There are two minor miracles here: one that The Woman King, a film with a predominantly Black female cast was greenlit by a Hollywood studio, and two that it has opened to terrific box-office response.…

Haryana Hurricane: Madhur Bhandarkar has the knack for picking up unusual subjects and characters for his films, and also making the female lead the centre of the story. Having done…

Storm  Of VFX:  Sometimes, it might just be better to release a film without so much advance publicity, that the sense of wonder that ought to arise when the lights…

The names Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes,Mary Jane Kelly do not ring any bells. But everybody has heard of Jack The Ripper, a notorious serial killer…

Beware Of Arrows: It’s Robin Hood country—Sherwood forest in Nottinghamshire—the facile use of the name irks a local cop investigating a killer, who uses the folk hero’s weapon of crossbow-and-arrow. The…

Youth Pangs: The ten-part docuseries, Growing Up, created and executive produced by actress Brie Larson, has an interesting concept. The format is like a group therapy session in which a bunch of…

The audience numbers must have been respectable enough for the powers that be at Netflix to commission a second season of The Fabulous Lives of  Bollywood Wives, which, along with Indian Matchmaking,…

Forever Svelte: Jane Seymour was once a Bond girl named Solitaire, in the 1973 film, Live and Let Die, and was also written about much for her heterochromia, or simply put, different…

Decoding Real Estate: To the layperson, the term real estate brings to mind anything from house hunting, brokers and housing loans, to the rapacious builder lobby and massive corruption. Obviously,…

Dropping by at a police station with a friend who wanted to report the theft of her bag, one ran into a woman who was weeping about her husband beating…