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The National
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Pictures of the week: From world's largest cheese fondue to Indian folk dance Jhumur
%3Cp%3E%3Cbr%3E1.%20Charlotte%20Kool%20(NED)%20%E2%80%93%20Team%20DSM%3A%202hrs%2C%2047min%2C%2014sec%3Cbr%3E2.%20Lorena%20Wiebes%20(NED)%20%E2%80%93%20Team%20SD%20Worx%3A%20%2B4%20secs%3Cbr%3E3.%20Chiara%20Consonni%20(ITA)%20%E2%80%93%20UAE%20Team%20ADQ%3A%20%2B5%20secs%3C%2Fp%3E%0A Director: Tom Tykwer Starring: Tala Al Deen, Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger Rating: 3/5 Director: Magizh Thirumeni Stars: Ajith Kumar, Arjun Sarja, Trisha Krishnan, Regina Cassandra Rating: 4/5 Name: HyperSpace Started: 2020 Founders: Alexander Heller, Rama Allen and Desi Gonzalez Based: Dubai, UAE Sector: Entertainment Number of staff: 210 Investment raised: $75 million from investors including Galaxy Interactive, Riyadh Season, Sega Ventures and Apis Venture Partners Install an air filter in your home. Close your windows and turn on the AC. Shower or bath after being outside. Wear a face mask. Stay indoors when conditions are particularly poor. If driving, turn your engine off when stationary. Simon Nadim has completed 7,000 dives. The hardest dive in the UAE is the German U-boat 110m down off the Fujairah coast. As a child, he loved the documentaries of Jacques Cousteau He also led a team that discovered the long-lost portion of the Ines oil tanker. If you are interested in diving, he runs the XR Hub Dive Centre in Fujairah Directors: Avinash Arun, Prosit Roy Stars: Jaideep Ahlawat, Ishwak Singh, Lc Sekhose, Merenla Imsong Rating: 4.5/5 %3Cp%3E%3Cstrong%3ECompany%20name%3A%3C%2Fstrong%3E%20Revibe%20%0D%3Cbr%3E%3Cstrong%3EStarted%3A%3C%2Fstrong%3E%202022%0D%3Cbr%3E%3Cstrong%3EFounders%3A%3C%2Fstrong%3E%20Hamza%20Iraqui%20and%20Abdessamad%20Ben%20Zakour%20%0D%3Cbr%3E%3Cstrong%3EBased%3A%3C%2Fstrong%3E%20UAE%20%0D%3Cbr%3E%3Cstrong%3EIndustry%3A%3C%2Fstrong%3E%20Refurbished%20electronics%20%0D%3Cbr%3E%3Cstrong%3EFunds%20raised%20so%20far%3A%3C%2Fstrong%3E%20%2410m%20%0D%3Cbr%3E%3Cstrong%3EInvestors%3A%20%3C%2Fstrong%3EFlat6Labs%2C%20Resonance%20and%20various%20others%0D%3C%2Fp%3E%0A Between the start of the 2020 IPL on September 20, and the end of the Pakistan Super League this coming Thursday, the Zayed Cricket Stadium has had an unprecedented amount of traffic. Never before has a ground in this country – or perhaps anywhere in the world – had such a volume of major-match cricket. And yet scoring has remained high, and Abu Dhabi has seen some classic encounters in every format of the game. October 18, IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders tied with Sunrisers Hyderabad The two playoff-chasing sides put on 163 apiece, before Kolkata went on to win the Super Over January 8, ODI, UAE beat Ireland by six wickets A century by CP Rizwan underpinned one of UAE's greatest ever wins, as they chased 270 to win with an over to spare February 6, T10, Northern Warriors beat Delhi Bulls by eight wickets The final of the T10 was chiefly memorable for a ferocious over of fast bowling from Fidel Edwards to Nicholas Pooran March 14, Test, Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe by six wickets Eleven wickets for Rashid Khan, 1,305 runs scored in five days, and a last session finish June 17, PSL, Islamabad United beat Peshawar Zalmi by 15 runs Usman Khawaja scored a hundred as Islamabad posted the highest score ever by a Pakistan team in T20 cricket Director: Laxman Utekar Cast: Vicky Kaushal, Akshaye Khanna, Diana Penty, Vineet Kumar Singh, Rashmika Mandanna Rating: 1/5 Updated: February 28, 2025, 6:02 PM
Asharq Al-Awsat
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Asharq Al-Awsat
In Berlin, Anxious Movies for Dark Times
The skies are typically gray and gloomy at the Berlin International Film Festival, but this year's edition, which runs through Sunday, began with snow for days. The wintry weather gave the event — known as the Berlinale — a magical glow at first, but it wasn't enough to keep the demons at bay. Looming over the festival were anxieties over the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, as well as the upcoming German elections. The films also radiated an air of shame, despair and powerlessness, asking: How to trust ourselves to make the world better when we've already screwed up so spectacularly? Tom Tykwer's visually dazzling, but comically misguided liberal drama, 'The Light,' opened the event last week, submitting festivalgoers to 162 minutes of angst and attrition (and one too many 'Bohemian Rhapsody' needle drops) about a German family spiritually cleansed by their Syrian housekeeper. For many of us on the ground, however, the first real epic-of-interest was the 'Parasite' director Bong Joon Ho's science-fiction caper 'Mickey 17' — a film that induces nervous laughter about society's abysmal moral standards. In this high-concept action movie with a zany dark heart, labor exploitation hits a new low when workers, or at least their physical forms, become literally disposable. Robert Pattinson stars as one such 'expendable,' a dopey spaceman whose co-workers treat him like a lab-rat, knowing that his body can be reprinted. Bong's bids at timeliness are staler than usual. (Mark Ruffalo plays a grandstanding demagogue whose followers wear red caps.) But the film's dull political edge doesn't diminish the joy ride's momentum, nor the flashes of genuine weirdness that keep us guessing. If, god willing, superhero movies are destined to go the way of the dodo, 'Mickey 17' is a reminder that directors like Bong keep the dream of the blockbuster alive. President Trump's ramped-up campaign of mass deportations infiltrated my viewing of Michel Franco's 'Dreams,' a competition entry that filled me with much ambivalence, but also moved and infuriated me. This intentionally provocative psychodrama by one of Mexico's most divisive directors sees Jessica Chastain as a tightly wound philanthropist from San Francisco who has a tempestuous relationship with an undocumented ballet dancer from Mexico — whom we first see, like the survivor at the end of a brutal horror film, emerging from a van full of smuggled migrants. Unfolding with a tense, uncanny rhythm, the film knocks you over the head with its cynical ideas about class, privilege and the hypocrisies of white guilt. As a smaller portrait of intimacy, however, I found its depiction of vulnerability — the kind found under stony displays of feminine strength — to be startlingly honest. Chastain's ticking-time-bomb-of-a-performance beautifully demonstrates how passion can curdle into addiction and abuse. Ice queens are also at the center of two other highlights from the competition, whose winner will be announced on Sunday. Marion Cotillard seems to be carved out of diamonds in Lucile Hadzihalilovic's intriguingly lugubrious dark fairy tale 'The Ice Tower.' More an assembly of eerily seductive images and wordlessly tense interactions than a straight narrative, the film follows an orphaned girl who stumbles upon a film set and becomes obsessed with its cruel and beautiful star. Cotillard's diva is well aware she's deranged, but the conscience-stricken heroine of 'Kontinental 25' stews in her delusions. The last time the movie's director, Radu Jude, was at the Berlinale, his tripartite dramedy 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,' (2021) won the festival's top prize. 'Kontinental 25' is low-key compared to that film, and begins with the suicide of a homeless man, whom a bailiff named Orsolyo (a squirrelly Eszter Tompa) forces to evacuate the room he's been squatting in. Orsolya is apparently wracked with feelings of complicity, though the film, which is made up mainly of extended shots of her conversations with other people, questions the sincerity of her self-reproach against a backdrop of ethnic tension and neoliberal sprawl in Romania. If Jude's previous two fiction films were Molotov cocktails of indignation, his latest secretes a kind of scentless poison that gets at the banality with which social injustices are processed and rationalized. There's something toxic in the air in Ameer Fakher Eldin's mesmerizing (if sometimes drearily symbolic) drama 'Yunan,' too, in which a depressed Syrian-German man suffering from suffocation-inducing panic attacks retreats to an isolated island. Likewise, in Kateryna Gornostai's documentary 'Timestamp,' increasingly unsettling (if not entirely hopeless) vérité-style scenes of public school operations in wartime Ukraine show the tension between the younger generation's vigor and naïveté and the reality of the country's crumbling infrastructure and war recruitment effort. Existential unease permeated the festival program, though the Forum — the section dedicated to more experimental works — conjured this mood at the most forceful, and visually transportive, register. Whirling camera movements and frames with misty, blurred edges make up Christine Haroutounian's 'After Dreaming,' a grim, elliptical drama from Armenia that mirrors the perturbed psyches of characters dogged by memories of war. In 'Punku,' a chaotically ambitious mystery by the Peruvian director J.D. Fernández Molero, the spirit of David Lynch lives on with bursts of body-horror and gallows humor, and constant pivots to different camera formats and color schemes; think 'Twin Peaks,' and its ideas about male-on-female-violence, transported to an Indigenous community in the jungles of Peru. The New York Times
New York Times
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
In Berlin, Anxious Movies for Dark Times
The skies are typically gray and gloomy at the Berlin International Film Festival, but this year's edition, which runs through Sunday, began with snow for days. The wintry weather gave the event — known as the Berlinale — a magical glow at first, but it wasn't enough to keep the demons at bay. Looming over the festival were anxieties over the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, as well as the upcoming German elections. The films also radiated an air of shame, despair and powerlessness, asking: How to trust ourselves to make the world better when we've already screwed up so spectacularly? Tom Tykwer's visually dazzling, but comically misguided liberal drama, 'The Light,' opened the event last week, submitting festivalgoers to 162 minutes of angst and attrition (and one too many 'Bohemian Rhapsody' needle drops) about a German family spiritually cleansed by their Syrian housekeeper. For many of us on the ground, however, the first real epic-of-interest was the 'Parasite' director Bong Joon Ho's science-fiction caper 'Mickey 17' — a film that induces nervous laughter about society's abysmal moral standards. In this high-concept action movie with a zany dark heart, labor exploitation hits a new low when workers, or at least their physical forms, become literally disposable. Robert Pattinson stars as one such 'expendable,' a dopey spaceman whose co-workers treat him like a lab-rat, knowing that his body can be reprinted. Bong's bids at timeliness are staler than usual. (Mark Ruffalo plays a grandstanding demagogue whose followers wear red caps.) But the film's dull political edge doesn't diminish the joy ride's momentum, nor the flashes of genuine weirdness that keep us guessing. If, god willing, superhero movies are destined to go the way of the dodo, 'Mickey 17' is a reminder that directors like Bong keep the dream of the blockbuster alive. President Trump's ramped-up campaign of mass deportations infiltrated my viewing of Michel Franco's 'Dreams,' a competition entry that filled me with much ambivalence, but also moved and infuriated me. This intentionally provocative psychodrama by one of Mexico's most divisive directors sees Jessica Chastain as a tightly wound philanthropist from San Francisco who has a tempestuous relationship with an undocumented ballet dancer from Mexico — whom we first see, like the survivor at the end of a brutal horror film, emerging from a van full of smuggled migrants. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Berlin Film Festival 2025: All Of Deadline's Movie Reviews
The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 75th anniversary edition February 13 with the opening-night world premiere screening of The Light, Tom Tykwer's politically charged film that takes stock of German society in the first quarter of the 21st century. It starts 11 days of debuts including for movies starring Jessica Chastain, Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Rupert Friend, Marion Cotillard, Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, Emma Mackey and more. The 2025 Berlinale runs through February 23. More from Deadline Todd Haynes Talks U.S. Crisis Under First Weeks Of Trump & Accuses President Of "Destabilization" Tactics As Berlinale Lifts Off Jacob Elordi Series 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' Sells To Sky, Max, NBCUniversal Ahead Of Berlinale Premiere Inanna Sarkis, Gregg Sulkin, Timothy Granaderos & Paris Berelc Sign For Adam Green's Hot Air Balloon Thriller 'Ascent' Ahead Of Malta Shoot - EFM Keep checking back below as Deadline reviews the best and buzziest movies of the festival. Click on the titles to read the full reviews. Section: Out of Competition (Opening Night)Director: Tom TykwerCast: Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger, Tala Al-Deen, Elke Biesendorfer, Julius GauseDeadline's takeaway: Beware novel psychological therapies from Austria: You never know where they may lead. Tom Tykwer tests Germany's white liberal guilt, but why it has to be so long is as much of a puzzle as the workings of the light therapy. It is surprisingly watchable, though. Best of Deadline The Partnership: 'Sing Sing' Filmmakers Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley On The True Story That Changed Them Forever & Their Plan To Save Independent Film A Full Timeline Of Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Feud In Court, Online & In The Media Everything We Know About 'The Night Agent' Season 3 So Far
Washington Post
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
The 75th Berlin Film Festival kicks off with 'The Light' shining on politics
BERLIN — The Berlin International Film Festival is kicking off on Thursday with the world premiere of Tom Tykwer's 'The Light,' a timely tale of a dysfunctional German family and a Syrian refugee. The festival known as the Berlinale this year comes against the backdrop of Germany's parliament elections. For Tykwer, it's the third time he has opened the festival although his most recent success has come in the form of hit TV show 'Babylon Berlin.'
