カテゴリー: Film
Observers worry rule change in Chinese city will restrict pro-democracy movement even furtherHong Kong’s censors have been given expanded powers to vet films for national security breaches in the latest blow to the Chinese city’s political and artistic…
Fast & Furious actor and wrestler apologises profusely on social media for offending Chinese fansFast & Furious star and wrestler John Cena began learning Mandarin Chinese nearly a decade ago. But this month, by showing off his linguistic skill…
Why use the door, Salman? Bollywood megastar goes back to basics, pummelling everything in sight including narrative cohesionWhat was originally scheduled as India’s big Eid blockbuster for May 2020 is opening a year later in cinemas everywhere but Ind…
This heartfelt documentary focuses on free-ranging dogs and the people on the fringes of Indian society who care for themThe street dogs that feature in this lyrically-shot documentary aren’t strays, exactly; they are the indigenous, free-ranging “pye …
The Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industry upstages their theatrical troupeThe stage on screen: more films about theatreThe actor Geoffrey Bragg was born in 1909 in the Lake District …
Mundane life meets magical daydreams in a West Bengal village where discarded film footage is turned into toysAn artful hybrid of documentary and fiction, That Cloud Never Left zooms in on quotidian life in Daspara, a small West Bengal village where to…
Release of pioneering director’s work could be hampered by interview in which she called China ‘a place where there are lies everywhere’The Chinese release of Golden Globe-winning film Nomadland could be in doubt after accusations its Beijing-born dire…
Movie about an affair between a woman and an older man aims to challenge stereotype of Afghan women as weak and repressedThere are few pavements in Kabul, so when Shahrbanoo Sadat steps out for her daily walk, she shares the roads with cars and tanks. …
Written by and starring comedian Jia Ling, the film has started a conversation about mother’s love and women’s identityA Chinese comedian’s directoral debut about a woman who travels back in time to see her dead mother has become the fourth highest gro…
Warning: contains spoilers. Jan Oliver Lucks and his fiancee decided to film their attempt at an open relationship – things did not go to planWhen Jan Oliver Lucks’ fiancee left him for another man he was more distraught than most: she not only walked …
Sarmad Khoosat was the darling of Pakistan’s entertainment industry until his new film, the haunting and elegiac Zindagi Tamasha, fell foul of fundamentalists – who called for him to be beheadedSarmad Khoosat was having an early morning cigarette in Bu…
The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel is coming to Netflix – one of a growing number of films from the region snapped up by the streaming giantsThe White Tiger, the film adaptation of the Booker prize-winning book by Aravind Adiga, mar…
Upper-caste actor playing Dalit politician Mayawati shown dishevelled and holding broom in publicity for new filmA picture of a woman holding a broom. Anywhere else, the image might pass unnoticed. But in India the poster for the film Madam Chief Minis…
This adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel about aspiration in modern India is teeming with energy and sadnessThe White Tiger is a story of servitude, resentment and love – and what its hero calls “the contented smile that comes to the lip…
The streaming giants are making bold TV shows but the threat of censorship looms largeThis year’s Emmy awards, one of the biggest nights in global television, was particularly historic for India. It was the second year in a row that several Indian tele…