Entertainment Desk

Netflix has been rolling out some changes throughout the past year and a half. While audiences may be upset that advertisements may be added to their content, they can be happy about this: they have been gradually increasing their international television and movies, especially Korean dramas and movies. In 2022 alone, shows like Money Heist: […]

As a Tamil, as someone who writes regularly on cinema, I’m asking Bollywood, on humanitarian grounds at least, to stop making movies about us. The few who know me well enough are aware I can happily digest huge helpings of cringe-content, but Meenakshi Sundareshwar has me struggling to keep my lunch and temper down. It’s […]

Within the first 10 minutes of the film, you witness a Nicolas Cage fangirl being kidnapped while she’s enjoying one of his movies on a TV set. Next: Nicolas Cage, posing as Hollywood star Nick Cage (basically, himself), is evidently going through a rough patch in his career and his personal life. His alter-ego, modelled […]

There’s a fight in the Metro. There’s a fight in an old building. There’s a fight on a busy road. But why are they fighting? The question lingers on for long while watching Mohit Suri’s Ek Villain Returns. Touted to be a spiritual successor to his 2014 film Ek Villain, this sequel is far painful, […]

Just before Jayeshbhai introduces his family members to us, he draws a rather silly analogy between scientists wanting to know about Mars and his parents wanting to know about the gender of his child. What’s common between a planet a woman’s womb? Well, they’re both round (gol) in shape. Some Gujju humour to set the […]

Pablo Cesar has built a career around telling diverse stories of cross-cultural encounters that erase distances and differences and explore the likenesses that unite the world. Thinking of Him, an Indo-Argentine co-production, furthers his pursuit. The Spanish and English-language film brings to the screen the nuances of a fascinating relationship that developed between philosopher-poet Rabindranath […]

The first “Doctor Strange” film introduced an idiosyncratic character by means of an apt cinematic peculiarity, but its sequel, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” squeezes the character into the Marvel franchise by trimming away all the whimsy. The strength of the first “Doctor Strange” is the embrace of its protagonist’s weirdness, which enshrines […]

The striking if not really shocking success of “Top Gun: Maverick” is built around the simple fact that it’s an exquisitely executed blockbuster. It seems to have everything a commercial retro action movie would need: a prime movie star – one of the only ones left – who still knows how to fold a movie […]