After conquering the ramp, Tayyab Bombal is ready to take over the film industry By: Staff Report on April 22, 2023“I feel very lucky. Since last August, I think my life has been really happening. I did an Ideas 2022 show in November and I was featured second time after 2018. But this time my show was very different. I paid tribute to legends of Pakistan who literally influenced our society over the last 70 […]
Princess Kate’s photo of late queen Elizabeth II surrounded at Balmoral is released on April 22, 2023Kensington Palace has published an unseen photograph of Queen Elizabeth II – taken shortly before her death – and released on what would have been Her Majesty’s 97th birthday on Friday. The picture of the monarch was captured by the Princess of Wales at Balmoral in August – weeks before Britain and the Commonwealth lost […]
Five films set to release on Eidul Fitr By: APP on April 22, 2023Five new films including a Punjabi film will hit the box office on Eidul Fitr this year. According to a report of showbiz website, five new films will rule the hearts of audiences this year including, Huey Tum Ajnabi, starring Mikaal Zulfiqar and Sadia Khan in the lead roles, the film narrates a passionate love […]
Inside London’s legendary Brown’s Hotel, beloved by president Roosevelt, Rudyard Kipling on April 21, 2023Stay in the Kipling Suite at Brown’s Hotel of Mayfair and you’ll be luxuriating in the same rooms loved by The Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling, the author of a forthcoming history on the hotel told me. But when pressed on where he’d like to stay in this quintessentially British hotel, historian Andy Williamson said […]
‘The Three Musketeers: D’artagnan’ — a classic adaptation of a classic on April 21, 2023The Three Musketeers has been adapted to the screen and this is no exaggeration, a lot. By this stage Alexandre Dumas’ novel must be languishing only slightly behind A Christmas Carol and the Bible in the most-adaptations race. The last Barbie movie before Greta Gerwig’s much-hyped odyssey saw the dolls donning cavalier caps and buckling […]
‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ — explosively Quentin Tarantino-esque eco thriller on April 21, 2023Here is a fiercely watchable thriller which had me biting my nails down to the wrists. It is inspired partly by Andreas Malm’s radical eco-activist manifesto of the same title and partly – in fact, almost pedantically – by the heist classic Reservoir Dogs. A young crew of protesters, each individually getting a backstory flashback […]
‘A Clever Woman’ — engagingly low-key English drama defies expectations By: The Guardian on April 21, 2023British indie director Jon Sanders creates another of his low-key, thoughtful movies developed through improvisation; it is a static, eccentric chamber piece in some ways, but engaging and pregnant with ideas about mourning and grief. Josie Lawrence and Tanya Myers play Dot and Phoebe, two sisters who have come to the seaside home of their […]
Maldives… now it’s a family affair: The paradise islands in the Indian Ocean used to be the preserve of honeymooners — but not any more By: News Desk on April 19, 2023Driving a Mini Moke along a bumpy Route 66, we bounce in and out of sandy potholes as we pass a sign to the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s just one of several bridges to tick off on our journey through lush, tropical vegetation. There’s also Rialto, Tower, and Sydney Harbour. No, my geography hasn’t gone […]
One of the Queen’s two surviving bridesmaids is NOT invited to King Charles’ coronation By: News Desk on April 19, 2023King Charles is said to have apologised to friends and family after they failed to receive invitations to his Coronation. The latest confirmed to have been excluded is Lady Pamela Hicks, who is one of only two surviving bridesmaids from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s wedding in 1947. Lady Pamela – whose father, the 1st […]
‘Parachute’ Review: A Gentle, Earnest Indie About Love, Self-Loathing and Other Dependencies By: News Desk on April 19, 2023In 2007, just after her breakout movie role as brittle, sizeist mean-girl Amber Von Tussle in Adam Shankman’s “Hairspray,” actor Brittany Snow took to the pages of People to talk about her own longtime battle with anorexia. But in a cultural moment that was peculiarly hostile to the mental health crises of young female celebrities […]