Oscar win caps Campion’s triumphant Hollywood return By: AFP on March 28, 2022Wellington: After shunning Hollywood for more than a decade, pioneering New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion has conquered Tinseltown on her own terms by winning the best director Oscar for her sweeping, moody Western “The Power of the Dog”. The brooding examination of toxic masculinity involving feuding brothers on a 1920s Montana ranch marks a departure […]
Riz Ahmed becomes first British-Pakistani Muslim actor for his live short film “The Long Goodbye” By: Web Desk on March 28, 2022Los Angeles: The 39 years old actor and musician made history by becoming the first-ever Muslim to win Oscar for a short film. Ahmed made it to the stage during the star-studded ceremony held in Los Angeles to accept his award for a short film “ The Long Goodbye”. Well, last year Ahmed was nominated […]
How Coppola nearly refused ‘Godfather’ offer 50 years ago By: APP on March 23, 2022Los Angeles: Released 50 years ago this week, “The Godfather” broke all box office records, won best picture at the Oscars and introduced millions of fans to a world of mafia bosses, murder-for-hire and cannoli. But when director Francis Ford Coppola — then “about 29 years old” — was offered the job of adapting Mario […]
Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas’s fatal attraction By: APP on March 16, 2022 Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas’s fatal attraction Paris, If there’s one guy who knows how to make an erotic thriller in Hollywood, it’s Adrian Lyne. The British director, 81, practically defined the genre in the 1980s and 1990s with films like “9 1/2 Weeks” and “Indecent Proposal” — and above all “Fatal Attraction” […]
India army blocks film on gay soldier sparking censorship row By: AFP on February 18, 2022Critically-acclaimed Indian filmmaker Onir wanted to direct a movie inspired by a gay army major who resigned and came out in a blaze of publicity — but despite the country’s democratic status, the military stopped it from being made. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government has been repeatedly accused of ramping up censorship in a systematic […]
HBL PSL 7: Behroze Sabzwari finds differences among Karachi Kings squad By: Web Desk on February 16, 2022The Babar Azam-captained Karachi Kings are the first and only team throughout the entire season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) who have lost seven back to back matches. Cricket fans are incredibly frustrated with their performance on field, however they are additionally presenting the explanations for such a grim execution. “I have heard there […]
BTS to perform in South Korea for first time since coronavirus began By: Reuters on February 16, 2022South Korean boy band BTS are to put on their first shows for their home fans since the coronavirus pandemic began, with three concerts in the capital, Seoul, next month, their agency said on Wednesday. The concerts, part of their “Permission to Dance on Stage” tour that has been disrupted by the pandemic, will be […]
African films make waves at Berlinale festival By: AFP/APP on February 15, 2022Berlin: African films are enjoying a high profile at this year’s Berlinale festival, with debuts from South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR) turning heads along with a new take on “Nollywood”. While there are no African films in the main competition at Europe’s first major film festival of the year, several documentaries and […]
Oscars adds ‘fan favorite’ prize voted by Twitter By: AFP on February 15, 2022Next month’s Oscars will include a new “fan favorite” prize for the year’s most popular film as voted for by Twitter users, organizers said Monday seeking to lure viewers back to a ceremony that has seen audiences plummet. The announcement — which will be made during the 94th Academy Awards telecast on March 27 — comes after several crowd-pleasing […]
‘Death on the Nile’ cruises to North America box office lead By: AFP on February 14, 2022“Death on the Nile” cruised to the top of the North American box office in its opening weekend, showing the continuing lure of a good old-fashioned Agatha Christie murder mystery, according to industry data Sunday. The movie from the 20th Century — the third based on Christie’s 1937 novel of the same name — took […]