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Oscar-winning Italian composer Nino Rota, who scored “La Dolce Vita,” “The Leopard” and “The Godfather” – among many other masterpiece movies – is set for “Nino” a high-profile documentary being directed by prominent editor, screenwriter and director Walter Fasano.

Fasano is known for his longtime creative collaboration with Luca Guadagnino mainly as an editor on films such as “I Am Love,” on which he served both as editor and co-writer; “A Bigger Splash”; “Call Me by Your Name”; and the doc “Bertolucci on Bertolucci” that Guadagnino and Fasano co-directed. Fasano more recently directed the doc “Pino” about Italian artist, sculptor, and set designer Pino Pascali.

Rota wrote the score for 16 films directed by Federico Fellini, including “La Strada,” “8 1/2,” “Juliet of the Spirits” and “Amarcord,” besides “La Dolce Vita.” He also composed music for Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” and the Sicilian-inspired theme for “The Godfather,” whose “Part II” score won him his only Oscar.

In My Hero Academia, Izuku Midoriya navigates a world where most of the human population has gained superpowers called Quirks. Despite being born without a Quirk, Midoriya still dreams of becoming a superhero, and his life changes forever when he is scouted by the world's greatest hero, All Might, who realizes his potential and enrolls him in the prestigious high school for young superheroes.

While My Hero Academia explores Midoriya's adventures as he works to become a powerful hero, the series boasts an amazing and diverse cast -- with each character bringing unique powers and backstories to the show's narrative. One of these characters, Rody Soul, has quickly become a fan favorite in the My Hero Academia fandom, thanks to his grounded view of what it means to be a hero that offers a fresh perspective not often seen in the series. With Rody recently making his anime debut during...

A scene from the Italian TV series “Fosca.” Courtesy of MHzChoice

In the first season of “Fosca Innocenti” we followed the light mystery adventures of the eponymous Deputy Police Chief (Vanessa Incontrada) and her mostly-female team of detectives in the picturesque Tuscany city of Arezzo (where the series is filmed). Each of the four 100-minute episodes presented a different case, with ongoing subplots for the principals. Some were romantic. The major one was Fosca’s barely-repressed desire to transcend her lifelong Friend Zone status with Cosimo (Francesco Arca). But the charming café owner was planning to emigrate to the U.S. for a major career advancement, further reducing her odds of securing that upgrade. The scripts were appropriately suspenseful while developing a likable set of protagonists and making fine use of the beauty of the setting. For a unique element, Fosca’s acute, almost canine, sense of smell helps solve...

Ergo Proxy uses gothic fashion to enhance its deep themes of identity and reality. The series' atmosphere perfectly captures a dark and grim tone, with a muted color palette and a quiet soundtrack. Fans looking for a goth science fiction anime owe it to themselves to give Ergo Proxy a try.

Crunchyroll is well known for housing a wide variety of anime series, and one of their most underrated is the goth anime classic Ergo Proxy. As the gothic fashion style spread across the 2000s, more and more anime used the fashion trend to stand out from the crowd. While some of those series ended up just using the trend as an aesthetic, anime like Ergo Proxy used the goth look to enhance their themes and dive deep into questions of identity.

One of the best post-apocalyptic anime, Ergo Proxy initially takes place in the domed city of Romdeau following a planet-wide environmental collapse.

MGM+ just unveiled the first trailer for Hotel Cocaine along with details on new cast and characters. Danny Pino takes on his first series regular role since finishing up Mayans M.C., diving back into the world of illegal drugs after five seasons playing a cartel boss.

The eight-episode crime thriller also stars Michael Chiklis (Winning Time), Mark Feuerstein (Power), Yul Vazquez (Godfather of Harlem), Tania Watson (The Head), Corina Bradley (Star-Crossed Romance), and Laura Gordon (Late Night with the Devil).

“Hotel Cocaine is the story of Roman Compte (Pino), Cuban exile and general manager of the Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine; a glitzy nightclub, restaurant, and hotel frequented by Florida businessmen and politicians, international narcos, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars, and musicians,” reads MGM+’s synopsis. “At the center of it all was Compte,...

Lisa Edelstein reveals she recently was paid 97 cents in residuals for the two episodes of “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce” which she wrote and starred in.

The actress shared the information as she walked the blue carpet at the 2023 Hollyshorts Film Festival’s opening night on Thursday night where she stars in two films being screened, “Swipe NYC” and “Shadow Brother Sunday.”

“I wrote two episodes of ‘Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce’ and I just got a residual check for two episodes for 97 cents. That’s not really a livable wage and that’s a show that is doing well because it was airing on a streamer somewhere,” she told Variety. “It’s our heart and souls. It’s our creativity that’s making these people a lot of money and we should really get paid.”

Created by Marti Noxon, “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce” followed best-selling author, Abby McCarthy (Edelstein) who hides...

Legendary filmmaker Spike Lee shook the world with the summer release of his 1989 drama Do the Right Thing. For those unfamiliar with the picture, Do the Right Thing follows Mookie Blackmon, an employee of Sal’s Famous Pizzeria, as he spends one hot summer day delivering pizzas throughout New York City’s Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn neighborhood. While making his deliveries, Mookie encounters and interacts with the neighborhood’s colorful characters in a thoughtful examination of race and class. However, despite Do the Right Thing being considered one of the greatest films of the 1980s (specifically the best film of 1989 by acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert), the Academy Awards opted to award the Bruce Beresford-directed period dramedy Driving Miss Daisy, a less controversial film, with the Best Picture honor at the 1990 Academy Awards.

Among the film’s brilliant acting performances is Lee as Mookie, the late Danny Aiello as Sal, frequent...

Warning: Spoilers for My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions Ch. 16My Hero Academia sees the return of a popular character from its most recent film, World Heroes' Mission, as Rody Soul pays a visit to Japan and has the chance to reunite with Midoriya in its spin-off series, Team-Up Missions.

Rody was one of the best characters from My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission. Hailing from the fictional European nation of Otheon, Rody got mixed up in the events of the film by stealing a briefcase, and ultimately ended up working with Deku to help bring about the end of the crisis. In the chapter, which is set after the film, Rody arrives in Japan with his younger siblings in tow, as well as the bird which is a manifestation of his Quirk, Pino. Rody gets the chance to meet several other students from Class 1-a who were assigned elsewhere during World Heroes' Mission,...