Prime Video hosted an exclusive premiere of its Original film Agni in New Delhi at the Films Division of India, offering firefighters and chief officers the opportunity to watch the action-packed drama before its global release. The screening, held in the capital, served as a tribute to the firefighters and first responders who risk their … Read more
It’s official: the Christmas chocolate price wars are officially upon us. Hot on the heels of Aldi slashing the price of Quality Street, now Asda has undercut the discount retailer with an offer of its own, not just on the purple Nestle tubs but on Roses and Celebrations tubs as well as Heroes and Swizzels. … Read more
The Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice arrived with about as much subtlety as its scheduling at the Toronto International Film Festival. Just as the Ali Abassi-directed film was plopped into the festival’s opening night schedule on Thursday as a last-minute surprise, the film barrels into its thesis without much warning or preamble. Documenting the former U.S. president’s beginnings … Read more
Retired major-general William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic Earthrise photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90. His son, retired air force … Read more
There’s a perilous stunt at the heart of The Fall Guy. More dangerous than the record-breaking truck roll, or surfing a metal trash bin across the streets of Sydney. This is a movie torn between two tracks. Part is a super-charged satire on the excesses of Hollywood. Much of The Fall Guy takes place on the set of … Read more
Day 613:59Canadian music legend Ron Sexsmith looks back on a remarkable career with a 60th birthday concert at Massey Hall Canadian songwriting legend Ron Sexsmith has turned 60, and will be celebrating the milestone with a concert at Massey Hall Thursday. A favourite of legends like Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello, Sexsmith has headlined the iconic … Read more
There are few figures in American history as mythologized as J. Robert Oppenheimer — in no small part due to the man himself. So building a cohesive story about him — the physicist who helped define an entire scientific field so new and arcane it was called “boys’ physics”; the precocious child-genius who delivered a … Read more
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Features Reporter Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Bishop T.D. Jakes preaches at the Joint New Year’s Revival at First Baptist Church of Glenarden International in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on January 5, 2024. | Screengrab/YouTube/ TD Jakes Ministries Megachurch pastor and businessman T.D. Jakes lamented that “we like our heroes dead” during a … Read more
