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Poland reacts angrily to Netflix Nazi documentary

Poland reacts angrily to Netflix Nazi documentary

-- 2019-11-12 12:11:20

Poland's prime minister has written a letter to the streaming company Netflix insisting on changes to a documentary about the Nazi death camps. Mateusz Morawiecki said a map shown in the series locat...

9th Dhaka Lit Fest bids farewell in November drizzle

9th Dhaka Lit Fest bids farewell in November drizzle

-- 2019-11-10 14:58:32

Cyclone Bulbul’s entourage includes copious amounts of rainfall wherever it passes, as well as advance delegations that drenched the entire venue of the Dhaka Literature Festival, the sprawling...

Dhaka Lit Fest kicks off

Dhaka Lit Fest kicks off

-- 2019-11-07 14:55:03

The ninth edition of the Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF) was inaugurated at Bangla Academy's Abdul Karim Shahitya Bisharad Auditorium in the capital on Thursday. Cultural Affairs Minister KM Khalid opened the...

HBO unveils Game of Thrones prequel ‘House of the Dragon’

HBO unveils Game of Thrones prequel ‘House of the Dragon’

-- 2019-10-30 11:04:28

Cable channel HBO has given the go-ahead for a prequel series to the hit fantasy TV show Game of Thrones. House of the Dragon will be set about 300 years before events in the original series, which e...

Misha re-elected president of Bangladesh Cholochitro Shilpi Samiti

Misha re-elected president of Bangladesh Cholochitro Shilpi Samiti

-- 2019-10-26 11:29:49

Actor Misha Sawdagor has been re-elected president of Bangladesh Cholochitro Shilpi Samiti, defeating actress Arifa Pervin Zaman Moushumi in the biennial election. The Misha-Zayed panel won 18 out of...

Humayun Sadhu passes away

Humayun Sadhu passes away

-- 2019-10-25 17:32:21

Actor, writer and director Humayun Sadhu died at a hospital in the city early Friday. Sadhu breathed his last at 12.30am on Friday at Square Hospital, reports UNB. Prominent cinematographer Mostofa...

Bangladesh Cholochitro Shilpi Samiti’s election underway

Bangladesh Cholochitro Shilpi Samiti’s election underway

-- 2019-10-25 16:26:34

Voters of Bangladesh Cholochitro Shilpi Samiti are casting ballots to elect the new executive committee for 2019-20 period at Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) on Friday. The voting bega...

Rose McGowan sues Weinstein over ‘silencing attempts’

Rose McGowan sues Weinstein over ‘silencing attempts’

-- 2019-10-24 11:24:41

Actress Rose McGowan has filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, his ex-lawyers and a private intelligence agency, accusing them of trying to silence her. McGowan was one of the first people to acc...

Jennifer Lawrence marries art dealer Cooke Maroney

Jennifer Lawrence marries art dealer Cooke Maroney

-- 2019-10-21 20:39:13

Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence got married over the weekend in Rhode Island during a ceremony and reception studded with Hollywood stars. The "Hunger Games" star tied the knot with New York art deale...

‘Abominable’ now banned in Malaysia over China map

‘Abominable’ now banned in Malaysia over China map

-- 2019-10-20 12:23:52

DreamWorks’ animated movie ‘Abominable’ will not be released in Malaysia after its producers declined to meet a censor board requirement to cut a scene showing China’s ‘n...

Lady Gaga falls off stage while dancing with fan

Lady Gaga falls off stage while dancing with fan

-- 2019-10-19 15:30:41

Lady Gaga is recovering after falling off the stage while dancing with a fan at a concert. During her Las Vegas show Thursday night, the pop star invited a fan onstage who picked her up and lost bala...

Vietnam bans ‘Abominable’ over South China Sea map

Vietnam bans ‘Abominable’ over South China Sea map

-- 2019-10-16 12:25:07

Vietnam has pulled ‘Abominable’ from theaters because the US-Chinese-made animated movie showed a map supporting Chinese claims to the disputed South China Sea. The image in one scene sho...

Strong women learn from men around them: Jolie

Strong women learn from men around them: Jolie

-- 2019-10-13 19:11:09

Angelina Jolie has championed the role men can play in shaping the personalities of young girls. The actress, who stars in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, also said female characters in films should no...

K-pop stars BTS perform in Saudi Arabia despite criticism

K-pop stars BTS perform in Saudi Arabia despite criticism

-- 2019-10-12 12:46:06

K-pop superstars BTS have become the first foreign artists to play a solo stadium show in Saudi Arabia. The boy band performed in front of a sell-out crowd at King Fahd International Stadium in Riyad...

Marvel movies are 'theme parks', not cinema: Martin Scorsese

Marvel movies are 'theme parks', not cinema: Martin Scorsese

-- 2019-10-05 16:36:47

Martin Scorsese says that although he's tried to watch them, he doesn’t think Marvel movies are cinema, according to screenrant.com. With over a half a century of filmmaking to his credit, Scor...

Pop star Sia reveals battle with chronic pain disorder

Pop star Sia reveals battle with chronic pain disorder

-- 2019-10-05 14:24:10

Australian pop star Sia has revealed that she suffers from a neurological disease that gives her chronic pain. In a tweet, the singer-songwriter said she had Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a rare cond...

Spider-Man stays in MCU

Spider-Man stays in MCU

-- 2019-09-28 19:28:30

Spider-Man fans are rejoicing after Sony Pictures and Marvel announced a third Spider-Man film with Tom Holland, allaying fears that the two companies had parted ways, reports BBC. In August, Sony sa...

'Game of Thrones,' 'Fleabag' take top Emmy honours

'Game of Thrones,' 'Fleabag' take top Emmy honours

Reuters 2019-09-23 12:46:56

Medieval drama “Game of Thrones” closed its run with a fourth Emmy award for best drama series while British comedy “Fleabag” was the upset winner for best comedy series on Sun...

Countdown to Emmy Awards 2019 starts

Countdown to Emmy Awards 2019 starts

BBC 2019-09-22 19:48:58

Game of Thrones will have one final chance to achieve Emmy glory later as television's best and brightest prepare for this year's US awards ceremony. The fantasy epic, which came to a divisive climax...

Salma Hayek says she wants to protect Mexico’s image

Salma Hayek says she wants to protect Mexico’s image

-- 2019-09-11 11:16:50

Salma Hayek says she refrains from using social media to comment on problems in her native Mexico because she wants to protect the country’s image. During an appearance Tuesday to promote her N...

"Joker" wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

"Joker" wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

-- 2019-09-08 21:23:09

The film "Joker" by American director Todd Phillip was awarded on Saturday the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. The movie is a standalone story of the origins of Joker -- t...

Took me 30 years to grow from 'Sallu' to 'Bhaijaan'

Took me 30 years to grow from 'Sallu' to 'Bhaijaan'

-- 2019-09-07 19:07:36

Salman Khan says it has taken him nearly 30 years to get the fans’ love and respect and now he would work hard to live up to their expectations. Speaking at the press conference of NEXA IIFA Awa...

Joaquin Phoenix discusses preparing for role in ‘Joker’

Joaquin Phoenix discusses preparing for role in ‘Joker’

-- 2019-09-01 19:48:16

Joaquin Phoenix is having a hard time defining the Joker, but then again, he doesn’t really want to. The actor spent eight months exploring how a struggling stand-up comedian named Arthur Fleck...

Internet sensation Ranu Mondal sings with Himesh

Internet sensation Ranu Mondal sings with Himesh

-- 2019-08-26 18:11:33

Singer-composer Himesh Reshammiya feels that Ranu Mondal, who became an Internet sensation after a video of her singing the evergreen Lata Mangeshkar hit, Ek Pyaar Ka Nagma Hai, went viral, has a spec...

Matrix 4 officially happening with Keanu Reeves in lead

Matrix 4 officially happening with Keanu Reeves in lead

-- 2019-08-21 17:20:40

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will return in a fourth instalment of sci-fi franchise The Matrix, with Reeves reprising his lead role as hacker Neo, reports BBC. Matrix co-creator Lana Wachowski w...

BJP leader files complaint against Anurag Kashyap over Sacred Games 2

BJP leader files complaint against Anurag Kashyap over Sacred Games 2

-- 2019-08-21 12:04:40

A BJP leader on Tuesday filed a police complaint against Anurag Kashyap, alleging he has hurt sentiments of Sikhs through his web series Sacred Games season 2. BJP legislator Manjinder Singh Sirsa al...

‘Ne Zha’ continues dominating Chinese mainland box office

‘Ne Zha’ continues dominating Chinese mainland box office

Xinhua 2019-08-19 16:07:22

Chinese animated film ‘Ne Zha’ continued leading Chinese mainland box office Sunday, grossing a total of 4.11 billion yuan (about 585 million US dollars) in the 24 days since its debut, th...

Animated film ‘Ne Zha’ tops the Chinese mainland box office

Animated film ‘Ne Zha’ tops the Chinese mainland box office

Global Times 2019-08-17 18:35:43

New Chinese animated film Ne Zha has topped the Chinese mainland box office since its opening on Friday. The film broke the opening day record for a Chinese animated film with 138.5 million yuan ($20...

Disney’s Mulan faces boycott calls after star backs HK police

Disney’s Mulan faces boycott calls after star backs HK police

-- 2019-08-17 12:22:58

Disney's live-action remake of the animated film Mulan is facing calls for a boycott, after its star voiced support for Hong Kong's police force. Chinese actress Liu Yifei, a naturalised US citizen,...

Newly discovered lake in Nepal likely to become world's highest

Newly discovered lake in Nepal likely to become world's highest

-- 2019-08-12 17:01:48

newly-discovered lake in Nepal is likely to set a new record of being the world's highest lake replacing Tilicho, which is situated at an altitude of 4,919 metres in the Himalayan nation and currently...