Disney+ Hotstar ISIS Thriller ‘The Freelancer’ Is ‘Incisive Look at That World,’ Says Creator Neeraj Pandey (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran Top Indian actor Anil Kapoor has won a landmark judgement against artificial intelligence (AI). The “Slumdog Millionaire” star had filed a suit in the Delhi High Court through his lawyer Ameet Naik for protection of his personality rights including his name, image, likeness, voice and other attributes of his personality against any misuse including on digital media.

Leonardo DiCaprio has only words of praise for Killers of the Flower Moon breakout star Lily Gladstone.

Indian film star Anil Kapoor, better known in the West for his role in Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”, made a splash at the recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival with “Thank You For Coming” – which he co-produces and stars in.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Charades has closed multiple deals on “There’s Something in the Barn,” Magnus Martens’s (“Fear the Walking Dead”) comedy horror movie from “Dead Snow” producers at 74 Entertainment and XYZ Films. The English-language movie is headlined by Martin Starr (“Freaks and Geeks,” “Spider Man”), Amrita Acharia (“Game of Thrones”) and Jeppe Beck Laursen (“The Last Kingdom”).

EXCLUSIVE: VMI Worldwide has acquired world rights to the action pic The Ballad of Davy Crockett from producer-director Derek Estlin Purvis, starring William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Colm Meaney (Con Air)

When restaurateurs Devang and Pradip first visited Manchester, they fell in love with both the city and its people.

The cost of living continues to make most people think more about their spending habits and try to keep an eye on the number of outgoings.

Indian film maverick Karan Johar brought action thriller “Kill” to the Toronto International Film Festival this year.

Naman Ramachandran Anand Patwardhan, the doyen of Indian documentary filmmaking, will premiere his new film, “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (“The World Is Family”) at the Toronto Film Festival. The film focuses on Patwardhan’s parents and close family members and juxtaposes Mahatma Gandhi and the history of India’s independence movement with contemporary times. “As my parents began to age, I began filming to preserve their memory for myself but had no intention to make a film as such.

We may currently be sweating through September’s Indian summer, but I’ve just had a blatant reminder that Christmas is not far away – I’ve received my first beauty advent calendar. It may seem crazy to be thinking about December at the moment, but beauty advent calendars are big business, and brands launch theirs earlier and earlier every year. But with so many on the market nowadays, it can be hard to know which one to buy.

EXCLUSIVE: Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World, which has just been submitted as Romania’s official entry into the International Oscar race, has been picked up by Mubi for multiple key territories. 

Naman Ramachandran A mother’s quest for justice is the fulcrum around which Toronto Film Festival U.A.E. selection “Yellow Bus” revolves. Set in an unnamed Arabian Gulf country, “Yellow Bus” follows an Indian family that endures a tragedy when their daughter is neglected on a school bus in the sweltering desert heat.

Queen Elizabeth II held a unique position, for never before in history was a monarch so ardently admired the world over.This was made all the more evident when even countries that were in the past opposed to the British government and its policies released touching, heartfelt tributes upon her death. In New York the Empire State Building was illuminated in her honour, in Brazil the famous Christ the Redeemer statue glowed the red, white and blue of the Union Jack and the flag was also projected on to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Many other monuments around the world were lit up in the late Queen’s honour.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In “Origin,” Ava DuVernay weaves a centuries- and continents-spanning narrative feature around the ideas of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson, who rejects the word “racism.” It’s not that she doesn’t believe that racism exists; rather, she doesn’t think that racism alone can explain the inequity in human society — the way America’s founders could have written “all men are created equal” and meant something so different. As Isabel Wilkerson, the protagonist (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), who is based on Isabel Wilkerson, the author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” puts it to her editor (Blair Underwood), “Racism as the primary language to understand everything is insufficient.” And later, to her sister (Niecy Nash-Betts): “We have to consider oppression in a way that does not centralize race.” The book “Caste” was Wilkerson’s answer to that challenge, drawing connections between discrimination in the United States and how Nazi Germany invented a social hierarchy to justify the Holocaust, which she links in turn to the rigid system of caste in India.

As if to come to the aid of her national cinema after the debacle that was Roman Polanski’s The Palace, Poland’s Agnieska Holland, soon to turn 75, restores some of her homeland’s cultural dignity with a devastating exposé that angrily, and quite brilliantly, questions its humanity and political integrity. At 144 minutes, and in black and white, it is not exactly a Trojan horse, and its moral rigor does not come with a spoonful of sugar. But Green Border earns every second of that running time, and with a focus and energy that belies its directors age. Awards-wise, this may prove to be the international feature to beat.

Killers Of The Flower Moon actor Lily Gladstone has described Yellowstone as a “delusional” portrayal of the American West.The American neo-Western drama created by Taylor Sheridan and starring Kevin Costner premiered in June 2018, with the second part of the fifth and final season due to air this November.The show follows the Dutton family who own the Yellowstone Dutton ranch, and the conflicts they face from groups along their shared borders – including an Indian reservation, a cattle ranch and land developers.Gladstone – who featured in Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon – said that she found Yellowstone‘s depiction of the American West “delusional” and “deplorable” in an interview with Vulture.She added that she’d previously auditioned for the show, having worked on projects with both Native and non-Native creators, sharing: “No offence to the Native talent in that. I auditioned several times.

Christopher Vourlias Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland follows the harrowing ordeal of a refugee family trapped on the margins of the E.U. in “Green Border,” a gripping drama from the prolific Polish director that plays in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Naman Ramachandran Paris-based sales company Charades has boarded international sales on “Stolen,” the only Indian feature selected at the Venice Film Festival. The film, which will bow within the festival’s Horizons Extra strand, tells the story of the havoc that ensues when opposite worlds collide after two urban young men become embroiled in an impoverished mother’s desperate journey to be reunited with her child. It is described as a “breathtaking action thriller” and the “hidden gem in world cinema” by Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera.

Picture the scene, it's 2000 and you're in the queue for a very rare McDonald's with your mum. Excitement is building, not only for the six Chicken Nuggets you're about to eat but also as you're about to get your hands on the latest toy. Shiny, plastic, extremely cheap but always the best bit about being a kid, Happy Meal toys have been a staple part of a trip to Maccies since the 80's.

Desperate Highland firms are having to bring in foreign workers on special visas to deal with a major staffing crisis blamed on Brexit.