Prince: a pop chameleon whose music contained multitudes
Apr 22, 2016 07:24 am UTC| Entertainment
Distilling the essence of Prince Rogers Nelson into a few hundred easily digested words is foolhardy, not to mention impossible. To encapsulate Prince-ness would be to describe a universe. Not only is there a vastness to...
Apr 22, 2016 07:13 am UTC| Entertainment
OMG Prince is dead … His publicist Yvette Noel-Schure said: It is with profound sadness that I am confirming that the legendary, iconic performer, Prince Rogers Nelson, has died at his Paisley Park residence...
The who and how of pirates threatening the Nollywood film industry
Apr 20, 2016 05:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment Law
With an average production of 50 movies per week and about $590 million revenue annually, Nigerias film market is booming. Dubbed Nollywood, it has overcome the teething problems of the late 1980s and 1990s to become a...
Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth
Apr 20, 2016 03:12 am UTC| Entertainment
What is it that makes generation after generation respond to Charlotte Bronts books, and in particular Jane Eyre? Bronts novels are bildungsromane, but they differ markedly from, say, the coming of age novels of Jane...
Zootopia-inspired pet trade shows problem of portraying wild animals as cuddly companions
Apr 19, 2016 04:34 am UTC| Entertainment
Films and TV shows keep depicting wild animals as fun and friendly characters, with human-like personalities. Its better than representing them as evil monsters, of course, but sometimes films can have a bad influence on...
Dogs in Space, 30 years on – a once maligned film comes of age
Apr 14, 2016 23:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
A fairly unattractive bunch of bored and boring party givers, mindlessly driving around midnight streets waiting for pieces of Skylab to fall on them and searching for meaning in the TV test pattern, hardly makes for a...
Jungle Book reimagined: spectacular CGI crafts a whole new reality
Apr 14, 2016 15:19 pm UTC| Entertainment
Will it be a happy or a sad film? asks my 11-year-old son in anticipation of Disneys new reboot of The Jungle Book. The answer depends on your attachment to the famous 1967 animation. Parents looking to entertain young...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India