Jinni: Where the hype really ends?
| DATE: 2010-03-01

By Ali Naafiz

The hype around the new Dhivehi movie, ‘Jinni’ (genie) would indeed leave anyone, even someone who is critical of Dhivehi movies, to reserve a seat in the capital’s only true cinema. Though the posters never caught my interest in the movie, the hype was so strong that there were no..[Full Story]


Michael Jackson: could the fallen king of pop thrill again?
| DATE: 2009-03-11

LOS ANGELES, March 5, 2009 (AFP) - Michael Jackson was a child prodigy, a musical genius and one of the most idolised artists on earth.
But for all his iconic status, the 50-year-old pop megastar -- who is expected to announce his first concerts in more than a decade on Wednesday -- risks seeing..[Full Story]


Guest House: The most unintentionally funny local movie since ‘Kiss the Jazbaath’
| DATE: 2008-01-13

by Ahmed Rushdie
There were no two ways about it; I had to go see the new movie called “The Guest House: Room 201”. For one thing, it was written and directed by Amjay. He’s like the Uwe Boll of Maldives after all, and infamous for making really, really bad movies even by Maldives’..[Full Story]


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