When a powerful earthquake struck near Los Angeles last month, it was a neat metaphor for a Hollywood film industry shaken in recent years by a streaming revolution, Covid pandemic, racial reckoning and crippling strikes. And nowhere are the aftershocks felt more keenly than in the writers’ room. These are collaborative spaces where writers come … Read more
Ever since she made her OTT debut in the year 2021, actress Kritika Kamra has been purchasing through the omnipresent vine as she has featured in a number of series, including Tandav, Kaun Banegi Shikharwati, Hush Hush, Bambai Meri Jaan, etc. She was recently seen in Gyaarah Gyaarah on ZEE5 where she plays a role … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Bethan McKernan In case you missed it last night, my colleague Bethan McKernan reported on the political row in Israel about the war: Benjamin Netanyahu’s main political rival, Benny Gantz, has accused the Israeli prime minister of putting his personal interests … Read more
Cookies may be small, but my love for them is mighty. They are the perfect bake, capable of any conceivable flavour combination and texture. They’re nostalgic, quick and easy to make, and need very little equipment. But why small batch? There are plenty of times when I bake to share with large groups – for … Read more
AFP The French rescue workers packed up their gear with well-practised efficiency. The medical tents. The stretchers. The security cordons. Shortly after the last bodies had been driven away from the quayside in Boulogne, the remaining ambulances and red emergency vehicles drove off too, leaving only a handful of officials standing in the fading light … Read more
Film noir was first identified at a distance. In 1946, Italian-born French critic Nino Frank coined the term to describe a cycle of coolly cynical crime thrillers produced by Hollywood earlier in that decade, but only recently available in Paris. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in common with the ordinary … Read more
Bruno Lacombe, in his youth an ally of the 1960s revolutionary intellectual Guy Debord, is now self-exiled to a cave complex in the limestone regions of southern France. The caves are like a kind of political rhetoric in themselves, a message convoluted and endless. Their vanished inhabitants obsess him. Since the Neanderthal extinction, “the wedge … Read more
When I heard the sound, I thought it was a stack of dishes crashing on to the cafe floor. Turning, I expected to see a flipped tray. What I saw instead was empty chairs and bodies crouched beneath tables. People had their hands interlaced across their bent heads, as though bracing for a plane’s rough … Read more
I will not hide from you that I suffer from anxiety. Like most humanitarian workers, I can’t sleep. I can’t have sound, uninterrupted sleep as a result of the fear. Fear haunts us in every step. I am one of the founders of the Wefaq Association. Since 2010, the most important work we do is … Read more
Patrick Salgado Souza Martins sat at the crest of the hillside favela he once ruled and described the dream that changed his life. A choir of angels surrounded the convicted drug lord as he dozed in solitary confinement. Glistening water bubbled up from the ground. “I woke up in panic, covered in goosebumps,” said Martins, … Read more