Movie: Appealing to God, a Disoriented Space Alien Hopes There’s Help Out There
Source: New York Times By Rachel Saltz Dec. 19, 2014 No religions were harmed in the making of this film. That’s the gist of a title card that runs before […]
Urdu Dramas: A Vehicle for Social Change?
Durr-e-Shehwar (Urdu: دُرّ شہوار) is a Urdu language Pakistani telenovela written by Umera Ahmed and directed by Haissam Hussain. First broadcast in Pakistan by Hum TV, Durr-e-Shehwar, which premiered in Pakistan on 10 March 2012, has been produced by Momina Duraid and […]
The Monkey Trial Movie — Antidote to Trumpism
Inherit the Wind is a 1960 Hollywood film adaptation of the 1955 play of the same name, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, directed by Stanley Kramer. It stars Spencer Tracy as lawyer Henry Drummond and Fredric […]
Film About Catholic Church Pedophilia Sets Box-Office Record in Poland
Source: Bloomberg By Marek Strzelecki A Polish feature film about the abuses by clergy of the Roman Catholic church is setting attendance records at the country’s box office. ‘Kler’ — named after the […]
Manto Is Not Only Worth Watching, It Is Also Worth Remembering
Source: Center for Pluralism Kudos to Dr. Shah Alam Khan for such a beautiful review of the film. It one of the best literary pieces on films I have read […]
Film review: Is Fahrenheit 11/9 truly incendiary?
Source: BBC News Fahrenheit 9/11, the 2004 screed against George W Bush, remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time. But many argued that despite its box-office numbers it had little […]
The movie bogeyman of the year? Fundamentalist religion
Source: The Guardian BY Tom Beasley Towards the end of Desiree Akhavan’s incendiary sophomore feature, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Chloë Grace Moretz’s central character attacks the anti-LGBT Christians running the conversion […]
Spike Lee Wants BlacKkKlansman to Wake America Up
Source: Time By Rembert Browne | Photographs by Carrie Mae Weems for TIME August 9, 2018 It’s a picture-perfect day on Martha’s Vineyard. Families stream by on a heavily foot-trafficked thoroughfare, while […]
Movie: Ramanujan: A Prophet of Mathematics Born in a Hindu Family
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS (/ˈʃriːniˌvɑːsə rɑːˈmɑːnʊdʒən/;[1] listen (help·info); 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920)[2] was an Indianmathematician who lived during the British Rule in India. Though he had almost […]
Producers plan movie about Thai cave rescue
Source: Associated Press By JAKE COYLE NEW YORK (AP) — The boys are out of the cave. Now Hollywood wants in. The producers behind Christian films like “God’s Not Dead” […]
Why Vertigo is so horrifying today
Source: BBC News By Nicholas Barber 9 July 2018 Vertigo gets better with age. Alfred Hitchcock’s mind-bending mystery wasn’t a critical or commercial hit when it was released 60 years […]
Film review: Fahrenheit 451: a place where books are burned
Source: BBC News Imagine a future where books aren’t just banned, they’re burned. That’s the dystopian United States described by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, which has been made into […]
Saudi cinema screens reopen on 18 April ‘with Black Panther’
Source: BBC News Saudi Arabia’s first cinema in more than 35 years will open on 18 April, showing the action movie Black Panther. It is part of a deal done […]
The spiritual message hidden in ‘Star Wars’
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)“Star Wars” has always kept its fingers close to America’s spiritual pulse. In the ’70s and ’80s, the interstellar saga explored Eastern traditions, […]
Thin crowds greet Bollywood film after rumors set off anger
Source: Associated Press By MUNEEZA NAQVI NEW DELHI (AP) — There was anger about a rumored romance between a Hindu queen and a Muslim invader. There were death threats. There […]
India’s top court rejects bid to reinstate ban on film as Hindu groups protest
Source: Reuters BY Suchitra Mohanty, Shilpa Jamkhandikar NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected bids by two states to reinstate a ban on the disputed Bollywood film “Padmaavat”, […]
Indian police detain dozens protesting against controversial movie
Source: Reuters By Rupam Jain, Swati Bhat NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Right-wing Hindu groups in India stepped up protests on Wednesday against the release of a controversial Bollywood film, as several […]
Today’s Oscar Nominations Prove the Academy Can Still Surprise Us — in a Good Way
Source: Time By ELIZA BERMAN January 23, 2018 The 2018 awards season started out wide open. Way back in December, even as initial screenings of The Post had some ready to call the […]
Padmavati: Controversial film cleared by India’s top court
Source: BBC News India’s Supreme Court has cleared the release of controversial Bollywood film Padmavat, and overturned the decision by four states to ban its screening. It has been approved […]
Film review: All the money in the world
Source: BBC News By Nicholas Barber 4 January 2018 Ridley Scott’s true-life kidnap drama, All the Money in the World, is destined to go down in cinema history as the […]