On 8 March 1988, Punjabi musician and singer Amar Singh Chamkila and his wife Amarjot were shot at as they stepped out of their car in Mehsampur, Punjab. Both succumbed to their wounds. Chamkila, who has influenced several Punjabi musicians since, died at the age of 27. His songs, which covered themes such as infidelity, … Read more

Love Lies Bleeding Lou (Kristen Stewart), a gym manager, falls for a bodybuilder named Jackie (Katy O’Brian) in this pulpy, gory romantic thriller. Given how little non-franchise programming there is nowadays, it’s a surprise to see this film in Indian theatres, especially so soon after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Directed … Read more

Barbara Rush, a popular leading actor in the 1950 and 1960s who co-starred with Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and other top film performers and later had a thriving TV career, has died. She was 97. Rush’s death was announced by her daughter, Fox News reporter Claudia Cowan, who posted on Instagram that her mother died … Read more

The sisterhood in Crew – a heist comedy centred around three members of a flight crew, each contending with their own financial preoccupations – is made undeniably attractive by powerhouse actresses Tabu and Kareena Kapoor Khan.  Tabu plays Geeta Sethi, a former small town beauty queen married to a home chef (Kapil Sharma). Geeta is … Read more

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

Steve Martin has long marveled at the many phases of his life. There’s his youth as a Disneyland performer, surrounded by vaudeville performers and magicians. A decade as a stand-up before the sudden onset of stadium-sized popularity. An abrupt shift to movies. Later, a new chapter as a banjo player, a father and, a comedy … Read more

Drama plays out in the coastal towns of the North African country of Somalia and off its coast when pirates hijack an Indian-owned Ukrainian merchant ship transporting contraband. Under the command of Captain Singh (Rajat Kapoor), the ship and its crew (of various South Asians) are held hostage by armed men for days as politics, … Read more