Film

The Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times railed against the global blockbuster hit Top Gun: Maverick on Monday — over a year after its release — as warmongering “propaganda,” proving that the Pentagon “censors the creation of films.”

Last week, the British Film Institute released its once-a-decade film poll and director Paul Schrader smelled the same rat all free-thinking people did.

An imam hired to be an independent advisor on Islamophobia for the British government has been dismissed for working to get a “blasphemous” film about the daughter of the prophet Muhammad cancelled.

Bowing to pressure from protests from Muslim groups, a British cinema chain has pulled all screenings of a film over “safety concerns”.

China provides open-minded Western actors a refreshing career alternative to sluggish Hollywood and does not “get enough credit” for vast improvements in film production, Kevin Lee, a British actor working in China for a decade, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview from Beijing.

Chinese filmmakers are preparing to follow up The Battle at Lake Changjin, which became this year’s top box-office attraction in China with a good deal of help from the Communist government, with another anti-American propaganda film about the Korean War called Crossing the Yalu River.

The Chinese coronavirus is causing a nightmare for film and TV productions in the United Kingdom, as the country becomes a global hotspot for the new Delta variant.

Russia’s space agency announced plans on Thursday to send a film crew to the International Space Station (ISS) in October as part of its efforts to become the first nation to shoot a fictional movie in space.

Legendary French film director Jean-Luc Godard is one of the thirty cultural figures who have written a letter demanding French president Emmanuel Macron not extradite seven Italian far-left terrorists at the request of the Italian government.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has blocked the action movie Monster Hunter from appearing on several Chinese film review websites and ticketing apps following a backlash against a scene in the film that the Communist Party claimed was offensive.

China pulled the action movie “Monster Hunter” from its cinemas on Saturday following a backlash over a scene in the film in which a character makes a pun on the word “Chinese” that the Communist regime claimed was insulting.

The Netflix documentary Knock Down the House, which follows the campaigns of female Democratic hopefuls in the 2018 election cycle, and highlights Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), is so far the highest rated film of 2019, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

This latest Halloween remake leaves you frustrated in stead of scared and is too unfocused to build any suspense.

Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council is crying foul after Beijing indefinitely suspended screenings of the movie Missing Johnny, whose star Lawrence Ko has evidently been blacklisted for favoring Taiwanese independence.

The communist regime governing Cuba recently blocked the screening of a film in which a character describes founding father José Martí as a “fag” and a “turd,” later arguing that Martí’s image – co-opted by the communists despite his affinity for the United States – was “sacred” and not subject to public scrutiny.

A Massachusetts high school canceled a screening of the movie Cool Runnings after receiving complaints from the school community that the movie is “racially insensitive.”

German public broadcaster ARD has announced they will be airing a made-for-tv film in which a European family flees to Africa as “refugees” in a future where populist governments rule much of Western Europe.

New German satirical film “Black Nazi” calls for the deportation of PEGIDA founder Lutz Bachmann and is panned by critics as “moral blackmail.” Mondays in Dresden have become well known for the weekly PEGIDA demonstrations often led by founder Lutz

Last night saw a feminist protest invade the premiere of a pro-feminist film, setting off smoke flares and trespassing on the red carpet in London’s Leicester Square. Police declined to make a single arrest and it has now been revealed the

Showing an Iranian-made movie on the life of Islam’s Muhammad is a sacrilegious endeavor, Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Shaikh Abdul Aziz Al Shaikh, said this week.

Rusty Griswold is all growed up. Oddly enough, though, he’s no longer the cool, self-assured Anthony Michael Hall we met in 1983. He is now Ed Helms, a sweet-natured bumbler just like his dad Clark, the iconic character portrayed  by

William Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning director of The French Connection, has dismissed modern superhero and sci-fi movies for dominating the industry, and says they lack substance.

In a movie-world before superheroes and comic books and franchises and universes, Concept was King, and in 1990 author Michael Crichton came up with a doozy. Imagine, Crichton fantasized, that a mosquito drew blood from a dinosaur and then got

Barry Navidi—who produced the Al Pacino vehicles, “The Merchant of Venice,” “Salome,” and “Wild Salome,” and is touring with Pacino’s current one-man show—spoke with Variety in Tehran during the International Urban Cities Film Festival. He asserted his excitement about the rapprochement between the Obama administration and Iran because it will encourage fimmaking in Iran.

Director Brad Peyton’s summer disaster epic “San Andreas” is filled with plenty of eye-catching, cutting-edge CGI spectacle, the cartoonish kind Hollywood has been conditioning us for years to accept and, at least in my case, surrender to. The human story,

Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea a “Poltergeist” remake was coming. So it was just a coincidence that after a number of years, I popped the 1982 original into the DVD player. Obviously, the hope was for

Faced with the daunting task of a follow-up to his critically-lauded 2012 box office sensation “The Avengers,” writer/director Joss Whedon faced a lift as heavy as Thor’s hammer. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans),

On Thursday, The California Film Commission Board of Directors accepted California’s new tax credit program. The state of California, desperate to keep fleeing TV and film productions from leaving the state, tripled its annual budget for film/TV credits last summer, and now that the Film Commission has approved, will send the measure to the governor’s Office of Administrative Law for review and final approval.

A new study reveals females only accounted for 12% of protagonists in the top 100 domestic box office hits of 2014, reports Deadline.

Authorities in Paris banned filming police and army-themed action scenes inside the city over the weekend, out of consideration that actors and high-speed car chases could be mistaken for the real thing.

The Sundance Film Festival begins this week and you know what that means: a coming onslaught of oppressive, non-stop coverage from the entertainment media about dozens of films no one will ever see … ever. Deadline published a fine illustration

Italian Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, is offering new legislation to ban cigarettes in national TV and film productions, leading 20 of country’s top film virtuosos to express outrage at the proposal.

In a Weekly Standard piece titled, “The ‘American Sniper’ Freakout: Why the Left Can’t Tolerate This Movie,” Mark Hemingway does a fine job of breaking down exactly why the Left either hates “American Sniper” or is dishonestly claiming it is

The science is now settled: Anti-American films are costly box office bombs at a rate of nothing less than 100%. On the flip-side, pro-American films make money. Many are outright blockblusters. Moreover, almost every the anti-American film produced over the

Only seven percent of Hollywood’s top films were directed by women in 2014, a new study by San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film reveals.