Review: In 'Copperfield,' Iannucci brings Dickens to life

Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, one of Venice’s two Career Golden Lion recipients this year alongside Tilda Swinton, brings prewar Hong Kong to exquisite if restrained life in her latest historical drama, Love After Love (Di Yu Lu Xiang).

“In Between Dying” is a dreamlike story of personal transformation from rising Azerbaijani director Hilal Beydarov. With a fast-growing body of work that blends fiction and documentary, Beydarov is singlehandedly raising the profile of Azerbaijan at film festivals.

Alissa Simon Film CriticThe winner of Karlovy Vary’s East of the West prize for her debut, “The Wednesday Child” (2015), Hungarian multihyphenate Lili Horvát screens “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival after its world premiere in Venice Days.

Joss Stone made some new controversial statements on her podcast. The British singer, 33, was on her podcast "A Cuppa Happy" chatting with musician Nitin Sawhney about a trip she took to Libya and how the local militia “looked after” her.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIsabel Sandoval’s “Lingua Franca” is a visually gorgeous drama from the auteur filmmaker who also stars in the film, now streaming on Netflix.Sandoval plays Olivia, an undocumented Filipina trans woman who spends her days working as a caretaker for Olga (the late Lynn Cohen).

Jessica Kiang Once more with rather less feeling: after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs,” acclaimed Hong Kong director Ann Hui returns to the work of celebrated 20th century author Eileen Chang with “Love After Love,” a not-at-all-short adaptation of a Chang short story laboring under the English title “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier.” Hui has assembled something of an all-star lineup, with the young leads played by rising actors Sandra Ma (“Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly

Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest are back in business on the set of Live! in New York City.

Over a year after Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant loosed each other’s corsets and fell in love in a French Cannes film, and less than a week before Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet are due to do the same in coastal England at TIFF, Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby play American, mid-19th century secret lesbian lovers in Mona Fastvold‘s Venice competition title “The World to Come,” a beautiful and quiet, seasons-spanning tale of poetry and pining pioneerwomen.

Love Island contestant Adam Collard has revealed he has tested positive for coronavirus after a holidaying in Greece.

European Week of Sport 2020 at the Sport Ireland Campus, the 2FM presenter shared his insight into whether his gig on the Aussie edition of the show would come to pass this year.‘They haven’t officially called it but I can’t for my money see it happen this year in any way, shape or form,’ he explained.‘I think Australia’s gone back into lockdown,’ he said, adding that he doesn’t think they could film in Fiji again right now.‘The American version filmed in Fiji as well and they’re filming in

Amy Hart and Curtis Pritchard had quite the rollercoaster ride during their time in the Love Island villa after coupling up on day one of the last summer series and they even became one of the first pairings to go official(ish) when they became half boyfriend and girlfriend in the second week.They seemed destined to make it all the way to the final but, as we know all too well, nothing’s for certain when it comes to Love Island and the pair split when Curtis had his head turned by bombshell

(CNN)The first days and weeks of quarantine seem so far away now. But we're reminded of how weird they felt in "Love in the Time of Corona," a new Freeform and Hulu series that takes us into the love lives of four different households during the pandemic.

Gigi Hadid’s latest Instagram posts may just have made Dua Lipa broody!The model, 25, shared some beautiful pregnancy photos to her social media and her brother Anwar Hadid’s girlfriend loved them so much they brought her to tears. Gigi - who is expecting her first child with One Direction’s Zayn Malik, 27 - has kept her baby bump under wraps for the most part of her pregnancy, but decided to share some stunning, black-and-white images with her fans. MORE: Dua Lipa calls for an end to online

Mika has announced he will be live-streaming an ‘I Love Beirut’ benefit concert on Saturday September 19.He revealed his plans for the performance a few days ago on social media, with tickets going on sale yesterday (August 24).

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLebanese-British singer-songwriter Mika will stage a livestreamed concert to raise funds and awareness for relief in the wake of the explosion in Beirut last month that killed more than 200 people and devastated a large area in the country’s capital.His “I Love Beirut” benefit concert will take place on Saturday 19 September and will be live-streamed across four time zones via YouTube.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticIt only took a few weeks of social distancing to make the world that existed before COVID-19 feel absurdly out of reach. After building new routines of donning face masks and frantically wiping down precious groceries, a reality with dive bars, concerts and dinner parties becomes more and more abstract, not to mention painful to recall.

Love in the Time of Corona, many were skeptical about whether it could (or frankly should) pull it off.