Category Archives: movies

Edinburgh Fringe officials defend their decision to count customers of free shows in their box office returns.

Tony Blair’s memoirs, based on his time as the prime minister, break sales records, booksellers say.

Two-thirds of people agree with the government stance on cutting arts funding and relying more on private cash, a survey suggests.

X Factor judge Cheryl Cole will reportedly be granted a divorce from her footballer husband Ashley in a court hearing on Friday.

The BBC denies the director general compromised its independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the govenrment’s spending cuts.

Not many first-time independent filmmakers land a coveted spot in the Sunday arts section of The New York Times and an interview on The Leonard Lopate Show. But 33-year-old Lixin Fan, a Chinese-born Canadian immigrant who splits his time between Montreal and Beijing, has generated a lot of interest among editors at major dailies and business publications alike for his documentary Last Train Home, a film about the annual New Year’s pilgrimage of 130 million migrant workers from Guangzhou province to their homes and seldom-seen families in the rural provinces. China’s status as an economic powerhouse regularly makes front-page news, along with stories about the country’s ongoing struggles to manage crises that seem to grow…

The UK’s first talent show to make music available for download immediately propels a little known act called Pepper and Piano into the charts.

British singer-songwriter Sami Yusuf, billed as “Islam’s biggest rock star”, is donating profits from his latest single to help flood victims in Pakistan.

Channel 4 dramatises the rise of Labour party leadership candidates David and Ed Miliband, it is announced.

Coronation Street is to broadcast a live episode as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, soap bosses confirm.