Gallowwalkers Director: Andrew Goth Starring: Wesley Snipes, Kevin Howarth, Tanit Phoenix, Patrick Bergin
** ⋆⋆
Set in a mythical desert landscape, this pulpy hybrid of spaghetti Western and zombie horror movie has a troubled history, which may explain why it is only just being released after seven years in limbo. In the middle of shooting, Snipes flew back from Namibia to the US to face the tax fraud charges that would eventually earn him three years in jail. Snipes plays an updated version of Clint Eastwood’s classic lone gunslinger, a dreadlock-haired bounty hunter engaged in an epic showdown with an army of undead outlaws bent on revenge against him. The gun battles are enjoyably gory and the plot promisingly absurd, but somehow the writer and director Andrew Goth delivers a disjointed, listless and disappointingly routine thriller instead of the gloriously overblown guilty pleasure that Gallowwalkers should have been.
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Ramez Gab Min El Akher
Creator: Ramez Galal
Starring: Ramez Galal
Streaming on: MBC Shahid
Rating: 2.5/5
Illegal shipments intercepted in Gulf region
The Royal Navy raid is the latest in a series of successful interceptions of drugs and arms in the Gulf
May 11: US coastguard recovers $80 million heroin haul from fishing vessel in Gulf of Oman
May 8: US coastguard vessel USCGC Glen Harris seizes heroin and meth worth more than $30 million from a fishing boat
March 2: Anti-tank guided missiles and missile components seized by HMS Lancaster from a small boat travelling from Iran
October 9, 2022: Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose recovers drugs worth $17.8 million from a dhow in Arabian Sea
September 27, 2022: US Naval Forces Central Command reports a find of 2.4 tonnes of heroin on board fishing boat in Gulf of Oman
MATCH INFO
Uefa Champioons League semi-final, first leg:
Liverpool 5
Salah (35', 45+1'), Mane (56'), Firmino (61', 68')
Roma 2
Dzeko (81'), Perotti (85' pen)
Second leg: May 2, Stadio Olimpico, Rome
MATCH RESULT
Liverpool 4 Brighton and Hove Albion 0
Liverpool: Salah (26'), Lovren (40'), Solanke (53'), Robertson (85')
The biog
Full name: Aisha Abdulqader Saeed
Age: 34
Emirate: Dubai
Favourite quote: "No one has ever become poor by giving"
