Mohammad Kamran Jawaid

2 months ago | dawn.com | Mohammad Kamran Jawaid |Rafia Zakaria

Tell me if you’ve seen this movie: two spies, posing as a couple, betrayed after a successful mission, land in the middle of nowhere, presumed dead. The spies, already being a couple, with the woman spy announcing her pregnancy, decide to elope from the world-saving business, settling into a suburban life with children, only to be brought back to action when their family’s identity is compromised.

2 months ago | dawn.com | Mohammad Kamran Jawaid

Technically speaking, writer-director Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a remake of a facsimile. The original 1922 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors was an unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula that altered some bits of the source material to slink past the author’s copyright. The setting was changed from England to Germany, since Nosferatu was made in Germany by the German director F. W.

Jan 11, 2025 | dawn.com | Mohammad Kamran Jawaid |Shahid Mehmood

Even at the regular length of an hour and 40 minutes, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is fast, which would be the point of making a film based on an iconic character whose primary trait is that he runs lighting-fast. The blue-furred hedgehog (voiced by Ben Schwartz), whom people from the ’90s remember as videogame company Sega’s mascot, has friends: a two-tailed fox, Miles ‘Tails’ Prower (Colleen O’Shaughnessey), and an echidna with big massive hands called Knuckles (Idris Elba).

Jan 7, 2025 | images.dawn.com | Mohammad Kamran Jawaid

The first word people coming out from watching the 40-odd-minute-long short film Kattar Karachi in cinemas would likely be saying is: WHY?!? The answer is kind of obvious: because one can. That may sound snarky, a tad bit cruel, but hey, facts are facts. Kattar Karachi is a meagre story that’s embedded between three music videos, and has little to do with Karachi and its ‘kattar-ness’ [hardcore ruthlessness].

Dec 7, 2024 | dawn.com | Mohammad Kamran Jawaid

Wicked is an adaptation of an adaptation of an adaptation of an adaptation. Frank L. Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was adapted into Victor Fleming’s immortal 1939 golden age musical The Wizard of Oz, which eventually led to the revisionist series of Wicked novels by Gregory Maguire, which led to the stage musical by Stephen Schwartz (film viewers know him better from Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Enchanted and DreamWorks’ The Prince of Egypt).