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It was the slap that was heard around the internet

It was the slap that was heard around the internet – Will Smith’s outraged stage invasion at the Oscars had been seen more than 80m times online within three days. For professional comedians, however, it was the moment afterwards that struck home – Chris Rock in charge of an awards ceremony that has just gone so far south he can barely see it and it’s his job to get it back on track. And get a laugh. We asked four comics about the fears of the clown. Ed Byrne: ‘Being hit on stage is very rare’ Awards shows are never the most fun event on a comic’s calendar. The order of gigs you want to play go: one where all the people are there to see you; then all the people are there to see comedy; and then a long way down the list come industry awards such as the Oscars, where people are there for a reason that has nothing to do with you, they all know one another and wish you’d hurry up. You have to know what the audience will take, especially if you’re roasting the crowd. That’s quite an America
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Ana de Armas, Ben Affleck in an uneven, oddly paced thriller

 Deep Water movie review: Ana de Armas, Ben Affleck in an uneven, oddly paced thriller Around halfway through, as the ambiguity of the early scenes is lost, and we get a clearer sense of what exactly is happening, Deep Water also becomes more predictable, and refuses to gather steam as a thriller. Anyone familiar with the dark and caustic writings of Patricia Highsmith will know that her work did not show a high regard for human nature – or for sacred human institutions like marriage. Across a range of short stories, Highsmith depicted marriage as a form of self-cannibalising in which personalities are swallowed up, laying bare the many ways in which spouses can wound, dominate or play games with each other [while also masochistically inflicting hurt on themselves]. For instance, in the chilling When the Fleet was in at Mobile, a diffident woman [who might be an unreliable protagonist] escapes her bullying husband after administering him a dose of chloroform – but finds that it is not
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Akshay Kumar, Kriti Sanon film can't replicate

 Bachchhan Paandey movie review: Akshay Kumar, Kriti Sanon film can't replicate the Machiavellian spirit of the original Bachchhan Paandey tries to overcompensate for its lack of tonal loyalty to Jigarthanda by rushing through its key moments in the second half, hoping for the pace to make up for the punch — but it only feels like one last half-hearted attempt at redemption. It is interesting that despite all the strides made in films of the last few years, the consensus remains that our mainstream cinema is still largely driven by the hero-figure, and the female stars still do not enjoy as much spotlight or attention as their male counterparts, both from the filmmakers or at the box office.  So when I came to know that Kriti Sanon plays one of the protagonists of Bachchhan Paandey, replacing a male filmmaker character from the original, it filled me with hope... And somehow, also dread. Watching Bachchhan Paandey, however, confirms one’s worst fears and prejudices about mainstream
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Jaideep Ahlawat: I wanted to be an officer in the Indian Army

Jaideep Ahlawat: I wanted to be an officer in the Indian Army, but life had different plans In conversation with actor Jaideep Ahlawat on his new show Bloody Brothers, his journey in the entertainment industry and more. one of the most thinking actors in the entertainment industry, and he is one of those actors who actually feels the role he plays. He talks to Firstpost about his role in Bloody Brothers, his journey in the entertainment industry, and how he always wanted to become an army officer, but life had different plans. Excerpts from the interview: Tell us about your role in Bloody Brothers. It’s not a dark role that I play because no role can be absolutely dark. But it’s a dark comedy. The web show is about two brothers, and how their lives completely go out of control after a tragic car accident. I play the role of a lawyer, and the story goes into many shades. It’s a family drama, thriller, and also a dark comedy. So I would say it’s a mix of many things. It has a lot of twis
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Moonfall movie review Halle Berry

Moonfall movie review Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson hopelessly surrender to Roland Emmerich's dated, irresponsible vision Ploys that felt smart in our teens look so incredibly silly today, that it is a miracle that Moonfall has managed a theatrical release, instead of being dumped in a corner of a streaming website. It has only been a couple of months since Hollywood hit us with the polarising Don’t Look Up, where director Adam McKay parodied Hollywood’s end-of-the-world movies about a meteor heading towards planet earth, only to be met with denial and apathy. There is a segment in the film where while the scientists are going around trying to warn the people about the impending Armageddon, Hollywood makes a film on it called Total Devastation, starring [fictitious] Hollywood heartthrob Devin Peters [played sportingly by Chris Evans, who gives interviews from behind his massive sunglasses, using zero modulation in his voice]. I would be willing to bet half my fortune that Total Devas
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There was a lot of sensitivity about the LGBTQI community

 Badhaai Do humour not at the expense of LGBTQI community, it's a sensitive film: Bhumi Pednekar 'There was a lot of sensitivity about the LGBTQI community, which is something I really respected. That came from the writing and the direction. There was not a lot for me to be alert about, which tells you about the maturity and the thinking that has gone behind the writing,' Bhumi Pednekar says. Actor Bhumi Pednekar says her upcoming comedy drama Badhaai Do talks about "love and acceptance" through a sensitive lens, never using its humour against the LGBTQI community to mine cheap laughs. The film features Pednekar as a lesbian physical education teacher Sumi, who gets into a marriage of convenience with actor Rajkummar Rao's Shardul Thakur, who the makers teased will be a gay policeman. The film is billed as a spiritual sequel to the National Award-winning 2018 hit Badhaai Ho!. In an interview with PTI, Pednekar said she agreed to do the film half way through it
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The point of an OTT score

“The point of an OTT score isn’t just to enhance the onscreen drama. The music should do the storytelling': composers Vishal Khurana and Ashutosh Phatak talk about composing for Aarya Season 2 and Mumbai Diaries 26/11 respectively. The second season of Aarya, the Disney+ Hotstar moody mob series created by Ram Madhvani, and the first season of Nikkhil Advani’s Mumbai Diaries, the medical drama fictionalising the bloody 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, offer two of the year’s best television experiences.  There are many similarities to draw between Aarya and Mumbai Diaries: For one, both shows revolve around dissecting the anatomy of survival in the face of an unspeakable tragedy. There is a razor-sharp clarity in vision: Aarya and Mumbai Diaries consistently remain in command of their maze-like narrative, compelling and ambitious in their insistence to eschew conventional storytelling tropes. They are created and helmed by two filmmakers who appear to thrive in the luxury of long-forma
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