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Academy Awards : “The Boy and the Heron” and “Godzilla Minus One” Win Oscars!

Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary Japanese anime director, was crowned Best Animated Feature winner for The Boy and the Heron at the U.S. Academy Awards, beating out four other films in the same category, including Disney’s ‘Elemental’ and the U.S. superhero film ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.’ For the first time in more than two decades, Miyazaki was…

Parasite Actor Lee Sun-Kyun Has Died

Lee Sun-Kyun, a South Korean actor who starred in the Oscar winning film,“Parasite,” has died on Wednesday morning, according to the Associated Press. He was only 48. Lee was found unconscious in a parked car in Seoul on March 27, when he was found, there was a charcoal briquette in the car. Lee’s wife had…

Winners, A Lost Oscar Statuette Becomes A Symbol For Iran’s Repressed Talent

The United Kingdom selects a Farsi language film, set in the heart of Iran, as its entry for the 2023 Academy Awards. Winners — directed by Scotland-based filmmaker of Persian descent Hassan Nazer — had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival where it won the Audience Award. The film also received the…

Japan Submits Director Chie Hayakawa’s Cannes Winning title “Plan 75” for the Oscar Entry

After director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” garnered every prestigious critic awards and the Oscar last year, Japan hopes to repeat its success with Chie Hayakawa’s debut feature film, “Plan 75” which government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing,…

Will Smith Addresses Oscars Slap in New Video

Over four months after this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, actor Will Smith has now spoken on video about the infamous ‘slapping’ incident. In the nearly six-minute video just posted to his official YouTube account on Friday that began with the words on screen, “It’s been a minute. online pharmacy vibramycin over the counter with best…

EarthX Film Festival: Deep In The Heart, A Filmic Paean To Texas “Voiced Out” By Matthew McConaughey

Ben Masters’ film Deep In The Heart, narrated by Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey, premieres worldwide on opening night at the 2022 EarthX Film Festival. The 2022 EarthX Film Festival is a four day kermesse featuring film, music, events and interactive environmental programs set in the heart of Dallas Arts District; taking place from May…

Tribeca Film Festival “Wolfgang” : Interview with a Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck and Director David Gelb

Back in the 1980s and ‘90s、Everybody in The Hollywood wanted to go to Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant Spago, which featured an open kitchen with a wood-burning stove made for serving up fancy pizzas. Born in Austria, Wolfgang Puck studied at three-star restaurants such as “Maxim” in Paris, France and “Hôtel de Paris” in Monte Carlo since…

Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Thelma & Louis : Red Carpet and Q&A footages

GEENA DAVIS AND SUSAN SARANDON CELEBRATE THE  30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THELMA AND LOUISE  WITH SPECIAL DRIVE-IN SCREENING EVENT  MGM celebrated the film’s 30th anniversary last night with a special drive-in screening and Q&A with Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis and the film’s screenwriter Caillie Khouri. Davis and Sarandon also posed for pictures with the film’s Ford…

Matthew McConaughey is Considering a Run at the Texas Governor’s Seat

Matthew McConaughey, Texas Governor? In what one might consider the most out of left field news of 2021, film star Matthew McConaughey has made it clear that he is giving major consideration toward running for Texas Governor’s seat. In the past, the Texas native has shot down previous inquiries into his desire to run for…