You’ve heard of filler episodes. You know, the kind where there’s no narrative motion, no real character development, a lot of flavour, a few conversations, and a whole bunch of things happening ...

Purely as an action thriller, Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s Kill is slick, savage and supremely satisfying to watch. It ticks all the boxes: Creative choreography, relentless rhythm, unforgiving gore, the ...

The arrival of an expensive big-screen epic only elicits extreme reactions. Given the scale and hype, the film is allowed to be either a masterpiece or a disaster. From the viewers’ point of view, it ...

The first few events in Ullozhukku (Under Current), directed by Christo Tomy, happen in quick succession. Life falls through Anju’s (Parvathy) fingers before she can chart a plan. From a wide-eyed ...

We have a screenplay — a bible that interconnects complicated characters in its universe — that moves like a cheetah. Nothing is really just a coincidence in Maharaja. Which means an adorable but ...

‘The Iron Claw’ was the signature move of the Von Erichs, the legendary family of professional wrestlers who rose to stardom in the Eighties and went on to occupy pride of place in the WWE Hall of ...

Satyabhama is conscious of how rare it is for a woman to play the lead in a mainstream Telugu film. In its early stretches, we see shades of Vijayshanti’s Kartavyam (1990) — Kajal Aggarwal in the lead ...

The year is 2066. An air taxi picks me up from a cardio-reparation chamber in Mars; my ailing 80-year-old body settles in for the hour-long ride home. I swipe the oxygen to summon a transparent plasma ...

Last seen together in the 2021 horror comedy Roohi, Rajkummar Rao and Janhvi Kapoor have their second collaboration in Sharan Sharma’s romantic sports drama Mr. & Mrs. Mahi. They play a couple with a ...

If Panchayat were a person, each season unfolds like a life stage. Season one is its childhood – hopeful, young, unphased by the bigger picture. Its nothingness is everything: There’s MBA aspirant ...

All We Imagine As Light is an evocative, stirring portrait of Mumbai and its people – especially immigrants. Payal Kapadia, making her feature debut, tells the story of two Malayali nurses – Prabha, ...

Aarambham, based on Anush A Shetty’s Kannada language novel ‘Neenu Ninnolage Khaidi’, often sees its lead actor Miguel (Mohan Bhagath) contend with existential questions about time. “If the sun sets ...