New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday criticised a planned movie about her response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks as poorly timed and focussed on the wrong subject. The US-backed film “They Are Us” has sparked an intense backlash among New Zealand Muslims, with community leaders slamming the project for pushing a “white […]
Film
Horror film ‘Conjuring’ scares up a NAmerica boxoffice lead
As if 2020 didn’t bring horrors enough, North American moviegoers seem to crave more: Fright film “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It“ earned an estimated $24 million this weekend to top the box office as more and more theaters reopen after a bleak year. The new Warner Bros. release, the latest in the […]
Cannes ‘can’t wait’ for film festival after ‘horrible’ year
The five-star palace hotels are in full swing, the sound of music drifts across the beach and after a ‘horrible’ year blighted by coronavirus, Cannes is buzzing again for its international film festival. “We can’t wait,” admits Pierrick Cizeron, chief executive at the Majestic hotel that overlooks the Mediterranean and the festival convention centre. In […]
‘Rambo Last Blood’ — Stallone holds his steed
‘Rambo: Last Blood’; Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sergio Peris- Mencheta, Yvette Monreal, Adriana Barraza, Paz Vega, Oscar Jaenada, Joaquin Cosio, Genie Kim aka Yenah Han; Direction: Adrian Grunberg; Rating: 2.5/5 Stars Blood lust fans of “Rambo”, the one-man killing machine, will not have anything to complain about “Last Blood” except that this franchise sheen is slowly […]
Why Pakistani cinema needs another film like ‘Main Hoon Shahid Afridi’
‘Main Hoon Shahid Afridi’ that came out in 2013, has to be one of the best films ever made in Pakistan. The film was informative and also motivated the audience to do something concrete with their lives and not waste their youth doing drugs and staying idle. The whole idea behind the film was that […]
Bruce Springsteen surprises Asbury Park film screening
Fans at the Asbury Park’s Music + Film Festival had seen a lot of rare, mind-blowing live Bruce Springsteen footage by the end of Saturday. In the city’s old Paramount Theatre, where Springsteen has performed many times, they saw rare clips like a highly-charged performance of “Quarter to Three” from the Bottom Line in 1975, […]
‘Avengers Endgame’ actors’ salaries revealed
It may have been the end of the road for Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man but the actor will not feel the pinch financially, courtesy the contract he negotiated a few years ago. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 54-year-old actor, who has been the face of Marvel Studios’ money-minting Marvel Cinematic Universe, had managed […]
Avengers’ Thor thanks fans for making the film a success
As ‘Avengers – Endgame’, the final chapter from the ‘Avengers’ franchise broke all records globally by raking in $1.2 billion in its first weekend, actor Chris Hemsworth who stars as Thor in the film, thanked fans across the world for making it a success. Chris Hemsworth took to his Instagram on Tuesday to share a […]
Anurag Basu’s next film to release in January 2020
Filmmaker Anurag Basu’s next directorial venture, an action comedy anthology, will hit the theatres on January 24, 2020. The film was earlier supposed to release on September 6 this year. The currently-untitled movie centres on unavoidable jeopardies of life and has four different stories set in a quintessential Indian metro. It features Abhishek Bachchan, Aditya […]
‘Captain Marvel’ — a plot greatly similar to that of other superhero films
Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, ‘Captain Marvel’ is the 21st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Based on Marvel Comics, Captain Marvel is an American superhero film. It is a 2 hour 3 minutes long film. Released on the February 27, 2019 in the United Kingdom (London) […]