Time travel, killer aliens and a monster showdown: the best films of 2021 so far

William Shatner is speaking out against a comment made by the editor-in-chief of Russian state-funded television news network, RT.

As social media has continued to take over the digital landscape, effectively turning everyone with a smartphone and a connection to the internet into a content creator, several social platforms have popped up, each one of them offering a way for almost anyone to express themselves with ease. While text-based content is still very much in style, the order of the day seems to be focused on visual media. 

Katherine Tulich Sydney, the capital of the Australian entertainment industry, has gone into a two-week lockdown after a surge of the highly-transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus.The city’s stay-at-home orders have firmly shuttered all cinemas, theaters, restaurants and amusement parks.

Haley Bosselman editorRooftop Films announced Stefani Saintonge and Yvonne Michelle Shirley will receive a $15,000 grant to support the production of “Point 5,” a film inspired by the edicts of the Black Panthers that will explore radical liberation and the function of systemic oppression.The duo’s past works include “Flowers,” “F*cked Like a Star,” “Black Girl Magic” and “Frame by Frame.” They, along with an anonymous Rooftop Films alum, are among the top recipients of the Water Tower Feature

Look, thanks to that godforsaken pandemic, which messed up the Oscars and the entire calendar year, it’s kind of hard to make the Best Films Of The Year, So Far feature because so many films were kind of released in 2020 — to qualify early for the Oscars — and or many were just released in a quiet limited release in December 2020.

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Will Thorne Staff WriterWith the horrible specter of COVID still hanging over the world, the folks at the Frontières co-production market were a little concerned that their genre submissions would be heavily virus-centric.However, they needn’t have worried.

Karol G is ready to hit the road again. On Monday June 14th the global superstar announced her highly anticipated return to the stage with her upcoming, “Bichota Tour.” The singer made the announcement on social media with an amazing video aboard “Flight KG0516” and in the bathtub.

Slipknot have announced that their 2021 festival dates this summer in Russia, Ukraine and Europe have been rescheduled to 2022.Taking to social media on Friday (June 11), the metal icons shared new dates for festival shows in Moscow, Kiev, Bucharest, Plovdiv, Athens and Wacken.

NBC News released some excerpts from Keir Simmons’ sitdown with Vladimir Putin, including one in which Simmons asks the Russian president, “Are you a killer.”

Disney film Cruella, remarking that Stone’s take on Cruella “looks exactly like me when I was 20”.The Florence + The Machine artist contributed the original song ‘Call Me Cruella’ to Cruella, which was released last month.Speaking with Stone in a new Disney video to promote Cruella, Welch said that she “loved the film” and explained why she “felt such a kinship” with the titular character.“I just felt such a kinship towards her because, really weirdly, she looks exactly like me when I was 20,”

Christopher Vourlias Rock Films, the production house founded by veteran Russian director Alexey Uchitel, has shared the first teaser for its forthcoming Syrian war drama “Palmyra” with Variety. The company is presenting the film this week during the Key Buyers Event.“Palmyra” follows a Syrian Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team targeted by ISIS militants, while they prepare the recently liberated historic site of Palmyra to hold a symbolic concert of the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra.

Marta Balaga Russia’s CTB Film Company, which celebrates its 30th anniversary next year, is set to follow its 2021 family adventure “Upon the Magic Roads” with two animated films, “The Nutcracker and the Magic Flute” and “My Sweet Monster.” The latter, scheduled for September release and already sold to several territories, including the U.S., Germany and France, will see a tantrum-prone teenage princess on the run, captured by the forest monster, whose peaceful existence is about to come to an

Christopher Vourlias Russian production and distribution powerhouse Central Partnership and the Latin American film group BF Films have announced their first co-production, Variety can reveal.“Schizophrenic” is a psychological horror film set in the real world of severe mental disorder.

British actress Anya Taylor-Joy has been having a bit of a hot streak lately with her massively popular Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit,” the Edgar Wright horror film “Last Night In Solo” coming out later this year, reunited with “The Witch” director Robert Eggers for his Viking epic “The Northman,” and was recently tapped to play a young Furiosa in George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa.” Now, Taylor-Joy is looking to join the comedic thriller “The Menu” for director Mark