They started to arrive before the first light of dawn.  Parking their trucks and pitching their tents like an amazing travelling show....

Charles John Huffam Dickens  (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), a well-known English novelist, journalist and short story writer, has had...

From the moment when filmmakers like Georges Méliès showed that animated images could go beyond the simple reproduction of real images,...

I’m sure most of us have said to ourselves ‘If only I could go back in time, I would make a different decision!’  If only, but in...

“Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me”. Marlee Matlin As an industry of the imagination, Hollywood generally...

What is contentious in one country or area of the world is perfectly normal in another, profanities are part of everyday language in some...

The term Sword-and-sandal or Peplum to describe a certain kind of film was invented by French film critics, from ‘Cahier du Cinema’ and...

Cowboys, gunfights, loan riders (usually bounty hunters), bandits riding through the hot, dusty desert!  What can we be describing other...

Artificial intelligence continues to expand in cinema and in other media: editing, special effects, dubbing, all the way to production...

“Barbie has a great day every day, but Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him.” -Narrator. Imagine living in a world where women...

On August 10, Hollywood screenwriters had already been on strike for 100 days, they were followed by actors in mid-July, which made this...

Indiana Jones in The Temple of Doom promotional photo via Disney The heat of a Cypriot summer has just hit us and sitting in a cool dark...

Action! Un mois de vacances aux Etats-Unis et une obsession collective sur la platforme Netflix USA: In The Dark, une série télévisée...

If approximately 50% of the world’s population is female, why is it that less than 3% of women directors have ever received an Oscar! ...

Underground cinema is radical in form and usually operates out of the mainstream cinema either in style, genre or financing. It can also...

‘As a boy, I used to look upon hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures’ Cecil B. DeMille Amazingly, one hundred years ago in 1923,...

The Film Foundation is a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the exhibition of restored and classic...

Does it surprise you to learn that the actors with the most nominations and the one who has been awarded the most Oscars are both women? ...