Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese has slammed review aggregator websites such as Rotten Tomatoes and CinemaScore for “devaluing cinema” and leading movies to be “instantly judged and dismissed”. The 75-year-old director made the comments after receiving The Robert Osborne Award at TCM’s Annual Classsic Film Festival in Hollywood, presented to him by his frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio. “It can all be summed up in the word that’s being used now: content. All movie images are lumped together. You’ve got a picture, you’ve got a TV episode, a new trailer, you’ve got…

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On her 30th birthday, Bollywood star Anushka Sharma today announced she is building an animal shelter on the outskirts of Mumbai. The actor, who is an animal lover, said she always dreamt of doing something to support her “fellow living beings”. “I’m building an animal shelter just outside Mumbai – a home for those animals that are stranded, left to fend for themselves, have to brave harsh surroundings. A home where they will be cared for, loved, protected and nurtured. “This has been my calling for years now and my…

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Katy Perry seems to be back with former flame Orlando Bloom as the duo was spotted in Vatican City where they got an opportunity to meet Pope Francis. The 33-year-old singer also shared an Instagram story in which she told her fans that she was in Italy to a speak at the Vatican’s United to Cure event, an international conference on the cure for cancer. “Happy Saturday, everyone. I’m here in Rome at the Vatican about to speak on meditation,” Perry said. She also turned the camera towards her mother…

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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who plays a 102-year-old man in his latest film “102 Not Out”, says he strives to better himself with each film rather than focus on goal posts. According to the 75-year-old, who has been in films for almost 50 years and continues to bat, ‘not out’, every day is a learning experience. His work ethic, he said, is not to break records. If the audience does not notice the artiste’s efforts, he or she tries to up their game the next time, Bachchan told PTI. Excerpts from…

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Hansal Mehta’s “Omerta” tracks the story of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and the director says through this film he wants to provoke a thought among people about state sponsored terrorism. Sheikh, a British terrorist of Pakistan descent, was involved in the 9/11 terror attacks and killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl. He is currently in prison in Pakistan serving the life sentence. “There are some standard emotions that a film leaves you with like happiness, sadness, this (film) would leave you angry. We live in a world where a villain…

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Chris Hemsworth says he pretends to understand when his wife Elsa Pataky scolds their children in her mother tongue, Spanish as he speaks just “one sentence” in the language. The 34-year-old actor, who has three kids – India (six) and twins Tristan and Sasha (four) with Pataky, said he knows he is in trouble when his wife starts firing in Spanish at him. “They’re (the children) fluent in Spanish. I speak one sentence. I pretend to (understand). My wife will tell them off and it sounds like ‘dghdghdgh’ to my…

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Kareena Kapoor Khan will be seen on silver screen after a gap of almost two years and the actor credits her husband Saif Ali Khan for motivating her to get back to films. Kareena, who took a small break from films in 2016 during her pregnancy, was back on sets months after giving birth to baby boy Taimur. The actor started filming “Veere Di Wedding” in September last year, the trailer of which was released today. “I wasn’t pregnant when I signed this film. I am lucky to have a…

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The first look and teaser of Sanjay Dutt’s much-awaited biopic is finally out and the Rajkumar Hirani-directed movie, featuring Ranbir Kapoor in the lead role, is titled “Sanju”. The first poster of the film was launched earlier today featuring Ranbir in the five iconic looks of Dutt from different phases of his life, starting from “Rocky” and going on to the time he was released from Yerwada Central Jail in 2016, after serving a five-year sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case. The teaser begins with Ranbir breaking…

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Telugu actor-politician Pawan Kalyan refused to slow down on Saturday in his attack against some big Telugu media houses even after receiving a legal notice from industrialist Srini Raju, who is the biggest shareholder in leading Telugu news channel TV9. Pawan has shared the snap of the legal notice on his Twitter page, suggesting he has no intentions of backing off from the fight. “SriniRaju ..your legal letter doesn’t make any difference after you got my Mother abused repeatedly with the guidance of #Real AgnyathavasiRaviPrakash” your CEO on your channelTV9 colluding with…

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A documentary film by director Sangeeta Datta on the life and works of National Award-winning auteur Rituparno Ghosh has been selected for screening at the New York Indian Film Festival. Ghosh, an avant garde director of Bengali films, passed away in 2013 at the age of 49, following a cardiac arrest. ‘Bird of Dusk’ features Ghosh’s interviews, conversations and texts from personal narratives in ‘First Person’, published serially in a regional newspaper’s Sunday magazine, Dutta said, adding that she had assisted the filmmaker in his award-winning venture ‘Chokher Bali’. The…

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