Stuber: Uber-centric comedy makes for a wild ride
Stuber is a 2019 American action comedy film directed by Michael Dowse and written by Tripper Clancy. It stars Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Bautista, Iko Uwais, Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy Tatro, Mira Sorvino, and Karen Gillan, and f...
Palestinian investment banker turned activist filmmaker shines light on Nakba
Farah Nabulsi had started out on a clear career path. Born and raised in the UK to Palestinian parents, she studied business in London and became an institutional equity stock broker at JP Morgan Chase. But life changed totally, she sa...
The woman fighting for the arts amid conflict in Yemen
Abeer Mohammed Al Hadrami stores about 100 of her own paintings in her parent’s three-room apartment in the port city of Mukalla, the capital of Yemen’s south-¬eastern province, Hadramout. You’ll find some inside ...
Dwayne, Jason back with high-intensity fights in ‘Hobbs & Shaw’
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (internationally known as Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw) is an upcoming 2019 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by David Leitch, with a screenplay written by Chris Morgan...
How the idea of ‘India’ developed on the cricket field?
In 1911, the first ‘All-India’ team toured England for a series of matches, 14 of them First Class. It was led by a 19-year-old prince, and comprised six Parsis, five Hindus, three Muslims and two Dalits. At least two earli...
Alexis Tsipras became a victim of his own budget cuts
Within hours of the polls closing on Sunday night, Greece’s ex-prime minister Alexis Tsipras had called his rival and successor Kyriakos Mitsotakis to concede defeat. The man who swept to power on a tide of ...
Rising tide of hate speeches, a cause of concern
Hate speech is being increasingly targeted around the world, and rightly so. Adding to the sense of urgency over the issue was UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, who last month said a “wildfire of hate” was spreading in...
Cypriot-Turkish feud poses headache for Nato, EU
The Cyprus conflict is often overlooked. Sure, there have been disputes, divisions and dispossessions, but there hasn’t been war since 1974 and the last fatality was more than 20 years ago. However, with hydrocarbon discoveries, ...
Pavarotti: Documentary on famed tenor hits most of the right notes
Pavarotti is a 2019 documentary film directed by Ron Howard about operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti. The film had a nationwide premiere event through Fathom Events on June 4, 2019, and was released in theatres on June 7, 2019. Pavarotti...
short. Still, the level of destrucStrategic chaos has taken Iran to the brink of disaster
We are entering a very dangerous week for the US-Iran relationship. The coming days carry grave risks, because the Iranian leadership will continue inflaming military tensions as long as US President Donald Trump maintains his strategy...
Class divides and elitism remain the unresolved legacies
The thing about ruling more than half the world is that it is habit-forming for generations to come. Commentary on British society often revolves around the dominance of the privileged elite in its institutions and economy. While the c...
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion - CGI centurions bring beloved character into 21st century
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (French: Astérix: Le Secret de la Potion Magique) is a French computer-animated adventure family comedy film co-directed by Alexandre Astier and Louis Clichy. The screenplay by Astier is b...
Is there any hope for peace left on Korean peninsula?
Barely four days after smiles and handshakes on the border of the demilitarised zone that divides the two Koreas, the walls have gone up once again. North Korea has accused the US of being “hellbent on hostile acts”&nb...
Iran’s proxies defy Iraqi PM’s anti-militia decree
The recent trilateral meeting in Jerusalem, between Russia, the US and Israel, has been subjected to drastically different assessments: From those who melodramatically view it as a new Sykes-Picot for carving up regional influence (par...
One Day: Justice Delivered - An average crime drama riddled with cliches
One Day: Justice Delivered is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film produced by Ketan Patel and Swati Singh, written by Alaukik Rahi and directed by Ashok Nanda. The film starring Anupam Kher, Esha Gupta, Kumud Mishra , and...
Article 15: a riveting story backed by solid filmmaking
Article 15 is a 2019 Indian crime drama film directed by Anubhav Sinha and produced jointly by Zee Studios and Benaras Media Works. Written by Gaurav Solanki and Anubhav Sinha, it stars Ayushmann Khurrana, Isha Talwar, Sayani Gupta, Ku...
Saudi artist goes back to her roots for installation at the Venice Biennale
In a darkened room, waves of waxy, cream-coloured material hang from the ceilings. Scattered on the ground and climbing up the material are little brown orbs, made of leather circles stitched together. Some are stuffed with cotton wool...
Saudi potter has ceramic art industry cracked
An award-winning Saudi ceramics artist is proving to be a real trail-glazer in reviving the ancient craft in the Kingdom. Enterprising business owner Morouj Ahmed Alshatri has gone from strength to strength since setting up her Keramos...
Anna: a curiously familiar female assassin
Anna is a 2019 English-language French action thriller film written, produced and directed by Luc Besson. The film stars Sasha Luss as the eponymous assassin, with Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy, Helen Mirren and Alexander Petrov (in his d...
Little Valeria Ramirez, her dad, a symptom of a much bigger problem
Migrants, it seems, are never out of the news. The numbers are difficult to process but the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs has a revealing migration map. It shows, as you might expect, that the massive population movement...
Why can’t there be better manners in politics?
Is it possible to disagree with someone, even to the point of considering some of their ideas profoundly wrong, or as having wicked consequences, and yet still be able to work with them to achieve a goal you have in common – and ...
