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Through its two protagonists — a photographer and a novelist who become inordinately curious about an illicit affair in their Taipei neighborhood — “Zoom Hunting” explores voyeurism with echoes of “Rear Window” and “Blow Up.”

HONG KONG (AFP) - Acclaimed “Raise the Red Lantern” director Zhang Yimou says Asian filmmakers have made great strides but they must broaden their reach for Western audiences.

China and South Korea blitzed the Asian Film Awards this year, dominating top honours including best picture, best actor and best actress at the ceremony in Hong Kong Monday.

China and South Korea blitzed the Asian Film Awards this year, dominating top honours including best picture, best actor and best actress at the ceremony in Hong Kong Monday.

New Book Follows a Detective’s Struggle to Find the Culprit behind the Gruesome Death of a Victim

Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes is writing a Broadway-bound stage adaptation of John Grisham’s novel “A Time to Kill,” and Arena Stage in Washington, DC, will present the world premiere in May 2011.

Revolving around an investigative reporter and his unlikely crime-solving partner, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson’s posthumous Millennium trilogy of novels were not so much best-sellers as international publishing phenomena.

“House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival” (Crown, 352 pages, $26), by Deborah Ball: “House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival” chronicles the life of fashion designer Gianni Versace, from his humble beginnings in Reggio, a town in southern Italy, to his death in 1997.

With his new miniseries The Pacific, Tom Hanks tells the story of America’s Pacific theater in World War II. How did this actor turned producer become our chronicler in chief?

A Western Massachusetts funeral home is trying “bring life” to business with a chili cook-off, a murder-mystery show and free limo rides to couples on their 50th anniversaries. Terry Probst, the new managing partner of the Devanny-Condron Funeral Home in Pittsfield, hopes the events will remind people that the funeral home is a center for community life.