Cinema/TV

Halloween is the day for demons, for ghosts and witches, pirates and crazy outfits, smashing parties and, most importantly, midnight…

Full disclosure: this reviewer has never used Facebook. However, being an avid fan of director David Fincher’s notoriously cynical sensibilities,…

Preparations for the 34th annual Cairo International Film Festival, scheduled for 30 November  to 9 December, 2010, are underway. According…

The last quarter of the year is usually busy in the Arab film festival circuit with six festivals competing to…

Egyptian cinema is a quite significant presence at the 2010 Abu Dhabi Film Festival. "Messages from the Sea," Dawood Abdel-Sayed's…

For the second time, government censors have rejected a proposed screenplay for a movie entitled "Homma Hebo Baad" ("They're in…

The fourth annual Abu Dhabi Film Festival (14-23 Oct) kicked off last Thursday at the Emirates Palace, where a large…

Egypt, where sex is still a very much taboo subject, ranks high on the list of countries generating the most…

"Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the sequel to Oliver Stone’s 1987 classic on greed, is set at a time when…

On Tuesday, the Goethe Institute screened a series of five short films created by participants in the Male and Masculinity…