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An entertaining thriller surrounding a crumbling marriage: Hulu’s Deep Water follows a couple who have fallen out of love but are supposedly content with their open marriage arrangement: Vic Van Allen (Ben Affleck), a well-off tech who retired early and chose to be a house husband and his freespirited wife, Melinda (Ana de Armas) who is more occupied with her flings and flirtations. Vic seems fine with Melinda’s entanglements, turning a blind eye in the dysfunctional and toxic marriage to avoid a divorce and care for their daughter, Trixie. But trouble soon emerges, as Vic’s slow-growing discontent soon makes him the prime suspect in the disappearance of one of Melinda’s lovers. The movie is directed by legendary British director Adrian Lyne, best known for iconic movies Indecent Proposal and Fatal Attraction, who returned to the big screen after a 20-year hiatus. You can stream Deep Water on OSN+ or catch the trailer here (watch runtime: 2:02).

Ironically, Affleck and de Armas had their own love story during the movie’s production, before breaking up a year after De Armas recently revealed that growing attention of their relationship made her “anxious”, pushing her to call it quits.

⚽ Egypt’s Red Devils try to save face: Third-place Al Ahly will host Pharco in the Egyptian Premier League at 9pm, as it tries to close the gap with second-place Pyramids FC to one point under efforts to chase for the title of the league. Al Ahly’s cabinet has been league trophy-less since season 2019/2020.

The last of 2022 Arab Cup U-20 goes underway: Egypt will play against Algeria in the semi-finals today at 8pm. Saudi Arabia v Palestine are on the pitch as we dispatch.

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Jordanian indie band Autostrad is taking over Cairo Jazz 610’s stage tonight to perform a fusion of rock, reggae, latin, and funk music. Meshwar will get the night started at 9pm.

It’s 90s night at Cairo Jazz Club — Shereet Cockatil ft. Anis are performing Arabic and English pop hits from the 90s and the 80s at 8 pm.

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Forget about the 1% — Plutocrats takes on the 0.1% that have amassed exorbitant fortunes (in 2019 they owned nearly 20% of the US’ wealth), and have widened the wealth gap, deepening economic inequality. Financial journalist-turned-politician Chrystia Freeland conducts interviews with plutocrats to look at the consequences of concentrating the world’s wealth into such a small number of hands. She dives deep into the history of super-elitism, drawing comparisons between the current period and other periods with great income disparity such as the Gilded Age, which brought enormous wealth to business men like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. The b’naires of today, unlike their historical counterparts, are mostly self-made, but largely impervious to the details of economic and political forces that led to their successes, instead owing it to their hard work, she argues. Freeland is able to remain politically neutral in delivering a compelling and well-researched examination of inequality.