U.S. director of “W.E.,” Madonna arrives for the BFI London Film Festival gala screening of “W.E.” at a central London cinema, Sunday. (AP-Yonhap News) LONDON (AFP) ― Protesters in William Shakespeare’s home county were on Tuesday to temporarily remove the writer’s name from street signs in support of a campaign against a new film which suggests the Bard was “a fraud.” Shakespeare Birthplace Tr...

Centuries before the bride of Frankenstein first screamed and hissed on the big screen in 1935, the legend of the wailing woman who drowned her children was already terrifying kids throughout Latin America. But only now, with Latinos constituting the largest minority group in the nation, has the tale of La Llorona started to creep into the nation’s Halloween festivities. And she’s not the only ...

Restless (U.S.) Opening Oct. 27 Drama. Directed by Gus Van Sant. Young boy Enoch (Henry Hopper), who dropped out of school after his parents’ untimely deaths, only hangs out with his imaginary friend Hiroshi (Ryo Kase), while spending most of his time attending strangers’ funerals. Things change when he falls for Annabel (Mia Wasikowska), a boyish girl with a pixie haircut. Turns out, she is a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan sported a new accessory Wednesday after a judge revoked her probation: Handcuffs. The actress was taken into custody and escorted from a hearing after Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner revoked her probation because she was ousted from a community service assignment at a women's shelter. "There has been violation after violation," Sautner said. Bail was set...

Actress Kim Ha-neul walks the red carpet during the 48th Grand Bell Awards at Sejong Center in Seoul, Monday. (Yonhap News) “The Front Line” picks up Best Picture, Best Cinematography Kim Ha-neul took home the top acting award at the 48th Daejong Film (Grand Bell) Awards on Monday for her role as a visually impaired woman in the serial-killer thriller ‘”Blind,” while Park Hae-il won for his rol...

UNIVERSAL CITY, California (AP) ― Heroes and villains from the worlds of horror, fantasy and science-fiction shared the stage at Spike TVs annual Scream Awards. More television event than traditional awards ceremony, the Scream Awards were presented in an amphitheater built on the Universal Studios back lot just for the occasion. The Saturday night show was as much about how the awards were pre...

Director talks about issues of capital punishment and domestic violence in her upcoming film She made a highly successful debut with a charming romantic comedy in the late 1990s, and enjoyed another box-office home run with a heart-warming tale of a grandmother and a grandson in 2002. Now director Lee Jeong-hyang is back after the nine-year break, with a deeply philosophical and layered work on...

The Four Times (Italy, Switzerland, Germany) Opening Oct. 20 Drama. Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino. An old shepherd lives alone with his goats, in a remote village perched on the hills of Calabria, in the southernmost region of Italy. The weary old man gets sick one day, and believes the only medicine that can save his life is the dust on the church floor. He mixes the gathered dust with ...

Born in northern China and raised in Beijing, Sally Liu came of age in the 1990s and dreamed of becoming a filmmaker. With the world’s most populous nation swelling with thousands of new cinemas, big-budget productions proliferating and box-office grosses multiplying, the movies in China aren’t just glamorous, they’re a serious growth industry. When it came time to apply to film school, though, ...