The story is about a girl from Bihar who got married to a boy from Jharkhand and how they were stuck on the boundary of the states when the lockdown was announced in wake of COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Kusum Ka Biyaah’ is an eye-opening narrative reflecting how decisions made by central government can affect people living […]
It was the Whispers That Killed Me occurs in a universe which relates with the foreign only through an image politics. Arthur Tuoto’s new feature film narrates the story of an actress (Ingrid Savoy) who is on the verge of debuting on a reality show amidst a social turmoil caused by anarchist groups and her
Just in case: Watch the movie first. Scroll down, do it, then scroll back up and read. There’s a thrill every month when you get to do this piece of writing because usually you hit play and don’t know what you’re going to get. “The Year of Staring at Noses” should have no introduction or
While people may have different opinions on the live action portion of the Oscar-nominated short films this year, I doubt that anyone found them funny. Suicide, abortion, grief, and corpses and all of them are sad or depressing. Maybe only the Danes (or Wes Anderson if you’re really into that kind of thing) could bring
Over the course of a dozen stormy years, Kavya Ganeshan (Vidya Balan) and Aniruddh Banerjee (Pratik Gandhi) have been married. They fell in love during three years of dating but ended up running away together. However, they grew apart as time went on and their relationship became stagnant. While there is little left between them
It is the plot that is usually seen in horror films. People go to a countryside where something bad happens. In this case, these people are four online celebrities and one cameraman. The house near a forest is their isolated location. It is presumed to be the place where Azde, the deadly African mythological being
Compression, the film recently directed by Jakob Bilinski (Three Tears on Bloodstained Flesh, Volumes of Blood), is a dynamic adaptation that he also edited, took out and co-wrote with Peter Matsoukas (My Way is the Highway, No Place). It certainly caused a stir, premiering at the Horror Hound Weekend two weeks ago where it was
“Sex in the Soviet Union: Gulag Eros of the Russian Mind,” is presented by Chad Gracia a Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner and it is his new film that explores how authoritarianism can pervert human sexuality. This story is through the lens of Dr. Mikhail Stern, who was the first sexologist in USSR; where he
In Ghostly Secrets of Hotel San Carlos, a bunch of ghost hunters stay overnight at the terrifyingly active Hotel San Carlos in Phoenix, Arizona which has always had an enigmatic and scary past. Reality TV took a spooky turn in 2002 with “Most Haunted,” the original series that followed paranormal investigators into haunted locations as
This elliptical drama is set in the late 1990s in Galicia, the Northwestern region of Spain more commonly associated with idyllic yet precarious rural life – as seen in recent films such as Fire Will Come (Olivier Laxe, 2019), Elisa and Marcela (Isabel Coixet, 2019), (), The Beasts (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2022) and The Rye Horn
