Author: Ewang Johnson
Film critic Ben Croll speaks to Eve Jackson about the latest film releases, including Cillian Murphy in his first starring role since winning the Oscar for “Oppenheimer”. They also discuss Canada’s master of the macabre, David Cronenberg’s deeply personal work “The Shrouds”, and the dark comedy “Rumours”, which imagines a G7 summit run amok starring Cate Blanchett. The show concludes with Claude Lelouch’s “Un homme et une femme”. The 1966 film’s return to theatres right before the Cannes Film Festival gives it a very particular honour, making it the official poster for the event which starts next week. Source link
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)Published years before WW2, Sally Carson’s prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small German town – and remains relevant today.Eighty years after VE Day, enthusiasm for the World War Two novel remains undimmed.Demand for tales of wartime Europe, always healthy, has swelled notably since the publication of Anthony Doerr’s lyrical All the Light We Cannot See, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 and subsequently adapted into a Netflix series. Love stories, battle stories, codebreaker stories, resistance stories, concentration camp stories – all have landed on bestseller lists around the world.And while many novelists in this…
Her Excellency Ms. Caroline Vicini, Ambassador of Sweden to the Republic of Seychelles, paid a farewell courtesy call on President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House today, marking the official end of her four-year diplomatic assignment. Ambassador Vicini was accompanied by Ms. Camilla Prawitz and Ms. Mutheu Mbondo from the Swedish Embassy. During the meeting, she […] Source link
In this edition of arts24, we’re focusing on the video game of the year and it’s proudly, unmistakably French. “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33”, created by a small studio in Montpellier, is taking the world by storm. With its Belle Époque-inspired world, haunting story and hybrid gameplay, it sold more than a million copies in just three days and even earned praise from President Emmanuel Macron. One of the minds behind the phenomenon, the co-director and co-founder of Sandfall Interactive, François Meurisse joins Eve Jackson to talk about the game’s success. Also on the show: the best looks from Monday night’s…
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)Decades before Tom Cruise was making audiences gasp, the Gallic star was getting up to even more hair-raising exploits on screen – sometimes with few safety measures.One of modern Hollywood’s great leading men, Tom Cruise, is to receive a fellowship from the British Film Institute this May, alongside a season celebrating his career. Cruise is described by the institution as a “daredevil action star”, and someone with a “dedication to reinventing the cinema spectacle” – traits exemplified most of all by his role in the Mission: Impossible series, the latest of which, Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – The Final…
A 14-year-old boy can finally wear shoes for the first time in his life after safe surgery from international charity Mercy Ships (www.MercyShips.org) corrected severe burn injuries that left his foot fused to his ankle. Tera is from a fishing village on the outskirts of Manakara in southeast Madagascar. He was just one year old when he accidentally tipped over a pot of boiling water — a common hazard in homes where food is traditionally cooked over open flames on the ground. Although Tera was too young to remember the accident, his parents told him what happened. “My mom went…
Jean Purdy steps determinedly through Cambridge’s cobbled streets in smart black shoes and tights, her nose buried in a medical journal. As the historic English city known for leading the way in the worlds of both academic and religious studies, Cambridge feels like a fitting setting to introduce the woman who—for decades—went unrecognized for the personal and professional struggles she faced as a crucial member of the medical team who invented in vitro fertilization, or IVF.In 2024, however, Purdy’s story was finally brought to the big screen—or the little screen, depending on how you watch your Netflix. Starring Thomasin McKenzie…
Novelist Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “James”, a reimagining of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of an enslaved man, while playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won the drama prize for “Purpose”, a play about a successful Black family in crisis. Other winners included Jason Roberts for biography, Marie Howe for poetry, and Susie Ibarra for music. Source link
Getty ImagesOn 12 June 1962, three men escaped from Alcatraz, never to be seen again. The ultimate fate of Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers remains a mystery but the ingenuity and determination of their daring escape – from what was the US’s most secure prison – continues to captivate. Two years later, the BBC returned to the scene of the crime.In May 1964, BBC Panorama’s Michael Charlton made “the most feared journey in the criminal world” across the churning waters of San Francisco Bay to see the infamous prison island of Alcatraz. Nicknamed “the Rock”, the federal penitentiary had…
On behalf of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE President, His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot Bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, Minister of State, attended the inauguration ceremony of His Excellency Brice Oligui Nguema, President of the Gabonese Republic, which was held in the capital, Libreville, after his presidential election success. His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot […] Source link