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When irony loses its superpower

Self referential comedy when it’s done right: Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr (1924) (Courtesy iMDB)

Published on Jul 15, 2025 12:20 pm IST

Of online voyeurs and offline vigilantes

In the grip of true crime (Shutterstock)

Published on Jun 19, 2025 07:20 pm IST

Fallout: Post-apocalypse now

Ella Purnell as Lucy, the lawful good vault-dweller who is in for a rude awakening in Fallout. (Courtesy Amazon Prime)

Published on Jun 03, 2025 06:20 pm IST

Page to screen: The Nickel Boys

Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson as Elwood and Turner in The Nickel Boys. (Amazon MGM Studios)

Updated on May 13, 2025 02:06 pm IST

Page to screen: On Queer, desire and disembodiment

“When Burroughs described Lee as a man whose “face was ravaged and vicious and old,” Daniel Craig is not the first person who comes to mind. Sporting wrinkled linen suits, khakis and a fedora, the English actor can make even the sordid tasteful.” (Film still from MUBI)

Published on May 02, 2025 06:11 am IST

A Complete Unknown: When Bob Dylan plugged in

Timothée Chalamet plays a young Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. (Film still)

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 06:47 am IST

Aspiring to greatness

Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist (Film still)

Published on Apr 10, 2025 03:05 pm IST

BIFFes 2025: On the Wim Wenders and Krzysztof Kieslowski retrospectives

A scene from Krzysztof Kieslowski’s ‘Three Colours Blue’. (Film still)

Published on Mar 28, 2025 11:12 am IST

Handmaid’s Tales

“Abortion wasn’t decriminalised in France until 1975. To 23-year-old Annie Ernaux, securing one hush-hush in a back-alley was an act of self-preservation. It allowed her to continue her education, pursue her dream and become the Nobel Prize-winning author she is today. The 2000 memoir Happening recounted the whole ordeal. In its 2021 film adaptation, writer-director Audrey Diwan keeps the camera close to Anne.” (Film still)

Updated on Feb 27, 2025 02:48 pm IST

A wrap-up of Sundance Film Festival 2025

A scene from ‘Sorry, Baby’ (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Published on Feb 10, 2025 05:50 pm IST

On Anora and invisible labour

A scene from Anora (Prime Video)

Published on Feb 08, 2025 05:58 am IST

Ugly business; About ‘The Substance’

Demi Moore as Elizabeth Sparkle in ‘The Substance’. (MUBI)

Published on Jan 14, 2025 03:12 pm IST

2024: A snapshot of the year in cinema

‘All We Imagine as Light’ directed by Payal Kapadia marks a historic milestone for Indian cinema. (Film still)

Published on Dec 27, 2024 03:12 pm IST

HT reviewer Prahlad Srihari picks his favourite read of 2024

Of espionage and eco-anarchism: “Expansive though the novel may be, the writing remains nimble. Words hum with possibilities and a deadpan cool.” (Vintage)

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 12:32 pm IST

Page to screen: The highs and lows of 2024

“Netflix turning Gabriel García Márquez’s ravishing opus One Hundred Years of Solitude into ravishing TV this December bookended a demonstrably fine year for literary adaptations.” (Netflix)

Updated on Dec 18, 2024 06:18 pm IST

Looking back at MAMI 2024

“When the organisers came together to pick the opening film, the choice must have been a no-brainer. Payal Kapadia’s Cannes-championed ‘All We Imagine as Light’ is a luminous ode to Mumbai and all the migrants who make up the metropolis.” (Film still)

Published on Nov 29, 2024 09:16 pm IST

No medicine for melancholy

A scene from The Devil’s Bath (Film still)

Published on Oct 25, 2024 09:04 pm IST

Alien: Giger counter

Cailee Spaeny in Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)

Published on Sept 12, 2024 05:51 pm IST

Book to Screen: Eileen – Of desperation, deviance and deception

Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie in ‘Eileen’. (Film still)

Published on Aug 21, 2024 09:07 pm IST

The high-octane power of mythmaking

Dr Dementus and his biker gang in ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’. (Film still)

Published on Aug 12, 2024 09:31 pm IST

The economics of killing

“The idea of the professional killer, as proposed by formative texts and preserved by Fincher, is shot full of holes by Hit Man. Such a specimen is a Hollywood invention, Linklater’s film argues while acknowledging their stardom within pop culture.” (Netflix)

Published on Jul 18, 2024 04:16 pm IST

Maestro: The dualities of Leonard Bernstein

American conductor, composer, pianist and music educator Leonard Bernstein (Shutterstock)

Published on Jul 04, 2024 08:44 pm IST

Shōgun: Lost and found in translation

A scene from Shogun (Courtesy FX)

Published on Jun 21, 2024 03:39 pm IST

The Discarnates, All of Us Strangers and the pain of homecoming

The weight of memories (Shutterstock)

Published on Jun 06, 2024 08:21 pm IST

Page to Screen: Poor Things – Gray’s anatomy vs Lanthimos’s biopsy

Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things (Courtesy Searchlight Pictures)

Updated on May 17, 2024 05:16 pm IST

The Zone of Interest: The Holocaust film to end all Holocaust films

A scene from The Zone of Interest (A24)

Published on May 01, 2024 08:47 pm IST

Dune: Blind faith is the mind-killer

Sandworms in a scene from Dune: Part Two. (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

Published on Apr 23, 2024 09:13 pm IST

Essay: On the spectacle of cancel culture

A scene from Sick of Myself (Film still)

Published on Apr 09, 2024 08:54 pm IST

Married to genius

A scene from ‘Priscilla directed’, and produced by Sofia Coppola. The film is based on the 1985 memoir ‘Elvis and Me’ by Priscilla Presley. (Amazon Prime)

Published on Mar 27, 2024 08:37 pm IST

Saltburn, Parasite and the class satire industrial complex

“If there is a rallying cry in Saltburn, it isn’t eat the rich, but beware the lower classes.” (Scene from Saltburn)

Published on Mar 19, 2024 06:43 pm IST

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