The Zurich Film Festival will open on Oct. 3 with political thriller “The Order,” starring Jude Law, who will receive the festival’s Golden Eye career achievement award. Director Justin Kurzel will also attend the screening. Law has worked with numerous renowned directors, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Sam Mendes, Sally Potter, Wong Kar-Wai, Terry Gilliam, … Read more
“All of You,” a sales title premiering in Toronto Sept. 7, features a test many viewers might shy away from taking. In the story, set in the near-future, science has devised a method to determine one’s true soulmate — if one is willing to take the test. An unexpected answer comes between Simon (Brett Goldstein) … Read more
The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its 49th edition with the world premiere of “Nutcrackers,” a crowd-pleasing fish-out-of-water comedy from director David Gordon Green and Ben Stiller in his first film role in seven years. Stiller’s big screen homecoming wasn’t the only major return to TIFF. Star power is back, baby! Last year’s festival … Read more
India’s Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) is set to commemorate the centenary of Telugu cinema legend Akkineni Nageswara Rao with a countrywide film festival. Rao, known for his versatility, worked in the Telugu, Tamil and Hindi-language cinema industries over a 71-year career spanning more than 250 movies. He was a recipient of numerous accolades, including the … Read more
Midnight screenings rarely come more fitting than “Baby Invasion,” Harmony Korine‘s latest experimental, unconventional and video game-like assault on the senses, which had its world premiere on Saturday night in Venice to an 8.5-minute standing ovation. The film served up a provocative array of unique visuals: We saw our heavily armed, baby-faced criminals torturing people, … Read more
The Venice Film Festival kicked off the fall festival season in style this week, with premieres of anticipated new movies like “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and “Maria” as well as the prestige TV series “Disclaimer.” Still to come are “Joker: Folie à Deux,” “Queer,” “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter Two,” “Wolfs” and much more. Nicole Kidman, … Read more
Last weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival, one of the largest street festivals in the world, saw a troubling surge in violence, with eight people stabbed and police making hundreds of arrests during the annual celebration in west London. In a late Monday update on their operations, London’s Metropolitan Police reported that five individuals were stabbed on … Read more
Listen to article Pakistan is set to host the first-ever international date festival in October, following an agreement signed between the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The announcement was made on Tuesday in a statement issued by the UAE Consulate in Karachi. While Pakistan imports various types … Read more
Singer Malaika Faisal performs during the Independence Day festival in Dallas, Texas, US. — Reporter In Dallas, the Pakistan American Patriot Association (PAPA) organised a lively Independence Day festival to mark the country’s independence with great enthusiasm. A large number of Pakistani Americans from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and surrounding cities attended the event with … Read more
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FRANKFURT: German police said on Saturday that they were still searching for an unknown assailant hours after he killed three people and wounded others in a stabbing attack at a festival in the western city of Solingen. The police said in a statement early on Saturday that eight were injured, five of them seriously. That is up … Read more