If Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation of ‘The Odyssey’ has whet your appetite for more Greek myths and legends on screen, ...

Having made so many horse operas in his day, there are a handful of John Wayne Westerns that could easily (and perhaps undisputedly) be considered the best that the genre has to offer. Stagecoach was ...

A newly restored version of cult film 'Deadly Sweet' by Italian softcore erotic movies director Tinto Brass will pre-open the Venice Film Festival.

Rio de Janeiro's film and audiovisual agency RioFilme has banner year at Shanghai with filmmakers praising 'stable funding ...

Carnival is working to contain the fallout from a data breach that compromised millions of its passengers' personal data, the company announced May 27. According to a notice posted on its website, ...

MIAMI -- Carnival Corporation said a data breach enabled hackers to access sensitive information, including passengers' dates of birth and passport numbers. The cruise line announced on Wednesday that ...

The runway is alive with colour and music. Samba dancers fill the stadium, their sparkling, feather-bedecked costumes painting the scene in blocks of neon green, fuchsia pink, lemon yellow and ...

A few days after Carnival in Brazil in 2025, one of the country’s premier samba schools, Salgueiro, issued a blistering critique on Instagram of the Rio de Janeiro judges. Salgueiro is a perennial top ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- When Lourdes Barreto fled her home in Brazil's northeastern state of Paraiba as a teenager -- a move that launched her into sex work and a lifetime of activism -- she never imagined ...

Brazil has been in party mode since February 13 with the 2026 Carnival celebration, which wraps up this weekend. The atmosphere has been especially festive in Rio de Janeiro, where city officials were ...

The Boi Tolo, one of the city’s most iconic street parties, has come to represent the glittery, gritty grass-roots celebration far from the glamour of the official parades. Revelers taking part in the ...

Rio de Janeiro police officers kitted themselves out as thieves from the series “Money Heist” and as Jason Voorhees from the “Friday the 13th” horror movie franchise to blend in with crowds ...