The 53rd Saturn Awards were announced on March 8, 2026 at Universal Hilton in Los Angeles, California. Tom Cruise grabbed the Best Actor award for his performance in Mission: Impossible- The Final Reckoning while James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash won honours in multiple categories, including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Younger Performer in a…
The poster of ‘Alpha’ | Photo Credit: Yash Raj Films Alia Bhatt and Sharvari’s much-awaited actioner, Alpha has a new release date. The next film in the YRF Spy Universe, Alpha will be released in theatres on July 10, 2026, the makers announced on Monday (March 9, 2026). To make the announcement, the makers shared…
Vladimir, based on Julia May Jonas’s novel of the same name is stupendous, sexy and smart. Set in the rarefied world of academia, and further still in the highbrow, navel-gazing fishbowl of an English Literature department, the mini-series follows the protagonist M (an incandescent Rachel Weisz) through a turbulent time in her life. Once a…
A still from ‘Redux Redux’ | Photo Credit: Mothership Motion Pictures Kevin and Matthew McManus return with Redux Redux, their third feature after Funeral Kings and The Block Island Sound, and the film immediately makes itself seen with the kind of stripped-down charisma that indie science fiction often promises yet rarely sustains. Their sister Michaela…
Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s debut movie Aaranya Kaandamis set for re-release. Produced by playback singer and actor SP Charan, the Tamil movie first released on June 10, 2011. “Some films don’t age. They become cult classic,” Charan, son of legendary singer SP Balasubrahmanyam, posted on social media, announcing the re-release date. The critically-acclaimed movie will re-release again…
For the finale of the 2026 spring season of the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI), Italian maestro Carlo Rizzi conducted one of the most popular pieces written in Western classical music — Ludwig van Beethoven’s ‘Symphony No. 5’. Best recognised for its opening sequence symbolising ‘fate knocking at the door’, it was played to perfection….
Shahid Kapoor | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor has started shooting for the second season of the acclaimed thriller series Farzi. Shahid shared the news by uploading a picture on his Instagram story on Saturday with “Farzi 2 day 1 … . Back at it,” written over it. The post comprised Shahid’s…
A still from the docu-series | Photo Credit: discovery+ Telling someone else’s story is an inherent act of interpretation, an understanding of what happened to them. When the victim is no longer alive, true crime documentaries bear this massive burden and don’t always honour them. Lost Women of Alaska – a three-part docu-series – revisits…
Something curious appears to be happening inside Scandinavian families, at least if the region’s filmmakers serve as our sociologists. This marks the second Nordic film this year to interrogate a ruptured household with almost anthropological seriousness, and the trend seems to be speaking a little too close for comfort directly to my own backlog of…
Kambar’s Ramavatharam or Kamba Ramayanam with nearly 10,800 verses is one of the greatest literary works in Tamil, and is an impeccable showcase of Kambar’s mastery over poetic forms such as agaval, venba and adiyaar. The programme, ‘The Rise and Fall of Ravanan’ held recently at Narada Gana Sabha, featured scholars Priya Ramachandran and Mohamed…
