Forty Rules of Love is highly motivatingBy: Jahanzaib Brohi on November 14, 2019Forty Rules of Love is a novel written by a French-born Turkish writer Elif Shafak. Elif Shafak is one of the most bravest and acknowledged authors and feminists in Turkey. And Forty Rules of Love is one of her bestseller novels. The novel narrates two parallel stories. One story is about an unhappy Jewish housewife […]
Award-winning film ‘Atlantics’ offers haunting take on life in SenegalBy: Agencies on November 14, 2019To capture the harsh reality of life in Senegal, film director Mati Diop chose young people she met at building sites, bars and in Dakar’s poorer suburbs as the stars of ‘Atlantics’, a ghost story about migrants and those they leave behind. The coming-of-age tale has already won critical acclaim, securing the Grand Prix award […]
Art meets AI — computer-generated works set for saleBy: Agencies on November 14, 2019Two paintings up for auction in New York highlight a growing interest in artificial intelligence-created works — a technique that could transform how art is made and viewed but is also stirring up passionate debate. The art world was stunned last year when an AI painting sold for $432,500, and auctioneers are keen to further […]
Unseen photographs capture Rolling Stones’ humble beginningsBy: Agencies on November 14, 2019A series of black-and-white photographs dating back to the Rolling Stones’ first concert tour in 1963 will be seen by the public for the first time when they go on display in east London this month. The images, taken in a London recording studio and at a gig in Cardiff, Wales, were stored under photographer […]
Literary delights for the children!By: Staff Report on November 13, 2019DREAM WRITER BY SANDHYA RAO — a boy who doesn’t stop talking, furry cats, and clacking needles…. Sheema has a dream every night, but she always wakes up before they end. How do these dreams end? She really has to know. ‘Write them down,’ says English Miss. And that’s what Sheema does. ‘The more she […]
First look at ‘Saw’ creator’s disturbing new ‘Invisible Man’ rebootBy: Agencies on November 13, 2019The first look at the reboot of classic movie horror The Invisible Man has arrived, and it looks horribly creepy. Leigh Whannel is behind it – with Universal and Blumhouse producing – the writer of the Saw and Insidious movies, who’s now turned director. And the premise is particularly disturbing, finding Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth […]
The controversial scene that’s not in the live-action version of ‘Lady and the Tramp’By: Agencies on November 13, 2019Disney’s recent live-action remakes of Mouse House animated classics have had to make major and minor changes to the source material. On one side of the spectrum, Tim Burton’s Dumbo erased one of the 1941 cartoon’s most controversial scenes, and added an entire hour of new material. Meanwhile, Jon Favreau’s update of The Lion King […]
The Politics of Pain on November 13, 2019This is a book about the UK exiting from Brexit. “England’s recent lurch to the right appears to be but one example of the nationalist wave sweeping across the world, yet as acclaimed Irish critic Fintan O’Toole suggests in The Politics of Pain, it is, in reality, a phenomenon rooted in the second World War,” […]
The gems of St Petersburg, FloridaBy: Ahmad Faruqui on November 12, 2019There we were, mesmerised by the white sands of Clearwater Beach. The sands could easily have been mistaken for the snow that had fallen in upstate New York. Pelicans and cormorants were roosting on Pier 60, waiting for the fish to present themselves for dinner. Hotels and condominiums (some charging $8,000 a month) lined up […]
‘Midway’ is standard-issue account of World War II turning point on November 12, 2019The Battle of Midway was the turning point of the Pacific front in World War II. And yet, it somehow hasn’t captured the Hollywood imagination like the D-Day Invasion or Iwo Jima. Decades after the Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda vehicle “Midway” (1976), the battle was ironically left out of the HBO miniseries “The Pacific” […]