetching $9.76 million and taking the honor away from his partner Frida Kahlo. The colorful...

There was an empty chair in Cannes on Thursday for a Russian film director under house arrest back home for a fraud case his producer called “ridiculous”. “Leto” (“Summer”), a biopic about the early days of...

Spanish film royalty, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, walked the red carpet to open the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday with their film “Everybody Knows”, written and directed by Iranian double-Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi. Farhadi strode...

A Florida man has damaged his own brain because “he wanted to forget the Infinity War spoilers” that he saw on the Internet. Jonathan Crane, a 37-year old man, was tired of seeing spoilers of Infinity...

A total of five Bangladeshi films will be screened at the 8th SAARC Film Festival beginning on May 22 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Of these, three films are full-length features and two are short films, according...

Katy Perry sent Taylor Swift a real olive branch on Tuesday, appearing to end a long-running feud between two of pop music’s biggest stars. Swift, 28, posted a video of the package, which also included a...

Rambo is back on the warpath. US film star Sylvester Stallone has revealed that his muscle-packed combat hero Rambo is getting ready to draw blood again in a fifth sequel next year. Stallone is now 71...

India’s iconic Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is being infected by insects. This concern has been raised by none other than the country’s Supreme Court,...

Under house arrest since August last year, Russian theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov will miss the Cannes Film Festival this week, where his film “Leto” or Summer is competing for the prestigious Palme d’Or prize....