Creatura (2023) is a Catalan-language film by Spanish filmmaker and actor Elena Martin Gimeno, which was screened at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. It boldly explores an adult woman’s sexuality, her emotional hangups (including…
Reviews
Kathal: A Jackfruit Mystery (2023) Review: Social satire is supposed to be a form of witty criticism aimed at societal flaws. While it’s not written in stone that a witty delivery is…
Robots (2023) Review: Artificial intelligence is all the rage in today’s world. Since the news about ChatGPT bringing content to the fingertips of human beings, we haven’t for a moment stopped speculating…
Inshallah A Boy (2023) Movie Review: Inshallah A Boy (2023), a realist drama in the spirit of Dardenne Brothers, marks director Amjad Al Rasheed’s Cannes feature debut as well as his home…
Directed by Raj Rachakonda, ‘8 AM Metro’ follows two strangers who meet by chance encounter on a metro and feel a strong connection. Iravati (played by Saiyami Kher), a married woman from…
Indonesian documentary filmmaker Ismail Fahmi Lubis’ Help Is on the Way (2020) offers a broader and deeply personal look at the plight of domestic workers and caregivers. A stat in the opening…
Essays & Columns
The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan (2023) Book-To-Screen Adaptation: Published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas’ classic book The Three Musketeers is almost two hundred years old. Still, it remains widely popular within and beyond France:…
How Batman’s Joker Got His Scars?: The Joker was portrayed in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight more realistically, and one of his distinguishing features was the scars on his face. The late…
Solidarity & Intersectionality in Harlan County, USA (1976): A portrait of an Appalachian city in the 1970s may seem utterly irrelevant to today’s world. However, with the growing unrest and fights for…
The Bourne Film Franchise: The Bourne franchise’s character named Nicky, originally had a different ending, and the choice to alter her destiny rescued the spy thriller series. Although Julia Stiles’ Nicky ultimately…
Reading beyond the silences in “Mrs. Chatterjee Vs. Norway”: Oftentimes, in the film medium, messages are conveyed through various means besides dialogues. Silences, body movements, expressions, lighting, and color convey a lot…
Dev Anand starrer Prem Pujari (1970) Movie Essay: How should someone look at a film which dabbles into multiple territories of emotions, moods, and even genres of films, and while doing so,…
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Succession Series Finale: While nothing has really been spoilt, but still a spoiler warning for the whole show and the series finale, especially. There isn’t a set framework to construct the Succession…
Ghosts of Beirut (Miniseries) Episode 2: The second episode of Showtime’s latest docu-drama miniseries picked up right from the point where the first one ended, but strangely enough, it felt like a…
10 Must-See Movies in June 2023 (Theatres): The blockbuster season is officially here. May opened up doors for Hollywood’s big bets like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Fast X, and The…
Succession (Season 4 Finale), Episode 10: Succession is over. Writing it and reading it out loud still doesn’t make sense. The HBO show has taken its final bow on television with the…
The Little Mermaid (2023) Review: As The Walt Disney Company has, for the last decade, dedicated itself to pop culture’s reboot phenomenon by adapting many of its beloved animated classics into big-budget,…
Japan has a history of complexities politely woven into its animations. With rich icons of the likes of Hayao Miyazaki and creative forces of studio houses such as Ghibli, every anime coming…
Time and again, Jafar Panahi has proved that films have immense potential as timeless documents depicting the present socio-political situation of a nation without pandering to propaganda. The films of Panahi stand…
Top 10 Horror Movie Villains of All Time: For decades, the horror genre, though continuously overlooked critically, has been a vibrant presence in the film industry. Unpredictable and ever-changing, the state of…
