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A homage to the cinema of John Carpenter

After two successful seasons, Netflix has come out with the third season of the science fiction horror series Stranger Things. Written and directed by the Duffer Brothers, the series...

Culture Murtaza Ali Khan

AI revolution drives surge in gold demand

New Delhi: As AI systems become increasingly integral to devices such as smartphones, autonomous...

Business Correspondent

Impact of AI on solar module manufacturing efficiency

As the world increasingly turns to renewable energy sources, solar power has become a...

Business Kumar Shivam

Bioeconomy finally gets moment in spotlight at G20 Rio Summit

As the Brazilian Presidency of the G20 winds to a close, its efforts to...

Business Anupama Vijayakumar

Jio’s subscriber surge continues; BSNL’s dips

New Delhi: Reliance Jio has emerged as the clear leader in India’s telecom market...

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Here Alone: A sombre entry in the shambling flesh-eater canon

The zombie movie trend appears to be just as popular with festivalgoers these days as it is with TV audiences or multiplex crowds. That...

Keeping it short: Notes from New York’s Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival, whose latest iteration began in New York City on April 13, is a curious beast. Stuck between the established monoliths...

‘Being in front of the camera makes me calm’

While most reviews of the recent blockbuster Fan had overt critical outpourings on Shah Rukh Khan’s makeup and melodrama: an overdose of King Khan....

‘Indie cinema is helping the mainstream industry evolve’

Was film making always an obvious choice for you as you grew up in Bombay?A. Not at all. In fact, my family never had...

Uncomfortable truths: A film that plays up our old primal instincts

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Experimenter, a film that dramatises one of the most famous psychological studies of all time. This week,...

Lights, Camera, Internet

One of the biggest releases of the year, the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Fan released to packed theatres on April 15, and...

Movie Review: A non-stop tapestry of elegant violence

Hardcore HenryDirector: Ilya NaishullerStarring: Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett A man named Henry finds himself on a plane with people trying to save him...

Shah Rukh Khan overdose: Fan is held together only by its main lead

FanDirector: Maneesh SharmaStarring: Shah Rukh Khan, Joelle Koissi, Mariola Jaworska Gaurav Chandna is your everyday impersonator who swears by his idol Aryan Khanna(Shah Rukh Khan),...

An imperfect but effective depiction of human grief

There’s a scene late in Josh Mond’s heartbreaking film James White in which a son cradles his cancer-ridden mother in the bathroom and talks...

Documenting the fight of women boxers in India

It all began in 2005, when Ameesha Joshi attended the World Press Photo exhibit in Montreal where she saw the images by Danish photographer...

Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda 3 suffers from franchise fatigue

Kung Fu Panda 3Director: Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh NelsonStarring: Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, J.K. Simmons, Jackie Chan, Lucy LiuAs...

45 Years: A complex and endearing tale of elderly love

The most perceptive films about romantic relationships are rarely the ones that stick to telling the stories of how they begin. Two people get...

Mainstream steals the National Awards show

After almost every award ceremony, what follows is an outburst of articles, tweets, posts and trolls which mock — for some reason or other...

‘Bigger is better’ synonymous with science fiction these days

Increasingly, when people think about science fiction movies these days, they think about huge and bombastic franchise films. There’s nothing inherently wrong with such...

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