DHAKA: Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones are among a host of British stars in contention for the 2015 Golden Globe awards. Cumberbatch, Redmayne and fellow Briton David Oyelowo make up three of the nominees for best actor in a drama. Felicity Jones, Redmayne’s

DHAKA: A mega international dance festival, with the participation of 500 artistes from 300 countries, will be held in Bangladesh.The festival, first time of its kind, will be organized in November 2015.Bangladesh Committee of Federation of International Dance Festival (FIDAF) informed

DHAKA: French movie ‘Lacombe, Lucien’ will be screened as a celebration of Jean Patrick Modiano’s receiving Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014.The screening will be held at Alliance Française de Dhaka auditorium in city’s Dhanmondi area at 6:00pm on December 10.The movie,

DHAKA: Five recitation albums by Nazmul Ahsan will be released at Chhayanaut auditorium in city’s Dhanmondi area on December 11. The ceremony, to be followed by the third recitation program ‘Tomakei Jeno Bhalobasiachhi’ by the artiste, will be held at 5:30pm. Noted cultural

DHAKA: Eminent actor Khalil Ullah Khan, popularly known as Khalil, passed away at a city hospital on Sunday morning due to old age complications. He was 8o.  Khalil was born on 2 February in 1934 in Sylhet. In his long acting career, Khalil earned numerous recognitions and awards

DHAKA: Veteran actor Dilip Kumar, who is suffering from severe cold and cough, was on Saturday taken to the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai, a close friend of the family said. "He has been taken to Lilavati as he has cold and cough for past two-three days. He might be in hospital for a

DHAKA: Director John Woo said that he had beaten throat cancer and had no thoughts of retiring any time soon. ‘I have recovered completely... I see how precious life is. I'm grateful to be making movies and will continue to make another five to 10 more movies,’ Woo, 68, told Life! on

DHAKA: The “Arijit Sing Live in Concert” has been deferred to December 12 as the singer is suffering from eye infection.The Concert was scheduled to be held at Jamuna Future Park in the city’s Baridhara area Friday afternoon. The Concert will start on the same time and venue on

DHAKA: Actress Priyanka Chopra has been named the world’s sexiest Asian woman in a poll by a Britain-based newspaper. The former beauty queen has thanked her well-wishers for their support. The Fashion star has topped the top 50 list in an annual poll conducted by the Eastern Eye

DHAKA: ‘Spectre’ will be the title of the 24th official James Bond film, its makers have announced. Director Sam Mendes revealed the title at a launch event at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, where principal photography is due to begin on Monday. Daniel Craig will play 007 for

DHAKA: The Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut Dhaka, will organize a three-day Swiss Film Festival from December 7 in city.Three Swiss films will be screened at the Goethe-Institut Auditorium in Dhanmondi during the festival. The festival

DHAKA: A crime drama set in 1980s New York has been named film of the year by the influential National Board of Review. JC Chandor’s ‘A Most Violent Year’ also picked up acting awards for its stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain from the New York-based collective of film

DHAKA: US singer Lady Gaga has revealed in a radio interview on The Howard Stern Show that she was raped at 19.Host Stern had quizzed her during the Tuesday interview about the meaning behind her 2013 song ‘Swine’, to which she replied:‘I went through some horrific things that

DHAKA: PSY’s “Gangnam Style” has been viewed so many times now that YouTube had to upgrade its system in order to display it properly. That’s because the infectious dance hit has been watched more than the maximum number able to be displayed under a 32-bit integer system or

DHAKA: Eminent artist Mustafa Monwar commented that late artist Qayyum Chowdhury was the first successful cover artist in Bangladesh.He told banglanews while came to pay his tribute to the deceased artist at Fine Arts Institute of Dhaka University on Monday.Mustafa Monwar further said

DHAKA: Actress Priyanka Chopra says she had no clue that her apartment in Mumbai was being used to run a sex racket.‘When we rent properties, we don’t go and check what is happening in the bedroom. I had no knowledge about what is happening there,’ the actress, who was in New

DHAKA: Star Wars fans got their first glimpse on Friday of the space saga’s long-awaited new film – including a controversial new-look lightsaber – but still have to wait a year for the movie itself. ‘There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?’ a gravel-voiced narrator

DHAKA: Jennifer Lawrence's song is catching fire. As if being the Mockingjay wasn't enough, Lawrence is adding Top 40 recording artist to her resume. Lawrence's rendition of "The Hanging Tree" in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" has now reached No. 29 on the U.K. charts,

DHAKA: Actor Manoj Bajpayee says he is looking forward to working with Tabu in his upcoming film and calls her a ‘wonderful actress’. ‘I am excited to work with Tabu. She is a wonderful actress,’ the actor told the media, report The Times of India. ‘I will start shooting with

DHAKA: Actress Katie Holmes thinks she is a ‘risk taker’ like her vigilante elementary school teacher character in her latest movie ‘Miss Meadows’. The 35-year-old also says that she enjoys challenging herself with risky roles as she talked about her love for adventure, reports