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Set during the British Raj and divided into four chapters, the central premise of Tumbbad…
The Year of Spectacular Men is the directorial debut of Lea Thompson, featuring both her…
It’s hard not to associate ‘lust’ with ‘sex’ when you think Hindi cinema. Films that…
Bunkar: The Last of the Varanasi Weavers (2018) aims to narrate the travails of a dying…
A modern-day romance-musical set in the bylanes of Punjab, Manmarziyan, like all Anurag Kashyap films, is…
Like all unusual, inexplicable ghost stories we’ve grown up watching, here too we’re served with…
Three women in a parched land. Feisty, fulsome, intrepid, they dream of freedom. And sexual…
The problem with trying to be creative is that it’s easy to turn to tried-and-tested…
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s horror thriller The Endless opens with a H.P. Lovecraft quote:…
Rarely does a film’s title elucidate the meaning behind the plot, and when a film…
The portmanteau (anthology) horror films of the 60s and 70s from Britain-based Amicus and Hammer…
With Raman Raghav 2.0, Anurag Kashyap is back and how! A dystopian study of two amoral,…
Despite brimming with classic horror movie devices, James Wan’s Insidious continues to attract considerably more attention…
Jeffrey Dahmer in Marc Meyers’ My Friend Dahmer (2017) is a mid 1970s teenager, going…
The Breadwinner is both universal and deeply personal, about the healing power of stories and countless…
