02 Movies! Movies! Movies! There is noend to entertainment. All you need todo is cut through the lights, the cam-era and the action. So simply tune in... MOVIES
J ohn Dolittle (RobertDowney Jr.) lives a happylife as a veterinarian, resid-
ing on a large estate along withrescued and adopted ani-mals, in VictorianEngland. But when hiswife dies, he becomesa hermit, cutting him-self off from humaninteraction... till he is calledto duty once again when theQueen becomes gravely ill, and thefuture of the estate is at stake. The animals are all inherently
charming due to the visual designswhich embody their characteris-tics, and thanks to the voiceactors playing them. Standouts
include Emma Thompson asPoly – a maternal figurefor Dolittle; KumailNanjiani as Plimpton –Dolittle’s reluctant and
often-cowardly steed, andOctavia Spencer as Dab-Dab –
Dolittle’s assistant who mistakesvegetables for his medical equip-ment. Antonio Banderas andMichael Sheen are at their
scenery-chewing best as thecolourful King Rassouli and text-book villain Mudfly, respectively.It’s easy to see how these quirksmake for running gags and count-less jokes. Unfortunately, not all ofthem work. TIMES OF INDIA
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Starring Scarlett Johansson in the lead, the film is set to trace theorigin story of the famed Russian assassin Natasha Romanoff, a.k.aBlack Widow, who eventually becomes a member of the Avengers.The teaser starts on an emotional note with Natasha talking toSteve Rogers, aka Captain America, from ‘Avengers: Endgame’. “Iused to have nothing. Then I got this job, this family. But nothinglasts forever,” she says. Natasha sets out to wrap up some “unfin-ished business” that takes her and fellow member of the Red Room,Yelena Belova (played by Florence Pugh), back to the place it allstarted. Packed with gripping combat scenes, gunfights, and chasesequences and a whole range of new stealth suits, this teaser hassomething for everyone.
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2. Is it necessary to study daily? I was a very sincere student, devoting afew hours daily. You should do it too.
3. Hardwork over chance? Never depend on chance or luck becausethat’s exactly what they are – they may ormay not pan out the way you think. Thereare no free lunches in the world.
4. Your kind of films are... Those that are fun to watch butleave an impression. Historicalfilms and sports biopics are goodto watch; you learn a lot too.
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The once-strong divide be-tween movies and TV hasblurred over the past fewyears. From Al Pacino toNicole Kidman, Michael Dou-
glas to Meryl Streep, Hollywood A-lis-ters are starring in, and producing, TVshows, even winning accolades for them.
This year’s Golden Globe andScreen Actors Guild award nomina-tions had quite a few of these top starscompeting for the gong. Some of them,like Nicole Kidman and Reese Wither-spoon, already have more TV shows on
the way. Kidman will star in ‘Nine Per-fect Strangers’ and Witherspoon in‘Little Fires Everywhere’. Theseactors are also perfect examplesof the kind of salaries A-listersare demanding for TV. For in-stance, both Kidman and With-erspoon will be making at least $1 million per episode for some shows.
Here is a list of celebritiesand the Award shows they won or were nominated for this year...
NICOLE KIDMANKidman was nominated for ‘Best Actress In A Dramaseries’ for the second season of HBO’s ‘Big LittleLies’ at the 2020 Golden Globes. This is hersecond consecutive Golden win for thesame series. Along with Witherspoon,Kidman is also the producer of ‘BigLittle Lies’.
MICHAEL DOUGLASDouglas won the Golden Globe for‘Best Actor’ in a TV series(Musical or Comedy) – ‘TheKominsky Method’. He wasalso nominated for the samecategory at the ScreenActor’s Guild awards.
HELENMIRRENMirren was nominat-ed for ‘Best Actress’in a limited series atthe Golden Globesfor ‘Catherine the Great.’
MICHELLE WILLIAMSWilliams, known for movies
like ‘Blue Valentine’ and‘Manchester by the
Sea’, won the GoldenGlobe Award and SAGas ‘Best Actress ina Limited Series’for ‘Fosse /Verdon’. She won anEmmy this year for
the role too!
REESEWITHERSPOONWitherspoon was nomi-nated for a GoldenGlobe for ‘Best Actressin a Drama Series’ for‘The Morning Show’.She also appeared inthe second season of‘Big Little Lies’ thisyear. Her next TV role is‘Little Fires Everywhere’.
RUSSELL CROWECrowe transformed into Roger Ailes,the infamous Fox News CEO for ‘TheLoudest Voice’. He won the GoldenGlobes for ‘Best Actor in a LimitedSeries’ – his first Globe nominationin 14 years. He was also nominatedin the same category for SAG.
MAHERSHALA ALIAli, who won two Oscars in threeyears for ‘Moonlight’ and ‘GreenBook,’ was nominated for a SAG award
for ‘Best Actor in a Limited Series’category for his role in the
third season of HBO’s‘True Detective’. Hewas nominated for anEmmy for the roleearlier this year,but lost.
SAM ROCKWELLRockwell, who won an Oscar for2017’s ‘Three Billboards OutsideEbbing, Missouri,’ also won theSAG for ‘Best Actor in a LimitedSeries’ for ‘Fosse Verdon’. Hewas also nominated for an Emmyfor the role this year.
MERYL STREEPThree-time Oscar winner Streep was nomi-nated for Globe in the ‘Best SupportingActress’ category for ‘Big Little Lies’. Shebroke her own Globes nomination record,
with this being her 34th one.‘Big Little Lies’ is her thirdTV nomination.
TOP 5 PROTESTMOVIES TO WATCH
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1MEDIUM COOL: Cine-matographer HaskellWexler made a stunning
debut as a feature director with‘Medium Cool’, a film about the
1968 anti-Vietnam protests dur-ing the Democratic NationalConvention. In the movie’sbiggest coup, Wexler and his castactually filmed during the reallife protests in 1969.
2MILK: Gus Van Sant’s biopic ofLGBT rights leader HarveyMilk, won Sean Penn his sec-
ond Oscar. ‘Milk’ traces the rise ofits titular hero from his nerdy queerdays to becoming a national celebri-ty and civil rights activist. The movieis emotionally devastating but Pennnever tries to show Harvey Milk asa hero. He is an ordinary man fight-ing deep-seated societal prejudices.
5V FOR VENDETTA: The cine-matic adaptation of AlanMoore’s seminal graphic nov-
el caused a stir in 2005, galvanis-ing the anti-Bush forces furiousover the Second Iraq War, and curb-ing of civil liberties. ‘V’ embodiesthe essence of a rebellion rising inan authoritarian state. The mys-terious hero dons a mask; he couldbe you, me, or anyone else...
3SELMA: While not a biopic of Martin LutherKing, Jr. per se, Ava DuVerney’s ‘Selma’shines a light on the private life of Ameri-
ca’s defining civil rights leader. As played by DavidOyelowo, King is a brave and heroic man, whilealso plagued by insecurity, and philandering toboot. The movie’s best scenes involve King’s con-frontations with his wife Coretta, as the two strug-gle with their own imperfections, rather than sys-temic political issues.
4HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE:For shockingly real imagesof protests, look no further
than ‘How to Survive a Plague’.Director David France’s exami-nation of the AIDS epidemic in-cludes actual footage of activistslike Peter Staley and LarryKramer, raising hell over gov-ernment inaction to fight HIV,with eyewitness accounts.
These movies arerated as ‘the top 5films about protestand change’. Thesestories moved andinspired people allover the world...
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MUST DOMUST SEEJANUARY24, 2020 FACT: Churchill reserved par-
ticular dislike for nonviolentindepend-ence leaderMohandasGandhi, atone pointcalling him“a seditiousMiddleTemplelawyer now posing as a fakirof a type very well known inthe East”.
FACT: In 1971, an FBI programknown as Operation SAFE
(ScoutAwareness forEmergency) wasrevealed. Itencouragedlocal policedepartments torecruit BoyScouts as
informants, so they could watchout for unusual activity in theirneighbourhood.
1899: Humphrey O’Sullivan patentedthe rubber heel.
1908: In England, the first Boy Scouttroop was organised by Robert Baden-Powell.
1958: After warming to 100,000,000degrees, 2 light atoms were bashedtogether to create a heavier atom,resulting in first man-made nuclearfusion.
1965: Winston Churchill died at 90.
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