Let’s first make this clear: Vettaiyan is a brave attempt to do something the moral compasses of Tam...
Bhuvanesh Chandar
There is arguably no other young adult queer romance with as much heart, spunk and success as Alice ...
In mainstream cinema, films that attempt to forge a new trail get judged on whether the experiment d...
Tamil cinema’s tryst with duumvirates is a story worth multiple case studies. First, it was Thyagara...
‘AfrAId’ movie review: John Cho fails to enliven this outdated evil-AI story from Blumhouse
Blame it on the criminally revealing trailer or the lack of any promotional push, it’s hard not to s...
‘Vaazhai’ movie review: Mari Selvaraj’s profound, deeply aching bio-drama is a masterpiece
Burdened beyond his years, a tender-hearted boy from a world far removed from contemporary cinema di...
On being a bookworm and the Wayanad tragedy You can sense an infectious excitement cloaking the nerv...
On 10 years of Goli Soda Remember the ripples that Goli Soda created way back in 2014? A humble film...
‘Raayan’ movie review: Dhanush’s fiery bloodfest offers only dwindling returns
Droplets of water fall on the cheek of a newborn girl, lying on a priest’s lap, as her lanky elder b...
‘My Spy The Eternal City’ movie review: Dave Bautista’s sequel is stale but redeemable
The line between tacky and good ‘ol fashioned can get too lean in this sub-genre — joyfully unseriou...
From ‘Sarkar’ to ‘Indian 2,’ how social media has been used as a storytelling tool in Tamil cinema
In Shankar’s 1996 film Indian, Crazy Mohan’s character threatened to expose corruption through a nat...
‘Sunny’ series review: Excellent television and a pensive take on humanity’s most-feared creation
Of all the countless Hollywood titles that have taken a crack on this fascinating sub-genre of sci-f...
For much of the initial portions of Space Cadet, you might spend your mind just figuring out the kin...
Pride Month 2024 | Queer artistes on the stories they want to see on-screen
For long, the plea from the LGBTQIA+ community to storytellers has been this: “Let us tell our stori...
‘Maharaja’ movie review: Vijay Sethupathi stands out in Nithilan Saminathan’s almost-there thriller
A morbid sense of dread tirelessly pulses through the two films that director Nithilan Saminathan ha...
Kalki 2898 AD has had Tinseltown in a frenzy unlike anything before, as Bhairava, Ashwatthama, Kali,...
