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Goodbyes are rarely ‘good’ in Pakistan Cricket!
TNS brings you a dozen national cricketers who didn’t get the farewell they deserved and whose ouster might be a lesson for ‘The Professor’ who should know when it is time to hang up his boots During their recent trips to England...
Azaadi – worthy cause, unworthy execution
Pakistan’s film industry has produced many remarkable films in the past that have dealt with real-life issues including human rights violation of Muslim dominated areas such as Palestine and Kashmir. That’s exactly the same road...
Time for Heroes
Before there was X-Men or Spider-Man or The Avengers, there was a struggling publishing house named Timely Comics that had nothing at all in their kitty. Unlike the force they have become today as Marvel Comics...
Website review: Incredibles 2
Omair Alavi|Published July 14, 2018 The Parr family from The Incredibles is back! They are the only ones who can save the world where superheroes are illegal, where being part of a superhero family is considered as an...
Jackpot pushes the industry back by decades
Gone are the days when toilet humor, spontaneous one-liners and lost-and-found theme used to appease the audience; with the passage of time, they have grown up while our filmmakers have chosen to stay inside their cocoon which...
Smaller in size, bigger in impact
They may be small but Ant-Man and The Wasp are as big a threat to bad guys as any other Marvel superheroes. In the sequel to Ant-Man, they share the title, the action sequences and the credits when it comes to bringing back the...
Parwaaz Hai Junoon’s trailer takes flight
Omair Alavi|Published July 8, 2018 HAMZA Ali Abbasi, the star of the film, at the trailer launch on Friday evening. KARACHI: The trailer of upcoming film Parwaaz Hai Junoon was launched in a local multiplex on Friday evening. The...
Pakistan’s film industry is immature, says Jawed Sheikh on four film releases this Eid
UPDATED 03 JUL, 2018 12:55PM In this latest interview, veteran director/actor vents his anger at distributors, producers and the government “Ours is an immature industry, otherwise, we would not have released four films on the...
The agony and ecstasy of success
BOOK REVIEW Did you know that Amitabh Bachchan is hardly late on a film set, even now in his 70s? Or that before becoming Mr. Perfectionist, Aamir Khan delivered a series of flops in the 90s? Or that Shah Rukh Khan was...