Leila Latif

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Leila Latif

The field of animation allows creatives to truly let loose, and #1 Happy Family USA from Emmy-nominated actor, director and producer Ramy Youssef (Ramy, Mo, The Bear) is no exception, mining the darkest of laughs and the most surreal of images amid news cycles often choked with heartbreak. The new Amazon Prime comedy, billed as being “from the childhood nightmares of Ramy Youssef”, blends autobiographical humour with razor-sharp cultural critique.

1 week ago | atmos.earth | Leila Latif

The fungal dystopia is a reminder that without climate and health system reform, the next pandemic may not just overwhelm us, but fundamentally reshape what it means to survive. There’s a cruel symmetry to The Last of Us’s second season, which leaps ahead five years.

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Leila Latif

In Sikandar, director AR Murugadoss delivers the kind of high-energy, all-singing, all-dancing action drama for which Bollywood is so beloved, propelled by Salman Khan’s movie-star presence. Khan stars as the eponymous Sanjay “Sikandar” Rajkot, in the type of role one could easily imagine Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson playing in a Hollywood remake.

1 month ago | hyphenonline.com | Leila Latif

Throughout history it has been evident that war has no true victors. While humanity seems doomed to repeat the same mistake over and over, a new documentary posits that we look to women’s art to inspire a more peaceful future. The British filmmaker Margy Kinmonth closes out her trilogy of films on artistic responses to conflict with War Paint — Women at War.

1 month ago | lwlies.com | Leila Latif

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