Bilal Qureshi
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Best Picture Oscar nominee The Zone of Interest is about the horrors of Auschwitz, but opts never to show the violence of the camp on screen. Instead, we hear it through distant soundscapes.
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This year's Golden Globes were handed out in the first major broadcast of the Hollywood awards season since actors' and writers' strikes were settled.
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Es Devlin says that stadiums are designed for competition and combat. So her job, whether she's designing for Beyoncé, Super Bowl Halftime, or The Olympics, is to achieve intimacy on a massive scale.
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The film follows a man who gets a job in a burlesque show and falls in love with a trans woman. This story of queer desire in a traditional Muslim society earned accolades at the Cannes Film Festival.
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After two years of pandemic closures, audiences are back at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to find a season of diverse plays. But for many, change has come too soon.
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"Shaft" was released 50 years ago this week. The film heralded what came to be known as Blaxploitation cinema, a genre with a chequered legacy that also created inspired, Oscar-winning music.
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At the Toronto film festival, actor and director Nate Parker faced the press about a 1999 rape charge against him. Parker's promoting a movie about Nat Turner's slave rebellion The Birth of a Nation.
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With its flashy swagger and quotable one-liners, Empire, the Fox series about a black music label, has become a cultural phenomenon. A watch party in D.C., had just as much.
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The Immigrant and Zinda Bhaag are idea-driven films that delve into the global arc of migration from different corners of the world.
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There was a time when you didn't know what the No. 1 song in America was until Casey Kasem said so. The listener had an emotional relationship with the American Top 40 host for four decades.