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Join critic Emma Jones and presenter Eve Jackson for this week’s arts24 film show, where we dive into Mike Leigh’s latest film “Hard Truths”, celebrating his impressive 53-year career. Plus, we discuss Netflix’s gritty “Banger” starring Vincent Cassel, and the highly anticipated Minecraft Movie featuring Jack Black and Jason Momoa. Source link
Apple TV+Jon Hamm excels in Apple TV+’s “emotionally real but absurdist” drama about a desperate corporate man who resorts to stealing from his neighbours.Jon Hamm has his best role since Mad Men and brings all his sharp comic timing and dramatic nuance to it as Andrew Cooper, known as Coop, a hedge-fund manager who loses his job and manoeuvres to maintain his elaborate lifestyle and sense of himself. If you took Don Draper and dropped him into 2025 he might be Coop, a corporate man with a broken marriage and two teenaged children, a decent guy and a charmer with…
Green bonds, debt securities issued to finance environmentally sustainable projects, are gaining traction globally and their potential is quite significant in West Africa. While the region seeks to tackle pressing environmental challenges, such as climate change and energy access, green bonds provide the opportunity to finance these initiatives while offering investors attractive returns. African stock exchanges should invest in green bonds as this aligns with the continent’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). By linking finance to environmental outcomes, green bonds provide a direct avenue for investment in clean energy, efficient transportation and water management projects. This helps mitigate the effects of…
South African TV and film writers Amy Jephta and Sean Drummond join Dheepthika Laurent on set to talk about their upcoming projects. Sean was head writer on the second season of “Unseen”, a wildly popular crime thriller on Netflix. He also talks about his 2017 neo-Western, “Five Fingers for Marseilles”, a film that inspired one of the songs on Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” album. Amy wrote the play “A Good House”, which has just finished its run in the UK. The biting satire explores post-apartheid legacies in modern-day South Africa. She also wrote the true crime series “Catch Me a Killer”, which…
HBO(Credit: HBO)From the return of HBO’s zombie apocalypse thriller to Michelle Williams in a provocative new role.Amazon Prime(Credit: Amazon Prime)1. The BondsmanIn this droll new series, Kevin Bacon adds demon-chasing bounty-hunter to his long list of horror characters. Hub Halloran was a bounty hunter before his murder, but when he lands on the other side, the devil himself gives him a second chance at redemption, reanimating him and sending him back among the living to track down and return demons who have escaped hell. The catch: if he fails at his job he will be called back into the flames…
In a significant development for Africa’s energy sector, Nigeria, Angola and Ghana have fulfilled their capital commitments toward establishing the Africa Energy Bank (AEB). This milestone represents 44% of the minimum required funding from African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) members to initiate the bank’s operations. Dr. Omar Farouk Ibrahim, Secretary General of APPO, announced this progress during the Congo Energy&Investment Forum last week. The AEB aims to finance oil and gas projects across the continent, addressing funding challenges posed by traditional Western financial institutions’ reluctance to support fossil fuel initiatives due to environmental concerns. APPO has requested each of its…
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This week, Marjorie Hache chats to two up-and-coming musical outfits: Naya Mö, who comes from Bordeaux and has just released an EP, “Dealing With Ghosts”, full of layered lo-fi indie; and Oracle Sisters, a trio who formed in Paris but hail from Denmark, Finland and Northern Ireland. They have just released their second mystical album “Divinations”, full of psych-tinted folk. We also take a look at Elton John’s collaborative album with Brandi Carlile, “Who Believes In Angels?” Source link
Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)Gates and Paul Allen launched computing giant Microsoft 50 years ago. In 1993, he talked to the BBC about the online innovations that would define the 21st Century.When the BBC first broadcast an interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in June 1993, there were thought to be only 130 websites in total. The BBC’s venerable science programme Horizon was investigating the new “Electronic Frontier”, in an era where “information is starting to redefine our world, its geography and its economy”. Gates told the programme: “This is the information age, and the computer is the tool of the…
Ghana’s Minister of Energy and Green Transition John Abdulai Jinapor will deliver a keynote speech at the Invest in African Energies: Accra Investor Briefing on April 14, 2025. The forum will offer strategic insight into the country’s recent and upcoming regulatory reforms as the country drives over 17 oil and gas projects over the next three years. Minister Jinapor’s participation will not only generate greater awareness around Ghana’s energy and investment opportunities but engage foreign operators and financiers ahead of the African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies conference this September. Through industry reform, Ghana is positioning itself as…