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Responsibility, a comedy about an ex-convict in need of some quick cash, won the audience vote at the inaugural Funny Features pitching session at theGlasgow Film Festival (Gff) this week.

The Glasgow-set feature follows a 25-year-old Sikh man whose desperate decisions have led to a stint in prison, and now is stuck working as a dishwasher at his family’s restaurant. Kaljeven Lally has written the script and plans to direct, with Isabella Bassett and Jena Hunter producing.

The pitching session, which took place on March 6, was the culmination of a comedy lab backed by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund,...

Responsibility, a comedy about an ex-convict in need of some quick cash, won the audience vote at the inaugural Funny Features pitching session at theGlasgow Film Festival (Gff) this week.

The Glasgow-set feature follows a 25-year-old Sikh man whose desperate decisions have led to a stint in prison, and now is stuck working as a dishwasher at his family’s restaurant. Kaljeven Lally has written the script and plans to direct, with Isabella Bassett and Jena Hunter producing.

The pitching session, which took place on March 6, was the culmination of a comedy lab backed by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund,...

The Brit Awards are coming soon!

The annual celebration of British and international musical talent will return to the O2 Arena on Saturday, March 1, broadcasting on ITV1 and Itvx.

Charli xcx leads this year with five nominations, including a nod for album of the year with Brat, while seven-time winner Dua Lipa has received four nominations.

Last year, Raye made history as the artist to win the most awards in one ceremony.

Keep reading to see the full list of nominees…

Brit Awards 2025 Nominations

Artist of the Year

Beadabobee

Central Cee

Charli Xcx

Dua Lipa

Fred again..

Jamie xx

Michael Kiwanuka

Nia Archives

Rachel Chinouriri

Sam Fender

Group of the Year

Bring Me the Horizon

Coldplay

The Cure

Ezra Collective

The Last Dinner Party

Best New Artist

English Teacher

Ezra Collective

The Last Dinner Party

Myles Smith

Rachel Chinouriri

Song of the Year with Mastercard

Artemes – I Like The Way...

You know you’ve made a controversial movie when the Pope weighs in – and that was certainly the case for 1933’s Ecstasy by Czech director Gustav Machatý. So, what exactly got Pope Pius XI so upset? Roughly a minute of nudity and the female orgasm. While the film is extremely tame by modern standards, people were a lot less relaxed about nudity and sexuality (especially female sexuality) 90 years ago, and Ecstasy is generally considered the first non-pornographic movie to depict sexual intercourse and female orgasm. What followed was a whole load of controversy, ranging from lead actress Hedy Lamarr (known at that time as Hedy Kiesler) claiming to be tricked into the nude scenes, to her arms dealer husband attempting to purchase every print of the film, to bans across the world — including the United States under the Hays Code.

2023 marks the 45th anniversary of the release of the George A. Romero classic Dawn of the Dead (get it Here) – and to celebrate, Regal Cinemas theatres across the United States are bringing the film back to the big screen! Dawn of the Dead also got a Regal theatrical re-release last year, but that was the 3-D conversion. This year, it’s the original 2-D version of the film that will be showing. The new re-release begins on October 27th.

To find out if Dawn of the Dead will be screening at a Regal near you, check their official website.

Written and directed by Romero, Dawn of the Dead has the following synopsis: As hordes of zombies swarm over the U.S., the terrified populace tries everything in their power to escape the attack of the undead, but neither cities nor the countryside prove safe. In Pennsylvania, radio-station employee Stephen and his girlfriend,...

As I’m sure many filmmakers have experienced, pitching stories from the heart can often be an advantage which is exactly the experience Writer/Director Grant Taylor had with his touching comedy drama Ecstasy. When the unexpected opportunity arose to pitch at Cine Circle, he pulled directly from his own experiences with his father’s Parkinson’s diagnosis and the keen memory of a documentary he had watched about the positive effects of the infamous party drug on sufferers. The resulting film – starring British actors Brian Bovell and Nathan Bryon as a father and son on a mission to score – is a richly entertaining short which follows the pair’s near disastrous attempts to give a man an opportunity to dance with his wife at her birthday party. Taylor worked closely with his own father and cast to provide an authentic view of the suffering inherent with Parkinson’s and...

The 2023 Tribeca Festival, presented by Okx, today announced its lineup of short narrative, documentary, and animated films, as well as music videos. The festival takes place June 7-18 and showcases 12 short film programs of diverse and creative storytelling. It’s also notable for showcasing a film by Francesca Scorsese, Martin Scorsese’s daughter, at a festival started, in part, by her father’s longtime collaborator Robert DeNiro.

The 2023 shorts lineup includes 76 total selections – 62 shorts in competition, eight music videos, and six special screening shorts – from 91 filmmakers across 25 countries. The lineup includes 48 world premieres, three international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, and 22 New York premieres.

Premieres include “Last Call,” about a desperate mother needing to reconnect with her son, directed by Harry Holland and starring brother Tom Holland; “Shadow Brother Sunday,” “Solo” star Alden Ehrenreich’s directorial debut (he plays “a down-on-his-luck musician returning home on the...

The 2023 Tribeca short films lineup has been unveiled and features a slew of talent.

Ranging from short narrative, documentary, and animated films, as well as music videos, the 2023 shorts lineup includes 76 total selections, with 62 shorts in competition, eight music videos, and six special screening shorts, from 91 filmmakers across 25 countries. There will also be 48 world premieres, three international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, and 22 New York premieres.

The lineup’s four categories — narrative shorts, documentary shorts, animated shorts, and music videos — are curated across 12 thematic programs highlighting love, family relationships, LGBTQ+ stories, “Expressions of Black Freedom,” Latin America, resilience, and more.

Presented by Okx, the 2023 Tribeca Festival takes place June 7 through 18. This year’s festival had a record-breaking 8,096 total submissions.

Programming highlights include “Last Call,” which is about a desperate mother needing to reconnect with her son, played by Tom Holland. The short is directed by his brother,...

Actress Gal Gadot ("Wonder Woman 1984") will executive produce  and star as actress "Hedy Lamarr" for a Showtime limited series, chronicling Lamarr's life and career, including her brilliant inventions that led to the development of 'WiFi' and 'Gps':

"...after a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial film 'Ecstasy' (1933)...

"...Lamarr fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris.

"Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood, where she became a film star from the late 1930's to the 1950's.

"Among Lamarr's best known films are 'Algiers' (1938), 'Boom Town' (1940), 'I Take This Woman' (1940), 'Comrade X' (1940), 'Come Live With Me' (1941), 'H.M. Pulham, Esq.' (1941) and 'Samson and Delilah' (1949).

"At the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed a...

“Mothering Sunday,” director Eva Husson’s film of Graham Swift’s novel, begins with the words, “Once upon a time,” which are repeated by the heroine Jane Fairchild as we see her open face in close-up.

She eventually begins furiously scrubbing something with a cloth, which lets us know that she is a servant, and a title lets us know that it is supposed to be Mother’s Day in England in 1924. But not everything is as it seems here.

The tone of “Mothering Sunday” is faintly absurd at first in a way that feels deliberate. There are static and pretty shots of grand interiors by cinematographer Jamie Ramsay (“Moffie”) and some extremely flattering lighting on Young and Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”), who plays Jane’s lover Paul Sheringham; there is one shot of them together near some white roses that is particularly swoon-worthy because of the way the light...

London-based specialty title outfit Jinga Films has launched a new distribution arm, Danse Macabre. Operating under the Jinga umbrella, Danse Macabre will focus on the distribution of horror films in Anglophone territories, including the U.K., Ireland, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Danse Macabre will also act as a horror sales sub-label within Jinga Films while the parent company Jinga itself expands to include a wider range of genres, including arthouse. The label is co-owned by Jinga’s Julian Richards and Rosana Coutinho.

The 2020 slate for Danse Macabre includes “Antrum” and “The Ringmaster” that will have theatrical releases alongside their home entertainment release on Oct. 26 and Nov. 16 respectively. “Gags the Clown” (Oct. 5), “Purgatory Road” (Nov. 2) and “All the Creatures Were Stirring” (Nov. 23) will be released across DVD and digital.

Marketing and communications agency Strike Media will be working with Danse Macabre across their titles.

“Danse Macabre will be the home for horror,...

Jay-Z‘s office inhabits the northeastern corner of the 39th floor of a skyscraper just south of Times Square. It’s the top floor, of course, affording spectacular views of the East River and the rival towers of the fashion district. Even Broadway’s chaotic mess of neon, from this height, feels soothing in its muted distance, as if specially created to round out Jay-Z’s office feng shui. On a recent May evening, Jay, looking trim in a tight gray hoodie, rocks back and forth in an executive chair...