Hanif Kureishi, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter best known for penning the Daniel Day-Lewis romance “My Beautiful Laundrette,” suffered a potentially catastrophic fall that could prevent him from ...

Movies about London’s Pakistani community are so rare that My Beautiful Laundrette still carries the charge of something fresh and exciting, three decades after it was originally released. Written by ...

Neither director Stephen Frears nor writer Hanif Kureishi nor actor Daniel Day Lewis were well-known names when "My Beautiful Laundrette" appeared in 1985, but this movie changed all that. And for ...

Omar Ali (appealing Gordon Warnecke) is a young, unemployed Pakistani living with his alcoholic father, Hussein (Roshan Seth), once a celebrated left-wing journalist, now full of self-pity and ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. The Asheville Film Society attempted to screen My Beautiful Laundrette last winter, but the weather had other ideas, so this is ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Johnny licks Omar’s neck. He’s got some blue paint on his face from decorating the front of the launderette. The two men stand in front of the building, which Omar manages. Johnny’s friends, a batch ...

"It is unclear whether I will ever be able to walk again, or whether I’ll ever be able to hold a pen," Kureishi revealed on Twitter. Hanif Kureishi, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter best known for ...

Sweepingly compared with its contemporary Letter to Brezhnev, Laundrette indeed revolves around a tale of young cross-cultural love. But whereas the sleazy, raucous bulk of Brezhnev worked as a foil ...

Stephen Frears wasn't particularly well known prior to My Beautiful Laundrette. Those within the industry knew him from his work with the BBC and collaborations with some of Britain's most noteworthy ...