Bluff

Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas is set to come on board for ‘The Bluff’ directed by Frank E. Flowers. The project might also star Karl Urban, who is known for the streaming series ‘The Boys’, as he is in talks for the project. Flowers, who also co-wrote ‘The Bluff’, has also written ‘Bob Marley: One Love’, which has been on top spot for the past two weeks. The movie shot past $120 million worldwide, reports Deadline. Set in the 19th century Caribbean, ‘The…

Priyanka Chopra is a versatile actress who as not only made Bollywood proud, but also the Hollywood industry with her commendable acting chops and strong demeanour. She has been previously featured in Hollywood films like Baywatch, The Matrix Resurrections and last year’s romantic comedy genre Love Again and now making headlines once again, as this iconic actress is set to star in Russo Brothers backed film The Bluff, which is a period drama set in the 1800s. The Bluff is produced by filmmakers Anthony Russo and Joe…

In June, Canada passed a law that will require major tech platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay a small fee when they host news on their platforms, to compensate the journalistic outlets that produced it. A similar bill recently cleared crucial hurdles in California and now has a serious chance at becoming law too.In response, Google and Facebook say they will have no choice but to ban news altogether from their services in those markets when and if these laws go into effect.California and Canada must absolutely…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJack Black has said he will “call Elon Musk’s bluff” over his Twitter blue tick verifcation.Musk, who owns the social media platform, announced the company was going to remove blue ticks from the accounts of legacy verified users from 1 April, meaning only accounts that paid the company $8 or $11 per month would have the badge.However, users noticed that, instead of losing their…

WASHINGTON —  After weeks of reverses, Russia’s army is still losing ground in the battlefields of Ukraine.President Vladimir Putin’s response, characteristically, has been to escalate on other fronts.Putin expanded the military draft, announcing a call-up of 300,000 reservists and prompting an exodus of Russian men to neighboring countries.On Friday, he formally announced Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian provinces, turning them — at least rhetorically — into Russian territory that he can never negotiate away.Most…

Spend any amount of time in New York, and you’ll feel it. Manhattan and Brooklyn are teeming with activity. It’s electrifying to be there after years spent relatively locked down. The question, and one asked this week by the San Francisco Chronicle, is why San Francisco isn’t bouncing back in the same way. As reporter Roland Li writes: “There’s always been a disparity — New York has 10 times the population of San Francisco — but the coastal tourism and economic hubs have diverged in striking ways as they recover from…

The US Senate has allocated $3 billion in additional funding to the US Postal Service for electrification of the nation’s delivery fleet, as part of yesterday’s massive climate bill. It’s the latest move in the long saga for postal service electrification and effectively “calls USPS’s bluff” by supplying as much funding as the USPS claimed a 100% BEV fleet would cost. For years now, people have been calling for the USPS to electrify the delivery fleet. The nation’s gas-powered Grumman LLVs have been in service for…

Twenty-seven-year-old Birmingham-born director Sheikh Shahnawaz makes an impression with his macho low-budget debut about an undercover cop. It is a crime drama with two teaspoons of Guy Richie, a tablespoon of Line of Duty and a dollop of sentimental social-realism chucked in at end. It’s not without flaws but Shahnawaz is clearly ambitious and does well on what looks like a minuscule budget.Gurj Gill plays Danny, a Met detective recruited for an undercover operation: posing as an addict to sniff out major crack and…