Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, has spent £25bn building up his telecoms company Reliance Jio – the biggest private sector investment with over 200m Indian phone users taking advantage of the competition, as he fights for dominance in the second-largest telecoms market by user numbers. Most of the money was spent by giving away free…
Indonesia’s disaster response agency says the death toll of last Friday’s 7.5-magnitude earthquake and Tsunami has risen to 1350 in the coastal city of Palu just off the central island of Sulawesi. Indonesian Red Cross Officials said they have recovered 34 Indonesian students under a church buried by a mudslide. They were presumed part of…
Review of Rumble:- The Indians who Rocked the World. Raindance 26th Film Festival London – till 7th October – closing night includes a party – look online for tickets). “At one time in parts of the USA you could not own a drum or you would be killed”. This film which has already been at…
Raindance world premiere “Above the Clouds” – British film – Third Light Films. 87 minutes. Feelgood factor films do work with no spoilers. Leon Chambers – Director, together with screenwriter Simon Lloyd came up with this feelgood factor tale working together and after several re-writes, the film was made in a relatively short time. But…
Review of Boom – A story of The Sonics (band) at The 26th Raindance Film Festival The Sonics are amazing…first, they invaded the music world, then secondly they receded into obscurity, then thirdly they came back bigger than ever nearly 40 years later. Writer/Director/Producer Jordan Albertsen (of Scandinavian descent) took it upon himself to make…
Raindance 26th London Film Festival There is always room for variations on a theme….. A Fantastic Woman – Academy award winner – best foreign language film. Chilean Retrospective – Spanish with English subtitles. Sebastian Lelio Director. Also, co-starring Aline Kuppenheim and Amparo Noguera. Marina (Daniela Vega) loves Orlando (Francisco Reyes) who is a divorced father…
THIS IS LOVE – FILM AT RAINDANCE 26TH FILM FESTIVAL 30TH SEPTEMBER 2018 A fantastic array of Love family members came over from the USA to this screening about the Love family and their musical exploits mainly in the USA but more recently at the 100 club last night where an audience including Elliott Grove…
A Raindance film festival event. New York Times award-winning reporter Jim Gutenberg was in a one-hour live interview, with a Q and A session at the end of the event explaining how the #METOO campaign led to the exposure of Harvey Weinstein as a totally unacceptable sexual predator. It is difficult to expose these people…
The 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to American scientist James P Allison and Japanese researcher Tasuku Honjo “ for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”. The discovery was made by two Medicine Laureates by taking advantage of the immune system’s ability to attack…
Europe regained the Ryder Cup after they beat United States 17½-10½. The Americans put their best players out at the top of Sunday’s singles order and their gamble appeared to be paying off for captain Jim Furyk with three wins and a halved match out of the first five. Furyk said: “ We got some…