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“South of Hope Street” is a new live-action science fiction ‘dystopian’ feature, written and directed by Jane Spencer, starring Judd Nelson, William Baldwin, Tana Frederick, Michael Madsen, Asser Yassin, Craig Conway, Meredith Ostrom, Wendy Thomas, Niklaus Trenk, Pascal Ulli and Elana Krausz, streaming November 15, 2024 on Paramount+:

“…in 2038, Earth enters a mysterious universe. People hide behind a gigantic wall and engage in wars.

“Meanwhile, ‘Denise’ walks on thin ice spurred on by ‘Tom’, a caretaker, who promises that a renaissance is on its way…”

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A Little Chaos with Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Gail Egan, Peter Gregson and Ellen Kuras Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

From Julie Taymor's premiere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, attended by Helen Mirren and Anne Hathaway, who had just finished performing in Taymor's Grounded, to Livia Firth's fashion event, where Alan Rickman stopped by, we end our week in New York with A Little Chaos, starring Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, with Helen McCrory, Jennifer Ehle, Stanley Tucci, Paula Paul, and Rickman as Louis Xiv.

A Little Chaos director Alan Rickman Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Kathleen Turner, Christian Slater, Cornelia Guest, William Ivey Long, Lilly Englert, David Siegel, Fred Schepisi, Gay Talese, Theodora Woolley, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Katrina Eugenia, John Buffalo Mailer, Ann Curry, Diane Sawyer, America Olivo, Christian Campbell, Lisa Falcon, Wendy Whelan. Thomas Matthews, Chuck Scarborough, Meredith Ostrom, Ashley McDermott, Jennifer Creel, and Oksana Jager were among those attending the...

Jonathan Tiersten was the foul mouthed, angry little Ricky in the original Sleepaway Camp co-starring Felissa Rose and directed by Robert Hilzik, a role that cemented his status as an icon in the horror genre. However, afterwards he disappeared pretty much to not be heard of again until the new millennium when Sleepaway Camp began experiencing a resurgence and the film merited a sequel entitled Return To Sleepaway Camp, directed yet again by Robert Hilzik. However, his acting appearances still remained infrequent. However, he returns to the horror genre with The Perfect House, an anthology film. Here's what Jonathan Tiersten had to say about The Perfect House, Felissa Rose, and so much more.

So who is Jonathan Tiersten and what are you all about?

Wow, what a question. I guess there are a million different ways to answer this and they would all be bullshit. I guess I am a work in progress.

Left, Henry Hudson’s Whitechapel Galley Loo; right, Marc Quinn and Hudson. When an exhibition is called “Crapula,” you might imagine a crude affair, but British artist Henry Hudson’s new show at 20 Hoxton Square Projects, in London, proves to be quite the opposite. A sophisticated crowd—to say the least—took in the opening party last week at Alexander Dellal’s East London gallery. Socialite Countess Debbie von Bismarck, actress-model-painter Meredith Ostrom, and the gallery owner’s mother, Andrea Dellal, were just some of the keen viewers on Thursday night, along with a top selection of London artists, such as Sue Webster, Tim Noble, Keith Coventry, Hugo Wilson, and Piers Jackson. Inside the airy white showroom were depictions of lavatories at some of London’s most prestigious galleries and museums—the Tate Modern, National Portrait, Serpentine, Victoria and Albert, and Courthauld—drawn in chalk on old-fashioned school blackboards. There...

Highly anticipated by many of James Bond's fans, "Quantum of Solace" has delivered one memorable world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. On Wednesday, October 29, this first screening event for the 22nd Bond movie has become a royal gala benefiting Help for Heroes and the Royal British Legion with the attendance of the British princes, William and Harry.

In company of the princes, Bond star Daniel Craig arrived at the premiere fully dressed in black tuxedo. Still sporting a sling for his injured shoulder, Craig was accompanied by his partner U.S. producer Satsuki Mitchell. Joining him for the event were his co-stars, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Judi Dench and Mathieu Amalric, as well as Bond filmmakers, director Marc Forster and producer Barbara Broccoli.

Also at the special event were Samantha Bond, Colin Salmon,Bob Geldof, Elle Macpherson, Katherine Jenkins, Robbie Coltrane, Rick Yune, Karen Elson,...