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The problems of the Pakistani cinema industry have just been exacerbated with the advent of the Covid-19 threat Published Mar 29, 2020 08:49am

Sitara: Let Girls Dream’s intent to educate and elucidate is perfectly placed within an effortlessly told anecdote-ish Published Mar 15, 2020 09:12am

Icon is provided an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Humayun Saeed-Nadeem Baig mega production Published Mar 08, 2020 09:23am

Ahsan Khan is a calm professional, unruffled by his surroundings, yet acutely conscious of them. He is almost spiritual Published Mar 01, 2020 08:36am

Director Jeff Flower’s forgettable Sonic The Hedgehog does do an okay-enough job of placing necessary story blocks that Published Mar 01, 2020 08:07am

Birds of Prey wants you to believe that it’s a unique, pizzazz-y pro-feminist vigilante-superhero-girl-team movie that Published Feb 23, 2020 08:03am

Pakistani-American filmmaker Habib Paracha wants to run as far away as possible from the perception of a rich man making Published Feb 16, 2020 08:25am

As the Hum Network turns 15, Icon reaches out to the driving forces behind it — the mother-son duo of President Sultana Updated Jan 21, 2020 01:36pm

Maya Ali is on a never-ending quest to find good roles and better scripts. Above all, she wants to be herself. But who Published Jan 12, 2020 07:00am

6 Underground is a testament of what can go wrong if director Michael Bay has the ball all to himself without Published Jan 12, 2020 07:00am

Sachh tries hard to be a Bollywood film but remains a Pakistani one with much room for improvement Published Dec 29, 2019 08:22am

Insecurity, egos and an absolute reluctance to raise the bar of storytelling in movies have all but killed the film Published Dec 29, 2019 08:12am

Actor Bilal Ashraf has seen lows in his career that beat the stuffing out of him. But the career-defining success of Published Dec 22, 2019 09:26am

Sacch, which opens in cinemas this Friday, is well described as a ‘family outing’ by its producer. The film brings Published Dec 15, 2019 07:03am

Pakistani cinemagoers and even filmmakers themselves constantly complain about poor scripts and dearth of good content Published Dec 08, 2019 08:42am

Woe is us having to find streaks of hope in a film that has glib characters, a trite premise and a screenplay that Published Dec 08, 2019 08:29am

Talash is a near-sighted attempt to weld together two barbarities into one confounding package Published Nov 24, 2019 07:08am

Why is infidelity in marriage the theme du jour on television screens? Are unhappy, spiteful women with malicious intent Published Nov 17, 2019 08:22am

Two Pakistani films just released. In Durj the characters eat people in an uncooked story. In Kaaf Kangana the Published Nov 03, 2019 07:53am

Domestically produced animated films have a far better batting average than live action feature films. Why then are Published Nov 03, 2019 07:43am