CANNES, France (AP) ― Who needs a red carpet? The megawatt cast of “Expendables 3” made a spectacular debut at Cannes on Sunday, rolling down the famous Croisette in tanks as a throng of onlookers and media jostled for a better view of its cargo: Sly Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas, and Jason Statham. And that was just part one of the entourage. Banderas was hardly exaggerating in the subsequent press conference when he called it the “hall of fame” of

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Godzilla ― born in a post-war Japan traumatized by Hiroshima ― gets eye-popping special effects in his latest Hollywood remake, combined with a reflection on the nuclear threat. The giant reptile, the rights for whom are still owned by Japanese studio Toho, was already adapted by Hollywood in 1998, with German disaster movie director Roland Emmerich at the helm. For the new version, which is released in North America on Friday (May 16), Hollywood giant Warner Bros. put Godzil

TOKYO (AFP) ― Naomi Kawase, the first Japanese director to be a member of the Cannes jury, returns to competition this year with a film she has dubbed her “masterpiece.” And for an auteur who has already bagged the Camera D’Or and the Grand Prix, her sights are set on the top honor ― the Palme D’or.“There is no doubt that this is my masterpiece,” she said of “Futatsume no mado” (literally, “The second window,” but titled in English “Still the Water”) which has been selected to compete in this ye