• ‘Vive la France’: laying bare French clichés and tackling terrorism

    ‘Vive la France’: laying bare French clichés and tackling terrorism

    Wine, French gastronomy, strikes… even the ‘ménage à trois’ are ridiculed in the film ‘Vive la France’ which released in cinemas today. Poking fun at oneself is not what the French are most famous for. Despite their avant-garde history, auto criticism is rarely heard of. [...]

     
  • Michael Haneke triumphs again at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

    Michael Haneke triumphs again at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

    It is a déjà-vu situation for Austrian director Michael Haneke, winner of the Palme d´Or for “White Ribbon” in 2009, taking home the same prize for this year´s winner “Amour”. The Palme d´Or winner of this year’s Cannes Film Festival is a French-language film that [...]

     
  • Ben Banks, formerly Steven St Croix discusses career choices

    Ben Banks, formerly Steven St Croix discusses career choices

    After 18 years and 801 films in the Adult Film Industry, Benjamin Banks reveals himself as a classical filmmaker and a contemporary painter. Always in search of creativity, his versatile character has led him across the Atlantic to discover life “a la française”. “I think [...]

     
  • A 3-dimensional career: cinema, painting and porn

    A 3-dimensional career: cinema, painting and porn

    Benjamin Banks talks to us about his artistic endeavors, his relationship with France and his past in the Adult Film Industry. As a man who always strives to do more to meet his high standards and communicate with the public, he is preparing for a [...]

     
  • Megaupload made a martyr

    Megaupload made a martyr

    Megaupload has been personified and turned into a symbol of freedom of expression on the internet. Since its closure, social forums such as Twitter have turned into debate platforms in which people have expressed their views showing how much their habitudes on the net have changed: [...]

     
  • “Hunger Games” fuels appetite for midnight release

    “Hunger Games” fuels appetite for midnight release

    Hundreds of fans queued up last night before entering cinemas that offer a midnight launch of the highly anticipated teen movie “Hunger games”. This sci-fi action-packed thriller is expected to make $125 million this weekend, possibly surpassing profits made with “Alice in the Wonderland” ($116m [...]