The fourth quarter ticket sales for US films in India were up 114 per cent on a year earlier while Bollywood’s box office take rose only 34 per cent. Hollywood superheroes encroach on Bollywood’s local dominance, as in the past American films struggled to make a splash in India, where Mumbai based Bollywood and other…
South Korean film Parasite has been named the best picture at 2020 Oscars becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize beating 1917 and Joker. Parasite won four awards while Sam Mendes’s 1917 took three. Renee Zellweger won the best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy, Joaquin Phoenix was named the…
Richard Layard founder and former director of the centre for Economic performance at the London School of Economics, forget the GDP, we need to focus on trust, relationships and our mental health in nutshell it is about happiness, after looking across 3,096 USD counties that participated the 2016 US election, votes for Trump were better…
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera both aged under 30, at MGM’s animation department had worked 80 years ago and struggled to emulate the success of other studios who had hit characters like Porky Pig and Mickey Mouse to come with a cartoon cat sick of annoying mouse living in his home, devices a plot to…
A play which makes most peoples’ complex lives by comparison seem somehow happily mundane! On McQuillan’s Hill by Joseph Crilly The English premiere at The Finborough Theatre, Kensington. This production supports CALM – The Campaign Against Living Miserably. 4 Feb – 29 Feb inclusive. No shows on Mondays. Tues to Sat 7.30. Sat and Sun…
The auto industry is moving beyond internal combustion engines or self-driving software, the brains for fleets of robot vehicles, Elon Musk’s Tesla has become a key supplier of batteries and electric power trains. Tesla’s share price culminated in an electrifying 48 per cent leap during the first two trading sessions of this week. From a…
The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, an opulent pub in Liverpool once praised by Bill Bryson for its ornate toilets built between 1898 and 1900 is the first purpose-built Victorian pub in England to be given Grade 1 status, by Historic England. Four of eight pubs in the country known to have no actual bar. Former Beatles…
Twitter crossed $1bn in quarterly revenue for the first time in the final three months of 2019 shocking Wall Street estimates and sending Twitter stocks soaring by 18 per cent in early trading yesterday in New York. Mr. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, insisted although he was planning to spend as much as six months…
Dr. Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who tried to warn about the coronavirus outbreak, has died after contracting the virus while treating patients in Wuhan, which has sparked public anger and grief in China. Last December he sent a message to fellow medics warning of a virus he thought looked like Sars – a global…
Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend, stage and screen actor spanning 6 decades had died aged 103. Hi s 1960 classic Spartacus, in which he played the titular character won him for Oscars. Kirk Douglas was born Issur Danelovich Demsky in the city of Amsterdan , New York State, in 1916, to penniless Jewish immigrants he got…