U.S. film shows despair under mountain of debt
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Sky-high interest rates on credit cards can make a mountain of debt seem insurmountable. Eventually for some, it is.
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H&R Block looks to put its subprime woes behind it.
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"Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan 1948-53," a series being shown at the New York Film Festival, begs the question: Why has the U.S. failed to bolster its image since Sept. 11?
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Daniel Day-Lewis gives a towering performance in a unique film about idealism and greed in the American West
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A bankrupt Japanese coal town may provide a glimpse  of a grim future to a country riddled with debt and an aging, shrinking population
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Older investors are facing tough economic realities as a result of the disappointing United States stock market this year.
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People in Manchester and Glasgow feel most under financial pressure, but the bankruptcy hotspots are in the South.
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LOS ANGELES  - It seems especially depressing when so-called independent filmmakers have nothing on their minds except aping the style of Hollywood's hip caper movies. Such is the case with "How to Rob a Bank," a film recently showcased at the Los Angeles Film Festival that would be more at home at the grindhouse or on the back shelves at a video store, where it will wind up soon enough.
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An Istanbul clerk finds  his simple, devout life turned upside down when an Islamic  group employs him as its debt collector in a Turkish film which  aims to show how religious devotion can be tainted by  hypocrisy.
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Since the box office hit rock bottom last weekend, there's no place to go but up. And two films targeting very different audiences are looking to take advantage of the usual seasonal slump this weekend.
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The building-materials specialist bears the brunt of the downturn.
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The dream of a free world becomes a  nightmare of modern day slavery in Ken Loach&#39;s latest film,  about migrant workers trying to eke out a living in Britain  where they are exploited and abused.
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Fresh from the hospital and still hurting from a $757 prescription drug bill, moviegoer Ron Jackson emerged from a screening of Michael Moore's documentary on the U.S. health system feeling outraged and exuberant.
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The dream of a free world becomes a nightmare of modern day slavery in Ken Loach's latest film, about migrant workers trying to eke out a living in Britain where they are exploited and abused.
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Sky-high interest rates on credit  cards can make a mountain of debt seem insurmountable.  Eventually for some, it is.
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Malawi is &#36;2.9 billion in debt but the cash that was borrowed hasn't done Simao Aloni or his home village of Chiromo any good.
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The US economy loses $20bn a year through the illegal copying and sale of films, an American institute says.