Iran. She started her acting career with a theatrical group in Shiraz while still in high school, where she also met her future husband, Jamshid Esmailkhani, who was active in theater. During this period, she was working for the Department of Art and Culture in Shiraz. In 1978 she was...
and written about film, music and pop culture. Currently, he is the Managing Editor of Cinema section at the Estonian weekly cultural paper SIRP. Previously, he was the head of International Relations at Estonian Film Institute, and a member of the Tallinn Black Nights Film ...
Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.Recom...
“It’s better to have a category that can work with honor, to replace the X which had a stigma attached to it,” said Tom Pollock, chairman of the movie division of MCA-Universal. Universal may be the first beneficiary of the new rating. “Henry & June,” a soon-to-be released er...
Amanda Yeo Assistant Editor Amanda Yeo is an Assistant Editor at Mashable, covering entertainment, culture, tech, science, and social good. Based in Australia, she writes about everything from video games and K-pop to movies and gadgets....
One essential reason Tarantino succeeds where others bite the dust of exploitation is that he truly understands his crime world within the larger context of culture. Besides cocaine, there are also the deadening mass opiates of rock ‘n’ roll, junk food, the cartoonish gore of martial-arts mov...
Among those interviewed are students, high school teachers and administrators, and prison security guards, as well as nationally-known educators and authors such as Alfie Kohn; Henry Giroux, author ofStealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children;Mike A. Males, a sociologist and author of...
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actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and best supporting actress (Brenda Fricker), had grosses of about $1.1 million at 510 theaters--for a 34% increase over the week before and a 9th-place ranking. The moving drama about the life of disabled artist Christy Brown has now grossed about $10 million....
The film, like the concerts, will be called “This Is It.” Although several studios expressed interest, Sony emerged the winner by agreeing to pay Jackson’s estate and AEG Live at least $60 million for the film rights. “High School Musical” director Kenny Ortega, who was directing the...