Awais Irfan

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Junior Producer at Sky News

Reviews Editor at Filmhounds

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Dirs. Alex Garland, Ray Mendoza (2025)

1 week ago | thehollywoodnews.com | Awais Irfan

Alex Garland’s fractious thriller Civil War depicted a dystopian America splintered by political violence at a time when the country’s real-time morality wasn’t too dissimilar to that of the film. Garland’s films, if nothing else, always speak to the moment. For his latest, Warfare, he has co-opted a writing and directing credit with Ray Mendoza, military informant on Civil War, based on Mendoza’s own memories of an insurgent operation in 2006 Iraq.
Death Of A Unicorn ★★

3 weeks ago | moviemarker.co.uk | Awais Irfan

Released: 4th April 2025Director: Alex ScharfmanStarring: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will PoulterThe ‘eat the rich’ narrative has become commonplace cinema over the last few years —Triangle of Sadness, The Menu, and Blink Twice being recent examples. In A24’s Death of a Unicorn, director Alex Scharfman takes the theme quite literally when mythical unicorns actually eat and terrorise the rich after they mess with powers beyond their control.
Brave New World' review

2 months ago | thehollywoodnews.com | Awais Irfan

After a quiet 2024 with only one major release (as a former Fox property, one could even argue Deadpool & Wolverine’s significance in the current canon), the MCU is supercharging into 2025 with three tentpole films and they’re kicking things off with Anthony Mackie’s long-awaited feature debut as Captain America in Captain America: Brave New World.
"A fun, if choppy, return to the seas"

Nov 26, 2024 | filmhounds.co.uk | Awais Irfan

2016's Moana was lightning in a bottle: a critical darling – beloved for the cultural representation, classic feeling story, ear-worm songs and awe-inspired animation – that also grossed a tidy $687 million at the worldwide box office. But it has found even more success in the years since as the most streamed film ever as of 2024 (80 billion+ minutes and counting), so it's no surprise that Disney wanted to switch gears from a follow-up series on Disney+ to a fully fledged theatrical sequel.
Ridley Scott's epic new movie

Nov 13, 2024 | thehollywoodnews.com | Awais Irfan

Few filmmakers care less about conformity and commercialism than Ridley Scott who, at 86 years old, just wants to eschew tradition to deliver huge, thrilling spectacle. Despite being on a mostly tumultuous streak since 2017’s All the Money in the World, Scott returns to his second-most iconic property for a pseudo-sequel-reboot and it’s that sheer nonchalance and bravado that, comfortably, and by some margin, makes Gladiator 2 his best film in some time.
Hugh Grant scares in new A24 movie

Nov 4, 2024 | thehollywoodnews.com | Awais Irfan

In recent years, Hugh Grant has worked hard to break away from his image as the affable face of the early-noughties British rom-com. While his turns in Paddington 2, Dungeons and Dragons, The Gentlemen and Wonka were admittedly different, and a step in the right direction, there’s still a roguish charm to those roles that feels akin to the reputation Grant has cultivated. Heretic, however, is the career reinvigoration the actor has been so sorely after all these years.
A Delightful Return To Form - Transformers One (Film Review)

Oct 8, 2024 | filmhounds.co.uk | Awais Irfan

Few intellectual properties have had the unwavering legacy of Transformers, a 1984 Japanese toy line turned cartoon series and now a $5 billion grossing film franchise. Transformers One, the eighth film under Paramount and Hasbro’s partnership, the third attempt to reboot the series after Bumblebee and last year’s Rise of the Beasts, offers a new spin on the robots in disguise: an origin story that harkens back to the franchise’s animated roots.
¿Cuánto de la película fue real?

Sep 15, 2024 | thenexus.one | Awais Irfan

Años 2016 Perros de guerra La película se basó en hechos reales, pero la 'Perros de guerra'La historia real era diferente a lo que aparecía en la película. En el centro de la película, los dos protagonistas de la vida real, Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill) y David Packouz (Miles Teller), son traficantes de armas de bajo nivel que logran ganar un contrato con el Pentágono por valor de 300 millones de dólares para armar a los aliados estadounidenses en Afganistán.
How much is the original movie

Sep 15, 2024 | thenexus.one | Awais Irfan

in 2016 Dogs of War the movie was based on real events, but i Dogs of War'The true story was different from what appeared in the film. At the heart of the film, two real characters, Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill) and David Packous (Miles Teller) are low-level arms dealers who manage to win a contract with the Pentagon worth $300 million to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
The 10 Best and Worst Episodes of Friends

Sep 13, 2024 | screensphere.co.uk | Awais Irfan

“I’ll be there for you” – it’s perhaps the most iconic theme song of all time. And Friendshas never wavered from that promise: it has been there for its ever-increasing fan base, standing the test of time for three impressive decades now. It’s comfort viewing; it’s escapism; it’s great for a solo binge, or shared with others; it can be enjoyed chronologically or dipped into at random. There’s no right way or one way to experience Friends – it’s whatever its viewers need it to be.