The 8th Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest) will open July 19 with “Ninavau,” a Malaysian feature exploring cultural identity and emotional heritage by director Bebbra Mailin, and close July 27 with “Transamazonia,” an environmental epic spanning France, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland and Taiwan from director Pia
Dustin Lance Black not only directed the new documentary “Rock Out” about the queer influence on heavy metal, punk and rock n’ roll, but he’s also in it. For good reason. The feature pulls inspiration from a New York Times article by Jim Farber that
Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian, two of the directors of the upcoming Disney-Pixar film “Elio,” and Dean DeBlois, director of DreamWorks’ live-action “How to Train Dragon,” are among the speakers set to attend the weeklong VIEW Conference this fall in Turin, Italy. The annual English-language
When Nezza went against the rules the Los Angeles Dodgers had set out for her and proudly sang “The Star Spangled Banner,” there were some who considered it a downright ungodly moment. But the 30-year-old singer tells Variety that, to her, it truly had to
For Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor, stars of Bravo’s hit reality show “The Valley,” toxic arguments were nothing new. It’s why Cartwright left Taylor in January 2024, taking their young son, Cruz, with her. But last July, two days before the show’s second season started production,
The stars — and even one of the dinosaurs — of “Jurassic World Rebirth” hit a very green carpet in central London on Tuesday for the film’s world premiere. Alongside director Gareth Edwards, Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey (no stranger to green carpets thanks
“Wizkid: Long Live Lagos” distinguishes itself from the endless parade of music documentaries that fill film fest programs in its very first moments. What other recent doc has started with the son of legendary Nigerian activist and artist Fela Kuti, Femi-Anikulapo Kuti, invoking the lasting
Production has officially wrapped on the high-flying action comedy “Zombie Plane” as Ice-T and Brian Austin Green have joined the cast. Vanilla Ice, Sophie Monk, Chuck Norris, Sir Bob Geldof and many others star in the film where celebrities are seen by day as the