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Stolen Movie Review Rating:

Star Cast: Abhishek Banerjee, Shubham Vardhan, Mia Maelzer

Director: Karan Tejpal

Stolen Movie Review: Hits Hard Like A Nightmare! (Photo Credit – Prime Video India)

What’s Good: A Gripping Storyline

What’s Bad: Nothing

Loo Break: Not Needed

Watch or Not? Not if you expect a racy Abbas-Mustan thriller!

Language: Hindi with Subtitles

Available On: Prime Video

Runtime: 90 minutes

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Filmmaking, once upon a time, had two very balanced genres – the Masala films and the films that had a purpose. The ones that could evoke empathy and push you to ponder. But it has been a long time since there has been a good social commentary that might make us stop, take time, and think! Directed by Karan Tejpal, Stolen falls into the second category. The film connects for a reason, and it will make you feel uncomfortable for a lot of things and,...

Fountain of Youth’s ending was all about the team finding the titular and mythological spring, and drinking from it. Owen Carver, a billionaire who was dying of liver cancer, had hired Luke Purdue to find the water body that had the power to cure him. Luke’s late father had been a treasure-hunter. So, he got in touch with his old mates, Patrick Murphy and Deb McCall, and began stealing a variety of paintings which held the directions to the aforementioned pool. This caught the attention of Esme, a protector of ancient artifacts who worked for the Elder, and Interpol’s Jamal Abbas. But that didn’t stop Luke from roping in not just his estranged sister, Charlotte Purdue (who also happened to be a history expert), but her young son, Thomas, as well. Yeah, the addition of Thomas might seem sketchy, but it was his musical skills that...

A group of plucky adventurers risk life and limb in pursuit of the Freemason Treasure, I mean Cibola, the lost city of gold, in National Treasure, I mean National Treasure: Book of Secrets, no, dammit, I mean the Fountain of Youth in the new action-adventure film directed by Guy Ritchie premiering on Apple TV+.

As my confusion indicates, Fountain of Youth feels all too familiar in its assemblage of action set-pieces in exotic locations, accompanied by the sort of quippy banter that people fighting for their lives probably don’t actually engage in. Starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman as estranged siblings reuniting to search for the mythological spring, the film is the sort of mindless, glossy entertainment tailor-made for streaming, even if its large-scale action sequences and exciting locations would look great on the big screen.

And by location, I mean locations! The story begins with an elaborately choreographed...

Laila Abbas’s Thank You For Banking With Us has scooped best film at the ninth Critics Awards for Arab Films, which will celebrate its winners in Cannes today (May 17).

The Palestinian drama, which debuted at the BFI London Film Festival, also picked up best director for debut feature filmmaker Abbas. The story follows two sisters, played by Clara Khoury and Yasmine Al Massri, who race against time to secure their father’s inheritance.

Also picking up two awards was Nabil Ayouch’s Moroccan film Everybody Loves Touda, which bowed in the Cannes Premiere section of last year’s festival.

Once in while, you are in the mood for just some plain old kid-ology. The Bhootnii is so outrageously absurd and so inured to the idiocy that you just can’t help plunging into a giggling fit.

Writer-director Sidhaant Sachdev doesn’t take himself seriously. His wacked-out sense of humour leaves a trail of foolish, ghoulish pranks and antics, all absurd, none the least vulgar. The project wears a bright, bouncy, bubbly, inviting look. In fact, andh-vishwas doesn’t feel blindsided by this. And when push comes to shove, there is little chill and plenty chuckles in the eerie air.

The concept of a spooked-out tree is age-old. The film weaves a screwball yarn around a bevy of party-moded actors who swing into the groove with a sense of unbridled enjoyment. While Sunny Singh is passably good as a love-smitten collegian with two women panting after him (one of them...

Kjell Bergqvist as Tom Stilton and Dar Salim as Abbas, in the Swedish crime drama series “Spring Tide” Season 2. Directors: Niklas Ohlson, Pontus Klänge. Photo credit: Niklas Maupoix. Produced by Filmlance International Ab. Courtesy of MHz Choice

The Swedish crime drama,”Spring Tide” (originally “Springfloden”) is back with Season 2. I reviewed Season One of the series a couple of months ago (here is the link to that review: https://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2025/02/spring-tide-season-one-tv-series-review/). Season Two brings back most of those principals for another 10-episode mystery.

Season Two is somewhat larger in scope, covering several crimes in two countries for its geographically scattered cast. It starts in Stockholm with the staged suicide of a possible corporate whistle-blower (Not a spoiler. It wouldn’t have been much of a series if the guy had actually killed himself. It’s just par for the genre course.). Then a dismembered woman’s body washes ashore in Marseilles.

Would it be fair to describe Feroz Khan as the Clint Eastwood of Mumbai cinema? He was certainly the first Indian star to play a brooding cowboy in a series of films in the mid-70s. Curry Westerns like Kala Sona and didn’t quite make this Khan a craze in his days. But he was nothing if not a trendsetter. Westernized trim and flamboyantly macho Feroz Khan came at a time when heroes were moony-eyed, flabby, and 40-ish. This Khan didn’t spend hours in the gym. But he sure knew how to flex his biceps on screen.

His broad machismo earned Khan a staunch fan following. The urbanized Indian loved to watch Khan play the stud in self-directed flicks like Apradh, Qurbani and Janbaaz where he drove the slickest cars, bedded the most beautiful women and visited the most swanky sights in the world.

Feroz Khan was the first dude with an attitude.

Kim Kardashian Paris Heist ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

The ghosts of that fateful Parisian night in 2016 are stirring once more as Kim Kardashian prepares to take the stand against the gang that terrorized her.

It has been nine years since masked robbers bound, gagged, and left her locked in a penthouse bathroom before vanishing with $10 million in jewelry, most infamously, the $4 million engagement ring from Kanye West, and now justice is finally closing in.

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Kardashian’s Twelve: The Criminals Behind the Crime

The dozen defendants, dubbed “Kardashian’s Twelve” in a nod to the Ocean’s film franchise, are no longer behind bars, having been released from their high-security remand cells in the lead-up to the trial.

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Subhash K Jha, in a new feature in his Thus Day That Year series revisits Neeraj Pathak’s Irrfan Khan and Sunny Deol thriller, Right Yaaa Wrong.

Right Yaa Wrong was the surprise shocker of 2010. If you’ve forgotten that jump-out-of-the-seat feeling, then it’s time to nudge it to awake again. Debutant director Neeraj Pathak put together a thriller that’s as much a homage to Alfred Hitchcock and Brian da Palma as our own Abbas-Mustan and Right Yaa Wrong still emerges original and strong.

An intricate jigsaw that always stays a step ahead of the audience, Right Yaaa Wrong makes a penetrating comment on how the country’s legal system can be subverted in a clever hand. More importantly, the taut and briskly-paced script suggests that the yin and yang concepts of right and wrong are not only ambivalent but also interchangeable when the context is right.

Sunny Deol,...

Subhash K Jha celebrates six years of Kartik Aaryan’s Luka Chuppi in this unique feature.

Long before Chhaava swept into the nation’s consciousness, director Laxman Utekar made the charming comedy Luka Chuppi, which took Kartik Aaryan’s stardom a notch ahead. Just when the small-town comedy threatened to sag under the weight of over-statement, there comes a fresh, feisty take on a live-in relationship in this Progressive Comedy (not to be confused with the Regressive Comedy as in Total Dhamaal). Luka Chuppi doesn’t mind bending the rules of the rom-com genre as long the tilt doesn’t make the script look cross-eyed and waylaid. A sense of madcap adventure is constantly projected into the narrative without losing grip over the grammar of growing giggles.

Luka Chuppi doesn’t try too hard to generate humour. It doesn’t always make us laugh. But it never fails to amuse,...

Julia Ragnarsson as Oliva Rönning and Kjell Bergqvist as Tom Stilton. Photo: Ulrika Malm

In the suspenseful crime drama , “Spring Tide (Springfloden): Season One”, Olivia is a student at the Swedish police academy is assigned to examine a cold case from 1990 to explore what technological advances might have produced a conviction had it occurred today. Coincidentally, the case is a particularly brutal murder of a young woman that her late father had worked on, forever after haunted by his inability to nail the killer(s). Another plot thread arises as a couple of young punks randomly attack homeless people, recording and posting their vicious beatings to titillate seekers of sadistic thrills.

In the early episodes we meet a slew of seemingly unrelated characters – so many that it requires extra concentration to keep up with the players and subplots while wondering how important any will become. One of the leads...

Maryam Keshavarz’s The Persian Version is made to feel like a warm Persian patchwork quilt, bursting at the seams with vivid colors, diverse cultures, and a motley of characters. Whether it is the way the young child smuggled cassettes of Michael Jackson to Iran or the varying loudness of the household with eight boys and a feisty girl, the film runs like a kitschy personal family album. At the heart of the mad concoction is a coming-of-age story of a woman whose motherhood really is a way to understand her own mother. Even without their interpersonal relationship, it is the story of two Iranian women growing up as immigrants in America. The story, even if deeply personal, is underpinned by the political relations of Iran and the US, which have only grown stagnant over the years. What also emerges as a central concern is the way identities on the...

Kommune, India’s acclaimed cultural storytelling hub, concluded the two-day celebration of music, words, and everything love, Spoken Fest—Asia’s largest spoken word festival—in Mumbai on February 2nd, 2025. The evening brought together the brilliant singer-composer-producer Shankar Mahadevan and the founder of Kommune India, Roshan Abbas—for an unfiltered conversation that delved into the heart of music and creative synergy.

It was an eclectic mix of storytelling and music, where Shankar Mahadevan spoke about his life in music through memorable music performances and stimulating conversation. From the opening moments, Mahadevan transported the audience back to the genesis of his journey. He talked about how he was comfortable with this corporate job as well as doing music. The Grammy-winning singer took a call at the age of 26-27 to leave his job at a reputed software firm that provided a cushioned life in the USA with financial stability and pursue his passion for music full-time.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about #OneChicago, The Night Agent, Will Trent, Paradise and more!

1 | In The Night Agent’s final Season 2 episodes, did you almost cheer when Javad got what was coming to him, after Abbas framed him as a traitor? And which was worse, Rose’s flashback wig, or… whatever this was on Robert Patrick’s head? ▼

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Another flashback opens The Night Agent season 2 episode 9, “Cultural Exchange,” but this time it’s about Rose (Luciane Buchanan) and Peter (Gabriel Basso), and it’s only from 10 months ago before the events of season 2. It’s from Peter and Rose’s last day together before Peter ships off to his first mission for the Night Action program.

Rose admits she’s feeling hesitant about leaving Peter and going back to normal life, and Peter apologizes for not turning down the job. Rose doesn’t want him to change, but it’s clear from the look in her eyes that she doesn’t want this to end.

Back in the lab after Tomas's death in episode 8, Rose and Dr. Cole (Jay Karnes) theorize about making an inactive batch of Kx after they finish the first batch. Markus’s men force them to keep working even though they have enough Kx...

The Night Agent season 2 episode 8, “Divergence,” takes viewers back 17 years. A younger Tomas is attacked by his father, Viktor Bala (Dikran Tulaine), at dinner among his council and servants. Tomas has returned home from school in England, and his father is not happy that Tomas will not even use his last name, Bala, at school. Tomas explains that the name is one of warmongers.

Tomas storms off, but his cousin, Markus, follows and reminds Tomas of his place. Tomas slaps his cousin for ratting him out to his father, but Markus doesn’t bite on that fight. Instead, he returns to dinner.

Rose makes a deal with Tomas

In the present, Markus (Michael Malarkey) and Tomas (Rob Heaps) lead Dr. Cole (Jay Karnes) and Rose (Luciane Buchanan) to the mobile lab to make the Kx. They hold Dr. Cole’s wife and daughter as hostages. Markus promises to kill the hostages if Dr.

In The Night Agent season 2, we see that the Iranian mission to the Un was trying to find a secret document belonging to the French intelligence agency. Nobody knew what information the documents held, and for the longest time, Catherine and Peter believed that it had something to do with the Foxglove project. So, let’s find out what role Noor played in the whole mess, why she chose to steal those secret documents, and, in the end, why the Iranian ambassador helped her escape.

Spoiler Alert

Who was Noor working for?

The first time Peter Sutherland and Catherine got to know about Noor was when she sent a picture of Solomon Vega to her handler. Noor was the junior aide at the Iranian mission at the Un, which was headed by ambassador Abbas Mansuri. Noor was leaking information to the CIA as she was seeking asylum for herself and her family.

The Night Agent season 2 episode 6, “A Good Agent,” opens with a flashback to Catherine Weaver (Amanda Warren) as Night Agent working with her partner, Noah, 13 years earlier. A man ambushes Catherine and Noah while they are setting up hidden cameras. The roommate kills Noah, but she eventually fights him off before calling the Night Agent line.

Later, we see Catherine and her supervisor talking about what happened. Yuri, the roommate, flips in exchange for medical care for his mother and helps the US Government with the Pentagon leak that implicated Peter’s father, Peter Sutherland, Sr.

Rose lies to Noor about Farhad

In the present, the story picks up shortly after the events of episode 5. Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) just learned from Sami (Marwan Kenzari) that Farhad is dead. To secure the documents from Noor (Arienne Mandi), Peter lies her family is fine, but Noor finds out that Javad (Keon Alexander...

The following contains spoilers from Episode 5 of The Night Agent Season 2; all 10 episodes are now streaming on Netflix.

Man, did anyone else wanna hide behind the couch on behalf of Peter Sutherland, when at the close of Season 2, Episode 5, he made the choice — and it was quite a choice — to flat-out lie to Noor about how the extraction of her mother and brother from Iran went?

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“The Night Agent” has returned with many new faces. Now that Peter Sutherland is officially a night agent, he must take on a new conspiracy mission with a new team.

Gabriel Basso will pick up the action, starring as Peter, and Luciane Buchanan will return as Rose. Though the couple ended their relationship at the end of Season 1, when Rose hears Peter is in trouble, she jumps at the opportunity to rekindle their relationship.

Because this season follows Peter on a new mission, several members of the original cast will not be back for Season 2, though, including Hong Chau and Robert Patrick.

Keep reading for the full cast and character guide.

Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in “The Night Agent” (Credit: Siviroon Srisuwan/Netflix) Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland

At the end of Season 1, Peter Sutherland, a low level FBI agent, was officially named a night agent. This season he...

One of the central conflicts of The Night Agent season 2 was the antagonist trying to wage chemical warfare on American soil. Ever since the start of chemical warfare during World War I, many films and series have shown the use of such a weapon against humanity, and over a period of time, the creators got some real-life instances to refer to. In the series, we saw that information about a top-secret CIA program called the Foxglove Project had been leaked, and it had gotten into the wrong hands. So, let’s find out what the Foxglove program was and if Peter Sutherland was able to stop the enemies of the state from using chemical weapons on American soil.

Spoiler Alert

What was the Foxglove project?

We saw at the beginning of The Night Agent Season 2 that Alice, Peter Sutherland’s colleague, was killed by an unknown assailant while they were following a lead in Thailand.

This post contains spoilers from The Night Agent season 2 episode 3 from this point forward.

The Night Agent season 2 episode 3 opens with a flashback to Rose's AdVerse job interview seven months ago, which reveals she doesn't want to be a CEO; she just wants to write code. It's some insight into her headspace after the events of season 1. In present day, the past juxtaposes her current whereabouts in the mix of Peter's mission.

Still at the warehouse, Peter answers the phone call and Jacob Monroe offers him a lose-lose deal to give him the information Warren shared. This deal puts both his and Rose's lives on the line. Peter rejects Jacob's blackmail and calls Rose to help her evade Solomon and the rest of the enemies chasing her down. He also has his own enemies to run from.

Rose hits a dead end and runs into Solomon, but she's able to stab him and run away.

Plot: Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low level FBI Agent , Peter Sutherland, whose efforts to save The President in Season 1 earn him an opportunity to become a Night Agent in Season 2. But working in the secretive organization of Night Action will propel Peter into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.

Review: I was not kind to Netflix’s first season of The Night Agent. Despite the chemistry between stars Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan, I found the espionage series dull and not as good as the cast deserved. Hailing from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan, The Night Agent became an immediate hit with Netflix viewers and earned a second season pick-up. Along the way, the series was renewed for a third season well before the second hit the streaming service. With...

Netflix will open up the next chapter for The Night Agent when Season 2 arrives this Thursday, Jan. 23 — nearly two years after the hit thriller dropped Season 1.

Based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, Season 1 of The Night Agent followed Gabriel Basso’s Peter Sutherland, a low-level FBI Agent who worked in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rang — until it did. That call, from panicked cybersecurity expert Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), propelled the two into a conspiracy that ultimately led all the way to the Oval Office. All the while, the...

Just this week, while reviewing Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2, I was talking about how 2025 was quickly becoming synonymous with the “sophomore slump,” and how the people associated with Powerhouse Animation Studio and Project 51 Productions have defied this troubling trend. And while I praised the Netflix animated show for its visual storytelling and compelling narrative, at the time, I didn’t figure out how exactly it avoided the sophomore slump. After giving it some thought, I came to the conclusion that the showrunners achieved the impossible by not centering the show entirely around audience expectations. Everybody loved Lili in Bandidos Season 1; so she became the focus of Season 2, and it flopped. Folks really liked Gi-hun and were obsessed with the Salesman in Squid Game Season 1, and Season 2 gave them so much attention that they forgot to make the rest of it interesting. People wanted to know more about the silos in...

It is important to learn to let go of the past, but sometimes life entangles us in a web of responsibilities and circumstances so inescapable that, without finding a resolution, it becomes impossible to move on. After all is said and done, the question arises whether getting closure is worth sacrificing everything. Netflix’s Swedish crime drama, The Breakthrough, an adaptation of the real-life saga of one of Sweden’s most heinous, longstanding criminal investigations, that of the Linkoping double homicide case in 2004, contemplates this in an emotionally heavy, sympathetic way. The four-episode miniseries takes a few liberties to increase dramatic flair by establishing interpersonal connections, heightening emotions, and adding individual arcs for the leads in conjunction with the theme of the narrative, but by no means undercuts the gravity of the real-life tragedy through any such additions. The basic investigation and all its ensuing intricacies, emotional investments as highlighted in the series,...

The thrilling action series on Netflix is almost ready to return with a new bundle of episodes.

Peter Sutherland is getting back into the action. Fans will soon be able to devour a new season of “The Night Agent,” as Netflix’s popular spy thriller series is returning with a second batch of episodes in just a few weeks. But what happened in Season 1? Who’s new to the show in Season 2, and what can you expect to see? We’ll run through all the details we have about the new season of “The Night Agent” below, and make sure you’re all set when Season 2 becomes available!

Everything you need to know about ‘The Night Agent’ Season 2

Is there a trailer for ‘The Night Agent’ Season 2?

When does Season 2 of ‘The Night Agent’ come out?

Will Season 2 of ‘The Night Agent’ be a binge release?

What happened in Season...

In the movie Thank You for Banking with Us, an old man dies suddenly, and his estranged daughters, Mariam (Clara Khoury) and Noura (Yasmine Al Massri), rush to get their share of the fortune. The stakes are high: according to Islamic law, their brother Akram, who is not with them, should get a bigger share, even though the sisters are taking care of him.

As they rush to cash a check before telling anyone about their father’s passing, the tension rises, highlighting the absurdity of patriarchal structures. Each time they meet a male character, their struggle for control becomes even clearer and shows the societal barriers women face. Some of Mariam’s problems in her marriage and Noura’s sacrifices make their goal more complicated by tying personal problems to their fight to become financially independent.

Abbas’s film asks viewers to think about the complexities of inheritance in...

Starring Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor and Akshay Kumar, Aitraaz released in 2004. Subhash Ghai, who produced the Abbas-Mustan directedAitraaz, revealed plans to do a sequel. One doesn’t have any idea where this is going. Ghai also spoke of how reluctant Priyanka Chopra was to play the predatory vixen.

The only aspect of Abbas-Mustan’s poor remake of Barry Levinson’s Disclosure which stood out was Priyanka Chopra. As a married woman who goes all out to seduce a hunk, Priyanka killed it. It was India’s first film on male sexual harassment.

In throwback interview Priyanka said, “Aitraaz requires a maturity way beyond my years. And to make matters worse, I don’t believe in the things that my character believes in. Each day before I shoot I’ve to sit for an hour to prepare myself. It’s a very bold subject. But it isn’t like some of...

As conflicts escalate in the Middle East and North Africa, from Palestine to Yemen and Sudan, filmmakers have seen an increase in solidarity within the local creative community to find ways to continue to get films made in the region. Still, producers and directors struggle to navigate an increasingly tense and politicized international scene and express concerns about the future of an industry that has experienced unforeseen growth within the last five years.

“We are in the middle of a very scary situation right now and we don’t know when it will end,” said film producer Alaa Karkouti, CEO and co-founder of Mad Solutions, the Arab world’s most prolific distributor of Arabic film content. “There is the issue of local productions but any non-Arab productions will also look at the political situation before coming to the region. This is the most pressing issue in the world right now.

Throughout the history of cinema, comedy has long proven fertile territory for filmmakers to explore sensitive issues. With “Thanks for Banking With Us!,” playing as part of the Meet the Neighbors competition at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Palestinian director Laila Abbas approaches Islamic Sharia law through the tale of two sisters racing against time to secure their father’s inheritance.

Under Islamic Sharia law, men have the right to twice as much inheritance as women following the death of a relative—if a man has no sons, uncles and cousins take priority over daughters. In Abbas’s third feature, sisters Noura (Yasmine Al Massri) and Maryam (Clara Khoury) need to get crafty to ensure their absent brother doesn’t benefit from the passing of a father he hadn’t seen in years while the two continue to financially struggle.

“I’m not afraid to talk about it,” Abbas told Variety...

Exclusive: Twelve new works including a feature-length pic from Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas will screen as part of the Meet The Neighbors+ competition sidebar at this year’s Thessaloniki Film Festival.

The jury for this year’s Meet The Neighbors+ comp will feature Ukrainian filmmaker Maryna Er Gorbach, actress Manal Awad, and distributor Vassilis Sourrapas.

The top prize in the Meet The Neighbors+ comp is the Golden Alexander “Michel Demopoulos” for Best Full-length Feature Film. The award comes with a 10,000-euro cash prize, which is shared equally between the producer and film director. The Silver Alexander – Best Director Award comes with a 5,000-euro cash prize.

Abbas’ Thank You for Banking With Us is a Palestine-Germany-Saudi Arabia-Qatar-Egypt co-production. The film will arrive in Greece after screening at the London Film Festival. Abbas, a filmmaker and academic, first gained international attention in 2013 with the doc feature Ice & Dust. The Thank You for...

We have good news… and better news… for fans of The Night Agent.

For starters, the Netflix adaptation is set to release Season 2 on the 2025 side of this winter, the streamer announced on Tuesday, while also releasing a flurry of first photos (seen above and below).

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Sony has just announced the highly talked-about upgraded version of the PS5 console, which will be launching in November. The PS5 Pro is a powerful machine with a stronger Gpu and increased memory speed for better performance, among other things.

PS5 Pro will make its debut later this year in November. Image Credit: Sony

The Pro version is currently priced at $699.99, which is a huge leap from the base model, priced at $459.99. Not all fans are willing to spend the extra money on getting an unnecessary upgraded version for a console when its base version itself has not been tested well over its limits.

Fans Do Not Want To Spend Extra For PS5 Pro There is no concrete reason for upgrading from the base model to PS5 Pro. Image Credit: Sony

The base model of the PS5 in itself is a very powerful machine capable of amazing things. However, it...

As Deadline told you would happen, tonight at 10 Pm is a lock for the US debut of the hot button film The Apprentice, about the formative growth of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as mentored by Roy Cohn. The film has been quietly placed on the Telluride roster, and now they’ve locked the Galaxy Theater.

This comes after months of turmoil that followed the film’s Cannes premiere. Scripted by Gabriel Sherman, the film stars Sebastian Stan as young Donald Trump in the ’70s as he — according to the description furnished by Telluride — “falls under the sway of the demonic lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). In following Trump as he learns the ways of celebrity and power in the New York of the ’70s, director Ali Abbasi evokes the gritty documentary style of directors like Sidney Lumet and William Friedkin. And he...

Following his Guy Maddin-influenced debut The Twentieth Century, Matthew Rankin has returned five years later with his follow-up. Universal Language, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and soon heads to TIFF, NYFF, and Fantastic Fest, marks quite an aesthetic pivot for the director, employing an Abbas-Kiarostami-meets-Wes-Anderson approach in telling a unique, Winnipeg-set tale. Now set for a February 2025 release from Oscilloscope, the first trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways. Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother.

Producer Ramesh Taurani Shares A Positive Update On Race 4 After The Failure Of Salman Khan’s Race 3 (Photo Credit – YouTube)

Not all sequels are good; some are really bad! This was very well proved by the dismal run of Race 3, which witnessed unprecedented negativity. Led by Salman Khan, the film faced an outright rejection right from its announcement, and there are multiple reasons behind it. It’s considered one of the worst films in Salman’s career, but now, there’s an exciting update coming related to its next installment. Yes, Race 4 is very much on!

The first two installments of Race were directed by the veteran Abbas-Mustan duo, and they featured Saif Ali Khan as a protagonist. Regarding the bad guys, the first part saw a villain in Akshaye Khanna, while part 2 featured John Abraham. Part 3 witnessed a major turnaround, with Remo D’Souza taking over as a director.

Those who know who Roland Emmerich is will probably know that the director is known for his epic films, a lot of which are also major disaster films. Some of these major titles include Universal Soldier (1992), Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996) and its sequel Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Godzilla (1998), The Patriot (2000), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), 10,000 BC (2008), 2012 (2009), White House Down (2013), Midway (2019), and Moonfall (2022). But, Emmerich is now shifting to television, as his new project is about to be released on Peacock this summer. Ahead of the premiere, a teaser trailer has been released.

The project in question is the epic sword-and-sandal series Those About to Die, which is set in Ancient Rome. The series will be based on the book of the same name by writer and journalist Daniel P. Mannix; interesting enough, the same book served as the basis for Ridley Scott’s epic classic, Gladiator.

The series will star acting legend...

When compared to "classier" Satanic contemporaries like "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist," Richard Donner's 1976 hit "The Omen" is the pulpiest of the lot. "The Omen" had no interest in the sexist panic of the former, nor the religious angst of the latter, settling instead in the realm of spooky thrillers, replete with cool kills, portentous Satanic language, and an awesome score (a score that brought Jerry Goldsmith his only Oscar). There's no ambiguity to "The Omen," being clear from the start that Gregory Peck and Lee Remick are indeed raising the Antichrist. The pop Satanism "The Omen" introduced into the lexicon has now become standard horror fare, and was even spoofed at length in the TV series "Good Omens." 

"The Omen" spawned one okay sequel ("Damien: Omen II" in 1978), one risibly bad sequel ("The Final Conflict" in 1981), and one miserably bad sequel ("Omen IV: The Awakening" in 1991) before succumbing...

Updated with Comma Press’ response: Less than a week ago, the UK’s popular art venue the Home Theatre in Manchester was sharing on social media that it would be “celebrating Palestinian voices” at an event called Voices of Resilience in April.

Two big acting names, Maxine Peake and Kingsley Ben-Adir, were among those set to perform at the event. Among the work scheduled to be read aloud was the poetry of Atef Abu Saif, also currently the minister of culture for the Palestinian Authority.

Now, even though the social media post remains up, the BBC reports that the event will no longer go ahead, after the venue received a letter from the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester (Jrcgm).

The Jrcgm said the event must be cancelled, and claimed specifically that Abu Saif had previously defended Holocaust denial. Comma Press, who organized the event at Home Theatre, called these “baseless and libellous allegations,...

New cast additions have been announced for the second season of the Netflix series The Night Agent.

Per Variety, four new cast members have been added to The Night Agent Season 2. They include Michael Malarkey (The Vampire Diaries) and Keon Alexander (The Expanse), both of whom are coming into the new season as series regulars. Also boarding The Night Agent for Season 2 in recurring guest star roles are Navid Negahban (Homeland) and Rob Heaps (Station 11). Details have also been revealed about the new characters coming into the series.

Related The Night Agent Season 2 Starts Filming, First Look Revealed The first image from the set reveals a first look at Gabriel Basso's return as Agent Peter Sutherland in The Night Agent Season 2.

Michael Malarkey will be playing Markus, a "military chief and loyal nephew to a dictator newly convicted of war crimes by the Hague." This casting addition may excite The Vampire Diaries fans,...

The Night Agent season 2 adds four new cast members. Michael Malarkey and Keon Alexander have been added as new series regulars. Navid Negahban and Rob Heaps will be joining the show as recurring guest stars.

The Night Agent season 2 has brought on four more cast members. The hit Netflix show premiered in 2023 with a season following an FBI agent whose night shift job manning a mysterious phone leads him into a grand adventure that helps unravel a dangerous conspiracy. While season 2 will feature the return of Gabriel Basso as the titular agent Peter Sutherland and Luciane Buchanan as former tech industry titan Rose Larkin, it will tell a new story with a new supporting cast.

Per Variety, the cast of The Night Agent season 2 has grown. Four new stars have boarded the project, including new series regulars Michael Malarkey as military leader Markus, whose uncle is a dictator, and Keon...

Looking for your next Michael Malarkey fix? Look no further -- the heartthrob is making his appearance on Season 2 of The Night Agent. 

Malarkey has long been missed since his role as Lorenzo "Enzo" St. John on The CW"s hit series The Vampire Diaries, and we can't wait to get even more of him when The Night Agent Season 2 debuts. 

Malarkey is joined by several new series regulars and guest stars, adding a new cast of characters to the beloved thriller. 

New Cast Members Join The Night Agent Season 2

As reported by Variety, Malarkey isn't the only new member joining the series. 

Although we are excited to see Malarkey again, we're also excited to see Keon Alexander join Malarkey as a series regular and Navid Negahban and Rob Heaps as recurring guest stars. 

Of course, we can expect to see Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan return to the screen in their roles as well.

Netflix’s The Night Agent is ready to welcome four new actors to the intense action thriller’s sophomore season. Excited to go behind enemy lines for one of the streamer’s chart-topping series are Michael Malarkey and Keon Alexander as series regulars, with Navid Negahban and Rob Heaps as recurring guest stars.

The following character descriptions hail from Variety‘s exclusive report:

Michael Markalay plays Markus, a military chief and loyal nephew to a dictator newly convicted of war crimes by the Hague. In contrast, Keon Alexander plays Javad, who oversees security for the Iranian Mission to the United Nations and monitors the loyalty of its employees.

Navid Negahban portrays Abbas, the venerable U.N. ambassador for Iran. Finally, Rob Heaps plays Tomas, the elitist son of the aforementioned deposed dictator, who is keen on restoring his family to power.

After an extended wait for new episodes of Netflix...

Netflix and Sony Pictures Television’s hit series “The Night Agent” has filled out its cast for Season 2 with Michael Malarkey (“The Vampire Diaries”) and Keon Alexander (“The Expanse”) as series regulars and Navid Negahban (“Homeland”) and Rob Heaps (“Station 11”) as recurring guest stars, opposite returning stars Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan.

Based on the best selling novel by Matthew Quirk, the first season of the show followed Peter Sutherland (Basso), an FBI agent recruited to monitor a rarely used phone in the basement of the White House for the mysterious Night Agent program. When cybersecurity expert Rose Larkin (Buchanan) calls the number one night, they’re both pulled into a twisty conspiracy that reaches to the top echelons of the U.S. government.

Season 2 will follow Sutherland as he begins his career as a full-time Night Agent, while maintaining a relationship with Larkin.

Malarkey — who followed his role as Lorenzo “Enzo” St.

Deal furthers AGC Studios’ commitment to championing Mena region theatrical features.

AGC International has acquired world sales rights to Hwjn and To My Son on the eve of their world premieres at Red Sea International Film Festival.

Iraqi filmmaker Yasir Al Yasiri’s Saudi fantasy romance Hwjn from Image Nation Abu Dhabi, Mbc Studios and Vox Studios will open the festival today (November 30) and is adapted from the YA novel by Ibraheem Abbas.

The feature combines Arabian folklore elements with contemporary themes and takes place in modern-day Jeddah as the kind-hearted titular jinn (Baraa Alem) discovers the truth about his...

The Red Sea International Film Festival will open with a local Saudi Arabian film for the first time, with Yasir Al Yasiri’s fantasy romance Hwjn set to raise the curtain on the third edition of the Jeddah event on Nov. 30.

Adapted from the best-selling young adult fantasy novel by Ibraheem Abbas, Hwjn blends Arabian folklore and modern themes for a story set in modern-day Jeddah and follows a kind-hearted jinn (Baraa Alem) on an epic journey to reclaim his birthright. Along the way, he meets and develops an unexpected romantic connection with Sawsan (Nour Alkhadra), a young medical student. Hwjn, which had already been announced as screening at the festival in the Arab Spectacular section, is one of the biggest projects to date under a 2018 production partnership between regional giants Image Nation Abu Dhabi, Mbc Studios and Vox Studios.

“The story of Hwjn is an epic tale of romance,...

Updated, 1.28 am with Biden’s arrival in Israel: U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday morning as Middle East tensions ratchet up further following a horrific strike on Gaza’s Al Ahli hospital overnight in which hundreds of people died.

Images relayed on the X account of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed Airforce One on the tarmac of Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport. Biden was greeted by Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog. After a warm embrace with Netanyahu, he was whisked off in a black SUV, followed by a fleet of security vehicles.

Tuesday night’s Gaza hospital tragedy is the latest incident in 12 days of violence sparked by Hamas terror attacks on Israel on October 7, in which 1,400 people died. Israel’s retaliatory blockade and bombing of Gaza has resulted in more than 3,000 deaths.

Biden, who has made the trip as a show of U.S.

Pakistani Canadian filmmaker Anam Abbas has won the Canadian Media Producers Assn.’s 2023 Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award, it was announced Sept. 7 at the Indiescreen Awards, the opening event of the Toronto International Film Festival’s industry conference at Glenn Gould Studios.

Abbas’ latest feature is writer and director Zarrar Kahn’s feature debut “In Flames,” a Pakistani Canadian horror-drama about a Karachi woman and her mother who are beset by malevolent figures from their past after the family patriarch dies. The film, which screens next week in Toronto, premiered in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes, where XYZ Films’ announced the title would launch its New Visions slate.

The award, which comes with a C$10,000 cash prize, recognizes the talents of emerging feature producers. Abbas was recognized by the jury for her ingenuity and her passion for creating films that feel real and essential.

Nancy Grant of Metafilms received the...

Mumbai, Aug 30 (Ians) Writer K.A. Abbas did not take much notice of the nondescript-looking man accompanying Raj Kapoor to his house to hear the story for a film.

After listening quietly to the over two-hour-long rendition, this man only said that it was a good story. Is that all, asked Kapoor noticing the bemused Abbas.

“Gardish mein hoon, aasman ka taara hoon,” he then responded.

Abbas, taken aback, told Kapoor that he had spent two-and-a-half hours telling his story and his unknown visitor had perfectly summarised it in one phrase.

The “nondescript man” was Shailendra, whose 100th birth anniversary falls today (August 30). Just one film old at this meeting, he would go on to become Hindi cinema’s most exemplary, innately-gifted yet self-effacing lyricist, whose songs like “Awaara hoon”, “Mera joota hai Japani”, and “Hothon pe sachai rehti hai” that made Indian film music popular across the world.

While his...