This is FRESH AIR. Our critic-at-large, John Powers, spends his time reading, watching and listening. And every year at this time, he offers a list of things he liked that he wished he had gotten a ...

Disney officially announced a Jungle Cruise sequel in August 2021, only a few weeks after the first movie debuted in theaters and on Disney+. Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt were both set to return, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary‘s Revelations Entertainment is teaming with Italian production company Publispei for the feature take of the Roberto Costantini novel The Perfect Wife. The ...

Pope Leo XIV included the 1997 Holocaust movie “Life Is Beautiful” among his four favorite films of all time. “Life Is Beautiful,” a melodrama by Italian filmmaker and comedian Robert Benigni, follows ...

For Milan-based producer Massimo Fabbro, the upcoming U.S. release of “Trifole” — which he calls “this tiny film from a tiny corner of Italy” — marks a feat on a par with scoring the mythically rare ...

A comedy about a DINK couple who become obsessed with their annoying neighbors doubles as a warning about the comfortable emptiness that can hit us in our thirties. Boasting a cast of faces you’ll ...

Renowned film poster artist Renato Casaro died on September 30, 2025, at age 89. Considered one of the most influential and innovative Italian poster designers, Casaro leaves behind a legacy of ...

He created artwork for ‘A Fistful of Dollars,’ ‘Conan the Barbarian’ and more, then made a comeback with ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.’ By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Renato Casaro, the Italian ...

Cardinale herself considered the 1966 “The Professionals,” directed by Richard Brooks as the best of her Hollywood films, where she starred alongside Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, Robert Ryan and Lee ...

Iconic Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, a prominent figure in 20th-century cinema, died Tuesday at 87. Cardinale died in Nemours, France, on Sept. 23, according to her agent, France 24 reported.

Claudia Cardinale, the sexy Italian movie star who appeared in classic Italian films including Fellini’s “8½” and Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers” and “The Leopard,” Sergio Leone’s spaghetti ...