God is a monster. His full name is Godwin Baxter, and while he is a mad doctor—disfigured by his own mad father before him—everyone calls him God, and his word is, fittingly, incontrovertible. This is but one way in which Poor Things—the Oscar-winning film by Yorgos Lanthimos, streaming now on Disney+ Hotstar—understands Mary Shelley’s novel … Read more

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire While viewers in India might still be sore because no one thought to release the 2023 Japanese film Godzilla Minus One here, the American franchise with the great lizard and his monster buddies marches on. The latest offering has Godzilla and Kong team up to face a new threat: … Read more

To play the English major taken prisoner by the Japanese in World War II in his 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, director Nagisa Ōshima cast David Bowie. It was an inspired choice to complete the superb quartet at the heart of the film: English actor Tom Conti, another musician in Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Takeshi … Read more