Cinemascope

Rarely does one get to watch a movie with such a fascinating blend of irreverence and nostalgia like Emir Kusturica’s imperious masterpiece ...

The basic skeleton of the movie is a very simple one, and something tried and tested innumerable times – a veteran cop getting involved in a...

Fat Girl is an ultra-feministic movie by, you guessed it, a female director. Catherine Breillat is one of the most controversial filmmaker...

Coming from the same guy who made the ultra-hyperkinetic action flick District B13 , it’s no surprise that Taken is a slick, fast and a dow...

Legendary Italian director Sergio Leone achieved world renown thanks to his irresistible “Spaghetti Western” trilogy, in particular The Good...

Sean Penn, like a number of his contemporaries, is a sterling example of a revered actor who has effortlessly managed to make the transition...

As a number of critics have so aptly pointed out, The Reader has the distinct feel of a European arthouse cinema to it – lazy narrative, lo...

Bishh , like D ev D , i s a fasc inating i ndicatio n of the fact that a few Indian directors are willing to take risks that were inconceiva...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is proof enough that David Fincher and Brad Pitt make an excellent hunting pair. But, like me, if you w...

She is every man’s wettest fantasy and every woman’s biggest envy, she is so impossibly beautiful, voluptuous and enigmatic that when she sa...

Adapted from a novel of the same name by a Bengali novelist whose work I like reading, Suchitra Bhattacharya, Dahan is one of Rituparno Gh...

The Killers starts off with a now legendary opening shot which lets us know instantly that we are in a dark world from which there’s no e...

Mani Ratnam sure loves making movies on the backdrop of troubled times and places – Roja & Dil Se (religious extremism in Kashmir and t...

Marriage to Madonna might have been exciting for his libido (lets face it, who wouldn’t want to bed Madonna?), but it was undoubtedly a bad ...

Valkyrie is exactly what it aspires to be – an engaging Hollywood blockbuster and a well-researched docu-fiction – and it succeeds on both...

Post Rang De Basanti the whole of India was looking forward to Rakesh Mehra’s next venture; Rang De Basanti never touched greatness, but ...

How often do we get to see two hit men sightseeing medieval architecture along the cobbled streets of the quaint Belgian town of Bruges ? We...

My introduction to Norwegian cinema turned out to a fairly pleasant one. There’s, however, a catch here – the movie isn’t pleasant where its...