Produced by Barajoun Studios and wholly funded in the Gulf, Dubai’s first entirely produced animated feature film is a grand spectacle indeed. Inspired by the real-life figure Bilal Ibn Rabah, the film follows the story of ‘Bilal’, as he and…

DIFF15 Film Review: Bilal

DIFF15: Zinzana (Rattle the Cage)
The first feature film by Emirati filmmaker Majid Al Ansari and produced by Image Nation Abu Dhabi, ‘Zinzana’ is a thrill ride from the very first frame. Waking up in a jail cell for getting into a fight the night…

Pixels
NASA sends a message containing video games, footage from old T.V. shows, and interviews from celebrities like Madonna into space, to communicate with intelligent life forms, who misinterpret them as a declaration of war. The aliens thereafter attack Earth as…

Terminator Genisys
The fifth film in the Terminator franchise isn’t nearly as good as the original or Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Thankfully, it’s a slightly better offering than the third and fourth Terminator films (Rise of the Machines and Salvation). In the…

San Diego Comic Con 2015
It’s that time of the year where pop culture becomes reality and the worlds of Movies, Games, T.V. and Comics all unite under one roof – San Diego Comic Con. For the next five days, geeks will passionately descend at Comic-Con…

Star Trek 3 begins filming
Trekkies would be psyched to know Star Trek 3 begins filming this week. ‘Star Trek Beyond’ as it will be titled, is the third film in the rebooted Star Trek franchise and has the cast of the previous two films…

Sony to launch 1TB PS4 in July
Hardcore gamers have some great news to be excited about. Sony Computer Entertainment recently announced that they will be launching the PS4 with a 1TB hard drive capacity. “Offering twice the storage of the existing PS4, you’ll be able to…

Jurassic World
Jurassic World opens twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, when the late John Hammond’s (Richard Attenborough, Jurassic Park) vision of a fully functioning dinosaur amusement park on Isla Nublar is finally in operation. But with continually trying to keep corporate investors happy and…

San Andreas
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s second film this year, has him going up against the largest earthquake in recorded history. Movie audiences have watched the city of Los Angeles endure volcanoes, tsunamis, alien attacks, tornadoes and now for the hundredth time,…

Avengers – Age of Ultron
Earth’s Mightiest heroes reunite once again to save the world from Ultron (voiced by James Spader), a self-conscious A.I. hell bent on eradicating humanity. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Vision (Paul Bettany) have been added to the…