Wim Wenders traveled to Udine to personally present Yakusho Koji with the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 28th Far East Film Festival on Saturday, using the occasion to describe how their collaboration on “Perfect Days” quietly abandoned the conventions of fiction filmmaking. Wenders, who cast Yakusho as the taciturn Tokyo toilet cleaner…
Australia is sending its first-ever delegation to Ties That Bind, EAVE‘s flagship European-Asian co-production training program, with two Asian Australian filmmakers joining the initiative’s annual session in Udine, Italy, where it runs alongside the Far East Film Festival and Focus Asia through April 30. Industry development specialist Sheree Ramage shepherded the delegation to Udine, bringing…
Madonna made an epic surprise appearance Saturday night at West Hollywood LGBTQ bar and nightclub The Abbey. The invite-only event was billed as “Club Confessions Los Angeles” with DJs Stuart Price (producer of both of Madonna’s “Confessions” albums), Romy and Mez Monty. The festivities also served as a birthday party for The Abbey’s owner Tristan…
Ayo, Kylie Minogue just reminded us all why she’s been running the pop game for nearly four decades. Today marks exactly 37 years since the Australian queen dropped ‘Hand on Your Heart’ on April 25, 1989, and honestly? That track still hits different. PopBase took to Twitter to mark the milestone, posting about the anniversary…
SEVENTEEN hit a major milestone today as their career-defining track ‘PRETTY U’ officially turned ten years old. Hey hey, time really does fly when you’re making bops that age like fine wine. The PopBase account marked the occasion with a simple but powerful tweet. They wrote: ’10 years ago today, SEVENTEEN released ‘PRETTY U.” The…
Chilean Juan Pablo Sallato’s black & white fiction feature debut “Red Hangar,” which chronicles long-suppressed details behind the military coup that ousted Chile’s President Salvador Allende, swept the Ibero-American strand of the 41st Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG), taking home every single category. In the Best Performance category, “Red Hangar” lead Nicolás Zárate shared the prize…
“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season 4 officially has a premiere date at Paramount+. The fourth season of the sci-fi show will premiere on July 23, with new episodes dropping weekly thereafter through the finale in Sept. 24. A new teaser for the season has also been released, which can be seen below. The announcement…
Why is it that nearly every fictional movie that is about music, or set in a musical milieu, has to feel as phony as a $2 resale ticket? Biopics like “Michael,” “Back to Black” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” are their own unbelievable animals. But I’m talking about the wave of promising-sounding, mostly cringe-inducing dramas like “Mother…
The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was turned upside down Saturday night as a gunman was taken into custody after shots were fired near the ballroom at the Washington Hilton. President Trump, first lady Melania Trump and other administration officials were evacuated by the Secret Service after the shots disrupted the annual gala fundraiser event….
Nearly 40 years after its debut, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” has returned to Broadway. The second installment in legendary playwright August Wilson’s “The Century Cycle,” “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, grapples with Black life in the decades after Emancipation. Directed by Debbie Allen, the emotionally gripping play is set in a Pittsburgh boarding house….