Don't worry about me. The Sharknado Evacuation map supplied by Syfy network places me, as a resident of Lower Manhattan, smack in the zone most in peril this sharknado season. But I'll be ready.
The placement of Chinese products in Hollywood blockbusters is a growing business, Liu Wei and Wong Lok Yee meet the woman who is putting brands on the silver screen.
With horror flick after road movie, China's domestic filmmaking seems to have found new inspiration for its box-office rivalry with Hollywood.
At first Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer thought she was seeing early concert footage of James Brown but then was told it was a screen test by Chadwick Boseman to play the "Godfather of Soul" in the new biopic Get On Up.
Li Yang, a college student in Wuhan, Hubei province, has loved writing poetry since childhood, and he always wanted to publish his works.
Carrie La Seur's finely crafted debut chronicles a woman's complicated relationship with her hometown of Billings, Montana, her relatives who stayed behind and her ancestral history. La Seur's graceful prose in The Home Place complements her incisive character studies of a family that has managed to keep most of its problems behind closed doors.
Soon after the Wenchuan earthquake in May 2008, An Xuerong and some of her colleagues went to a quake-hit town in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, to bring some 80 mentally ill patients to their hospital - Chengdu No 4 Hospital, one of the largest hospitals for people suffering from mental illnesses in Southwest China.
As Chinese Valentine's Day approaches, a French author and filmmaker brings his tale of the possibilities of love to China's readers, Xing Yi reports.
John Waters was safely ensconced in his New York apartment, which is unexpectedly tasteful - Oriental rugs, carefully arranged books - for the filmmaker known as the "Pope of Trash", thanks to movies like Hairspray and Pink Flamingos that traffic in camp, gore and, ahem, bodily functions.
Just like people, dogs get upset when their masters share their affection elsewhere, a new study finds. Xinhua reports.
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