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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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The Past, starring Tahar Rahim and Bérénice Bejo, is the first film Asghar Farhadi has made outside Iran. Courtesy Memento Films
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi breaks language barriers

The Past is the first film that Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has made outside his homeland.

May 21, 2013
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Monsoon Shootout. Courtesy Yaffle Films
Spotlight on kidnappings at Cannes

Indian cinema at Cannes is a highlight of this year's festival and we take a look at three of the most intriguing movies.

May 20, 2013
The film director and actor Elia Suleiman has been appointed the first artistic adviser to the Doha Film Institute. AFP Photo / Ebrahim Adawi
For Ajyal and Qumra, the new Doha film festivals, cooperation is the aim

The Doha Film Institute is to launch two new film festivals following the termination of the partnership with Tribeca Enterprises.

May 19, 2013
A scene from The Past, starring Tahar Rahim and Bérénice Bejo. It is the first film Asghar Farhadi has made outside of Iran. Courtesy Memento Films
Raising the curtain on Cannes

We take a look at the glamorous lineup of films and stars at the French film festival.

May 14, 2013
Ana Ayora, Patricia Rae, Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro star in The Big Wedding, a predictable light comedy. Photo by Barry Wetcher
Film review: The Big Wedding is an imperfect match

Instead of the biting farce it could be, this is just another schmaltzy domestic tale.

May 08, 2013
A scene from the zombie film Go Goa Gone. AFP
Bollywood's new zombie films: rise of the Indian undead

Why is there a slew of zombie films in Hindi cinema this year?

May 07, 2013
Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin in Iron Man 3. Zade Rosenthal / Marvel
Tracing the changing face of on-screen villains

In a Hollywood blockbuster, the identity of the bad guys has always been a reflection of political realities and fears outside the dreamworld of the cinema - and Iron Man is no exception.

May 02, 2013
Robert Redford and Jackie Evancho in The Company You Keep. Doane Gregory / AP
Robert Redford gives even-handed direction in The Company You Keep

There is little in the way of tension in this mystery thriller, and the story veers into a torpid family drama.

April 23, 2013
Jim Carrey plays a street magician in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. Ben Glass / AP Photo / Warner Bros Pictures
Film revew: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

We live in the age of stunt magicians. The days of pulling rabbits out of a hat have been replaced by “magicians” completing incredible feats of human endurance such as suspending themselves in glass boxes without food for more than a month.

April 04, 2013
The British actress Rachel Weisz in Oz the Great and Powerful, in which she plays Evanora, the Wicked Witch of the East. Courtesy Walt Disney Pictures
Rachel Weisz: 'I don't really think of her as evil…'

In Oz the Great and the Powerful, a prequel to the 1939 classic that tells the backstory of Oz and the witches, the British Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz plays Evanora, who at first seems very nice. At first ...

March 06, 2013
Alden Ehrenreich, left, plays a high school student involved in a romance with a teenage witch. Steve Dietl / Summit Entertainment
Beautiful Creatures story seems familiar

The adaptation of the books by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl is a little bit too much like Twilight.

February 21, 2013
In Mama, two sisters try to adapt to life with their aunt and uncle after being raised by a mysterious creature. Courtesy Toma 78
Mama undermined by cheap scares

This psychosomatic childhood trauma tale is unceremoniously dumped when the action turns into a hide-and-seek monster movie.

February 14, 2013
Sylvester Stallone's age is the subject of many of the best lines in Bullet to the Head. Frank Masi / AP Photo
Bullet to the Head is a mismatched buddy comedy

The pairing of Sylvester Stallone with Sung Kang is an uneven partnership, and the film suffers from this imbalance.

February 07, 2013
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Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty is an example of Kathryn Bigelow's brilliance as a director.

January 24, 2013
A scene from Gangster Squad. Courtesy Warner Bros
Uncanny accuracy: when real-life events delay movies

A growing list of films are being delayed due to real-life tragedies.

January 07, 2013
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