There are artists who belong to their time, and then there are those who bend time around them. Tareque Masud lived in that second realm. His work carried the pulse of a country still discovering its own voice, yet his craft looked far beyond borders. Even now, years after the road accident...
Bangladesh’s lyricist-journalist Al Mahmud Manjur, known to audiences by his pen name Mahmud Manjur, is serving as a jury member at two international film festivals almost simultaneously—one in the United States and the other in Bangladesh. In this candid conversation, he speaks about...
Tom Cruise has been awarded an honorary Oscar, capping a 45-year career that director Alejandro Inarritu declared impossible to capture in a mere four minutes. Hollywood gathered on Sunday to celebrate the 63-year-old, whose mix of precision, daring and unwavering devotion to cinema has made him...
Part moral fable, part sociological dissertation, part operatic lament and overall an opulent morality play draped in sequins and soaked in sin, Martin Scorsese’s 1995 movie Casino glitters like a fever dream. 30 years since its release, the film retains its hypnotic splendour, its surfaces...
Anniversaries have a way of opening trapdoors beneath the present, dropping us into the texture of a time we half-remember and half-inherit. Iconic James Bond movie series' GoldenEye celebrates its 30th release anniversary this year, and this particular celebration carries a strangely private...
Actress Tasnia Farin has secured a lead role opposite Shakib Khan in his forthcoming Eid-ul-Fitr 2026 film Prince: Once Upon a Time in Dhaka, turning a playful awards-show moment into a major casting milestone. During the ceremony, Farin - then hosting the event - told Shakib she hoped to work...
