Ali M. Latifi

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Ali M. Latifi |Jonathan Glazer

★★★★ It's a beautiful, artful and intellectual film that recalls elements of Ghost, Titanic (think about it, Anna is Rose, the mothers are well, the mothers, and Joseph is Cal) and the Sixth Sense (Anna is Malcolm, the mothers are well, the mothers and Sean is a much more assured and forceful Cole) but told through a minimalistic auteur's lens. The story is too thoughtful and minimal to be overly dramatic and have a major twist, but it's the artful direction and the careful performances that...

1 month ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Ali M. Latifi

Republish this article When director Bill Guttentag teamed up with Roya Mahboob, an Afghan tech entrepreneur and women’s rights activist, to make Rule Breakers, a fictionalised retelling of how Mahboob created Afghanistan’s girls’ robotic team, he said he set out to make an uplifting movie about a group of female long shots who band together to overcome massive challenges and secure an unprecedented victory. All while taking on the patriarchy. Think, A League of Their Own set in western...

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Ali M. Latifi

★★★ It's phenomenally acted, the set and costume designs are somehow rote but also really interesting and aesthetically appealing, but Elizabeth Olsen already made a much better version of this with Wanda Vision and Multiverse of Madness, ALL without an annoying Alicia Vikandar acting like an obnoxious, bratty child. Honestly, it's a really clever idea that is made really annoying and obnoxious for much of the runtime because of Vikandar's unbearable attempts to act like a petulant child....

2 months ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Ali M. Latifi

Republish this article The official death toll from Myanmar’s earthquake disaster has surpassed 3,600, with more than 5,000 people injured and 160 still missing, as international rescue efforts wind down amid a relief effort hampered by extreme weather.

2 months ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Ali M. Latifi |Jacob Goldberg

Republish this article Swathes of central Myanmar have been reduced to rubble following a series of powerful earthquakes that struck on 28 March. For many communities near the epicentre, the disaster is piling further agony on a years-long – and worsening – humanitarian crisis. The official death toll, including 22 fatalities in Thailand, has surpassed 2,900 and is expected to rise further. Almost 5,000 people have been injured and hundreds reported missing, some potentially still trapped...