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Another week, another “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut in the books. This week’s “SNL” saw Academy Award winner Rami Malek step into the hosting role for the first time ever to promote the latest James Bond film, “No Time to Die.”

Following both Owen Wilson and Kim Kardashian West’s solid entries into the “SNL” first-timer’s club, Malek came into Studio 8H with a tone set for this current season.

Host: Rami Malek

Rami Malek’s monologue took somewhat of a page out of the Peter Sarsgaard book of “SNL” hosting, focusing on his reputation as an intense actor. As Malek said himself, he has “resting villain face.”

Once again, the monologue really set a comforting tone for the rest of the episode, as this season so far has done so much to play to the strengths of its hosts from week to week. Malek’s strange charm...

Netherlands Film Fund head Bero Beyer has an additional €5m to navigate the pandemic.

Netherlands Film Fund CEO Bero Beyer has given details of an ambitious plan to kickstart Dutch production this summer as the Covid-19 lockdown lifts.

The Fund has received a significant sum believed to be in excess of €5m ($5.7m) in extra government funding to help the Dutch industry cope with the pandemic. This money is part of a €300m ($340m) coronavirus support scheme for the entire cultural sector that was announced recently by the Dutch minister of culture Ingrid van Engelshoven.

Beyer has now revealed how...

The recent box office success of The Boss firmly establishes Melissa McCarthy as the current queen of movie comedies (Amy Schumer could be a new contender after an impressive debut last Summer with Trainwreck), but let us think back about those other funny ladies of filmdom. So while we’re enjoying the female reboot/re-imagining of Ghostbusters and those Bad Moms, here’s a top ten list that will hopefully inspire lots of laughter and cause you to search out some classic comedies. It’s tough to narrow them down to ten, but we’ll do our best, beginning with… 10. Eve Arden The droll Ms. Arden represents the comic sidekicks who will attempt to puncture the pomposity of the leading ladies with a well-placed wisecrack (see also the great Thelma Ritter in Rear Window). Her career began in the early 1930’s with great bit roles in Stage Door and Dancing Lady.

Angel

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Written by Samson Raphaelson

USA, 1937

Angel is a 1937 feature directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Marlene Dietrich. It’s not the greatest film of either one of their careers, however, it is a film deserving of attention, at the very least because it’s a film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Marlene Dietrich. And now, it’s also available for the first time on an American-issued DVD, by way of Universal’s Vault Series collection.

Dietrich is Maria Barker, but we first see her as “Mrs. Brown,” the false name she registers under when arriving in France. She’s “in Paris but not in Paris,” there to meet an old acquaintance, the Russian émigré, Grand Duchess Anna Dmitrievna (Laura Hope Crews). At the same time, Anthony Halton (Melvyn Douglas) drops by the duchess’ “salon,” at the suggestion of a friend who sent him there for an “amusing time.

London is getting a taste of Hollywood glamour this month, courtesy of the city's Victoria and Albert Museum. An upcoming exhibit titled "Hollywood Costume" will bring together some of the most iconic film wardrobes in history. From "Breakfast at Tifffany's" to "Indiana Jones" to "Titanic," the sartorial display will pay tribute to the unforgettable designs of the silver screen.

Angel, 1937. Paramount Pictures Inc. renewed 1965 Universal Studios. Costume Designer: Travis Banton

The exhibit includes over 100 ensembles, spanning a century of Hollywood filmmaking from 1912 to today. Beginning with the dawn of the talkies, we see Charlie Chaplin's battered derby on display, along with decadent outfits from the industry's Golden Age, including Marlene Dietrich's sequined gown from "Angel" and her infamous tuxedo from "Morocco." More memorable dresses from screen sirens like Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Barbara Streisand cover the feminine fashion of the 1960s, including one of the most famous...

After the phenomenal success of last year’s twenty fifth anniversary celebrations, the BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival returns this coming week for its twenty sixth instalment, with another internationally flavoured and diverse line-up. Last year defied the recession and saw punters turn out to support the ailing festival which was under threat of being scrapped, luckily its back with a ten day slot devoted to the best new, old and experimental queer filmmaking. With a huge line-up of over sixty screenings and handful of talks and debates there is a lot to be seen, so here I am just going to pick some key highlights and a few personal choices.

Obviously the opening and closing night galas are the most hyped and talked about, and this year it would seem, for especially good reasons. Opening the festivities (for a third time) is Canadian-American director Thom Fitzgerald with Cloudburst,...

Dorothy's dress from the Wizard of Oz and Rocky's shorts among items featured in show celebrating art of costume design

Soon after they began working on Hollywood Costume, the exhibition of film costume design which opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in October, costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis sent her co-curator Sir Christopher Frayling two postcards.

The first was a still from Brokeback Mountain, showing Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal wearing jeans, washed-out shirts and cowboy hats. On the back she had written: "This is costume design." The second was of Audrey Hepburn wearing Givenchy couture; on the back she had written: "This isn't."

"Unfortunately, the postcards arrived in the wrong order, so it was a couple of days before I understood," recalls Frayling. "But Deborah is right, and that is the message of this exhibition."

The V&A anticipates that Hollywood Costume could be one of its most popular exhibitions,...

Clip joint sheds its wings with the best of the men and women who fell to Earth

Flashy or modest, doting or self-seeking, timid or sassy: cinema angels seem to have little in common with one another other than the power to inflame our senses.

The winged creatures have descended on Earth and acquired human features. In the movies, they strut everywhere, tending would-be suicides, singing, dancing – they even travel on the underground.

But erratic behaviour and contradictory feelings are utterly human; often distracted, flustered and disorganised, angels are a pure reflection of their mortal proteges. So much so that some of them envy us and would renounce their feathery appendages if they could. So keep your eyes open: angels could be watching you right now ... and their intentions may not be pious.

1) Our first angel is a well-meaning guardian. It's a Wonderful Life's Clarence Oddbody earns his wings...

It seems like every time there's a new biography about a past Hollywood star or starlet, we get to know a little more about their sexual history and it involves both sexes. The recent discovery that Vivien Leigh had several female lovers adds her to an ever-growing list of talented actresses that were married to men but involved with women in the early days of Hollywood. While we know about several already (Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Greta Garbo) there are several others who we can claim as well. Here's a small list of actresses with whom we share a kinship.

Spring Byington (1886 - 1971)

Most Famous For: Meet John Doe, Little Women

Romanced: Marjorie "Ma Kettle" Main, Maude Adams

Estelle Winwood (1883 - 1984)

Most Famous For: Quality Street, Camelot

Romanced: Tallulah Bankhead

Ona Munson (1903 - 1955)

Most Famous For: Gone With the Wind, The Hot Heiress

Romanced: Mercedes de Acosta

Joan Crawford (1905 - 1977)

Most Famous For: Mildred Pierce,...