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Drew Struzan among famous artworks | Photo Credit: Instagram/ @drewstruzanart Drew Struzan, the legendary artist whose cinematic posters became as iconic as the films themselves, has died at 78. The news was confirmed through his official Instagram account, which revealed that Struzan passed away on October 13 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. For…
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…
Janhvi Kapoor and Varun Dhawan in a still from ‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’ | Photo Credit: Dharma Productions Out of Karan Johar’s young proteges, I find Shashank Khaitan’s voice the most influential in taking the Kuch Kuch Hota Hai conversation forward. Film after film, he creates the portrait of the young upper-middle-class Punjabi/ Marwari…
Mark Wahlberg and Rosa Salazar in ‘Play Dirty’ | Photo Credit: Jasin Boland Play Dirtyis the right movie to return to after a break. While combating droopy eyelids and a wandering brain, this violent heist comedy is just what the doctor ordered to get back in the review saddle. The explosive pre-credits sequence sees a…
Rishab Shetty in ‘Kantara Chapter 1’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In a small yet significant scene in Kantara Chapter 1, Berme (Rishab Shetty) tells his mother about the importance of business. It’s not just earning what they deserve, but also a sign of achievement for their marginalised group of people. Berme’s decision to revolt…
In a pivotal stretch of Idli Kadai, actor-director Dhanush’s protagonist Murugan relentlessly attempts to perfect his father’s time-honoured idli recipe. He follows the same routine as his father, uses the same ingredients, and keeps churning the grinding stone, but the idli just isn’t what a generation of Sankarapuram residents have grown up eating. Murugan fails…
A still from ‘Him’ | Photo Credit: Universal Pictures This is not a Jordan Peele film. The Nope and Get Out director has produced Him, which is directed by Justin Tipping. With that out of the way and also the wildly misleading trailer marketing the film as horror, what we are left with is an…
Noted French filmmaker and screenwriter Jean Renoir once said, a director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again. A decade back, I related to this famous quote while watching movies of Mahesh Bhatt and Ram Gopal Varma when their graphs were coming down. This week, Renoir’s…
At a time when Telugu cinema often leans on grand canvases and visual effects to mask weak storylines, it is refreshing to find reminders that storytelling still matters, even in modestly budgeted films. Little Hearts, released recently, captured the innocence of young romance and parental bonding with crackling humour. This week’s release, Beauty, written by…
Akshay Kumar (right) and Arshad Warsi in ‘Jolly LLB 3’. | Photo Credit: Star Studios/YouTube When the invisible claws of censorship begin to throttle creativity, filmmakers either conform or subvert. This week, Subhash Kapoor, who has mastered the art of sugar coating the bitter pill with satire, rewinds to the farmer agitation against land acquisition…
