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‘Groundhog Day’ – Diversity gives familiar story a decent edge

Big show is well directed and engaging – but loses force in slightly tepid second act… HOW FAMILIAR you are…

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Cannes 2023 – Critic Meenakshi Shedde on jury duties, Indian films and British ‘Polite Society’… (video interview)

This is the extended story about the video interview we did with Shedde in Cannes just before the beginning of…

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Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes – IIFAs, box office switches, the heat is on…

With summer temperatures reaching record levels, Bollywood is heating up for new releases and the award season which kicked off…

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Cannes 2023: Competition winners – including what we saw with ‘The Zone of Interest’ leading the way for us (film pictures and winners’ list)

The Cannes Film Festival in general – the winners from the Competition and Un Certain Regard and other notable prizes…

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Cannes 2023: ‘Four Daughters’ – three prizes and its unforgettable testimony, while another film, ‘The Mother All Lies’ also shares top doc prize…

Remarkable real-life tales and narration makes a huge impact as Tunisia and Morocco both triumph, giving Arab and Maghreb/African filmmakers…

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Cannes 2023 – ‘Agra’ – Lust, living space and the need to breathe, another Directors’ Fortnight selection… (review)

Sexuality is an increasingly common theme in independent Indian cinema and this film doesn’t shy away from confronting issues around…

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Cannes 2023 – ‘Bread and Roses’ documentary about plight of Afghan women touches many and has Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence backing

Afghan film maker Sahra Mani hadn’t intended to make a documentary soon after the Taliban took control of the country…

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Cannes 2023: ‘Kennedy’ – Indian Noir unfolding and expanding in the vision of auteur Anurag Kashyap…(review)

World premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday May 25 – (spoliers avoided)… IF YOU’RE a fan or…

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Cannes 2023 – Sunny Leone in Kennedy pride and joy on Cote d’Azur after tears…. (video interview)

One more of our Cannes’ collection drops on the site now… SUNNY LEONE is one of the most popular entertainment…

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Cannes 2023: Aishwarya Rai, Urvashi Rautela and Sapna Choudhary walk the red carpet for Indiana Jones premiere… (video)

Several Indian actors graced the red carpet on May 18 (Thursday)

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