Some films arrive in such a surprising and compelling way that they instantly become legend. “Where were you when Mad Max: Fury Road came out?” Fury Road is a film that brings cinema to life in spine-tingling fashion. Cinematic maths…
Bhaiyya Ji Movie Review: Powerhouse talent Manoj Bajpayee's 100th film has been released in theaters today. Directed and written by Apoorv Singh Karki, Bhaiyya Ji tells the story of a man seeking revenge for wrongs done to his family. The…
Nostalgic docufiction that morphs into a lockdown thriller, Lou Ye’s “An Unfinished Film” is the second work at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (alongside Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”) in which a “Sixth Generation” Chinese…
Take your pick. There have been countless film and tv productions adapting Alexandre Dumas’ classic 19th century tale of revenge and deception, The Count Of Monte-Cristo. We have seen it in different versions in 1934, 1954, 1975, 2002 and…
The actor stars as a man who plays various hit men for the police in Richard Linklater’s mischievously entertaining film, which is being released in select theaters before landing on Netflix next month.
From Jekyll and Hyde to the Wolfman, to much more recent twists on atavistic transformations, the concept of shape-shifting has always been a popular one in fiction — with storytellers turning the dial up or down on the potential social…
Amar Singh Chamkila is an immensely fascinating story, told in a way that captures audiences’ interest from the first scene. It’s the return of director Imtiaz Ali, in so many ways, but with a film that is quite a departure from his usual…
At this month’s Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola and Kevin Costner each unveiled passion projects they opted to finance themselves after institutional backers initially passed. This week, three auteurs make a trend — except…
Weird sisters have been spinning their witchy webs in stories dating back to Greek mythology, which included a macabre trio of sisters who passed a single eye between them. There is something of that sense of a closed circle of unknowable…
Battersea Arts Centre, London Netflix turned Kata Wéber and Kornél Mundruczó’s play into an Oscar-nominated film. Now a world-class ensemble from Poland’s TR Warszawa bring it out its nuanced brilliance
Mammootty is once again set to appear on the big screen and this time the actor arrives with an action-packed mass movie. The film starring the Megastar in the lead role also features Kannada actor Raj B Shetty and Telugu actor Sunil in…
The Jurassic World movies, while fun, haven’t been as well-received as Spielberg’s original film (which still holds up more than 30 years later), but one fun bonus to the Jurassic Park franchise surprisingly was the Jurassic World: Camp…