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We just got the news that Annette Bening will be presiding over the Venice Film festival jury. Now we get two new photos of her as Gloria Grahame in the anticipated biopic Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. And that's not all. The film has a UK release date of November 17. A Us distribution and release date news must be imminent. Unfortunately Bening presiding over the Venice jury not only rules the film out of that festival, but also out of Telluride which takes place at the same time, and the first and more important week of buzz building at Tiff. Unless they unspool the film without its star which seems unlikely. And we'd like her to get that festival buzz that is important for awards later on.

Till then enjoy the Bening and Jamie Bell as Grahame and Peter Turner, an actor she befriended late in...

“I think I’m going crazy,” Nora admitted in Sunday’s (as-usual) intriguing episode of The Leftovers. And by the time the hour was through, you might have felt like you were starting to lose it, too. For, although we got some big answers — about, for instance, what happened to Lily and what Mark-Linn Baker has been up to since “departing” — we were left with some even bigger questions. Such as? Read on…

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Penned by the legend - Gulzaar, sung beautifully by the master of romantic songs – Arijit Singh and composed by the director of the film – Vishal Bhardwaj himself, Alvida is one song that is bound to hit the lover inside you, no matter how much you deny! Although, the song depicts the pain of saying Alvida but the flashes of love that it shows between Shahid Kapoor and Kangana Ranaut, will strike the love chord of your heart. The song showcases the much talked about trio - Shahid Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut and Saif Ali Khan in one frame. Rangoon has been shot in the backdrop of World War II with Kangana playing the role of an aspiring actress who is given the duty of spying. Saif Ali Khan plays the role of a director/producer who not only owns his production company but Kangana too. On the other hand, Shahid plays...

The most awaited trailer is here. As expected from a Vishal Bharadwaj movie, the trailer hints up on how intense, action packed and musically backed will be the love triangle set on the backdrop of World War II and India's struggle for Independence. The first half of the trailer is ruled by the Nawab, Saif Ali Khan who plays the role of a movie director having connections with the British officials and is possessively in-love with Kangana Ranaut, who’s playing the role of an aspiring actress inspired from the late movie actress, Fearless Nadia. Moving on to the second half, there enters Shahid who marks his romantic presence not only on Kangana’s heart but the audiences too. Shahid Kapoor is portraying the role of a soldier in British Army who is posted in Burma.The love triangle hits when Kangana who is already overpowered by Saif, falls for...

The upcoming year 2017 seems to be a ‘movie-filled’ year with so many movies lined-up for release. Adding one more movie to the list is ‘Ok Jaanu’. The film marks the return of the adorable ‘Aashiqui 2’ couple, Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor. It also brings back the ace director Mani Ratnam after a gap of 7 years (‘Raavan’ being his last directed film) but not under the director’s cap but as a producer. The film is the remake of Tamil super hit romantic drama ‘Ok Kadhal Kanmani’. The storyline of the film revolves around the sensibilities that the youth of young India possesses wrapped in a romantic layer. The realistic approach of the film made it more relatable with the youth. The poster that has been released, shows a very inquisitive message on it: “Figure out kar lenge…13th Jan. 2017” Well, what Aditya and Shraddha figure out or what...

This one specially goes out for all the Hrithik Roshan fans who were missing their romantic-action hero from sometime. The most talked about film, ‘Kaabil’ is here with its title track release. The movie stars Hrithik Roshan, who recently got nominated for the hottest man and was ranked third among all the actors worldwide, and the beautiful ‘Vicky Donor’ debutant, Yami Gautam. The title track has been composed by the music icon who is famous for creating romantic songs, Rajesh Roshan. Not only with the intriguing story line but also with soulful music, the Roshan’s are all geared up with their yet to be released movie ‘Kaabil’. It is now evident that ‘Kaabil’ is going to clash with Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Raees’ which is January 25, 2017. The coming year is going to bring some bang-on entertainment. Till then enjoy the title track here:...

The most awaited love song of the year is here. Although, this French song ‘Ne Dis Jamais Je T’aime’ means ‘Never say I love you’ but still as soon as the song plays, it’s bound to hit your heart with love. The song shows the journey of Dharam played by Ranveer Singh and Shyra played by Vaani Kapoor from being complete strangers to much in love couple who keep on denying the fact that they are in love. As we can predict, they do have some commitment and emotional issues that keeps them from defining their relationship. Brilliantly sung in the power packed and melodious voice of Vishal Dadlani and Sunidhi Chauhan, the song will build that ‘connect-factor’ with the audiences. The other two songs which have been released earlier, are already topping the party chart lists with a clear sign of a hit. Befikre is going to...

Our favourite B-town star is here to entertain us again. Ranveer Singh, who was last seen as Peshwa Bajirao has gone all Befikar this time with his upcoming film ‘Befikre’. The buzz that’s doing rounds is all about his role in the upcoming film. Not to disappoint you on that, our gossip birdie has the news in her kitty. A stand-up comedian. Yes, Ranveer Singh is going to play a stand-up comedian who visits Paris for his friend’s event. As per the sources, the name of Ranveer’s character is Dharam who gets an invite from his friend in Paris to perform as a Stand-up comedian in a show in his restaurant called Delly-Belly. Dharam wins all the desi hearts there. After that show, he goes out to explore the beauty of the city of love, Paris where he meets Vaani Kapoor alias Shyra. Coming over to Vaani Kapoor...

‘Dear Zindagi’ enlightened us with the anecdotes of life. It made us believe that all our problems (except for the long Atm queue’s, all hail demonetisation!) can be solved with just a ‘change in perception’. And, when it comes to the most dreaded part, dealing with a ‘breakup’, we now have a life coach for that as well! When a heart breaks, the sound fades in to silence. But if you keep prodding within yourself, it becomes difficult and gradually turns in to depression. You never know for the one you are hibernating from this world, is actually celebrating his/her freedom from you. So, the question is, why to suffer and why not break-out? Yes, it is difficult but not impossible. Right Mr. Jahangir Khan? What you need to do is just fill the ‘Jug’ of life with those who matter and drain out those, who don’t!

And, the love birds are here again! Making the most out of ‘Sweet-November’, the much-in-love, Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput were seen together on a ‘Coffee Date’ and this time, we mean Coffee and not Koffee (with Karan). The love-struck couple, Shahid and Mira were seen relishing their cup of hot coffee in a ‘Gup-shup’ mode. Mira looked adorable, glowing in motherhood with a cute plump that was adding to her beauty. Shahid Kapoor, as usual rocked with his casual/sporty rough looks.

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After spending a good time with family especially baby Misha on their holiday, Shahid was expected to start shooting for his debut film with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, ‘Padmavati’ which has created a buzz around already. But it seems ‘more is less’ when it comes to ‘family time’ especially with wifey Mira. Speculations also suggest...

After falling in love with ‘Zindagi’ and understanding how Dear our Zindagi is, its time to move on to some high-on-life journey with a ‘Befikar’ attitude! Yes, we are undoubtedly talking about the most awaited movie of the year which is set to make us groove in the chilly December. Its ‘Befikre’ after all. When the heartthrob himself, Ranveer Singh is there with the ravishing girl Vaani Kapoor, it has to be high on everything. The songs of Befikre are rocking the party-chart-lists, the dance steps have been ideally copied and the love potion is already spilled upon the audiences. A sure shot dose of an awesome New year party! And, sliding over to the intricacies, not one or two, but 23 kisses! This news is already creating a buzz among the fans, who can’t wait to see the hot chemistry of Ranveer Singh and Vaani Kapoor. Ranveer Singh who...

It would not be wrong to say, Shah Rukh Khan is the person responsible for the teenage girls to get their first crush-pimple, he is the person who’s topping all the brides-to-be’s list, he gives mid-age-crisis-love for all the 40 something girls and manages to make all the young-at-heart-oldies to still blush-on. Well, that’s the magic of Bollywood’s ‘Romance King’, Shah Rukh Khan. Often, we have heard him humbly saying that he is not that romantic but only a hard core Srk fan can understand the romance quotient in him, better! In his latest Interview with Bombay Times, as a part of ‘Dear Zindagi’ promotions, Shah Rukh makes us believe that no one can slip in to his shoes, in the matters of love and romance. On being asked about the same, Shah Rukh replied, “That’s why I am the King (laughs). I am completely a...

Friday at Comic-Con, AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead dropped the trailer for the second half of Season 2, and based on the action-packed clip, it would appear that our embattled survivors didn’t just trade California for Mexico, they also traded the frying pan for the fire.

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Readers are aware of the fact that Udta Punjab went through a lot of struggle to get a release without any cuts. After a prolonged battle with the Censor Board of Film Certification (Cbfc) over 89 cuts in the film, Bombay High Court had passed the film with just one cut. The film finally released on June 17 but is once again facing another road block. While the film has released in India and overseas, it is struggling to get a release in Pakistan. According to the chairman of Censor Board Sindh, Fakhr-Alam, they have asked the distributor to delete certain scenes due to the abusive language. Reports suggest that the law and censor code does not allow the extreme amount of abusive language. After the asked scenes will be removed, they will review the film and issue a certificate. Till then, Udta Punjab won't be released. Directed by Abhishek Chaubey and...

If there’s a trio of categories that aren’t given the respect that they deserve (or frankly, any respect at all), it’s the short film categories. Be it Best Animated Short, Best Documentary Short, or Best Live Action Short, they all are mostly ignored by the masses, especially when the first two have feature length cousins in Best Animated Feature and Best Documentary Feature to compete with as well. Still, they deserve to be noticed, so I wanted to quickly list what’s in contention this year. I’ve included the categories in my most recent Oscar prediction update, so there’s that as well. The Academy Awards are the sum total of all the categories, so these have their place, no doubt about that. It’s just a shame that more folks don’t recognize this. Here are the three short subject categories and the remaining contenders...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 88th Academy Awards. One hundred forty-four pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:

“Ave Maria,” Basil Khalil, director, and Eric Dupont, producer (Incognito Films)

“Bad Hunter,” Sahim Omar Kalifa, director, and Dries Phlypo, producer (A Private View)

“Bis Gleich (Till Then),” Philippe Brenninkmeyer, producer, and Tara Lynn Orr, writer (avenueROAD Films)

“Contrapelo (Against the Grain),” Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, director, and Pin-Chun Liu, producer (Ochenta y Cinco Films)

“Day One,” Henry Hughes, director (American Film Institute)

“Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut),” Patrick Vollrath, director (Filmakademie Wien)

“The Free Man (Zi You Ren),” Quah Boon-Lip, director (Taipei National University of the Arts)

“Shok,” Jamie Donoughue, director (Eagle Eye Films)

“Stutterer,” Benjamin Cleary, director (Bare Golly Films)

“Winter Light,...

Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all 144 eligible short film entries for the preliminary round of voting, selecting 10 live action short films to advance in the voting process for the 88th Academy Awards. These shorts were deemed eligible by qualifying at top-ranked film festivals around the world. The branch will now select five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in December. Here are the 10 films in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies (trailers below): “Ave Maria,” Basil Khalil, director, and Eric Dupont, producer (Incognito Films) “Bad Hunter,” Sahim Omar Kalifa, director, and Dries Phlypo, producer (A Private View) “Bis Gleich (Till Then),” Philippe Brenninkmeyer, producer, and Tara Lynn Orr, writer (avenueROAD Films) “Contrapelo (Against...

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences announced on Thursday the shortlists for both categories.

The live-action selections were culled from 144 eligible submissions while there were 60 for animation.

Members of the short films and feature animation branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting and will next select five nominees.

Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in December.

The 10 live-action films appear below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:

Ave Maria, Basil Khalil, director, and Eric Dupont, producer (Incognito Films);

Bad Hunter, Sahim Omar Kalifa, director, and Dries Phlypo, producer (A Private View);

Bis Gleich (Till Then), Philippe Brenninkmeyer, producer, and Tara Lynn Orr, writer (avenueROAD Films);

Contrapelo (Against the Grain), Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, director, and Pin-Chun Liu, producer (Ochenta y Cinco Films);

Day One, Henry Hughes, director (American Film Institute);

Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut), Patrick Vollrath, director (Filmakademie...

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences announced on Thursday its shortlist from 144 submissions.

Members of the short films and feature animation branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting and will next select five nominees.

Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in December.

The 10 films appear below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies: 

Ave Maria, Basil Khalil, director, and Eric Dupont, producer (Incognito Films);

Bad Hunter, Sahim Omar Kalifa, director, and Dries Phlypo, producer (A Private View);

Bis Gleich (Till Then), Philippe Brenninkmeyer, producer, and Tara Lynn Orr, writer (avenueROAD Films);

Contrapelo (Against the Grain), Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, director, and Pin-Chun Liu, producer (Ochenta y Cinco Films);

Day One, Henry Hughes, director (American Film Institute);

Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut), Patrick Vollrath, director (Filmakademie Wien);

The Free Man (Zi You Ren), Quah Boon-Lip, director (Taipei...