Tamara

Image: LionsgateEvery horror movie has The Moment: where you see the main characters do something that both kicks off the plot and is often also an extremely boneheaded move. Usually, it involves a door and someone making the choice to open it or go in there, which they should never, ever do. So it goes with Lionsgate’s upcoming semi-remake for The Strangers, in which the two leads make the very bad decision to answer the door in the middle of the night.Grace Byers on Horror and Comedy in The BlackeningDirected by Renny…

Tamara, a buy now pay later platform for consumers in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region, has raised $340 million in a financing C round that values the fintech at $1 billion. Saudi asset manager and financial institution SNB Capital and Sanabil Investments, a wholly-owned company by Saudi’s sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF), led the Series C round. Other backers include Shorooq Partners, Pinnacle Capital, Impulse and others, joining existing investors such as Checkout.com. The round, composed of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIn 2020, Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance had a challenge on their hands. They’d been cast in The Silent Twins, the film adaptation of the story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical twins who made headlines in the Seventies for rarely communicating with anyone but each other. The daughters of Bajan immigrants who’d moved to Pembrokeshire in Wales in 1974, they dressed similarly,…

Data Science DysfunctionsPut those data science Venn diagrams away. Yes all thirteen of them.Photo by Artem PodrezThe ongoing great resignation that started in 2021, while gathering steam and backed by credible data, is nothing new in data science.Today is not about running explainability on why people are quitting. (We did this and bravely published our thoughts on how we think this can be done with empathy and governance). Rather today I want to focus on one key driver of dysfunctional data science teams — management…