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Kaleem Aftab

Kaleem Aftab

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Kaleem is the author of an authorised biography of Spike Lee titled Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking To It. He selects films for the East End Film Festival and gives programming advice to festivals around the globe. He has been working as a freelance journalist specialising in Arab, European and American indie cinema since 1999.
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James Marsden and Woody Harrelson in Shock and Awe. Courtesy Zurich Film Festival
Rob Reiner on telling the real story of the Iraq War in Shock and Awe

The film is a fictionalised account of the only band of journalists who questioned the US government’s assertion that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had weapons of mass destruction

October 04, 2017
Jim Carrey starring in Man On The Moon Moviestore / REX / Shutterstock
Come rain or shine: meeting Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey’s new film is a celebration of his zany persona, but all his films are a reflection on his state of mind, he tells The National

September 18, 2017
Ai Weiwei. Courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio
Ai Weiwei’s tribute to a flowing tide of humanity opens in Venice

It started as a project on his iPhone but the Chinese artist eventually travelled to 23 countries to record the flight of refugees

FilmSeptember 04, 2017
Tilda Swinton as Lucy Mirando in a scene from Okja. Barry Wetcher / Netflix via AP
Okja is a movie that wants to make us more-responsible food consumers

The new movie from South Korean director Bong Joon-ho stars a fictitious CGI animal the size of a hippo.

June 27, 2017
Tilda Swinton as Lucy Mirando, left, and Seo-Hyun Ahn as Mija in a scene from Okja. Barry Wetcher/Netflix via AP
Netflix enviro-fable Okja is larger than life

The beauty of Okja is that it is, first and foremost, a movie designed to entertain and make us laugh.

June 27, 2017
Get ringside seats for a bizarre piece of television history with Netflix reboot of Glow
Glow: The bizarre world of female wrestling

If you remember the cult television show Glow of more than three decades ago, get ready for the reboot.

TelevisionJune 25, 2017
Film review: Jackie Chan struggles to stay on track with lacklustre Railroad Tigers
Is Jackie Chan past his prime?

Jackie Chan is largely living off past glories, in this action-comedy set during the second Sino-Japanese conflict.

June 25, 2017
Jackie Chan in director Ding Sheng’s action-comedy, Railroad Tigers. Courtesy Rex / Shutterstock
Film review: Jackie Chan struggles to stay on track with lacklustre Railroad Tigers

Railroad Tigers aims to attract younger audiences as well as long-time Jackie Chan fans.

June 24, 2017
The new Netflix show Glow promises to be funny and smart, with subversive comedy commentary running throughout its first season. Courtesy Netflix
Get ringside seats for a bizarre piece of television history with Netflix reboot of Glow

Glow, a new Netflix comedy series, remembers an American wrestling show of the 1980s.

TelevisionJune 20, 2017
The new Netflix show Glow promises to be funny and smart, with subversive comedy commentary running throughout its first season. Courtesy Netflix
Get ringside seats for a bizarre piece of television history with Netflix reboot of Glow

Glow, a new Netflix comedy series, remembers an American wrestling show of the 1980s.

June 20, 2017
Brian Cox and Miranda Richardson in the film Churchill. Moviestore / REX / Shutterstock
Looking back at the many faces of Winston Churchill in cinema and on television

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) currently lists 208 movies or TV shows in which an actor has portrayed Winston Churchill.

June 06, 2017
Actors Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Brookes from the cast of Orange Is the New Black. Getty Images
Fifth season of Orange Is the New Black focuses on fighting for justice

 The new episodes are about the lives of the female prisoners as the riot rages, and take place over the course of just three days.

June 06, 2017
Joint Possession by Leila Kilani. Courtesy Dubai International Film Festival
Cannes Festival: Filmmakers branch out from the region to the rest of the world

We speak to some of the regional filmmakers who presented their progressive films at the Cannes Film Festival’s UAE pavilion last week.

June 03, 2017
Reda Kateb in Django. Courtesy Fidélité-Arches Films
Film review: Django’s unique selling point is its fine music

This period drama about Django Reinhardt will please fans of his music while dismaying those looking for concrete facts about the life of the a Belgium-born French jazz guitarist of Romani decent.

May 31, 2017
Reda Kateb as Django Reinhardt in Etienne Comar’s movie Django, set during a less-­documented two-year period of his life during the Second World War. Roger Arpajou
Django’s cast on resistance and the hidden notes of his life

We speak to the star and director of the new big-screen window into the eventful life of Django Reinhardt, the first and most significant jazz artist to emerge from Europe.

May 30, 2017
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