Nour Eddine Lakhmari is a Moroccan director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning feature film Casanegra, released in 2008. Casanegra, which has a running time just over two hours, is Lakhmari’s subversion of the iconic film Casablanca. Both films are set in the city of their namesake, but while Casablanca focuses on the exoticism of Morocco’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, Casanegra examines the underbelly of the city by night.

In the film, Lakhmari explores critical issues such as Moroccan social hierarchy, poverty, drug culture and prostitution. The

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For the past couple of years, cruise lines have been modernizing their fleets, in some cases, based on the success of their newest ships. Now Carnival is opening the vault and splurging on its most ambitious fleet modernization ever.

There’s $500 million to be spent by Carnival between now and 2015. Most of the ships will receive the planned full treatment, while some including Carnival’s Glory, Conquest, Freedom and Valor will receive some new features.

Keeping with today’s technical jargon, the whole upgrade is called Fun Ship 2.0.

Guy Fieri, the blond, spikehaired wild man of Food Network fame, is part of the upgrade, as is funnyman George Lopez.

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Rome has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows since the medium was invented. Sometimes it’s in an epic setting of grandeur, sometimes it’s for intense drama, and sometimes it’s just good old fashioned silliness. Here’s our list of ten excellent portrayals of Rome in movies and television.

Rome in the Movies

• Gladiator (Movie) This 2000 movie won Russell Crowe his first Academy Award for Best Actor, and also took home four more Oscars, including Best Picture. If you haven’t seen it, this grand vision from Ridley Scott is a truly epic masterpiece. You will be entertained.

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Bledington, Oxfordshire

Set on an absurdly picturesque Cotswold village green, the Kings Head Inn, built in the 16th century as a cider house, is everything you could wish for in an atmospheric country pub. It has charming, down-to-earth owners , an old-school bar with an inglenook fireplace, refreshing Cotswold Dark Lager on tap and a dining-room serving hearty traditional English food. Traceable ingredients are key to the menu – the exquisite Aberdeen Angus beef comes from Archie’s uncle’s farm – which is packed with dishes such as roast haunch of Cotswold venison and Bledington beef cottage pie with seasonal vegetables. The inn

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