Wed 16 February 2022: Bappi Lahiri, the Indian singer-composer and “Disco King” who collaborated with Snoop Dogg and Samantha Fox, died at the age of 69, his family announced Wednesday, prompting tributes from the worlds of politics and Bollywood. The larger-than-life Lahiri, who was born in West Bengal to a musical family, was known for […]
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Sun 13 February 2022: Lebanon has banned the newly-released movie ‘Death on the Nile’ due to the fact that the Israeli actress, Gal Gadot, plays a starring role in it. The Lebanese move follows closely in the footsteps of Kuwait which banned it earlier this week. The movie, based on the well-known 1937 Agatha Christie novel, shows […]
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Wed 09 February 2022: With 12 nominations, Netflix’s dark Western “The Power of the Dog” dominated this year’s field of Academy Award hopefuls on Tuesday, overtaking the sci-fi epic “Dune’s” ten nods in the race for the industry’s highest honors. Both will compete for the coveted best picture award alongside drama “Belfast,” about a family […]
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Mon 07 February 2022: Kuwait has banned a new film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s whodunnit “Death on the Nile” starring Israeli actress Gal Gadot who is known for her support of Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip. Ministry of Information spokesperson, Anouar Murad, confirmed yesterday to AFP that the film has been banned. Kuwait’s Al-Qabas newspaper said the […]
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Sun 06 February 2022: Lata Mangeshkar, for whom the description playback singer is something of an understatement, died in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on Sunday. She was 92. Ms Mangeshkar was taken to the intensive care unit on January 8 after testing positive for COVID-19. Lata Mangeshkar was also being treated for both pneumonia. Over the next […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: Veteran singer Lata Mangeshkar, who was admitted to Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital earlier last month, after testing positive for COVID-19, is still in the ICU and is on a ventilator, reported news agency ANI. The singer, 92, was also being treated for pneumonia. She recovered from COVID-19 and pneumonia on January 30. “Veteran singer […]
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Wed 02 February 2022 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________: Illustrating a post-truth era through the story of a planet-killing comet, the 2021 comedy-disaster movie mirrors many aspects of today’s world _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Despite its title, the movie “Don’t Look Up” released on Netflix on Dec. 24 urges people to look up at the sky. The star-studded cast, including Leonardo DiCaprio, […]
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Tue 18 January 2022: A set of Israeli flags, Hebrew documents, and a portrait of Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, may be found in a Hamas TV studio in Gaza. A make-believe Israeli security service office is being utilized to film a pro-resistance television series about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s Hamas’ response to […]
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Fri 14 January 2022: Film stars including Mark Ruffalo, Susan Sarandon, Gael García Bernal and Viggo Mortensen, have backed Harry Potter actress Emma Watson, after her social media post about Palestinian solidarity drew ire from Israeli officials. “We join Emma Watson in support of the simple statement that ‘solidarity is a verb’, including meaningful solidarity with Palestinians […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: Spider-Man: No Way Home has become the first film during the pandemic to reach $1 Billion at the box office worldwide. “Sony’s comic-book epic has eclipsed that milestone in a near-record 12 days, tying with 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” as the third-fastest film to reach the billion-dollar benchmark,” US […]
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