At the International Film Festival of India, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi turned their on-stage conversation into a lively mix of performance, memory and craft, as Chopra sang, enacted scenes from his early struggles and unpacked how…
Category: 5. Entertainment
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This Year, Miley Cyrus Entered Her Fashion Prime
Happy birthday, Miley Cyrus!
Between releasing her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, and becoming the new face of Maison Margiela and Maybelline, the singer has had quite an eventful year. She has also, we’d argue, entered her fashion…
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New Zealand Sweetens Film Incentives, Eyes India Co-Production Revival
The New Zealand Film Commission is mounting a push into the Indian market, unveiling enhanced incentive packages while seeking to revitalize a largely dormant co-production treaty that has been utilized just once in 15 years.
Speaking to…
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‘Add some whimsy to your life’: Wicked fans bring magic to Leicester Square | Fancy dress and costume
Outside one of Leicester Square’s main cinemas, small crowds gathered in shades of green, pink and glitter, a loose palette of fairies and witches.
As Wicked: For Good lands in UK cinemas on Friday and this weekend, some fans have decided that…
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Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of November 23
Film
• “Zootopia 2” (Nov. 26): Peppy rabbit Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and sly fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) return in Jared Bush and Byron Howard’s follow-up to the animated animal hit of 2016….
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Kessler Twins’ death fuels assisted suicide debate – DW – 11/23/2025
The death of entertainers Alice and Ellen Kessler, aged 89, on November 17 at their home in the Grünwald district of Munich has sparked renewed calls for reform of Germany’s assisted suicide legislation. The identical twin sisters reportedly…
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‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon’ Review: A Distinctive Refugee Documentary
Again and again, teenage Afghan refugee Soraya Akhalaghi refers to herself and her fellow displaced migrants as “playing a game.” Only some way into “A Fox Under a Pink Moon” — a candid and urgent documentary about her years-long…
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Mull’s 1940s romantic comedy that brought Gaelic to cinema
Ruairidh MaciverBBC Naidheachdan
Getty ImagesActor Roger Livesey, wearing a kilt, with director Michael Powell seated next to him during filming of a ceilidh Eighty years ago a small crowd gathered in a hall in Tobermory on Mull for a preview…
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‘It hurts listening to Whitney Houston – I knew her so well’: Mica Paris’s honest playlist | Music
The first song I fell in love with
God Will Open Doors by Walter Hawkins. I grew up on the Hawkins gospel family. They were my teachers. I was raised by my grandparents, and my auntie fell in love with the gospel sound and imported records from…Continue Reading
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Man who grabbed Ariana Grande at premiere banned from Singapore
An Australian man who jumped over a barricade and grabbed Hollywood star Ariana Grande has been deported and banned from Singapore.
Johnson Wen, 26, was sentenced to nine days in prison for being a public nuisance and has now been “barred from…
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