‘A House of Dynamite’ movie review: Kathryn Bigelow’s DEFCON-1 stages a bureaucratic parade of panic

A still from ‘A House of Dynamite’ | Photo Credit: Netflix Kathryn Bigelow returns with a film that seeks to convert abstract geopolitical dread into a clinical exercise in decision-making under catastrophic time pressure. The conceit in A House of Dynamite is spare and severe: a rogue intercontinental ballistic missile is detected en route to…

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‘Nellikkampoyil Night Riders’ movie review: A horror comedy that’s neither funny nor scary

Sarath Sabha, Mathew Thomas and Roshan Shanavas in a still from ‘Nellikkampoyil Night Riders’ | Photo Credit: T-Series Malayalam/YouTube At the centre of Nellikkampoyil, the eponymous village in Noufal Abdullah’s debut directorial Nellikkampoyil Night Riders, is a well-stocked library. Although many sequences in the film take place inside this library, none of the characters are…

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Bollywood Tourism – The Hindu

Palat…Palat…Palat! If you get this — you have officially watched DDLJ an unhealthy number of times. (Like the rest of us). Thirty years on, iconic Saanen bridge in Switzerland still pulls tourists in droves, earning the nickname Palat Bridge. Bollywood tourism maybe a micro trend in the realm of film tourism but it has seen…

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