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There is something cosy and nostalgic about rows of shelves lined with books, especially the ones with that delightful old-book smell and leather dust jackets. It reminds you of the simpler joys of life. Madan Kumar’s Flying Dose Films, which aims to serve gari gari kathegalu (crisp stories), has captured this whiff of nostalgia in…
America Ferrera and Matthew McConaughey in a still from ‘The Lost Bus’ | Photo Credit: Apple TV+ Paul Greengrass elevates genre films to works of anxiety-inducing art. The British director took the spy thriller to a different level with 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy and 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum. He injects non-fiction with imagination and adrenaline…
On September 25, Netflix released the third and final season of its popular Japanese sci-fi thriller series Alice in Borderland. The show’s protagonist, the lonely, video-game obsessed Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) is trapped in a dystopian version of Tokyo (…the Borderland) alongside his friends as they are forced to participate in a series of sadistic games…
Academic Freedom Index, India now ranks as “completely restricted”, its lowest score since the mid-1940s. | Photo: A still from the movie The Two Popes. Robert Francis Prevost became the first pope from the United States on Thursday (May 8, 2025), picking the papal name Leo XIV after cardinals from around the world elected him as…
GV Prakash in a still from ‘Kingston’ | Photo Credit: Saregama Tamil/YouTube Another Friday, another Tamil film that squanders its potential and settles for less. Kingstonis yet another horror flick diluted by commercial compulsions, with a loud, distracting score drowning any chance to be transported into its world. And after 2024’s Sorgavaasal, this is another…
From The Allure of Land series by Manjunath Wali | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Once upon a time, there was an emperor called Pulakeshin who ruled over a kingdom that spanned all of Karnataka and a huge swathe of Andhra Pradesh. Called the Chalukya Empire, his dynasty ushered in a golden era of civilisation, art…
A still from the film ‘Identity’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement If someone were to narrate the story of Identity, directed by Akhil Paul and Anas Khan, chances are that halfway through, the person will get lost in a maze of complicated side stories. It need not have been that way, for at its core,…
