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Spring and renewal were major themes at the restrained red carpet at this years event

The Bollywood stars are reuniting for an official remake of the Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump

Independent British film Retaliation, which some critics say showcases a career-defining performance by Orlando Bloom, will release in the UAE on March 25. The film, which premiered in the US last year, stars Bloom as Malky, a demolition worker whose latest assignment is to tear down the church where he was molested by a priest as a young boy. That past comes back to haunt Malky when he meets the now elderly priest at a local pub and an encounter sends the protagonists life into a tailspin. ...

SHARE When the Sajan family decided to move from their six-bedroom villa on Dubai’s The Palm and build their dream home at the exclusive Emirates Hills neighbourhood, they knew they had set themselves up for quite the task – even for a family in the construction business. “We loved the villa on The Palm and enjoyed the location by the sea with our own private beach. But it was a ready-made villa, and we wanted to build something that was our own, something tailor-made for us,” explains ...

SHARE A heartbreaking animated short film about a couple grieving for their daughter killed in a school shooting is now a hot Oscars 2021 contender after becoming a TikTok sensation. If Anything Happens I Love You, directed by Will McCormack and Michael Govier, was released on Netflix in November 2020 and quickly became a phenomenon on the platform. It then went viral on the Chinese video-sharing platform, as users challenged each other to watch the 12-minute film without crying. Some users cal...

Switchh, which was entirely shot in the UAE, has been released. Starring actor Vikrant Massey and featuring the big screen debut of Dubai resident Naren Kumar, the film will premiere on streaming service Eros Now on March 21. Switchh tells the story of a millionaire, played by Kumar, whose passion for the high-stakes world of illegal street racing gets him entangled in an elaborate crime plotted by Massey’s character, who plays a racer. Production wrapped up right before stay-at-home orders l...

SHARE As the only active Filipino comic performing in English in the UAE, one would assume Imah Dumagay would have the run of the house. But that distinction has not led to a full-time career in stand-up, even after three years in the business. “Stand-up is booming, but you cannot make a living out of this,” says Dumagay, who works as an executive secretary in Dubai. “Here, it’s just a hobby and pastime for most comedians.” Still, that has not stopped the 37-year-old from passionately...

SHARE Eminem is hitting back at TikTok users who are calling for him to be "cancelled" over his 2010 Grammy-nominated song Love the Way You Lie. The rap star released a lyric video for his 2020 track Tone Deaf on Friday, and tweeted lines from the track. “I won’t stop even when my hair turns grey. (I’m tone-deaf). ‘Cause they won’t stop until they cancel me,” he posted. “I wont stop even when my hair turns grey (Im tone-deaf) / Cause they wont stop until they cancel me” #ToneD...

The stakes are high for Hindi film The Girl on the Train, adapted from British author Paula Hawkins’s 2015 bestseller of the same name. The thriller, which will arrive on Netflix on Friday, has not only faced unprecedented delays owing to the pandemic, it will also have to contend with comparisons to the 2016 Hollywood film starring Emily Blunt. The weight of expectations is not lost on its lead Parineeti Chopra, who wrote an homage to Blunt this week. “You gave me the inspiration (and m...

SHARE A few months before Saudi Arabia made the historic decision to throw open its doors to foreign tourists in 2019, two entrepreneurs were already putting the finishing touches to a business plan that they hoped would take their high-end footwear brand to new heights. Muneera Al Tamimi from Saudi Arabia and Mohammed Kazim from the UAE launched Tamashee Experience in 2018, a venture that offers guided tours to locations in the Arabian Peninsula. The plan was to showcase little-known but cul...