December is a special month for Bangladeshis, and cinema-goers have been in for a treat with a number of highly anticipated film releases this month. Movie halls are adding another film to their schedules today, as Debashish Biswas-helmed “Chol Palai” hits the big screen.

The trailer of “Kaalakaandi”, which is a thrilling dark comedy written and directed by Akshat Verma, was released on Wednesday. Lead actor of the film, Saif Ali Khan had earlier described the project as “very intelligent that is made on a shoestring budget.”

Jennifer Lawrence hopes to continue to use her voice for female empowerment. “It's not easy to speak out. It's not easy to face criticism on a global scale. But the fact is I have been given a platform, and if I don't use it, then I don't deserve it,” the actress said at The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment breakfast, presented by Lifetime, held Wednesday morning at Los Angeles' Milk Studios.

What would you do if you went to a theatre to watch your favourite movie and found all the seats had been sold out? Probably you would return home disheartened and wait for the next show.

Mustafa Zaman Abbasi, a prominent musicologist, writer and television personality of the country, turns eighty today. He was born on December 8, 1937 in Cooch Bihar of West Bengal, and today is a guardian figure of the country's folk music genre.

“Jolokabbo” (Musings in Watercolour) is an ongoing group painting exhibition at Egde Gallery in capital's Gulshan-2. The exhibition is showcasing select watercolours by both prominent and promising artists -- Samarjit Roy Choudhury,

The year 2017 will always have a cloud of grief around it as the country said their final farewell to a galaxy of cultural personalities of the likes of Syed Shamsul Haque, Karunamaya Goswami, Sudhin Das, Kazi Arif, Kuti Monsur, Abdul Jabbar, Razzak, Bari Siddiqui and on November 30 Annisul Huq.

A group of baul singers rendered songs of eminent folk singer and flautist Bari Siddiqui at a programme held at Advocate Tareq Smriti Auditorium in Mymensingh on Sunday evening.

The story of his life in itself would make a formidable plot for a 1950s film. A young Ansar officer in the early 1950s, who was once elected the best cadet, was suspended from service following an altercation with a union board chairman.

Fox is back in the John Green business. Having hit box office gold with “The Fault in Our Stars”, the studio has optioned the rights to Green's latest tween tale, “Turtles All the Way Down”. The bestseller centers on a 16-year-old high school girl with obsessive

IFC Films has acquired US and Canadian distribution rights to the road trip comedy “Furlough”, starring Tessa Thompson and Melissa Leo, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Whoopi Goldberg plays Thompson's onscreen mother, and Anna Paquin, Edgar Ramirez and La La Anthony are also among the cast of the completed movie.

“Rush”, a contemporary dance production under Goethe Institut's Young Choreographers' Platform, will be staged today at its auditorium at 5pm and 7:30pm today.

Promising artist Khandkar Nasir Ahammed's first solo art exhibition, showcasing several sculptures and watercolours, is now on at gallery Chitrak. Nasir has developed a distinctive art language of his own.

Netflix has reached an agreement to resume production on “House of Cards” season 6 — the show's final season — in early 2018,

With the passing away of Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor, the curtains have come down on a generation of the flamboyant and powerful Kapoor clan in Hindi cinema—the other two scions were his superstar brothers Raj and Shammi Kapoor.

Upcoming artist Zahangir Alom's maiden solo painting exhibition titled “The Uncaged” began at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka

The 150th birth anniversary of noted Polish-French scientist Marie Curie was recently celebrated with enthusiasm at Marie Curie School,

Tauquir Ahmed's new film "Haldaa", released barely a few days ago, has made it big at the box office. Now being screened in 90 cinema

Ellie Goulding, the chart-topping, award-winning British artist, has been appointed a UN Environment Global Goodwill Ambassador.

The hit Bollywood onscreen couple of Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor is set to reteam for a film after a gap of 17 years, for Inder Kumar's “Total Dhamaal”.