In 2022, the world lost one of the greatest actors to ever appear in front of a camera. He was, and still remains one of the most evergreen figures in classic cinema, who not just reinvented acting, but changed the landscape of it all, fighting stigma throughout his glorious career. Sidney Poitier is the rare…
Anbariv, Kamal Haasan and Syam Pushkaran | Photo Credit: @RKFI/X In an unexpected announcement, Kamal Haasan’s production banner Raaj Kamal Films International on Friday (September 12) siad that the veteran actor’s next film, KH 237, has gone on floors. With a script written by acclaimed Malayalam screenwriter Syam Pushkaran, the film marks the directorial debut…
A still from ‘Jugnuma: The Fable’. Coming at a time when the debate about the original inhabitant and the migrant/trespasser is raging across the world, young filmmaker Raam Reddy mounts a fable that fascinates with its subversive tone and veritable voice. The atmospheric visuals and magic realism remind one of Marquez and Manoj Night Shyamalan,…
GV Prakash Kumar in a still from ‘Blackmail’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A child and a young woman are passed around like objects in Blackmail, a film reminiscent of the middling time-pass thrillers from ten years ago. Headlined by GV Prakash Kumar, the poster boy of Tamil mid-budget thrillers, Blackmail is an attempt to…
A still from ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’. | Photo Credit: Focus Features/YouTube There is Ascot, a Noël Coward musical, a divorce, a confidence trickster, a country fair, and a passing mention of the Depression. Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes’ historical drama series following the fortunes of the upstairs and downstairs folks of the eponymous Yorkshire…
Image for repreentational purposes only. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN The Karnataka government on Friday (September 12, 2025) issued draft rules to further amend the Karnataka Cinema (Control) Rules, 2014 and fix ticket price in all theatres in the State, including multiplexes, at ₹200, exclusive of all taxes. However, multi-screen cinemas with premium facilities of…
The first act of Vishal Venkat’s sophomore film, Bomb, bears many hallmarks of a novel social satire. The film sets up a premise akin to Madonne Ashwin’s Mandela, but with a Swiss Army Man-esque twist that makes you sit right up. There’s again a town divided due to sectarianism and its related politics, but this…
Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk is a grim, unrelenting experience, and at times so bare-bones in its execution that it risks monotony. Yet, it carries something hypnotic in its excruciating, inevitable march toward oblivion. Adapted from Stephen King’s early work under the sobriquet Richard Bachman, the film belongs to that rare breed of studio releases…
Film after film, horror enthusiasts continue to get a raw deal as storytellers lazily rehash old tropes for cheap thrills — a haunted house, mysterious deaths, a ghost with a flashback, a possessed woman, and a man who braves it all to end the menace. However, Kishkindhapuri is at least forthright about not being any…
While watching Mirai, I was occasionally reminded of actor Teja Sajja’s earlier film Hanu-Man. That superhero fantasy by director Prasanth Varma, set in a fictional world, drew on devotional texts while borrowing familiar tropes from the genre. Its engaging characters and emotional depth made audiences root for the underdog hero. This time, the canvas is…
