MK Arjunan, the Malayalam music composer fondly known as Arjunan Master, died in April at 84. Arjunan Master made his debut in playback music composing through Karuthapournami (1968) and created his best work in the 1970s, when he composed numerous soulful melodies that have outlived the films they were featured in. When he won the Kerala State Film Award for music composition for Bhayanakam in 2018, many expressed disbelief that it was Master’s first state award in his career that spans five decades.
Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Zee 5, and Disney+ Hotstar all have new releases this week. Here’s a list of nine movies and TV shows to watch out for on OTT platforms between December 18 and December 24.
Marvel Studios on Thursday announced several new series and films on the occasion of the Walt Disney’s Investor Day 2020, weaved around the heroes and villains of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Netflix has pitched its upcoming film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom for the Best Picture Award at the 93rd Academy Awards.
And the very first flashback sequence give us two artistic choices that make Lee’s modus operandi clear — first, we see a chopper cutting across the orange Vietnam sky from a distance towards the centre of the screen, a callback to that shot from Apocalypse Now (fittingly, just minutes ago, we saw the Bloods exiting Ho Chi Minh City’s famous Apocalypse Now club).
Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is celebrating its 10th anniversary and Marvel Studios have launched a new website for their fans to look back at the MCU’s impressive slate and how the series progressed. It all started in 2008 with Robert Downey Jr. coming in as the Iron Man in Jon Favreau directorial.
If the term ‘slay’ is the internet’s favourite word, then it surely be used to define Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra’s looks at this year’s Met Gala. The theme of the night was Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination and these two Bollywood and Hollywood stars slayed away.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has always been a fan favourite. The Russo Brothers, who directed Avengers: Infinity War, recently applauded Marvel fans for their low-budget trailer resembling the shots and scenes from the original.
Marvel Comics’ latest superhero film, Black Panther, has crossed the $ 1 billion mark at the world-wide box-office. Forbes reports that the movie, with an all-black cast, is now the United States’ ninth highest-grossing film of all time, and had the second-largest four-day domestic opening.
Amid all this, fantasy romance The Shape of Water won four Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture. Britain’s Gary Oldman was named best actor for the Darkest Hour, while Frances McDormand’s won best actress for the dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Black Panther is not just Marvel’s first film to feature a predominantly Black cast. From the looks of its latest trailer, it also promises to be the most visually exciting superhero film to come from the studio. From what actor Lupita Nyongo’o (Nakia) tells Chadwick Boseman (T’Challa) in the film (“You get to decide what kind […]
Ava DuVernay has been tapped to direct the upcoming Black Panther film. Several reports indicate that the Selma director has been courted by Marvel Studios for several months. Starring Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, the ruler of a mysterious (and highly advanced, though we’re told the both don’t often go hand in hand) African nation; and […]
Actor and singer Jennifer Hudson has won two awards at the 53rd NAACP Image Awards, held on Saturday. The Oscar-winning actor bagged awards for Entertainer of the Year and outstanding actress in a motion picture for her performance as Aretha Franklin in the film Respect.
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