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With its grand arches, intricate plaster moldings, faux facades suggesting a centuries-old European villa and blue domed ceiling dotted by pinpoint lights, the Saenger Theatre was typical of the opulent movie palaces and playhouses built around the nation in the 1920s.

And while this year's festival has boasted a cinematic feast, no single film is believed to have clearly set itself apart from the pack.

Chennai, May 25: Bollywood film "Singham" fame Ajay Devgn, director Rohit Shetty and Kannada actor Kicha Sudeep will attend the audio launch of Suriya-starrer Tamil action-drama "Singam 2" here June 2. "Bollywood 'Singham' actor Ajay Devgn, director Rohit Shetty and Kannada actor Sudeep will grace the audio launch of Suriya's 'Singam 2', which will ... (more)

At the heart of Joshua Oppenheimer 's new documentary, The Act of Killing , is an interesting experiment.

" Fast & Furious 6 " hits theaters this weekend in a very crowded box-office weekend complete with new cars, tanks, and airplanes.

LIFE model and testicular cancer survivor Anthony Weston has stripped off for an Oxford charity's upfront new poster campaign.

Lenora Paige, 20, Suttons Bay, lingers over "The Nut Gatherers", a beloved painting from 1882 by Adolphe-William Bouguereau in the Modern galleries.

One clue to understanding how David Rockwell's mind works is by finding out what he collects.

The beginning voice ensemble made up of, from left, Taylor Wingstrom, Cora Rhode, Becky Kopetzky, Hannah Graff, Makinna Miller, Simon Graff and Allie Reagan sang a The Lonely Goatherda ? during The School of the Performing Arts recital at Life Fellowship Church Saturday.

If international dancer-actress Lauren Gottlieb hopes to be seen in an action film soon a la Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, she also wants to team up with Bollywood superstar Salman Khan http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2013/may/240513-salman-khan-is-like-tom-cruise-of-india-lauren-gottlieb.htm If international dancer-actress Lauren Gottlieb ... (more)

Hollywood star Brad Pitt gave fans in New Jersey a treat by showing up unannounced at a screening of his new zombie movie, World War Z. The audience was settling down to watch Pitt's apocalyptic horror film when the actor walked into the theater at Clearview Cinemas in Hoboken, N.J. He handed out T-shirts to the delighted crowd before giving a ... (more)

This May 19, 2013 file photo shows film director and playwright Ethan Coen during a photo call for the film "Inside Llewyn Davis" at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France.

Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country.

"Blackwell's Island," a large-scale oil painting from 1928, sold at Christie's on Thursday.

The summer movie season has already brought moviegoers "Iron Man 3" and "Star Trek Into Darkness," the 12th film in that series.

Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but aimless writer Jep Gambardella .

THINK of symphonies at Winchester Cathedral and you can't help but imagine sounds of grand orchestras booming through the halls.

Photographer Wayne Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite Navy unit that produced some of the most indelible combat images of World War II, died Wednesday.

One of "the great masterpieces of British art" has been saved for the nation in a deal that will see it go on show across the country.

Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines.