It's not hard to spot where Tanim Noor's Utshob nods to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The connections are too specific to ignore. But this isn't just a modern remake with Bangladeshi flavour, it's something else. Something more rooted. Instead of chilly Victorian London and flickering cand
Irish hip-hop group Kneecap played to a huge crowd at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday despite criticism by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and pressure from some in the music industry to pull the gig. Frontman Liam O'Hanna, whose stage name is Mo Chara, was charged with a terrorism offence la
Oscar-nominated Denis Villeneuve will direct the next "James Bond" film, Amazon's MGM Studios said on Wednesday, taking charge of one of Hollywood's most enigmatic spies and longest-running movie series. Villeneuve, the Canadian film director and writer, has earned critical acclaim for films such
Renowned guitarist and songwriter Mick Ralphs, best known for his work with Mott The Hoople, has passed away at the age of 81, the band’s official page has confirmed. A statement from the group read: “Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time.” Born in
"The path ahead felt strange—at times, it rose like a wave; at other times, it seemed to sink into an unseen depth. His steps had lost their rhythm. He moved like a man intoxicated, staggering without direction—sometimes leaning left, as if pulled by resistance, turning south, as though
US singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty on Friday to attacking a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub two years ago. Brown is charged with attempting to inflict grievous bodily harm in what prosecutors said was an "unprovoked attack" with a tequila bottle on Abraham Diaw in a London
Just a few years ago, the air-conditioned Cineplexes in Dhaka and Chattogram were filled with the explosions of Hollywood blockbusters. Marvel superheroes, swinging from webs and armed with vibranium shields, ruled the big screen. Audiences stood in long queues for Avengers, Fast & Furious, or the
In the canon of twentieth-century thriller fiction, few names carry the intellectual gravity and geopolitical texture that Frederick Forsyth does—a man whose death on June 9, 2025, marked not merely the passing of a bestselling author but the silencing of a chronicler whose prose encoded the
Austrian and American actor Arnold Schwarzenegger had to admit that it took him a lot of practice to nail the tango scene with Canadian actor Carrie-Anne Moss for season 2 of the Netflix action-comedy series "Fubar." "We practiced. We practiced a lot, and she didn't need as much practice as I did,
The shifting portrayal of protagonists in South Asian cinema—from morally upright men reluctantly driven to Violence to hardened anti-heroes with an apparent affinity for brutality—reveals a more profound socio-cultural transformation at the intersection of media aesthetics, political p
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at the close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -Dylan Thomas A rogue intelligence unbound by form, the Entity awakens across networks, rewriting the coordinates of the apocalypse; Ethan Hunt, shadow-chased and
Actor Somu Chowdhury was found in an unwell condition at a shrine in Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh, according to sources from Actors Equity and local police. Local police and Actors Equity have confirmed the matter. Actors Equity general secretary Rashed Mamun Apu said, “We have contacted
Beach Boys cofounder Brian Wilson, who created some of rock's most enduring songs such as "Good Vibrations" and "God Only Knows" in a career that was marked by a decades-long battle between his musical genius, drug abuse and mental health issues, has died at the age of 82. Wilson's family announce
