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Malayalam film actor Mohanlal with actor and director Prithviraj Sukumaran during a press meet for their upcoming film ‘L2: Empuraan’, in New Delhi, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Malayalam superstar Mohanlal’s recent release L2: Empuraan on Saturday (April 5) became the highest-grossing Malayalam film of all time globally, dethroning 2024’s Manjummel Boys. The film, which was…
A still from ‘A Minecraft Movie’ | Photo Credit: Warner Bros. A Minecraft Movie has crafted a box office smash. The long-awaited live-action adaptation of the best-selling video game opened to $58 million U.S. gross on Friday, including Thursday previews — the biggest opening day of 2025 to date and the highest single-day debut ever…
A still from ‘Presence’ A spectre is haunting the Payne family — the spectre of Steven Soderbergh’s hand-held camera. At least, that is what we are led to believe as we are introduced to Chris (Chris Sullivan), Rebecca (Lucy Liu), and their teenaged children, Tyler (Eddy Maday), and Chloe (Callina Liang). Rebecca’s dreams and desires…
As the world customarily deliberates on a woman’s place in society this week, writer-director Jayant Somalkar shows us the mirror through a deceptively simple take on the patriarchal roots of the traditional matchmaking process and the attendant social churn in our villages. Structured like a coming-of-age story of a village girl struggling to find her way out…
Athish Shetty in ‘Mithya’. | Photo Credit: Paramvah Studios/YouTube In Sumanth Bhat’s Mithya, Mithun, a.k.a Mithya (Athish Shetty), is hesitant to move forward as he stands alone and stares at his new house. The poignant Kannada film, which premiered at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023, has several scenes like this that depict the 11-year-old boy’s…
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…
A still from ‘The Monkey’ | Photo Credit: Neon Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey is a characteristically deranged swing at horror-comedy. It’s loosely based on Stephen King’s 1980 short story, but where King’s original felt like a meditation on guilt and inherited doom, Perkins’ adaptation cranks the camp to eleven. In many ways, The Monkey feels…
A still from ‘Picture This’ | Photo Credit: Prime Video Ninth Mandala is a portraiture studio in Hackney run by Pia Jaswani (Simone Ashley) and her gay best friend, Jay (Luke Fetherston), who share a strict distaste for passport photographs. They want to capture light and play with it through the lenses but in a…
Ibrahim Ali Khan, Khushi Kapoor in ‘Nadaaniyan’ A gossamer-thin romantic comedy that comes across as Karan Johar’s latest home assignment for star kids to pass the Bollywood entrance test, Nadaaniyan doesn’t pass muster. Reflecting the armchair sensibility of the Bandra school of filmmaking, the love story strains credibility and tests patience. Its nebulous ideas on…
A still from ‘Flow’ | Photo Credit: @madmanfilms/YouTube Pardon the wordplay in the headline. I could not help it. Films rarely feel as simple yet complete and…. as perfect as Gints Zilbalodis’ animated fantasy adventure, Flow. In a runtime of less than 90 minutes — in which not a single word is spoken yet a…
