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Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) - How to Park your Franchise where it doesn't belong!

1 week ago
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD ... My only complaint, however, was how Bryce Dallas Howard was handled. She was almost the damsel in distress, especially in the scenes at the Biosyn HQ, in marked contrasted to the kick-ass Malta sequence. You see it in the parachute scene. You see it in the scene where she’s […]
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Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) - A Colinoscopy of the American condition and somewhat-related climate debate

2 weeks ago
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD I’m not a particularly big fan of the Jurassic World series, and not a big fan of franchises in general, but they were bringing back the original cast of heroes from the beloved classic Jurassic Park (1993) so I decided to watch Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion just for the […]
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - Some messenger services never get old!

2 weeks ago
... Notice also that Washington’s obtrusiveness is hinted at too since Maverick tells Charlie that she probably knows more about the case than he does, given that she has security clearance. Simultaneously, she doesn’t abuse this privilege by snooping on Tom Cruise’s family life. (It’s like watching Blade Runner, Deckard refusing to look into Rachel’s […]
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – A call to arms or sober reminder of days past and gone? Who cares when you’re having this much fun!

2 weeks ago
I finally watched Top Gun: Maverick (2022). Even the most cynical reviewers out there liked it, and I grew up with the original 1986 movie, so naturally, I had to watch it, and in a cinema too.[1] And to be completely objective, I re-watched the original shortly afterward to pair up the two films to […]
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Web of Intentions: Spiderman’s home run as Peter Parker meets himself and lady luck!

1 month ago
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD Let me just begin by saying that I am not really an MCU fan, let alone a DCEU fan (I thought EU was European Union), and I’d avoided watching the new Spiderman movies with Andrew Garfield, out of loyalty to Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi. So naturally I wasn’t automatically […]
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‘Station Eleven’: Mackenzie Davis Showing the Theatrical Way to a Vaccine Free Future – PART II

5 months ago
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD The Person is the Politics Well, that’s enough of that. Let’s get to the relatively more positive stuff. Well, naturally, MD. I loved her voice here. It’s very feminine and cutesy, evidence of a character still traumatized from her childhood. She doesn’t don her thick boyish voice from San Junipero […]
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‘Station Eleven’: Mackenzie Davis Showing the Theatrical Way to a Vaccine Free Future – PART I

5 months ago
Just finished watching the HBO Max sci-fi mini-series Station Eleven (2021) and, what can I say. It’s like watching experimental theatre. Brilliant performances but nothing makes any sense! By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD Don’t take my word for it. The star of the show and not coincidentally one of my favorite actresses on the planet, […]
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Video platform Welcome to the World celebrates the first anniversary with global partners

6 months ago
Dubai-based video platform Welcome to the World celebrates this month its first anniversary. It looks back on a dynamic and turbulent year with new license holders boarded from the United Arab Emirates to Greece and Mexico. By Arthur BlokWith a straightforward concept Welcome to the World is taking over the travel world. The key to […]
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Sonia Ammar slotted for Scream 5

9 months ago
French-Tunisian rising star Sonia Ammar has given “Scream” fans a glimpse of her latest role ahead of the film’s first trailer. The model, singer and actress took to Instagram this week to share a photo of Liv, her character in the famed horror franchise’s screen return next year. “Your first look at my character Liv […]
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Dune 2021 in Perspective: A Tale of Lofty Intentions buried under somebody else’s Sandcastles -- PART I

9 months ago
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD A number of factors worked against me enjoying this movie. I’m a fan of both Frank Herbert and the 1984 David Lynch movie, am hypersensitive about Hollywood politics and I’d recently watched two stunning movies that upped my expectations to breaking point. A wonderful fanedit[1] of the Lynch movie and […]
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Egyptian actor selected for role of Dodi Al-Fayed in Diana drama

9 months ago
Emmy-winning Netflix series “The Crown” has cast British-Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla to play Egyptian department store heir and film producer Dodi Al-Fayed, who had a brief relationship with the UK’s Princess Diana before their deaths in 1997. Actor Salim Daw has been cast as Dodi’s father, billionaire and former Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed. Princess Diana […]
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Arab sci-fi series to break the norm on September 12

10 months ago
Shahid VIP will air the Arab World’s first Arabic language sci-fi drama series on Sept. 12 as the film and media industry in the Arab World looks to broaden its scope. Entitled ‘Hell’s Gate’, the sci-fi production features a stellar cast from the Middle East and beyond. Set in Beirut in the year 2052, the […]
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Bo Svenson combating racist portrayals of Arabs, Palestinian in Hollywood, Netflix

10 months ago
Hollywood actor-turned-producer Bo Svenson has had enough of the US entertainment industry’s one-dimensional depiction of characters from the Middle East. He is working on films he hopes will shake up the industry and position Arabs and Muslims to be the stars of their own stories. Svenson, who was born in Sweden and is now an […]
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‘Mousa’ at the Gates: An Egyptian sci-fi flick that teaches you the difference between sound science and flaky fiction!

11 months ago
Before I say anything, I have,e to highlight that this movie, Mousa (2021), is to be commended just because MousaMousa (2021) is to be congratulated just for the fact that it’s an Egyptian (and Arabic SF) production, something almost unheard of and inexcusably neglected nowadays in the world of CGI. That by itself is worthy […]
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‘The Suicide Squad’: A Blotch on the Hollywood pavement, or a Portent of things to come?

11 months ago
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD     Just watched The Suicide Squad (2021) and while it is technically entertaining its way too long and way too confused and way too annoying, and way too gory. It just left you feeling frustrated, and empty. I was so perplexed I found myself liking the first movie – […]
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