Category: Film
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Holly Allwright discusses a queer fantasy-horror film for Pride Month…
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Ashish Dwivedi’s next FaceoftheMonth article delivers a deep-dive exploration into the illustrious career of Dilip Kumar.
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Golden . . . I think this word makes up half of the descriptions of classical world cinema: the golden age, the golden four, the golden canon, and so forth. In the context of Hindustani (or Hindi) cinema, this word has been used, not surprisingly, to connotate three superstars of the 1950s — Dilip Kumar,…
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This month Ashish looks at a man whose poetic approach to cinema produced some incredible work!
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The universal horrors of failure and embarrassment are the crux of this quasi-Lynchian short directed by Harry Fish and Khairah Boukhatem. There is a somewhat unspoken stigma that surrounds the term “student film.” Often it may imply that what you are about to watch is in some way cheap and amateurish. Limelight manages to shed…
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2023 is a highly anticipated year for cinephiles and auteurs alike. It promises to offer some riveting narratives and some new styles of postmodern filmmaking. In that spirit, some of our writers introduce you to some of the upcoming films they are curious to watch this year. Does any of your selected favourites make to…
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Thanks to a massive surge in popularity recently with its inclusion in Stranger Things and popular gaming shows like Critical Role, Dungeons & Dragons are arguably more well-known than ever been? Me? I’ve been into it since I was about six or seven, and I would read all my dad’s 3rd edition books and play…
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John Wick: Chapter 4 opens with a bold statement – a match cut that is a direct homage to David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia. This is an incredibly massive mission statement, and not every film can easily get away with a reference to one of cinema’s undisputed classics, but Chad Stahelski, somehow, gets away with…
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I have always been a fan of the Rocky franchise and I have loved every addition to the story of Adonis Creed in recent years. Before fully getting into Creed III, I think it is worth mentioning the elephant in the room (or perhaps more fittingly the elephant NOT in the room) as Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa…
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Who knew Disney went through an emo phase?
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In the India of the past, the differences between an actress and a bold actress were quite well-defined, almost unambiguous. The entertainment business wasn’t showered with the most bountiful of respect, leading associated people — particularly women — to become extremely conscious about their image in the public imagination. Women’s roles in society were susceptible…
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Sam Pegg shares his love for the legendary director.
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Pran’s biography — written by Bunny Reuben — may have a quirky title, but it emblematises a rare sort of cinematic stardom that was rarely attributed to secondary characters. Yes, I shouldn’t be addressing Pran as a secondary character (he never was!), but the structure of an Indian film frequently positioned the villain/vamp figure within…
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The newest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, following the events of Endgame through the eyes of the Lang and Van Dyne family, with the main cast returning plus new additions of Kathryn Newton and Jonathan Majors. In a chaotic series of events that lead the family…