Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev triggered a social media storm on Thursday after she attended the Cannes film festival in an evening dress featuring a Jerusalem Islamic shrine. Several tweets...
"House of Cards" star Robin Wright -- who plays a quietly Machiavellian First Lady in the hit Netflix series -- said Thursday that Michelle Obama should be the next US president. The actress told...
New York directors Noah Baumbach and the Safdie brothers, who have films in the running for this year's Palme d'Or in Cannes, spotlight the vitality of independent cinema in America's cultural...
Gaza doesn't have much space for cultural events -- there is no proper cinema in the entire enclave -- but this weekend the city's port has been transformed into a venue for outdoor screenings. The...
Netflix boss Reed Hastings has hit out at the French cinema "establishment", which he claims wants to block the streaming giant's movies from the Cannes film festival. Hastings took to his personal...
The Cannes film festival effectively slapped a ban on future Netflix-backed movies Wednesday after the streaming giant refused to screen its two films in this year's competition in French cinemas....
Rapper M.anifest will represent Africa at the 2017 Midem Artist Accelerator (MAA), an international career booster for emerging musical talent. The 2017 Ghana Music Awards Best Rapper earned the nod...
Rapper M.anifest will represent Africa at the 2017 Midem Artist Accelerator(MAA), an international career booster for emerging musical talent. The 2017 Ghana Music Awards Best Rapper earned the nod...
Touted by The Guardian as Africa's Foremost Rapper, branded by Midem International as intellectual as Talib Kweli with a blend of Kanye West and Ghana's designated best rapper & godMc, M.anifest...
Controversial director Roman Polanski -- who is still wanted in the United States for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl -- will premiere his new film at the Cannes film festival next month,...
Will Smith has been nominated for two Oscars (The Pursuit of Happyness and Ali) Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jessica Chastain will sit on the Cannes jury when the festival kicks off next month. The...
US actor Will Smith -- one of the most bankable stars in the world -- is to sit on the jury of the Cannes film festival next month, its organisers said Tuesday. The former hip-hop star, 48, who made...
Star Wars legend Mark Hamill -- Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy -- goes over to the dark side in a new offbeat comedy to be shown at next month's Cannes film festival. "Brigsby Bear" has...
A tongue-in-cheek action movie about a Trump-era civil war between redneck Texans and East Coast liberals will feature in the Director's Fortnight sidebar at next month's Cannes film festival,...
Sofia Coppola's Civil War thriller "The Beguiled" starring Nicole Kidman and "Happy End" by Austria's Michael Haneke starring French icon Isabelle Huppert are among the 18 films picked to compete in...
The Cannes Festival was due Thursday to unveil which films have made the cut for its 70th birthday edition, where the silver screen's finest will be vying for glory next month. Organisers of the...
Legendary US documentary maker Ken Burns's new 18-hour television history of the Vietnam war is a "visceral" experience which will make viewers feel like they had lived through it, his co-director...
In 2014, I attended what until last night was my best party ever at the South of France, to be precise at Cannes, during the 67th Cannes Film Festival. It was a sea-front A-listers’ party,...
Uma Thurman is to star in Lars von Trier's new serial killer movie "The House That Jack Built", producers announced Tuesday as shooting got underway in Sweden. The US actress -- no stranger to gore...
By El-Amisty Nobo The chase for who becomes the next coach of the Ghana Black Stars is heating up by the second since Avram Grant’s contract expired at midnight of Tuesday, February 28, 2017....
