British actress Kate Winslet won the best actress in a mini-series Emmy, for her role in period drama "Mildred Pierce." The Oscar-winning star plays a divorcee single mother who opens a restaurant to survive in the Great Depression in the drama, for which her English-born co-star Guy Pearce won best supporting actor Emmy moments earlier. Winslet gave a short acceptance speech saying she "didn't...

Countdown (Korea) Opening Sept. 29 Action. Drama. Directed by Heo Jong-ho. Debt collector Tae Geon-ho (Jeong Jae-young), who lost his son five years ago, one day finds out he has liver cancer. The only way for him to survive is to get a liver transplant in the next 10 days, from a woman named Cha Ha-yeon (Jeon Do-yeon), who apparently has the matching organ. Cha turns out to be a seductive swin...

Rod Lurie, director of the politically charged dramas “Deterrence,” “The Contender” and “Nothing but the Truth,” has spent plenty of time in the hot seat. But the controversies over those movies are nothing compared to the tempest that is certain to accompany his latest film: a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s polarizing 1971 classic, “Straw Dogs.” “One of these days I want to make a romantic comedy wh...

The FBI is probing allegations that a number of Hollywood celebrities have been hacked, after semi-naked pictures of Scarlett Johansson leaked onto the Internet, the agency said Wednesday. The photos, apparently taken by the actress herself, were published on gossip websites, while there were reports also of a hacked picture of Justin Timberlake, taken by actress Mila Kunis. “The FBI is investi...

Busan International Film Festival to kick off with new vision for future; annual event to run Oct. 6-14 It is now BIFF, not PIFF. Previously known as Pusan International Film Festival, Korea’s first and largest international film bash is getting a new acronym for its name, along with a new, exclusive screening venue in Haeundae. Starting this year, the festival will be officially renamed as Bu...

The Crucible (Silenced) (Korea) Opening Sept. 22 Drama. Directed by Hwang Dong-hyeok. Kang In-ho (Gong Yoo), a newly appointed art teacher at a school for hearing-impaired children in Gwangju, is excited to teach his new students. Yet the children are aloof and distant, trying to avoid running into him as much as possible. Kang does not give up, however, trying to show the kids that he really c...

In “Contagion,” the fast, frightening global pandemic drama opening Friday, Jude Law is a mad blogger, a Web journo whose raging posts against Big Pharm and Big Gov turn incendiary when people start dropping like flies. Is Law’s Alan Krumwiede (pronounced “crum-woody”) prophet or paranoiac? A voice of sanity in the chaos and dread, or a nutter? “I love that it’s left open for you to decide,” sa...

Director Hong Sang-soo’s 12th film, “The Day He Arrives,” has been officially invited to the 55th BFI London Film Festival, the movie’s production company Jeonwonsa Film Co. announced this week. The film was the opener for the 5th Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival (CinDi) in Seoul last month, and premiered in May in the Un Certain Regard section of the 64th Cannes Film Festival. Hong received t...

Pain (Korea) Opening Sept. 7. Drama. Directed by Kwak Gyeong-taek. Nam-soon (Kwon Sang-woo), whose family members were killed by his mistake when he was young, has lost all his feeling ― including his palate ― from the trauma. This made him incapable of feeling any pain even when he gets hurt. He makes money by threatening debtors to pay their money back to his clients. To do so he injures hims...

There’s really nothing more you can say about Helen Mirren. That she’s one of stage, screen and TV’s greatest actresses is a given. If nothing else, her Oscar-winning portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in “The Queen” and her multiple Emmy Award-winning performance as tortured policewoman Jane Tennison in the “Prime Suspect” TV series speak to her astonishing versatility and range. In addition, at age ...

Veteran actress Choi Eun-hee has been selected as one of the three recipients of the 56th National Academy of Arts award this year, the institution announced Thursday. The 81-year-old started her film career in 1947 and led the Shin Film company together with her husband and the acclaimed director Shin Sang-ok. Some of her significant work includes: “The Houseguest and My Mother” (1961); “Seong ...