Hard-Fi: “‘Stars of CCTV’ seems more relevant now than it did back in 2005”

J. Kim Murphy Richard Roundtree, an icon of Blaxploitation film who starred as detective John Shaft in Gordon Parks’ 1971 action thriller, died Tuesday afternoon after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81 years old.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief TIFFCOM, the film market attached to the Tokyo International Film Festival, is set to be more international and more diverse in its first full comeback year after the COVID hiatus. It should also be more pleasant and convenient, having re-located to a more modern venue that is close to the film festival. “Bringing the in-person market back after four years, my priority was to make sure that TIFFCOM could happen during the festival, not some other time,” said Shiina Yasushi, who has headed the market for ten years.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Along with the expansion of streaming, among the unintended consequences of COVID and the SAG-AFTRA actors strike has been global consumers’ growing consumption of non-English-language films and TV shows. That in turn has elevated familiarity with and acceptance of Asian local shows and Asian performers – not just those riding the Korean wave.

EastEnders fans are convinced one of the soap's most notorious villains is set to return as part of the hotly-anticipated Christmas 'whodunnit' storyline. Rumours are circulating after a behind the scenes video was 'leaked' by a new cast member.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic One fan drove all the way from Louisiana to Little Rock to see the new Austin Butler movie, “The Bikeriders,” hoping the “Elvis” star might show up. Unfortunately, the ongoing actors strike prevented Butler from attending Filmland, a local industry fundraiser that hosted the Arkansas premiere of the film earlier this week — a rowdy portrait of a 1960s motorcycle gang freely inspired by a book of photos New Journalism pioneer Danny Lyon took while embedded with the Outlaws.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “The Bikeriders,” a drama starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy and directed by Jeff Nichols, has been delayed amid the ongoing actors’ strike. Disney and 20th Century were scheduled to open the film on Dec. 1 but it’s been taken off the calendar for now.

James Haskell, 38, has revealed he’s cried 'more this year than in his entire life' as he opened up about family life and becoming a father.The rugby player married Chloe Madeley in 2018, and they welcomed their beautiful daughter, Bodhi, last year.They have been giving fans a look into their daily lives in their northwest London home, on their ITVX reality show, Chloe Madeley: A Family Affair. The series documents the ups and downs of Chloe and James’s first months as new parents, as well as Chloe’s famous parents Richard and Judy's role as doting grandparents. Now, in an exclusive chat with OK!, James has spoken about the 'emotional rollercoaster' of becoming a dad.

Walt Garrison, who won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys and competed as a rodeo cowboy, has died at 79. The NFL team posted the notice on its website Thursday that Garrison died overnight. It did not give a cause of death.

Emmerdale star Danny Miller has shared that fans may end up 'hating' Aaron Dingle as he officially returned to the village. The actor has reprised the role of Aaron in the ITV soap almost a year after briefly being seen in the fictional Yorkshire village.

Britain's Got Talent magician and veteran Lance Corporal Richard Jones has revealed what the judges are really like backstage. Richard, 33, from Essex, got into magic while he was posted overseas, as it was a good way to help him stay focused while he was away from home and he was able to entertain his comrades.

Ethan Shanfeld Forest Hills Stadium could have been a condominium. The legendary Queens, New York, tennis-stadium-turned-amphitheater — longtime home of the U.S. Open, which would later host outdoor concerts by the likes of the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Ray Charles and the Rolling Stones — had gone decades without live music and was casually courting offers from developers to knock down the stadium and build housing units.

Tom Hardy on the set of Star Trek: Nemesis.The Jean-Luc Picard actor detailed his experience working on the “particularly weak” 2002 film in his new memoir Making It So, where he starred opposite a young Hardy who played villain Shinzon.“I didn’t have a single exciting scene to play,” Stewart wrote about the film (via Insider). “And the actor who portrayed the movie’s villain, Shinzon, was an odd, solitary young man from London.

EastEnders fans will remember the face of bad boy Dean Wicks, played by Matt Di Angelo, who was caught up in some brutal storylines during his time on the BBC soap. Matt, 36 has secured a string of TV roles over the years including regular roles in Hustle and Ordinary Lies, but his time as Dean on EastEnders is by far his most memorable. He first arrived on Albert Square in 2006 before he had a shock exit two years later, but in 2014 made a triumphant return.

We just learned that The White Lotus‘ third season is a priority for HBO once the actors’ strike ends, so we’re revealing what we already know.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic How much is Paul Westerberg like Bob Dylan? That’s a provocative question — maybe one we need to save for when we know each other better. So let’s just start a related, but easier, one.

Actress Diane Keen, 77, has revealed that she recently suffered a "catastrophic stroke" and that her family had been told that she "wouldn't make it." The actress, who placed Julia Parsons in BBC medical soap Doctors, took to X, previously known as Twitter, to share an update with fans after she was absent from social media to two months. Sharing the scary news, she penned: "Hi lovely followers. Sorry I’ve been absent for 2 months, had Catastrophic stroke, family told I wouldn’t make it.

News just broke that one pivotal cast member on Mayor of Kingstown will not be returning for the show’s third season on Paramount+!

Netflix has debuted a hot new trailer for the upcoming movie Fair Play.

Pedro Almodovar is a fan of Pedro Pascal’s work. In a new interview, Almodovar talked about Pascal’s skill set, claiming that audiences and filmmakers are “pigeonholing him” into epic roles and missing out on what he can do as an artist.Chris Hemsworth and Pedro Pascal star in new action film and Netflix and Amazon want to pay $100M for itPedro Pascal visits a fan’s art show centered around himAlmodovar spoke to Indiewire about his new film “Strange Way of Life,” which stars Pascal and Ethan Hawke. He discussed some of Pascal’s talents.