Global News for You – Top News – Current News
At the start of ‘Wicked: For Good’, Glinda (Ariana Grande) sings about how getting to live your dream seems a little… complicated. “There’s a kind of, a sort of, cost,” she observes, and trills away. As Glinda is fussed over and coddled at the Emerald City and reminded that she is to keep the spirits…
Somehow a 9AM festival crowd turned into a Park Chan-wook congregation here at IFFI Goa, and the man rewarded us all with a delicious suburban infomercial that blossoms into the sort of razor work only he can get away with. So this is why cinephiles treat him like a minor deity… Adapted from The Ax…
When the mask finally unveils after a crisp two-hour runtime, the face you see behind it isn’t that of Kavin, the promising actor who, after Bloody Beggar, has once again daringly taken on an off-beat genre, or Andrea Jeremiah, the ever-impressive acting-singing phenom playing the other lead. The face we see is of the writer-director…
12A Railway Colony, the Telugu film directed by Nani Kasaragadda, changes its hues at every turn. It works as a pleasant surprise, to begin with. The protagonist Karthik (Allari Naresh) experiences visions about saving a girl in a snowslide. He is led to a video about spirits and how they contact people. Then, the focus…
A middle-class intelligence officer juggling high-stakes national security threats with his chaotic family life. When The Family Man sauntered into our living rooms in 2019, it offered a fresh take on the spy genre, one that eschewed existing clichés. It raised the bar for Indian OTT thrillers, with Manoj Bajpayee’s nuanced performance anchoring the narrative. However, success contains…
Michael Angelo Covino’s acidic rom-com topples the open-romance theory with a straight face and shaky confidence that feels embarrassingly recognisable Source link
Ashika Ranganath and Dushyanth in ‘Gatha Vaibhava’. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Not long ago, director Simple Suni faced the criticism of making dialogue-heavy movies. While the words had wit, the stories lacked depth. From his previous movie, Ondu Sarala Prema Kathe (2024), Suni seemed to have shed his style. That movie and his latest,…
A still from ‘De De Pyaar De 2’ | Photo Credit: T-Series In 2019, when De De Pyaar De hit the screens, the unapologetic take on unconventional love worked because of being emotionally honest without being melodramatic. Six years later, director Anshul Sharma returns with a cheeky sequel, in the middle of the wedding season, that is again bold…
A still from ‘De De Pyaar De 2’ | Photo Credit: T-Series In 2019, when De De Pyaar De hit the screens, the unapologetic take on unconventional love worked because of being emotionally honest without being melodramatic. Six years later, director Anshul Sharma returns with a cheeky sequel, in the middle of the wedding season, that is again bold…
There is no shot of Taj Mahal in Kanu Behl’s Agra. There are no sprawling gardens that dot the city of monuments. Instead, the fearless chronicler of our society’s hidden fractures and fault lines focuses on the cramped spaces, repressed desires, and the incommodious mindscapes in the mofussil town that the city holds beneath its touristy topsoil. It…
