It is not unusual for Berlin to be cloaked in a blanket of grey on the brink of winter. What hangs over the city this year, however, feels heavier. This new shade of gloom cuts through conversations about everything. Germany’s coalition government is just six months old, but already some are wondering how long it…
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is reporting that Johny Srouji, senior vice president of hardware technologies, told Tim Cook he is “seriously considering” leaving Apple for another company in the near future. It was reported in October that Srouji was “evaluating his future at the tech giant.” While nothing is confirmed, it seems the executive is leaning…
Hong Kong police have arrested a man and a woman for alleged possession of dangerous drugs after seizing suspected etomidate and methamphetamine from them. Officers from the force’s Kowloon West region noticed a suspicious pair at about 1am on Saturday while conducting an anti-crime patrol on Un Chau Street in Cheung Sha Wan and stopped…
After more than three decades as a dogged movie reviewer, most recently as chief critic for the U.K.’s Screen International, Fionnuala Halligan stepped inside the film festival machinery earlier this year to accept the role of the Red Sea International Film Festival‘s director of international programs. Halligan began her career in Hong Kong at The…
A drone attack on the town of Kalogi, in Sudan’s South Kordofan region, is said to have hit a kindergarten and killed at least 50 people, including 33 children. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group battling the army in Sudan’s civil war, was accused of Thursday’s attack by a medical organisation, the Sudan…
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Indian director Nerraj Ghaywan’s powerful true-to-life tale of friendship and loss, Homebound, begins with a simple plan that quickly unravels: Two childhood buddies, Shoaib (Ishaan Khatter) and Chandan (Vishal Jetwha), are both applying to become state police officers. But their country’s stilted bureaucracy, along with institutional racism and classism, sends them on diverging career paths…
Paradise is ready to reveal more secrets in season two. The twisty post-apocalyptichit drama from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman ended on a major cliffhanger and made good on a big promise that much more will be revealed when season two returns, which is all part of Fogelman’s three-season master plan. On Saturday, coming…
It’s official: Blumhouse is back in fine form. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, opening two months after Blumhouse hit Black Phone 2 debuted, is on course to win the weekend with a sizeable $56.6 million from 3,412 theaters at the domestic box office to score the top opening ever for the post-Thanksgiving frame, among other…
Beijing’s national security office in Hong Kong has met representatives from foreign media outlets in the city and warned them against crossing “red lines”, following reports it said smeared the government’s fire relief efforts and attacked the Legislative Council election. According to sources, foreign media outlets that were requested to attend the meeting included Agence…
