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Rome’s Colosseum extends cool night tours as heatwaves scorch city

As temperatures soar across Rome, the Colosseum is keeping its doors open later into the evening, with guided tours now running until 11pm four nights a week. Up to 275 visitors can join each tour on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and the summer programme is already fully booked. After dark, visitors ca…

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Striking hakas and alien appendages: Inside the new wave of New Zealand horror

On the surface, Mārama and Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant couldn’t be more different. One is a gothic revenge tale about a Māori woman who uncovers disturbing truths about her heritage upon visiting a period English estate. The other is a body horror about a Millennial who accidentally becomes pregnant with an extraterrest…

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Film academy to honor Colman Domingo, Charlize Theron, John Carpenter at museum gala.

Actors Colman Domingo, Charlize Theron and filmmaker John Carpenter are set to be honored at the Academy Museum Gala this fall. The red carpet for the annual fundraising event, now in its sixth year, has become a reliably starry and glamorous affair — a West Coast rival to New York's Met Gala. This year's edition wi…

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An unsolved murder leads to despair and salvation in ‘The Brightest Sun’

During the 2010s, Tetsuya Nakashima felt like the closest thing Japan had to its own Nicolas Winding Refn, a purveyor of violent, hyperstylized nihilism that somehow managed to command a mainstream audience. With “The Brightest Sun,” his first film in eight years, the boundary-pushing director of “Confessions” (2010…

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