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The king, Queens and MaXhosa: Ruth E Carter’s blockbuster costume designs
Ruth Carter and Laduma Ngxokolo’s collaborative costumes make ‘Coming 2 America’ easier on the eye
Original copy of ‘Schindler’s List’ up for sale on ebay
An original copy of the list of Jews Oskar Schindler saved from the Holocaust is up for sale on eBay, with the starting bid set at $3-million.
Spielberg defends lesbian sex scene in Palme d’Or-winning film
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg has defended the graphic sex scenes in "Blue is the Warmest Colour", which won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize.
Spielberg, Day-Lewis unite for epic ‘Lincoln’ tale
By Hollywood standards, "Lincoln" is as monumental as it gets, even for multiple Academy Award winners as Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis.
The misadventures of Spielberg
Hergé’s Tintin is one of the great creations of the 20th century, which makes the dismal Hollywood film version little more than murder, says a fan.
Indiana Jones cracks whip at box office opening
Actor Harrison Ford cracked the box-office whip as his latest Indiana Jones movie grossed a hefty -million from its first day in North American theatres. That bodes well for a…
Cannes critics cool as film competition nears end
A lack of memorable movies mean the 2008 Cannes film festival is unlikely to live long in the minds of many critics, who argue that after a solid start the main competition…
Harrison Ford resigns himself to a critical lashing
While a frenzy was building amid the sea of fans massed to glimpse Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford and the rest of the stars at the world premiere on Sunday, a healthy scepticism…
Hollywood boys who just don’t want to grow up
When to slow down and retire? For most people in their 60s the decision is a no-brainer — the sooner the better. But in the rare air of movie stardom, where careers are fuelled…
China’s Olympic year of celebration turns to tragedy
A devastating earthquake is the latest in a series of disasters and controversies that have turned what China had hoped would be an Olympic year of celebration into one of…
Open the internet during Games, Beijing told
The internet must be open during the Beijing Olympics. That was the message a top-ranking International Olympic Committee (IOC) official delivered on Tuesday to Beijing…
Blistering barnacles! It’s Spielberg’s new Tintin
For those who remember, he was the young boy who gets the girl in the film Love Actually. For those who don’t, Thomas Sangster may yet become a household name. The sixth-former…
China urges Sudan to seek compromise in Darfur
China has urged Sudan to do more to stop fighting in Darfur and speed up the arrival of more peacekeepers, Beijing’s envoy on the crisis said of Friday, defending his country as…
Sudan told to speed deployment of peacekeepers
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband called Friday for Sudan to speed up the deployment of peacekeepers to Darfur and to end aerial bombing in the troubled region’s western…