‘Happy Patel’ is great meme fodder. What it is not is “great cinema”
Vir Das’s directorial debut has pirouetted onto a screen near you, but the movie really belongs to the home theatre
Film & TV
How a micro-budget film travelled from Jharkhand to the Oscars campaign trail
As ‘Humans in the Loop’ enters the Academy Awards race, director Aranya Sahay talks guerilla filmmaking, international audiences, and blaming the algorithm
After 20 years in Bollywood, Shahana Goswami is ready for lead roles
Anyone who’s watched Shahana Goswami on a screen cannot doubt her talent for wearing her characters like a second skin. After nearly 20 years of playing her part in ensemble casts, the actor is more than ready to lead
Murder, they wrote
Crime journalists are moonlighting as authors, researchers, screenwriters to help India’s leading production houses create the next big true-crime binge
In 2024, Indian cinema’s demure leading ladies entered their brat era
Internet culture has us convinced we have lived through a ‘brat’ summer and a ‘demure’ fall in 2024—but that also extended to Indian cinema
Bollywood movies are re-releasing in theatres by the dozen. Is it nostalgia or slim pickings?
Our nostalgia for old films might be about more than just returning to the comfort of a certain joyful, simpler time in our own lives
R.I.P. ‘cougars’ and ‘MILFs’—Hollywood romance is growing up
A rom-com renaissance is taking shape, flipping the age gap relationship with older woman-younger man as leads
A timeline of how female friendships in Indian cinema went from “frenemy” to “sisterhood”
We trace the evolution of the “womance” in post-Independence Indian cinema through a few significant films per decade
Why do we love watching shows about rich people?
Why the one-percenters of Succession to Bridgerton, Bling Empire to Super Rich in Korea have have occupied so much of our attention span
Year Ender 2023: From Past Lives to Kaathal, 23 best World Cinema films of 2023
Hidden gems 2023: Romcoms to biting satires to heartbreaking dramas, these films may not have made as much noise as others but deserve your attention nonetheless.
Book review | ‘MCU - The Reign of Marvel Studios’ review: The thrilling big business of superheroes
Through years of exhaustive research, three American pop culture journalists — Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards — have produced what might be the definitive inside story on Marvel Studios.
Sly on Netflix: Inside the very masculine world of Sylvester Stallone
The new Netflix documentary Sly takes us deeper into the Stallone-verse. But why should you care?
Wes Anderson’s Netflix shorts to Zoya Akhtar’s The Archies: How the ensemble movie has evolved across the filmscape
From films where the story was the hero to all-star juggernauts, is the ensemble movie now key to box office success?
ChatGPT and dreams of electric sheep: A brief history of AI in film
Gareth Edwards's The Creator is the latest in a long line of films that explore humans versus AI tensions
Barbie is a feminist film: A peek into Greta Gerwig’s pitch for the Everywoman
The Barbie movie is much deeper and nuanced than the pink fluff camp tone of Barbieland may lead one to believe
Projectionists step out of shadows, felicitated for their silent contribution to cinema
The Film Heritage Foundation celebrates the life and work of Indian film projectionists, essential cogs in the wheel on which single-screen theatres moved
Lust Stories 2 is testament to how the depiction of female desire in Bollywood has evolved—or not
Lusty women aren’t rare in Bollywood, but an accurate portrayal of what women really want is
The Archies in India: How a very American comic book became a major pop culture influence all the way here
As Zoya Akhtar’s 'The Archies' readies for release of Netflix, here’s a look at why Riverdale and its teenage residents have held our attention for at least half a century.
Profile: Why actor Tillotama Shome refuses to cower to the film industry
A mainstay of the independent cinema circuit for decades, after her debut in Monsoon Wedding, the actor is now flexing her muscles to dominate the small screen, intent on carving her niche on her own terms
Consuming too much true crime can take a toll on your mental health
Why do we keep consuming true crime content when it can play on our minds in grave ways?
Cowabunga! Why the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are still alive and kicking 40 years on
As Seth Rogen’s animated movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem gears up for an August release, here’s a look at a franchise that peaked during the 1990s, but might just make a comeback
The female cop in Bollywood is more than just a badass
Under the khakis, aviators and holsters, the female cop in Bollywood may be the empathetic, softer antipode to the righteousness of the Simbas and Singhams of the world
How Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 uses music to tap into our nostalgia for another time
Nostalgia is a potent force, and Hollywood has known this for longer than you’d think.
Ideas, not sparks, flew when Sudhir Mishra met Vivek Agnihotri
The two directors met at Agnihotri’s studio for a conversation to air grievances, discuss prejudice, and importantly, find common ground. The conversation, they say, is the beginning of a civil dialogue
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