Millie Bobby Brown paid a virtual visit to “The Tonight Show” on Friday.
14.09.2020 - 17:17 / abcnews.go.com
“Homeland Elegies,” by Ayad Akhtar (Little, Brown and Company)An elegy is a mournful poem expressing regret for something lost.
Ayad Akhtar’s brilliant new novel, “Homeland Elegies,” mourns an America that has lost its way in the half century since it welcomed his parents’ generation of Muslim immigrants from Pakistan.It’s a work of autofiction narrated by a man named Ayad Akhtar who is best known, like the real Akhtar, for writing a hit Broadway play in which the lead character, a Pakistani
.Millie Bobby Brown paid a virtual visit to “The Tonight Show” on Friday.
Sun about her day, Olivia said: 'It's all been a bit of a nightmare with Covid, I had my heart set on a wedding abroad but we have scrapped that because I can't travel to do venue reckies.'The media personality revealed that she was unable to quarantine upon their return due to filming, while her other half has football commitments with his team Blackburn Rovers. Olivia admitted she has concerns that the UK venues she is currently looking at will get booked up soon due to the overspill from
Night 4 of “BTS Week” went off in style.
“Avatar” director James Cameron gave an exciting update about the second and third film’s progress. “Avatar 2” is slated to be released Dec. 16, 2022, and “Avatar 3” on Dec. 20, 2024, Disney announced in July.Two more sequels are expected in 2026 and 2028.
Walter's Choice has taken U.S. streaming rights to Maria Theresa, a The Crown-style period epic about the first, and only, female ruler of the Habsburg Empire.
Watch Video: Jim Parsons Spoils a Birthday Party With a Heartbreaking Game in Ryan Murphy's 'The Boys in the Band' Trailer“The Boys in the Band,” paradigm-shifter though it was in its frank portrayal of a certain segment of gay life, is rather traditional in structure; it’s one of those Broadway plays where various character types gather together in a room and very quickly begin hurling long-buried truths and accusations at each other.
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A COATBRIDGE actor is buzzing about the release of a gangster film touted as Scotland’s biggest independent movie since Gregory’s Girl.Alastair Thomson Mills hopes the award-winning Schemers, set in Dundee and in cinemas this weekend, will prove a hit with Monklands moviegoers.The 53-year-old from Kirkshaws now lives with wife Maria and their three children in Hampshire and plays villain Des Fergie, who he
Robbie Williams and Ayda Field have pulled out all the stops for their eldest daughter Teddy in honour of her eighth birthday on Friday.
Tomris Laffly There are troubles of the familial kind at the center of “Wildfire,” writer-director Cathy Brady’s gloomy debut feature set in a border town of Northern Ireland. Then there are “The Troubles,” the decades-long conflict between the region’s unionists and nationalists, the aftermath of which gives Brady’s straightforward and overstretched story its faint backdrop.
Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, one of Venice’s two Career Golden Lion recipients this year alongside Tilda Swinton, brings prewar Hong Kong to exquisite if restrained life in her latest historical drama, Love After Love (Di Yu Lu Xiang).
Tomris Laffly There is a world in which the wistfully expressive Naomi Watts would be among the boldest actors working today, like her contemporaries Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman. But for every daring “Luce” or “While We’re Young,” Watts seems to have a tame “Penguin Bloom” on her résumé: middling projects with predictable beats.
It’s not easy to grab hold of Julia von Heinz’s And Tomorrow the Entire World (Und morgen die ganze Welt), an attempt to describe what motivates a young political activist of the German nobility to embrace the warm chaos of a social commune, where she mulls over the use of violence in the class struggle with like-minded souls.
Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Venice Film Festival hit Apples has scored more European distribution deals for Paris-based Alpha Violet.Deals have closed with Lucky Red (Italy), Filmfreak (Netherlands), Fivia MCF (Ex-Yugoslavia), New Horizon (Poland) and Filmladen (Austria).Andrea Occhipinti, CEO, Lucky Red told us: “We were very impressed by Apples. It’s a strong and original film.
Jessica Kiang Once more with rather less feeling: after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs,” acclaimed Hong Kong director Ann Hui returns to the work of celebrated 20th century author Eileen Chang with “Love After Love,” a not-at-all-short adaptation of a Chang short story laboring under the English title “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier.” Hui has assembled something of an all-star lineup, with the young leads played by rising actors Sandra Ma (“Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly
Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, and Sam Claflin star in Netflix's Enola Holmes, the upbeat and enjoyable YA adventure debuting Sept. 23 that is likely to breed sequels for the streaming service.
NEW YORK -- Playwright-novelist Ayad Akhtar has been named the new president of PEN America, the human rights and literary organization.Akhtar, who assumes the presidency Dec. 2, succeeds novelist Jennifer Egan.“PEN America has its work cut out for it in an era when the quest for truth is challenged as never before,” Akhtar said in a statement Tuesday.