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The one thing that makes Malala Yousafzai blush in a documentary about her being released next month is when filmmaker Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth") asks the now 18-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner if she would ever ask a boy...

Food moves me – irrespective of time, texture and flavor, it moves me. The method of cooking, ease of preparation, the highs and lows of flavour, the do’s and dont’s of texture and colour and the yes and no of...

Are the institutions awarding degrees on film making in Pakistan making an impact on our film industry? When considering pursuing a degree in the film industry, the first step seems obvious; attend a film school and get a degree in...

A film that approaches the legendary (albeit controversial) 20th-century Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto primarily through the chronicles gathered from various sources, chiefly his family based in Lahore, and — in a novel attempt — through his writings, mainly his...

Episode 3 of Coke Studio had shown all the signs of providing an hour of great listening this Sunday. The promos featuring the ethereal Gul Panra, the powerhouse of Punjabi verve Arif Lohar and the soulful Ali Sethi hinted at...

1. Michael Fassbender will not look like Steve Jobs — and the filmmakers are rolling with it Michael Fassbender does not share many of Steve Jobs’ well-known features, such as the dark hair and long nose. While Ashton Kutcher shared...

While we wouldn’t even dream of objecting to the Censorboard’s justified decision of banning Phantom in Pakistan (no matter what the cause, influence and reason) we do find the exchange of insults between actors on both sides of the border...

For those who still love to watch old TV shows, The Man from UNCLE remains one of the best James Bond reflections on TV. For four seasons (between 1964 and 1968), it followed the adventures of two strikingly handsome secret agents...

There are many ways in which Bajrangi Bhaijaan – a recent Bollywood hit featuring Salman Khan in the lead – can be described as a perfect depiction of reality in the milieu of intricate relations between Pakistan and India. For...

We love this energetic new wave that Pakistani cinema is riding on these days. This is a wave that has boarded all sorts of diverse subjects, from boxers to bankers, rickshaw-walas to corrupt railway officials and cricketers to con-girls. It’s...

Coke Studio is as much a part of Pakistan’smillennial pop culture as Charlies’ Angels were of the ’70s’ America – musically flirtatious and an icon in the absence of better. After Rohail Hyatt called it quits, many were wary of...

The success of Jurassic World and the failures of Terminator: Genisys and Fantastic Four should make studios reconsider their approach to rebooting franchises that have grown stale. “The crucial ingredient is surprising fans in a good way,” said Phil Contrino,...

It’s the words that matter most, actor Jesse Eisenberg says. He’s talking at the moment about the script for The End of the Tour, his new film. The film is a snapshot into a few days in the life of...

The film’s lead pair, as well as musicians Adnan and Asrar, launched the OST LAHORE: Sikander Rizvi and Humaima Mallick, the good-looking lead pair of the upcoming rom-com Dekh Magar Pyar Say, were a sight for sore eyes at the...

Zaheem (Shahzad Shaikh) is portrayed as a loser of a struggling banker who is dumped by his girlfriend in favour of a secure life with a successful cousin. In an uncharacteristic show of backbone, egged on by his friends Sam...