カテゴリー: Film
French documentarian Thomas Balmès checks in with the Himalayan monk he filmed back in 2013 to find him addicted to online romanceIn 2013, French documentary-maker Thomas Balmès made a film called Happiness, about an eight-year-old monk called Peyangki…
Runaway success of the story of Tanjiro – a boy who shows remarkable resilience in the face of obstacles – comes despite the coronavirus pandemicNot even a pandemic has been able to stop an animated film set a century ago from becoming Japan’s highest-…
Dhawan casts his son Varun in the role made famous in 1995 by Govinda, but little effort has been made to acknowledge the quarter-century sinceIt’s a tale of two Bollywoods this Christmas. Over at Netflix, Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, repre…
Anurag Kashyap kidnaps the daughter of Anil Kapoor in a mock-doc thriller that skewers India’s showbiz sceneAfter an undistinguished pandemic year, Indian cinema closes out 2020 with a postmodern surprise, at once nifty and nasty. Shot under the radar,…
Devika Bhise as the widowed monarch Rani Lakshmibai shows the Victorian Brits, including Rupert Everett, what she’s capable of in this impressive dramaAs Rani Lakshmibai (Devika Bhise), the titular queen in this colourful historical epic, slices and di…
Bad-apple politicians put the squeeze on a hapless secretary in this tired pile of vengeful ghost mayhem Censorship may have been an issue in the past, but it’s striking how few horror films Indian commercial cinema has produced relative to those from …
Arush Nand is very good as a gay Tamil boy in Deepa Mehta’s coming-of-age drama set in a period building to civil war There is something a bit soapy and melodramatic about this queer coming-of-age drama from Sri Lanka, picked up by Ava DuVernay’s compa…
Screenings cancelled one day after release following anger over pun seen as racially offensiveThe fantasy film Monster Hunter has been pulled from Chinese cinemas one day after its release after a scene where characters make a pun with the words “knees…
Carlos Casas’s film – half documentary, half experimental essay – is a near-wordless evocation of a ‘celebrity’ Sri Lankan elephant’s confrontation with deathCarlos Casas’s Cemetery arrives on the arthouse streaming service Mubi, a slow sensory film wi…
An official said the phrase, popularised by Sacha Baron Cohen’s character, sums up the vast tourism potential of the nation in a ‘short, memorable way’Kazakhstan, the home country of the fictional Borat Sagdiyev, has adopted the brash, moustachioed cha…
Bollywood star’s tragic story has spiralled into a national obsession, with his girlfriend at its centreFor 90 days, the death of a young Bollywood star has transfixed India.The story that began in June, when the actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found de…
Actor accused of supplying drugs to her boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput, who killed himself in JuneThe Bollywood star Rhea Chakraborty has been arrested and held in custody for allegedly supplying drugs to her boyfriend, Sushant Singh Rajput, an actor w…