FEMALE SYRIAN DOCTOR IN OSCAR-NOMINATED FILM HOPES TO INSPIRE WOMEN

Sat 08 February 2020: A female Syrian doctor who ran an underground hospital in a besieged rebel stronghold says she hopes an Oscar-nominated documentary showing her work will encourage other women and girls to demand equal treatment with men. Amani Ballour, 32, is seen facing bombardments and shortages of food and medicine while also challenging […]

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US HAS LOST ITS ‘MORAL LEADERSHIP,’ ACTOR HARRISON FORD SAYS

Thu 06 February 2020: (AFP) Harrison Ford, in Mexico City on Wednesday to promote his latest film, decried the collapse of US “moral leadership” on issues such as improving the environment and immigration policy. “We need moral leadership. We’ve lost some of our credibility and we are anxious to regain it,” the Hollywood star told […]

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SYRIAN DOCUMENTARIES FOR SAMA AND THE CAVE, NOMINATED FOR OSCARS

Wed 15 January 2020: Two gritty documentaries covering the war in Syria were announced as Academy Awards nominees – better known as the Oscars – on Monday, the latest accolade for the Syrian film-makers. For Sama and The Cave were named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – widely considered the film industry’s biggest prize – as […]

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‘JOKER’ TOPS OSCAR NOMS WITH 11; 3 OTHER FILMS SCORE 10

Tue 14 January 2020: Todd Phillips’ much-debated supervillain origin story and R-rated box-office smash “Joker” topped all films with 11 Academy Awards nominations, while Martin Scorsese’s elegiac crime epic “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino’s 1960s Los Angeles fairy tale “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and Sam Mendes’ World War I tale “1917” all trailed […]

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BOLLYWOOD STAR DEEPIKA PADUKONE TO BACK THE PROTESTING JNU STUDENTS

Wed 08 January 2019: A top Bollywood actress is being praised for visiting an elite Indian university where students were protesting against an attack on them by masked suspects with alleged links to a student group backed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Deepika Padukone, 34, on Tuesday visited New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University […]

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NETFLIX’S ‘MESSIAH’: WHAT’S THE CONTROVERSY REGARDING THE SHOW’S MAIN CHARACTER ‘AL-MASIH AD-DAJJAL’?

Fri 13 December 2019: Season 1 of ‘Messiah’, an American thriller web series by Michael Petroni is set to drop on Netflix on New Years’. The trailer has sparked a heated debate with Netflix users threatening to unsubscribe –  when the storyline seemed to have reference to the antichrist. The plot you ask? This political […]

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STEREOTYPE MUSLIMS: BOLLYWOOD MOVIE ‘PANIPAT’ FACES BACKLASH FROM AFGHANISTAN

Thu 12 December 2019: Bollywood Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker enters the ground with another epic movie, of which the teaser was just released a couple of days ago which takes the audience back to the 1700s.  But Afghans are concerned over ‘misrepresentation’ of Ahmad Shah Abdali, the founder of modern Afghanistan, in the new film. Afghans […]

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‘THE OTTOMAN’ DEBUT HITS SCREENS, ALLURES MILLIONS WORLDWIDE

Sat 23 November 2019: The thrilling debut of ‘The Ottoman’ (Kuruluş Osman) has proved that the Turkish TV drama will unite viewers of all ages around the world on Wednesdays Millions of viewers worldwide held their breath as they watched the first episode of “The Ottoman,” a new Turkish TV drama, on Wednesday. “The Ottoman”(Kuruluş […]

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