Deepika Padukone recording a performance capture for Atlee’s next Actor Deepika Padukone on Saturday joined the cast of Telugu cinema star Allu Arjun and director Atlee’s upcoming movie. Backed by production banner Sun Pictures, the movie is billed as a “magnum opus”. The currently untitled movie was officially announced on Arjun’s 43rd birthday in April. “The […]
Enzo Staiola as Bruno Ricci in ‘Bicycle Thieves’ Italian actor Enzo Staiola, immortalised on screen for playing little Bruno in Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, passed away on June 6. He was 85. According to a report in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Staiola passed away in Rome. No immediate cause of his death was […]
By all means, Predator: Killer of Killers had no business being as exhilarating as it is. On paper, the premise read like the (very real) sandbox fantasies of a twelve-year-old freshly chancing upon a dusty DVD with the cool, gun-toting muscle-man on the cover: What if the Predator fought a Viking? Or a samurai? Or […]
Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh In a bid to cash in on the goodwill around the frat-boy comedy, writer-producer Sajid Nadiadwala, this time, lines his boisterous drollery with a layer of mystery in the vacation season. Set on a luxury cruise ship, where a billionaire (Ranjeet) dies and a doctor is silenced, it literally spirals […]
A still from ‘The Life of Chuck’. | Photo Credit: NEON/YouTube With a movie featuring Mike Flanagan — the man behind horror hits like The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher — and Stephen King, the master of the macabre, you would be forgiven for expecting a […]
Naslen in ‘Alappuzha Gymkhana’. | Photo Credit: Think Music India/YouTube The Malayalam boxing drama Alappuzha Gymkhanais set for its OTT release. Directed by Khalid Rahman of Thallumaala fame, the movie stars Naslen in the lead role. Released in theatres on April 10, 2025, the sports drama also stars Lukman Avaran, Baby Jean, Sandeep Pradeep, Ganapathi […]
A poster for ‘Gachiakuta’ | Photo Credit: X/ @gachiakuta_PR The highly anticipated anime adaptation of Gachiakuta is officially set to premiere on Crunchyroll starting July 6, 2025. Already hailed as a potential game-changer for modern shounen, the series will receive a special theatrical debut in several countries ahead of the streaming launch, including India, where […]
A still from ‘Aabhyanthara Kuttavaali’ The way a filmmaker conceives a single sequence can sometimes reveal the entire thought process behind the film. This is especially true of single-agenda films like Aabhyanthara Kuttavaali, the debut directorial of Sethunath Padmakumar. Sahadevan (Asif Ali), the protagonist who is facing a case under Section 498A over dowry harassment […]
A still from ‘The Accountant 2’. | Photo Credit: Prime Video Stolen – Now Streaming The movie follows the intense journey of two urbane brothers who witness a baby being kidnapped from an impoverished mother at a railway station in rural India. One brother, guided by moral duty, convinces the other to help the mother […]
Pankaj Tripathi and Aditi Rao Hydari in ‘Parivarik ManuRanjan’. | Photo Credit: Bhanushali Studios Limited/X Actors Pankaj Tripathi and Aditi Rao Hydari will be featuring together in an upcoming film, titled Parivarik ManuRanjan. Filled with laughter, love, chaos and music, the family entertainer is about a “perfectly mismatched duo”, the makers said in a statement. […]
