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The group started laughing at one of America's most sacred war memorials, prompting a sentinel to reprimand them

Jim Caviezel stars in this action film as a former Special Forces officer facing off against a ruthless corporate behemoth razing homes in a rural Wyoming town.

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal closing up at the American Film Market, Cohen Media Group has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Woman Unknown, the acclaimed feature from Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy (Queen of Hearts), which won the Golden Lion for Best Film at Venice Film Festival, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for […]

Donald Trump and his administration are gearing up to defend their most loyal soldier

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired the North American rights to Blood Behind Us, one of the last final movies of actor Michael Madsen. The deal comes as AFM gets underway today. In the Brendan Gabriel Murphy directed action thriller, a battle-scarred ex-soldier Casey Hatfield (Tanner Beard), who is fighting to reclaim his role as a […]

How did a Uruguayan medic who grew up under an anti-music dictatorship win a best song Academy award? As he looks set to scoop up more prizes at the Latin Grammys, we meet the extraordinary Jorge Drexler It makes sense that a Uruguayan doctor turned singer would write a song that begins: “Long live science! Long live poetry!” Guitar y Vos (Guitar and You) is also the first track that Jorge Drexler performs this afternoon at a music industry event in the basement of Madrid’s Movistar arena. The second is El Otro Lado del Rio (The Other Side of the River), which he composed for the Che Guevara road movie The Motorcycle Diaries. Drexler was still largely unknown when it won the best original song Oscar in 2005, so was not invited to perform at the ceremony. In a classy act of defiance, he delivered a short a cappella version in lieu of an acceptance speech. That’s how he sings it today too, solo under a spotlight on the stairs, before joining his band on stage. Backed by three drummers playing in the Afro-Uruguayan candombe style, Drexler turns a corporate lunchtime gig into a midnight block party. From his latest album Taracá – nominated for eight Latin Grammys at the forthcoming awards on 12 November – comes Ante la Duda, Baila (When in Doubt, Dance). While his lyrics list Spanish kings and colonial governments who have banned various forms of dancing over the centuries, the singer duly shakes his ass and moves us to do the same. Continue reading...

'The Walking Dead' actor Ross Marquand is leading an ensemble of the indie feature set during World War Two.

Daniel MacPherson, who recently starred opposite Russell Crowe in “Beast,” has signed on for “Bluefly,” a science-fiction action thriller toplined by Crowe and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. “Predators” filmmaker Nimród Antal is directing. MacPherson will play Dugan, a Special Forces soldier toughened by years of combat, joining the film’s two leads. The film unfolds in the […]

Portraying the humour, passion and grit that took the actor from bit parts to Oscar glory, this making-of tale is even more mythic than the original movie For fun, excitement and the transcendental thrill of success, there’s nothing to touch this very enjoyable drama about the making of Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar-winning 1976 boxing movie, Rocky. It’s a movie of duplicates and surfaces and heartfelt imitations. Perhaps not very profound but, as Oscar Wilde’s Lord Henry Wotton says, it is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. It is the story of the struggling young Italian-American unknown who’d had some minor acting jobs – including softcore pornography – but wrote a thumpingly good screenplay inspired by the underdog white boxer Chuck Wepner , who briefly knocked Ali down in 1975. With tremendous self-belief, Stallone insisted he play the lead role himself, holding out against vast cash offers to just take the writing credit and let an established star into the ring. Continue reading...