“The Tale of Silyan” (watch the trailer below) is hands-down the year’s most beautiful documentary, an incredibly thoughtful non-fiction depiction of the relationship between an elderly man in North ...

Over the last 30 years, Spain has stood out in Europe for its smart genre output: Think “The Orphanage,” “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Open Your Eyes” among early examples. From its reception this weekend, ...

There are only so many Oscar nomination slots to go around, which means that every year there will be some noteworthy contenders who will get shut out. The reasons for this vary widely, and aren’t ...

Backstage melodrama meets succession saga in Sang-il Lee's feature, which is toplined by Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama and features a key supporting performance by Ken Watanabe. By Sheri Linden ...

Working from a screenplay by Satoko Okudera, Lee focuses on onnagatas — the male actors who have played female roles in kabuki since 17th-century shoguns forbade women from performing. Within the ...

SAO PAULO: Former Chelsea midfielder Oscar has been hospitalised after the Brazilian suffered cardiac complications during pre-season tests, his club Sao Paulo has said. As players prepared for ...

Kokuho, which takes its title and its novelistic sweep from a recent work of fiction about the rarefied world of kabuki, begins in the mid-1960s and ends 50 years later. Steeped in modern Japanese ...

IN TODAY'S AFL Daily, star journalist Damian Barrett and footy expert Kate McCarthy join all the dots on football's big issues.