20 Best Investigative Journalism Movies: Investigative reporting or watchdog journalism is the most pivotal pillar of a functioning democracy. It can nurture and empower a vigilant public. It is essential for investigative…
Best Movies That End in Dance: There’s an art to ending things. Not every film can end with a dance, nor should they. There’s something about the sudden excess of physicality that…
Best Films Dealing with Toxic Work Culture: The Industrial Revolution in the 18th century brought several civil, economic, and social problems with it. One of the foundational images of cinema is Lumiere’s…
Indian Films on The Nature of Widowhood: If you are an Indian who spends just enough time on social media, you might have come across the stupid sensationalization around a set of…
Mike Leigh is one of Britain’s greatest living film directors whose cinematic world-view has permeated characterizations and situations, providing the viewers with renewed preconceptions of realism. His uncompromising study of everyday Britain…
10 Best Movies of Will Smith, Ranked: In the times that we live in, in which everything and every public move or opinion is under close scrutiny, it has become more challenging…
Reviews
Everyone now knows Gareth Edwards as the guy who brought back Godzilla onto the screen with style and substance in 2014 and made one of the most distinct Star Wars stories in…
Seventeeners (Original title: Hadinelentu) Movie Review: The sneakiest thing about love is it involves a ton of risks. The voyage to travel across the barriers of familial acceptance takes an eternity. To…
Imagine a story combining the troubles faced by food delivery guys, the plight of the house help, the loneliness of aging parents with kids settled abroad, class struggle, a sweet saga of…
To watch Kleber Mendonca Filho’s latest documentary, Pictures of Ghosts (Original Title: Retratos Fantasmas), is to partake in a giddying, rich, rapturous dose of ardent cinephilia. This achingly loving paean to the…
Some films seem perfect on paper. They have interesting directors, cool premises, and intriguing ensembles featuring actors that you’ve never before seen in the same frame. Everything about them just seems fascinating…
Director Patricia Mazuy begins her latest film, Saturn Bowling (2023), with a distinctive sense of unease. We follow Armand (Achille Reggiani), a jobless bloke constantly loitering around. But he is watchful and…
Essays & Columns
Art is the only thing that resists death – André Malraux. Why Are Michael Haneke Films So Disturbing?: Michael Haneke is an Austrian director with a filmography spanning four decades. Haneke…
With the recent release of the second seasons of ‘Heartstopper‘ and ‘Made in Heaven‘ and the bubbly gay romantic film ‘Red, White and Royal Blue,’ the OTT platforms have been flooded with…
In 2014, Salma Hayek produced the animated film Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, an adaptation of the best-selling poetry book The Prophet, written by the Lebanese-American Poet Gibran Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) in 1923.…
Sine Ni Lav Diaz! These words have become synonymous with an understanding of cinema that crosses the boundaries of an interception of reality, morality, jurisprudence, and the condition of a country in…
Skip and Loafer, a coming-of-age anime that slightly resembles Kimi ni Todoke, tells the story of a country girl named Mitsumi who moves into the city for her high schooling. There, she…
American documentary-style sitcom comedy series Jury Duty (2023) lays out its premise right at the beginning, stating it’s a show where everyone is an actor except for one character. It is that…
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The world of crime procedural on TV has always been interesting to watch, as shown by the success of shows like Law & Order and NCIS. These shows, which are often based…
Appendage, a newly created horror movie with a brilliant cast, is among one fo the most anticipated Halloween releases of the month. The movie is a unique mix of psychological horror and…
Everyone now knows Gareth Edwards as the guy who brought back Godzilla onto the screen with style and substance in 2014 and made one of the most distinct Star Wars stories in…
“57 Seconds,” directed by Rusty Cundieff and released in 2023, is a gripping sci-fi thriller boasting a stellar ensemble cast featuring Morgan Freeman, Josh Hutcherson, Lovie Simone, Bevin Bru, Sammi Rotibi, Mark…
