'Botero': Film Review

When you think of the Mount Rushmore directors of horror, names like Wes Craven, John Carpenter, and George A. Romero all come to mind immediately.

the report examined 275 documentary programmes between April 26 and May 21 last year, after numerous broadcasters like the BBC and Sky made pledges to increase their diversity on-and-off screen following the death of George Floyd.The report found that race and racism were the leading topics when a documentary featured a Black person, followed by crime in second and music in third.“The representation of Black people is not varied or nuanced enough,” the report reads.Black professionals working on the documentaries also expressed concern that the commissioning of “Black programming” is still mostly seen through the interests of white commissioners. They believe the issue is compounded by a lack of career progression among Black media workers to positions of editorial control and commissioning power.The report also states Black documentary filmmakers often have to push back against stereotypical representations of Black people on projects, and that Black voices are often pigeon-holed into talking about race.Black production company owners were also not given the same opportunities as non-Black production company owners, the research found.Maxine Watson, executive producer and former BBC commissioner, who contributed her thoughts on Black representation in the industry, said: “When TV talks about a ‘broad audience’ they are really talking about the broad white audience.

Every Time I Die’s break up at a solo show in London.The band underwent a messy split in January, following a public spat between frontman Buckley and the band’s other four members.During the show on Monday (February 7), Buckley addressed the split saying “it is not the end of anything: I can’t even say what the state of the band is right now.”He continued (via Metal Hammer): “I don’t know what the future holds, but I know that, right now, this is exactly where I fucking want to be, and I’m very thankful to be here.”“I think that it’s an objective fact that Every Time I Die existed for longer than most bands, so there was something in that formula that was alchemic, that was completely singular to us. And I think it was the rivalry… I think it was just those two forces constantly battling which kept pushing the band along.

The music icons of our day love to push boundaries and challenge the public – with their sound, their style, and of course, their controversial music videos.

Sharon Liese's documentary follows the contrasting trajectories of four transgender children in Kansas City with engrossing, sometimes surprising results.

Murderous escaped cons are no match for the wrath of a 13-year-old girl in this over-the-top yet effectively taut thriller.

It's too little too late in this tedious biopic of Anglo-Irish modernist designer Eileen Gray and her antagonist Swiss architect Le Corbusier.

By Leo Barraclough

He was best known for his prowess on the pitch, winning four Premier League titles during his five year reign as 'King Eric' at Old Trafford.

Arguably the cutest character from television and film from the past year was the unnamed creature from “The Mandalorian” that fans dubbed Baby Yoda.

By Marc Malkin

Christopher Nolan’s new movie “Tenet” is slated to be the first big-budget film to hit theaters since the coronavirus shutdown, but will there be enough people in the seats in July for the movie to turn a profit?

A year after the release of her Emmy-winning Netflix series When They See Us, filmmaker Ava DuVernay is continuing to share the story of the Exonerated Fivewhile also furthering the conversation around social justice. In a new online education initiative called ARRAY 101, launched by DuVernay's multiplatform media company and arts collective ARRAY, learning guides will be created for the company's films and television series.

By Ellise Shafer

Tamar Braxton shared a video in which she oozes happiness and her fans cannot get enough of her. Check out the new post that she shared on her IG account.

By Will Thorne

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By Manori Ravindran

Richard Herd, the venerable character actor who played Mr. Wilhelm onSeinfeldand appeared in such notable films asAll the President's MenandThe China Syndrome, died Tuesday.

Hannah Gadsby begins her new Netflix special, Douglas, with a proclamation seldom heard in stand-up sets. It isn't as radical as her vow to "quit comedy" in Nanette, the Australian comic's Emmy- and Peabody-winning 2018 meta-comedy special that deconstructed joke structures to explain how humor can prop up power imbalances.

When Hannah Gadsby's 2018 Netflix special Nanette captured the zeitgeist, some people got mad at her for doing "a lecture, a glorified TED Talk, a one-woman show," not a stand-up comedy special. In her new special, Douglas, Gadsby responds directly to the haters by giving an actual lecture, and also indirectly, because Douglas is a stand-up special.

The Panama Film Festival (IFF Panama), with support from the Inter-American Development Bank, is unspooling a five-day online festival, running May 22-26, which includes film screenings and round tables.

By Patrick Frater

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By Martin Dale

In 1980, one of the TV shows that the biggest impact on my class at school was called The Golden Turkey Awards. It was a spoof ceremony to honour the world’s worst films, many of them dating from the 50s and 60s, mostly low-budget sci-fi or inept creature-features. Such was its impact that Channel 4 followed up with a series on The World’s Worst Movies. Clive James devoted a show to bad films. A mini-industry sprang up around risible celluloid disasters.

Esmé von Hoffman's reimagining of the ancient Roman poet as a Detroit lothario has plenty of ideas, but no clear audience in mind for them.

The Italian film industry is filled with equal parts hope and trepidation following an announcement by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on May 16 that the country's cinemas will finally be allowed to reopen on June 15 amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Cinema owners are eager to get back to business after a months-long shutdown — the longest lockdown in Europe — but fear it may be harder than ever to make money.

By Valentina I. Valentini

Brandi Glanville came across fan art that she couldn’t pass up on Thursday night. The Drinking and Tweeting author, 47, maintained her mantra that “the truth will come out” about her alleged months-long affair with Denise Richards. Fans of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are patiently awaiting Brandi’s arrival on the current 10th season of the show — after the network, along with Brandi teased her triumphant return for months.