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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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      In this image released by Lucasfilm, Alden Ehrenreich and Joonas Suotamo appear in a scene from "Solo: A Star Wars Story," which will premiere at the Cannes Film festival in southern France. AP
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      Review: Why Solo: A Star Wars Story is a disappointment

      Alden Ehrenreich lacks the charisma that made Harrison Ford’s incarnation the most lovable rogue in the Star Wars universe

      FilmMay 17, 2018
      Lebanese actress Manal Issa, from 'My Favourite Fabric', protests at the premiere of 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' at Cannes on Tuesday, after Israeli soldiers killed 60 Palestinians and wounded hundreds in mass protests on the Gaza border on Monday. With Issa are filmmakers Etienne Kallos, second left, and Gaya Jiji, second right. AP
      Anger and solidarity with Palestine on Cannes' red carpet

      'While we are talking about stories, we have more than 60 stories that need to be investigated in Gaza'

      FilmMay 16, 2018
      Anne Baxter, Gary Merrill, Celeste Holm, Bette Davis and Hugh Marlowe in 'All About Eve'. Courtesy 20th Century Fox
      ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ but they don’t age well in Hollywood either

      Annette Bening plays an exuberant Gloria Grahame and highlights a bias towards youth

      FilmJanuary 16, 2018
      Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan in Made of Honor.
      Movie review: Made of Honor

      Kaleem Aftab reviews Made of Honor, a new romantic comedy starring Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan.

      December 18, 2017
      'La La Land' starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.
      Our top film choices of 2017

      From disturbing sci-fi dystopias, to love and war, questions of race, horror flicks and beyond,Chris Newbould and our film critics introduce their top picks from the front row

      December 13, 2017
      Kristen Wiig plays Audrey Safranek, Matt Damon plays Paul Safranek, Maribeth Monroe plays Carol Johnson and Jason Sudeikis plays Dave Johnson in Downsizing from Paramount Pictures
      Diff 2017: Matt Damon on ‘Downsizing’

      We speak to Matt Damon about ‘Downsizing’, in which he plays a man who becomes five inches tall

      FilmDecember 11, 2017
      ‘A Drowning Man’ features a cast of non-professional actors from refugee camps in Greece. Courtesy Diff
      Diff 2017: ‘A Drowning Man’ pours heart into an undocumented migrant’s struggles

      Mahdi Fleifel tells us how Palestinian refugees inspired his new short

      December 10, 2017
      Shia LaBeouf and Sverrir Gudnason as John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg. Courtesy Diff
      Diff 2017: Two of tennis’s greatest stars inspired new film ‘Borg McEnroe’

      The film is set during the 1980 Wimbledon Championships where Swede Bjorn Borg was aiming to become the first man at the All England Lawn Tennis Club to claim five men’s titles in a row

      December 10, 2017
      Pio Amato, 15, who stars in ‘A Ciambra’, previously worked with its director in Mediterranea, a 2015 film. Courtesy Diff
      Diff 2017: A Ciambra tells the untold stories of daily lives in Mafia country

      The director Jonas Carpignanon took an immersive approach to his immigration tale

      FilmDecember 10, 2017
      'Wajib' stars father and son Mohammed and Saleh Bakri, with Maria Zreik. Courtesy Diff
      Diff 2017: Gallows humour fuels Christmas spirit in Nazareth-based comedy Wajib

      Using Nazareth as a backdrop enabled Jacir to explore the tensions and difficulties faced by Palestinians living in Israel.

      FilmDecember 10, 2017
      Suhaee Abro plays Nazo Dharejo, a teenager defending her family home, in ‘My Pure Land’. Courtesy Diff
      Diff 2017: How one woman’s battle with bandits inspired a modern-day feminist western

      My Pure Land has been chosen as the British nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars

      FilmDecember 07, 2017
      Ruben Ostlund, who masterminded an exhibition in his native Sweden as part of his research for his movie ‘The Square’. AFP
      Diff 2017: Director Ruben Ostlund discusses Cannes-lauded movie The Square

      The film’s masterstroke is that The Square turns the camera not on politicians or corporate fat cats but to the arts world, supposedly the bastion of upstanding morally righteous citizens

      FilmDecember 06, 2017
      Claire Foy and Matt Smith in ‘The Crown’. Courtesy Netflix
      Season 2 of The Crown returns to the trials of Elizabeth II

      The cast tell us that viewers can expect more sparkling drama in the second series of The Crown

      TelevisionNovember 29, 2017
      Jon Alpert and the Borrego brothers in 1990, one of his enduring friendships celebrated on film Netflix. Nagamitsu Endo / Netflix
      Cuba through the lens of El Comandante’s cameraman

      Jon Alpert’s view of Castro and his countrymen brings people, not ciphers, to life

      TelevisionNovember 21, 2017
      Andy Serkis has personal experience of disability as his sister has multiple sclerosis, his father was a doctor and his mother taught disabled children. Bleecker Street / Participant Media / Imaginarium; Deadline / REX / Shutterstock
      Andy Serkis on his directorial debut in Breathe

      The film tells the remarkable real-life story of Brit Robin Cavendish who was paralysed after contracting polio in Kenya in 1958

      FilmNovember 21, 2017
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