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India’s Harnaaz Sandhu wins Miss Universe 2021 crown

India’s Harnaaz Sandhu wins Miss Universe 2021 crown

-- 2021-12-13 12:06:47

India’s Harnaaz Sandhu has won the 70th Miss Universe 2021 in Eilat, Israel. She took the crown for India 21 years after Lara Dutta won the title in 2000, bdnews24.com reports citing private br...

'Interview with the Vampire' author Anne Rice dies at 80

'Interview with the Vampire' author Anne Rice dies at 80

-- 2021-12-12 18:52:06

Anne Rice, the gothic novelist widely known for her bestselling novel ‘Interview with the Vampire,’ died late Saturday at the age of 80. Rice died due to complications from a stroke, her...

Lights go out for Bangladesh’s cinema halls

Lights go out for Bangladesh’s cinema halls

-- 2021-12-10 12:15:03

In the 1980s, due to audience demand, Old Dhaka’s Manoshi Cinema Hall showed movies until the stroke of midnight. But now, with the drying up of the movie theatre audience, the venerable institu...

Mission Extreme: A near-to-satisfaction mass experience

Mission Extreme: A near-to-satisfaction mass experience

Shadique Mahbub Islam 2021-12-07 12:27:39

An eerie narration of the Afghan War and how it spilt out of the hilly hell-hole to the whole world in the name of Global Jihad, the black wave from Iraq sweeping across a vast swath of lands in the M...

9 years of insane Vaas Island experience in Far Cry 3

9 years of insane Vaas Island experience in Far Cry 3

FE Online Desk 2021-12-02 15:33:36

Oxford may define insanity as seriously mentally ill and unable to live in normal society. But Vaas Montenegro has a different opinion.  If you have played the game, you already know. It’s...

Producer Raj denied bail in money laundering case

Producer Raj denied bail in money laundering case

-- 2021-11-29 21:03:55

The High Court (HC) on Monday rejected a bail plea by Nazrul Islam Raj, owner of Raj Multimedia, in a case of money laundering filed against him. The bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and AKM...

Red re-recording: Same old charm in Taylor Swift's magnum opus

Red re-recording: Same old charm in Taylor Swift's magnum opus

Fabiha Athoi 2021-11-29 15:47:39

With a guitar in hand, Taylor Swift introduced herself to the world as a blonde, blue-eyed, all-American girl with her debut single Tim McGraw.  Her self-titled album’s lyrics are about he...

The Mitchells heartwarming family adventure against the Machines

The Mitchells heartwarming family adventure against the Machines

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-11-27 18:35:23

A road trip through the robot apocalypse leads to family togetherness-- that is, at least, the scenario for the Mitchells in Netflix's eccentric and dazzlingly entertaining animated feature The Mitche...

Project Woh Paal: A Bangladeshi production with international artists

Project Woh Paal: A Bangladeshi production with international artists

Md. Zahidur Rabbi 2021-11-27 17:16:23

An international collaboration project called ‘Woh Paal’ has been composed by musicians from four countries - Bangladesh, the USA, Argentina and Austria. It is a soft, classical and R&...

Film to flip script on migration

Film to flip script on migration

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-27 10:39:28

The last thing Aïssata Ndiaye remembers before waking up in a Moroccan hospital was shivering helplessly while watching her friend Khadija – a young mother – drift away in the Mediter...

The Red Notice: A failed monotonous bid at franchise creation

The Red Notice: A failed monotonous bid at franchise creation

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-11-23 17:31:58

Red Notice is a long-awaited collaboration between Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot, with an enthralling trailer. The film pitched the cinephiles once-in-a-lifetime adventure, a roll...

Directing 'Bruised' one of hardest things I've ever done: Halle Berry

Directing 'Bruised' one of hardest things I've ever done: Halle Berry

-- 2021-11-23 16:05:21

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry moved into the director's chair for the first time for new drama 'Bruised,' a film she also stars in as a washed-up mixed martial arts fighter who attempts to revive...

K-pop superstars BTS stamp their authority on American Music Awards

K-pop superstars BTS stamp their authority on American Music Awards

-- 2021-11-22 12:00:42

South Korean superstars BTS were crowned artist of the year at the American Music Awards on Sunday, brushing aside challenges from Taylor Swift, Drake and The Weeknd as they took home a total of three...

Never-seen-before concert to celebrate 25 years of Shironamhin

Never-seen-before concert to celebrate 25 years of Shironamhin

Mashfiq Mizan 2021-11-20 22:19:35

Dhaka to witness one of the best concerts in its history as Shironamhin is all set to celebrate 25 years of their existence if things go as planned. Shirohamhin fans, who were disappointed having m...

Best animated films of 2021 you need to watch

Best animated films of 2021 you need to watch

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-11-20 16:09:16

The long nights of winter are here, the time when we love to watch heart-warming or breath-taking cinema being under the warmth of a blanket. The year in animated films has presented something for ev...

Five members of actor Sushant’s family killed in road crash

Five members of actor Sushant’s family killed in road crash

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-16 20:26:47

At least five members of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s extended family were killed in a road accident in Lakhisarai district of Bihar province on Tuesday. Four others were critica...

Surrealistic Pillow in the Summer of Love

Surrealistic Pillow in the Summer of Love

Swadhin Shahporan 2021-11-15 18:55:49

The Summer billed as ‘the Summer of Love’ that drew some peer-driven 75,000 young people to the San Francisco streets in 1967 in search of glamour, ecstasy and utopia, also delivered a n...

The Death Note cult: A fictional epic of justice and morality

The Death Note cult: A fictional epic of justice and morality

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-11-15 16:32:35

Death Note is one of those series that resonates with both die-hard anime fans and non-anime audiences-- a cult masterpiece that drew enough attention to warrant a Netflix adaptation. It is wide...

Hometown Cha- Cha- Cha: A bouquet of wholesome romance for K-drama fans

Hometown Cha- Cha- Cha: A bouquet of wholesome romance for K-drama fans

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-11-14 18:59:19

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha warmed hearts around the world with its exquisite synergy between its leads and offered a basket of healing tales along with the heartwarming community of Gongjin.&...

November Rain brings back James

November Rain brings back James

Mashfiq Mizan 2021-11-14 17:28:44

Music lovers witnessed greatness on Friday night in the form of  Nagarbaul James, as the rock music icon made his on-stage return after a pandemic pause. The ‘ABC’ Generation (Artcel...

Paris Hilton ties the knot in star-studded ‘fairy tale wedding’

Paris Hilton ties the knot in star-studded ‘fairy tale wedding’

-- 2021-11-13 15:04:10

US socialite Paris Hilton has married her boyfriend of two years, Carter Reum, in what she called "a true fairy tale wedding." Hilton, 40, who got engaged to businessman Reum, also 40, in February, p...

James, Hamin, Manam sue Banglalink for ‘breaching’ copyright law

James, Hamin, Manam sue Banglalink for ‘breaching’ copyright law

-- 2021-11-10 19:29:47

Bangladesh’s rock icon James, popularly known as 'Nagar Baul’ James, lodged a complaint against mobile operator Banglalink for allegedly breaching the copyright law. Faruq Mahfuz Anam ali...

No words, only expression: Khaby Lame's silent journey to fame

No words, only expression: Khaby Lame's silent journey to fame

Anadil Maisha 2021-11-10 16:43:38

21-year-old Khabane Lame is a Senegalese-born man who makes TikTok videos for his 114 million followers on the self-titled platform.  During the beginning of the pandemic, Khabane himself was fa...

British vocalist Astro dies after short illness

British vocalist Astro dies after short illness

-- 2021-11-07 11:37:05

British vocalist and founding member of UB40 Terence Wilson, better known by his stage name Astro, has died aged 64. Astro, who performed in the reggae pop band for more than 30 years, died after...

Dracula: A horror fiction got it's place in popular culture

Dracula: A horror fiction got it's place in popular culture

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2021-11-06 18:12:48

Dracula is a Gothic horror novel by Irish writer Abraham (Bram) Stoker, which, after its inception, has successfully held a significant position in popular culture.  Although vampire fiction was...

Rehana Maryam Noor to open in 12 theatres

Rehana Maryam Noor to open in 12 theatres

Mashfiq Mizan 2021-11-06 16:02:58

Abdullah Mohammad Saad's much-anticipated film ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ will be released in 12 cinema halls across the country on November 12.  Team Rehana Maryam Noor have confirmed the...

Brazil's popular singer Marilia Mendonca dies in plane crash at 26

Brazil's popular singer Marilia Mendonca dies in plane crash at 26

-- 2021-11-06 10:07:24

Marília Mendonça, one of Brazil's most popular contemporary singers, has been killed in a plane crash at the age of 26, officials say. Four other people - her uncle, her produce...

Bollywood stars return to big screens

Bollywood stars return to big screens

-- 2021-11-06 09:57:47

Bollywood stars are returning to India's big screens after more than a year, with the film industry hoping that declining COVID-19 cases and the festival season will bring audiences back to the cinema...

Winter concerts return, so does James

Winter concerts return, so does James

Mashfiq Mizan 2021-11-02 20:45:38

‘Dushtu Cheler Dol’ of ‘Guru,’ the famous musician Faruq Mahfuz Anam James, have waited long enough to headbang on songs like ‘Pagla Hawa’ or ‘Mira Bai’...

Sardar Udham: A poignant heroic tale that steers away from mindless jingoism

Sardar Udham: A poignant heroic tale that steers away from mindless jingoism

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-11-01 18:33:45

Many Bollywood patriotic dramas tend to portray freedom fighters as symbols -- reducing them to ragged generalities, filtering their complexities into neat boxes of commodities for a multiplex audienc...