‘Zalava’ Review: Scientific Beliefs Clash With Superstition in Iranian Horror Entry

Converge have announced their tenth studio album, ‘Bloodmoon: I’, a collaborative effort with goth-rocker Chelsea Wolfe, multi-instrumentalist Ben Chisholm and Cave In frontman Stephen Brodsky.Alongside the announcement came the album’s lead single, ‘Blood Moon’, a gloomy eight-minute epic that ebbs and flows between visceral, thrashy metalcore stylings and bleak, eerie atmospherics.

Bahman Ghobadi, the exiled Iranian filmmaker who has won prizes at Cannes, Berlin, San Sebastian and many other international festivals, has penned a letter to the Film Academy saying, “It would be great if we could have one representative from exiled artists.”

Ready to role-play! Britney Spears and Sam Asghari jokingly introduced their first child together on Monday, September 27.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Uruguayan filmmaker Manuel Nieto’s social thriller “The Employer and the Employee,” starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (“Persian Lessons” and “BPM” (Beats Per Minute), comes to the San Sebastian Film Festival to close the Horizontes Latinos sidebar on Thursday, Sept. 23.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAlthough the pandemic has pole-axed many independent distributors, some like Alexandre Mallet-Guy at Paris-based Memento Distribution have managed to weather the storm.The company has had prestige auteur films playing in the festival circuit this year; at Cannes with multiple films in competition, including Jacques Audiard’s “Paris, District 13th,” Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s “A Hero” and Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s “The Worst

NEW YORK -- Three imprisoned Iranian dissidents will be honored next month at Pen America's annual gala.The literary and human rights organization announced Thursday that writer-filmmaker Baktash Abtin, novelist-journalist Keyvan Bajan and author-critic Reza Khandan Mahabadi are this year's recipients of the 2021 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award.

Richard Kuipers Firm messages about female liberty and self-determination are delivered with a gentle touch in “Yuni,” a compassionate and engaging coming-of-age tale about a 16-year-old schoolgirl who doesn’t know exactly what she wants to do with her life but does know that she’s not ready to follow tradition and become a teenage bride.

Ollie Locke and his husband Gareth Locke are longing to be parents, but they recently announced their attempt at IVF via a surrogate hadn’t been successful. Speaking to Frankie Bridge, 32, on her podcast Open Mind, Ollie, 34, reflects as he says it was the most "heartbreaking" situation that he has ever gone through.

Made In Chelsea'sDigby Edgley was a favourite on the hit show and he has now revealed what it meant to him to be a part of the cast from 2017 until 2019. Following his split from co-star Liv Bentley during a trip to Croatia, he says he is happy he has remained close with his former castmates, including Julius Cowdrey.

Made in Chelsea’s Melissa Tattam and Harry Baron have split up it has been confirmed. Melissa broke the news Sunday, in a since deleted post, to the surprise of her 134,000 followers as she was asked by one fan if she was still with Harry.

Iron Maiden have scored their highest charting album ever with ‘Senjutsu’ on the Billboard 200.The album landed at Number Three in the charts after shifting the equivalent of 64,000 album units.They previously peaked at Number Four with their last two albums – ‘The Book of Souls’ and ‘The Final Frontier’.In total, ‘Senjutsu’ is Iron Maiden’s 15th Top 40 charting album, of which four have hit the Top 10.It comes after the metal veterans were narrowly beaten to the Number One spot in the UK albums

Britney Spears has revealed her engagement to partner Sam Asghari. The 39-year-old pop star has been with the 27-year-old Iranian actor and fitness instructor for more than four years.

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“Senjutsu,” Iron Maiden (BMG)Iron Maiden is not a band for those with short attention spans.Since blasting out of England in the late '70s in what would become known as the new wave of British metal, Iron Maiden has never been one to give record companies the kind of three-minute anthems they craved.Instead, they wrote and played (and played some more) until they were good and satisfied, and the result was often an epic track of 8-10 minutes or more, completely exploring a topic or idea until no