‘Rent-A-Pal’ Mistakes Dark For Deep In A Cheap ‘Videodrome’ Riff [Review]

Ana de Armas is ready for audiences to see “No Time To Die”.

In a Mexico City recording studio in 1999, the planets aligned. At the center of the jubilant cross-cultural, intergenerational music sessions was Francisco Fellove Valdés, stage name El Gran Fellove, who half a century earlier had combined Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz to create a new style of scat singing.

Covid-19 cases, forcing hundreds into self-isolation and leading to the Scottish Government and Universities Scotland to ask that they do not socialise in hospitality venues this weekend. At Glasgow University, 124 cases of the virus were reported on Thursday, with the number expected to rise.

Camps Bay in Cape Town (Pic: Octagon)

The film and television industries of Israel and the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi unveiled a historic agreement on Monday that will see the two Middle Eastern regions cooperate on training, co-productions, and a joint film festival.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe Abu Dhabi Film Commission has signed a cooperation agreement with the Israel Film Fund and the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film & Television School to foster film and TV ties in the region.The agenda focuses on four initiatives, which interestingly include plans for a new regional film festival.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe recent U.S.-brokered agreement under which Israel established diplomatic relations with two Arab states has rapidly prompted formal film industry ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).The Abu Dhabi Film Commission, the Israel Film Fund and Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Film & Television School (pictured) on Monday announced a wide-ranging agreement with the stated goal of “promoting tolerance, education and developing a deeper cultural

From left- Yanelkys Moreno Agramonte and her partner, Dayana Rodríguez González. (Photo courtesy of Dayana Rodríguez González)

Cape Town’s Manila von Teez is thought to be the first drag star to be included in the Mail & Guardian’s annual 200 Young South Africans list, which features a number of other LGBTIQA+ individuals and allies.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe origin of the drama Buoyancy can be traced back to when Australian filmmaker Rodd Rathjen came across an article a few years ago about Cambodian workers and their life on a Thai fishing trawler.

Move over, Norman Bates. Here comes another lonely single man with mommy issues and a diminishing grasp on reality.

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Framed as a ticking clock political thriller, Iranian director Taghi Amirani’s documentary “Coup 53” plays as an enthralling look at the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh by U.S. and U.K.

Cuba Gooding, Jr. saved a man set on fire during a party over the weekend.