Ivan Passer, Director of ‘Cutter’s Way,’ Dies at 86

By Denise Petski

Going into 2020, the beauty industry is already focusing on "clean" products — those that are safer for animals, humans and the planet.

By Matt Grobar

Just months after Cathy Yan’s feature directing debut, Shanghai-set ensemble comedy “Dead Pigs,” made a big splash at Sundance in 2018, the Chinese-born filmmaker landed a gig helming a giant studio franchise movie, the DC Comics adaptation “Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” starring Margot Robbie.

In 1996, the music video director Floria Sigismondi experienced a pivotal moment in her career—all because she doodled a bald, freakishly tall guy in a rubber suit. Her drawing came to life in “The Beautiful People,” where a towering Marilyn Manson leads a cult rally, while wiggling earthworms and torturous dental devices add to the general sense of terror.

Upcoming South African film ‘Moffie’ has already made a massive impact on the world stage. The film will have its premiere over the next few months in Palm Springs (US), Norway, Ireland and Mexico. The film has enamoured audiences around the globe already with sold-out screenings and high praise from critics in London, Stockholm and Glasgow and also had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September last year.

What happens when you mix cats, a couple of Facebook watchdogs and a deranged killer who publishes homicidal videos to the Internet? One of the most talked-about (and disturbing) true-crime shows in recent memory.

Ladj Ly’s Oscar-nominated drama “Les Miserables” won best film, male newcomer and script at the Lumières Awards, the French prizes given by Paris-based members of the foreign press. This 25th edition of the awards was presided over by French actress Isabelle Huppert.

By Andreas Wiseman

This week, the Philip Rush Center Board of Directors named Simone Bell as its Interim Executive Director.

Celtic have run the rule over Peterborough's Ivan Toney as a host of club circle around the in-demand striker.

Christina Milian and boyfriend Matt Pokora welcomed their first child on Monday (Jan. 20), announcing the birth of son Isaiah in a series of Instagram posts.

Christina Milian is a mom again!