Rami Malek stars in star-studded Cartier campaign

Author:  Tue, 2020-06-30 16:02 DUBAI: US-Egyptian actor Rami Malek has been selected to star in Cartier’s new star-studded campaign to celebrate the re-launch of the French brand’s iconic Pasha watch.  The Oscar winner stars alongside “Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams, Australian singer Troye Sivan, American singer Willow Smith and Chinese rapper Jackson Wang. Cartier shared a snippet of the campaign video on Instagram,...

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US streaming platform to deliver regional films to American audiences

Author:  Tue, 2020-06-30 13:20 DUBAI: This month, Netflix released a new catalogue of 44 movies by Arab directors, including Youssef Chahine, Youssry Nasrallah, Nadine Labaki and many more, adding Arab productions on the international radar.  Now, American streaming platform Telescope Films is also giving Middle Eastern movies a global appeal by partnering with the Arab Cinema Centre, a platform by regional distribution company...

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‘The Oak Room’ — a slow burner with a rich horror story

Author:  Tue, 2020-06-30 12:35 CHENNAI: The late Ismail Merchant, who made magnificent cinema along with James Ivory, would often say a good movie must tell a good story. Cody Calahan’s (“Let Her Out”, “Antisocial”) newest film “The Oak Room,” part of the recent Cannes Market held on a virtual platform, true to Merchant’s thinking, is rich in the way it builds up the plot and conveys it. The work, one of the 56 titles that the Cannes...

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Kim Kardashian West is now a billionaire following deal with Coty Inc.

Author:  Tue, 2020-06-30 10:45 DUBAI: Just a few weeks after Kylie Jenner and Kanye West topped the annual Forbes list of the highest paid celebrities, Kim Kardashian West is now reportedly a billionaire.          View this post on Instagram                   Happy Fathers Day to the best dad!!!! Thank you for making life so much fun!...

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El-Gouna Film Festival announces new dates for its 4th edition

Author:  Tue, 2020-06-30 10:31 DUBAI: The El-Gouna Film Festival has been pushed back one month and will now run from Oct. 23- Oct.31, organizers announced this week. This decision was made in line with the global health and safety measures amid the coronavirus crisis.         View this post on Instagram                   Stay Dreaming! Responding...

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Virgil Abloh’s cover art for rapper Pop Smoke’s posthumous album to be changed following backlash

Tue, 2020-06-30 10:12 DUBAI: Off-White designer Virgil Abloh’s cover art for rapper Pop Smoke’s debut posthumous album ‘Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon’ is set to be changed following social media backlash.  On Monday, American record music executive Steven Victor took to Instagram to unveil the cover artwork, revealing that the late rapper who was murdered in February specifically requested Abloh to design his debut album cover.         View...

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Singer Jennifer Hudson wears Reem Acra for powerful B.E.T Awards performance

Author:  Tue, 2020-06-30 09:30 DUBAI: The 2020 B.E.T. Awards may have been virtual, but its style moments were very real. The celebrities who participated in the annual ceremony brought their fashion A-game to remind the world just how exciting and glamorous red carpet style can be. You don’t have to look further than US singer Jennifer Hudson, who channeled the late Aretha Franklin for a show-stopping performance of “Young, Gifted...

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Review of ‘The Slave Yards’ by Najwa Bin Shatwan

Author:  Mon, 2020-06-29 16:03 CHICAGO: Along the Libyan coast in 19th-century Benghazi, thousands of African slaves line the shoreline. They’ve been kidnapped or forcibly sold to Libyan caravans to serve their white masters in sub-Saharan Africa and the brutal living and working conditions they endure are laid out in “The Slave Yards,” the latest novel by the critically acclaimed author and academic Najwa Bin Shatwan. Shortlisted...

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Katy Perry reveals she considered committing suicide in 2017

Author:  Mon, 2020-06-29 13:27 DUBAI: US singer and songwriter Katy Perry revealed she considered committing suicide after the star and her fiancé, actor Orlando Bloom, split in 2017, Daily Mail reported this week.          View this post on Instagram                   Tune in TONIGHT for the #AmericanIdol grand finale AND my first television...

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