‘Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimaiyil’ movie review: A superb Jiiva lights up Nithish Sahadev’s firecracker comedy

One man’s sanity is another man’s circus. Wonder who said this? The mad man who just had a great time at the theatres on a Pongal day watching Falimy-director Nithish Sahadev’s extremely satisfying Tamil debut Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimaiyil (TTT). The spark that lights this rapid-fire cracker of a comedy lies in the matchstick that a…

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‘The Chronology of Water’ movie review: Kristen Stewart’s luminous first portrait is buoyed by a fearless Imogen Poots

The Chronology of Water is an act of sustained immersion. Written and directed by Kristen Stewart in her directorial debut, the film adapts Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir into a piece of cinema that morphs like memory under pressure. It moves in pulses, returns without warning, and binds sensation to thought so tightly that the distinction erodes….

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‘Parasakthi’ 2026 movie: The tussle between the reel and the real

Billed as the DMK’s film for the election season, Sudha Kongara’s Parasakthi, whose title is borrowed from the “quintessential DMK film” of the same name written by former DMK president M. Karunanidhi, has been slammed by none other than the DMK’s political ally, Congress, on the grounds that it misrepresents facts and advances non-existent conspiracies to prop up its…

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