Animal Farm is also about the history and evolution of RussiaBy: Jahanzaib Brohi on April 4, 2020Animal Farm is a novella written by an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic Eric Arthur Blair, known as and famous by his pen name, George Orwell. George Orwell was born in Motihari, India but later he moved to the United Kingdom. Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four are his famous novels. Animal Farm, a […]
Watch 8 innocent people get exonerated in Netflix’s ‘The Innocence Files’ on April 4, 2020“I think the best thing that a lawyer can do with their license is get an innocent guy out of prison,” lawyer Ellen Eggers says in the trailer for Netflix’s The Innocence Files, a new docuseries focused on just that: the exoneration of the wrongfully imprisoned. Executive-produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus […]
The OST of ‘Sabaat’ is a breath of fresh air in these hard timesBy: By Muhammad Ali on April 4, 2020Pakistani dramas’ title tracks have formed a genre of their own. Carefully handed over to music connoisseurs, the songs are usually semi-classical, softly composed and brilliantly sung by the best of Pakistan’s artists, probably due to the fact that OSTs have a significant part to play in a project’s promotion and in garnering the viewers’ […]
‘Peninsula’ — train to Busan’s sequel promises more zombie thrills on April 4, 2020A trailer for Peninsula, marketed in the US as Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula, has been released. The Yeon Sang-ho directorial is the sequel to 2016 zombie drama Train to Busan, also helmed by Sang-ho. Despite set in the same world and country, Peninsula appears to have little in common with Train to Busan. We […]
Tone-deaf or tuned-in? Coronavirus epidemic proves a minefield for celebsBy: Agencies on April 3, 2020Taylor Swift is sending cash to some of her fans and Rihanna has donated $6 million to support people whose livelihoods have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Movie and record producer David Geffen said he is self-isolating in the Caribbean on his multi-million-dollar yacht, and Madonna posted a now-deleted video of herself in a […]
RockyBy: Agencies on April 3, 2020When world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed rolls into town only to find his scheduled fight postponed, promoters seek to salvage the situation by setting up a fight against a local tough. Up steps Rocky Balboa, a journeyman professional armed with enough potential cliches to make the money-men happy. Duly, Rocky battles through a tumultuous home […]
Bloomin’ disaster — UK’s garden industry faces ruin from coronavirus crisisBy: Agencies on April 3, 2020Britain’s gardening industry could be destroyed by the coronavirus shutdown, growers have warned, with the horticulture sector potentially facing a total stock write-off unlike that of any other industry. Plant sales have fallen dramatically since the Mothers’ Day weekend of March 21-22 and the national lockdown means there are unlikely to be any sales through […]
Reissue of 1982 Nina Simone disc a work of contrastsBy: Agencies on April 3, 2020Nina Simone’s “Fodder On My Wings” is an album of contrasts and extremes – personal traumas and world sounds, joy and despair, harmony and defiance, the carnal and the spiritual. Recorded in Paris in 1982, as Simone’s enduring restlessness and creeping mental illness kept her life seemingly barely tethered to anything but her music, it’s […]
James Elkington’s melancholy the stuff for shut-insBy: Agencies on April 3, 2020With his “Ever-Roving Eye,” James Elkington sings about wolves in the womb, the sincerity of hyenas and the clock running out – a cradle to grave perspective, in other words. The album is a follow-up to the Chicago-based Englishman’s 2017 debut and was recorded in 2018, but it inadvertently provides a fitting soundtrack to the […]
The shows must go on!: Lloyd Webber musicals to be aired for freeBy: Agencies on April 3, 2020Fans of musical theatre forced by the coronavirus pandemic to stay at home will be able to watch some of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most popular shows for free on Youtube every week. The series, entitled “The Shows Must Go On!”, will kick off on Friday with a 2000 filmed version of Lloyd Webber’s ‘Joseph and […]