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Warner Bros. Compared to her steady presence in 2018’s “Aquaman,” Amber Heard’s screen time as Xebel princess Mera is noticeably diminished in the 2023 sequel “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.” In total, Heard appears in the film for a scant 10 minutes. While not ideal for the actress, this is 10 minutes more than Warner Bros. execs apparently wanted to grant her, with Heard reportedly almost fired from the project. While the exact reasoning behind this remains fuzzy, with some DC sources suggesting it was due to a lack of…

Looper It would be very easy to recommend a good period film to a fan of the genre, as audiences who love to see the past brought to life on screen are simply spoiled with choice amongst the best period piece movies ever made, let alone just any that are watchable. They can turn to the breezy, artful craft of “Pride and Prejudice” or the many haunting twists and turns of “Crimson Peak.” Yes, there are a lot of period pieces that have come and gone from theaters, but there…

KL Rahul and Shubman Gill led India’s defiant fightback via smashing their respective fifties and sharing an unbroken 174-run partnership off 361 balls to keep England at bay, as the visitors’ reached 174/2 in 63 overs at stumps on day four of fourth Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy Test at Old Trafford. Though the prospect of going for a draw is still far away, as they trail by 137 runs, Rahul and Gill, unbeaten on 87 and 78 respectively, have given India and its fans a fighting chance of saving the match, something which looked improbable at one point. It was because England…

Joe Root has opened up on climbing up the run charts in Test cricket, surpassing the likes of Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and Ricky Ponting in the ongoing fourth Test in Manchester to become the second-highest run-getter (13,409) of all time in the longest format of the game. Speaking to Sky Sports, Root said that the immensity of his achievement is yet to fully sink in. “When you look at the names there on that list, they are all people that, as a kid growing up, that’s who I would try to be in the garden, on the street, on…

Marvel Studios As of summer 2025, the Marvel Cinematic Universe boasts an eye-popping 37 films, with more on the way. It’s an impressive feat for a studio that only released its first movie in 2008. At the time, few could have predicted how big the MCU would become or how cinematic universes would change Hollywood forever. Marvel was the first studio to divide its movie slates into “phases,” mapping out elaborate release strategies that whipped audiences into a frenzy. The MCU also marked the first time that disparate franchises were…

Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar believes Yashasvi Jaiswal’s dismissal in the second innings of ongoing fourth Test against England resulted from a minor difference in the ball which took him out, which made the difference between a confident stroke and soft dismissal.   Veteran all-rounder Chris Woakes struck in the opening over of India’s second innings when he got one to shape away enough and take the leading edge of a squared up Jaiswal’s bat, which was brilliantly caught by one-handed Joe Root going low to his right at slip, as the left-handed opener fell for a duck. “When you…

It’s been more than 30 years since Nike stormed into the soccer scene with the release of the brand’s first non-cleted boot, followed by the forever-classic Total 90 silhouette. Now, Nike has returned to reclaim its reign in the sport. Taking inspiration from its 1995 Secret Tournament, a soccer competition that saw 24 players compete against each other, the Swoosh launched Toma LA, a summer soccer competition series that takes it up a notch, earlier this summer.  As part of the brand’s new soccer initiative, Toma El Juego (Take the Game) – geared towards a new generation of players, Toma…

A new poster outside the Janata Dal (United) state office in Patna stirred the political atmosphere in Bihar on Saturday, as several party workers publicly demanded that Nishant Kumar, son of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, enter active politics and contest elections. The poster, prominently displayed on Veer Chand Patel Path, reads: ‘Workers demand, Nishant should contest elections’. It features Nishant Kumar’s photograph and has been attributed to four local JDU workers—Sushil Kumar, Abhay Patel, Varun Kumar, and Chandan Patel. Speaking to the media, the workers said that Bihar and the party need “new energy” and that Nishant Kumar embodies the…

The Bengaluru police Saturday arrested four members of a gang that allegedly kidnapped a Dubai-based businessman and kept him captive in the Karnataka capital for over a week to demand a Rs 2.5 crore ransom.The kidnapping is alleged to have happened after the girlfriend of the businessman – who is yet to be arrested – tipped off the gang about his lifestyle of gambling and partying while he was on a visit to Bengaluru from Dubai. The Bengaluru-resident mother of the 37-year-old Kerala-origin businessman, Milton Lawrence, had filed a complaint with the Ashoknagar police on July 16 about her son…

Former Bihar minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Saturday announced that he would contest the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections as an independent candidate. The announcement came after he was expelled from the RJD and his family by former Bihar CM and party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav. The estranged elder son Tej Pratap Yadav will contest as an independent from Mahua, the seat from where he contested in the 2015 state elections and was elected as an MLA. He was appointed as a minister in Nitish Kumar’s Cabinet and served till 2017. The seat is now…