Forgiven

Tennis legend Serena Williams believes that Hollywood star Will Smith should be forgiven for the "mistake" of slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars last year. The 41-year-old tennis legend has discussed the infamous moment when the `King Richard` star hit the comedian Chris Rock after he joked about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith at the Academy Awards last year and is adamant that the actor should be given the chance to atone for his "mistake", reports femalefirst.co.uk. Serena, whose rise to the top of the sporting world was…

There’s a fine line between obscuring a movie’s true intentions in the marketing and being genuinely misleading, with Joe Carnahan’s The Grey falling egregiously into the latter camp. Arriving shortly after Liam Neeson had solidified himself as cinema’s unlikeliest new action superstar, virtually every trailer, promo, and TV spot ended with the grizzled badass facing down a wolf with broken glass taped to his hands. That visual alone was more than enough to entice audiences to the theater, and it would be an…

Beneath the garishly brittle portrait of ghastly westerners lording it up in Morocco, there’s a low-key, brooding quality to this accomplished if somewhat inert screen adaptation of Lawrence Osborne’s 2012 bestseller. Written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, whose screen CV includes The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014) and War on Everyone (2016), it’s an anxiously moralist tale of crime and punishment, revenge and resolution, played out against a broad-strokes, culture-clash backdrop that brings a tang of spiteful…

Everyone loved John Michael McDonagh’s first film, The Guard, with Brendan Gleeson as a sloshed cop. They admired his second, Calvary, in which Gleeson played a priest reconciled to his own murder. His third, a black comedy with Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña, was mostly loathed. McDonagh anticipated these reactions, he says in a pub in south London. He had assumed people would like his first two, “and War on Everyone was meant to be divisive”.So he would be forgiven for having felt perky before the premiere last…

Dir: John Michael McDonagh. Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Matt Smith, Ismael Kanater, Caleb Landry Jones, Abbey Lee. 18, 117 minutes.At what point does art’s stubborn (though not invalid) fascination with the inner mechanics of terrible people cross a line, and begin demanding we show mercy towards the truly irredeemable among us? It’s the problem that lies at the heart of The Forgiven, a somewhat on-the-nose title for a film that lines up for us a miniature troupe of the wealthy and perversely bigoted at…

There’s an unusual, intoxicating air to writer-director John Michael McDonagh’s latest, and splashiest, film The Forgiven, a wrong-footing combination of crime thriller, dark comedy and shaggy hangout movie. It’s a strange watch – unsure of itself at times, hugely, bullishly confident at others – but one that’s never less than curiously compelling, a mostly convincing return to form after 2016’s underwhelming War on Everyone.Like his younger brother Martin, McDonagh’s writing is often at its best when it’s at its most…

President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan will soon cancel debt for millions of Americans — and the relief is tax-free on federal returns. However, experts say the cancellation may still trigger a state tax bill.Most borrowers making less than $125,000 per year or $250,000 for married couples filing together will qualify for $10,000 of forgiveness, with up to $20,000 of cancellation for Pell Grant recipients. However, some states may count the canceled debt as income, explained Jared Walczak, vice president of…

Despite being worth millions of dollars, Kanye West, Tom Brady, Khloe Kardashian, Reese Witherspoon and other celebrities not only obtained Paycheck Protection Program loans for their companies through the federal government’s COVID-19 stimulus package, they had much or all of those loans forgiven, according to a new report. Businesses connected to Trump administration senior adviser Jared Kushner’s family and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, also received PPP loans and then were let off the hook in…

Title: Pyjamas Are Forgiving Author: Twinkle Khanna Publisher: Juggernaut Pages: 256 Price: 325 This book is the third authored by former Bollywood actress and film producer Twinkle Khanna since 2015. Known as "Mrs Funnybones", the name she goes by in her popular newspaper columns, in the digital world of Twitter, and also the title of her first non-fiction released three years ago, this is her maiden attempt at a novel. Set in an imaginary upscale wellness retreat called "Shanthamaaya…