Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv — bittersweet relic of a sunnier age on April 17, 2023Andrey Kurkov – Ukraine’s most celebrated living author – has stopped writing fiction. Since Russia’s full-blown invasion last year, he has become a roving ambassador for his country and its embattled people and culture. Kurkov’s reports on the war have appeared in newspapers and magazines across Europe and the US, including in the Guardian and […]
Habs Actor Dania Enwer Opens Up About Her Worst Marriage Life & Divorce By: News Desk on April 17, 2023Dania Enwer is a famous Pakistani television actor who debuted from Geo Entertainment’s Heer in 2016. She first played the leading role in Fasih Bari Khan’s written Faltu Larki alongside an ensemble cast of Hina Dilpazir, Samiya Mumtaz, and Salman Shahid. Her popular dramas include Badnaseeb, Bechari Nadia, Habs, Rasm e Duniya, Sila-e-Mohabbat, Dhaani, Heer, […]
Never hurry the Murray — the joys of lacing up your boots for a meandering four-day hike on April 16, 2023We are clearly not the only ones to have the idea. As we reach the summit of the riverbank cliff face, a kangaroo and her joey are poised at the lookout point, staring at us and across the canopy as the sun creeps above the horizon. Located in south-east Australia, the Great Murray River stretches […]
‘Sick of Myself’ — a disturbing satirical body horror film about how far someone will go on April 16, 2023If Lars von Trier had not grown top-heavy with the mythology of his self-importance, he might have tossed off a movie like “Sick of Myself” – a social satire in the form of a queasy drama of body horror and a movie whose disturbing bad-boy tastelessness recalls Von Trier’s “The Idiots,” with a touch of […]
‘Mrs Undercover’ — Radhika starrer walks with a good intent but trips on April 16, 2023Comedy-satires have become the flavour of the season for the past couple of years. To crack a near-perfect film in the genre is a very tricky part when it comes to the balance. The biggest trick to make them tonally work is the absence of a physical villain and the inclusion of a situational one. […]
‘Blind Willow, sleeping woman’ — A resonant dreamscape of aftershocks on April 15, 2023The recent films Drive My Car and Burning, two exquisite screen adaptations of Haruki Murakami’s fiction, delve into unsettling enigmas and longings, spun around performances of gripping subtlety. As a work of animation, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman can’t plumb behavioral depths and tics in quite the same way. But animation is an apt medium for […]
European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force By: Agencies on April 15, 2023The body that unites Europe’s national privacy watchdogs said on Thursday it had set up a task force on ChatGPT, a potentially important first step toward a common policy on setting privacy rules on artificial intelligence. The move by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) follows a unilateral move by Italy last month to curb […]
The cheapest Spanish cities to live in for digital nomads, according to new study By: News Desk on April 14, 2023New research has discovered the top 10 cheapest Spanish cities to live in for digital nomads, with Ávila taking the top spot. Travel experts at Why This Place analysed the average cost of several factors in each Spanish city, including rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in the city centre, utilities, groceries and transport. The cost […]
‘Obsession’ — the actors in this erotic thriller all seem to need the toilet on April 14, 2023William Farrow is not just a surgeon – he is a brilliant surgeon making headline news by successfully separating conjoined babies! In fact, he is not just a brilliant surgeon making headline news by successfully separating conjoined twins, but modest too! Plus, not only is he a brilliant but modest twin-divider, he is long-married to […]
‘Mafia Mamma’ — an offer you can refuse on April 14, 2023Sweet Tony Soprano, “Mafia Mamma” is bad. And not just disappointingly bad, in the way of late-career James Cameron, or irritatingly puerile, like virtually anything featuring Roberto Benigni. No, “Mafia Mamma” is so wincingly awful it makes you question the professional bona fides of everyone who had a hand in greenlighting its existence. This probably […]