Francis Ford Coppola has parted with another major asset after losing millions on his passion project, Megalopolis. The 85-year-old filmmaker recently saw his private island in Belize change hands for $1.8 million. Known as Coral Caye, the 2.5-acre retreat sits eight miles from the mainland and runs on solar power and water tanks. Coppola had leased it for the last nine years and often vacationed there. “Mr Coppola was very sad to see his lease come to an end,” Corcoran Group’s Peter McLean told Mansion Global, adding that the island meant ' ...
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In his long-awaited adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic, Guillermo del Toro transforms a tale of horror into a meditation on creation, guilt, and the divine spark of compassion. There are subjects that can be accessed like sediments of a collective consciousness. They cannot be reinvented – only revived. And who better to do so than Guillermo del Toro, the great restorer of monsters, the anthropologist of otherness? Even with his Pinocchio (2022) one wondered why another version of this dead-on fairy tale by Italian author Carlo Collodi was needed – until ' ...
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Shah Rukh Khan turned 60 on November 2, 2025, and while the milestone was filled with love and excitement from fans around the world, this year’s celebration in Mumbai took a different turn. Every year, the actor greets thousands of admirers gathered outside his home, Mannat, waving from the balcony in a tradition that has become iconic. But this time, the crowd was asked to disperse after authorities advised Khan not to step out due to safety and crowd control concerns. Mannat is also undergoing renovation, adding to the restrictions. In a ' ...
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Leesa Gazi’s A House Named Shahana (Barir Naam Shahana) begins with a simple, disarming image: Dipa’s divorce papers fluttering away in a rickshaw. The moment carries the weight of an entire life, one that has been denied, silenced, and finally, set loose. That accidental loss feels almost poetic; she’s so overwhelmed by freedom that she momentarily forgets the document that makes it official. The story rewinds eight years, and through those flashbacks Gazi takes us into a household that speaks the language of control. Dipa, played with haunting restraint by Aanon ' ...
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"When I arrived in Hollywood they wanted to change everything about me: my weight, my look, even my teeth. For a while I was intimidated, but eventually I replied, ‘If I am so ugly, why did you call me here?’” This, followed by her trademark throaty laughter, is what Claudia Cardinale told me when I interviewed her in the Eighties, and it represents her personality in a nutshell: defiant, brave, dignified. In 2022, Cinecittà dedicated a book to her, curated by her daughter Claudia Squitieri, titled "The Indomitable," and indeed, Cardinale was ' ...
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