All these years later, Maithili cinema is still in search of a home

Despite a few recent tiles, such as ‘Mithila Makhan’ and ‘Gamak Ghar’, the number of Maithili-language films is abysmally low.

Arvind Das

· 7 hours ago

Dating and love in the time of the coronavirus: Watch these four ‘terribly tiny tales’

Produced by the micro-fiction tales-to-talkies platform based in Mumbai.

Scroll Staff

· 8 hours ago

‘We Can Be Heroes’ trailer: Priyanka Chopra, Pedro Pascal in Sharkboy-Lavagirl sequel

Robert Rodriguez’s follow-up to ‘The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D’ will be out on January 1 on Netflix.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 10:05 pm

‘Bhaag Beanie Bhaag’: Swara Bhasker runs from her humdrum life in the direction of comedy and dreams

The web series is out on Netflix.

Udita Jhunjhunwala

· Yesterday · 04:31 pm

‘Tenet’ movie review: In Christopher Nolan’s action epic, time moves up, down and sideways

Starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh and Dimple Kapadia.

Nandini Ramnath

· Yesterday · 01:50 pm

Ronnie Screwvala to produce series on Bhopal gas tragedy based on Dominique Lapierre book

Ronnie Screwvala compared the project to the HBO miniseries ‘Chernobyl’.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 01:44 pm

Warner Bros to simultaneously release entire 2021 slate in cinemas and online

In India, ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ will be out in theatres on December 24.

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· Yesterday · 11:57 am

‘Darbaan’ review: Sharib Hashmi plays a manservant who is always happy to serve

Bipin Nadkarni’s film is being streamed on Zee5.

Nandini Ramnath

· Yesterday · 11:30 am

Watch: Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe and Toecutter from the Mad Max films

Hugh Keays-Byrne, who played the villains in George Miller’s ‘Mad Max’ (1979) and ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ (2015), died on Tuesday. He was 73.

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· Dec 03, 2020 · 06:48 pm

‘Paava Kadhaigal’ trailer: Vetri Maaran, Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon and Vignesh Sivan team up

The Tamil anthology film will be out on Netflix on December 18. The cast includes Sai Pallavi, Simran, Prakash Raj, Anjali and Kalidas Jayaram.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 03, 2020 · 04:26 pm

What makes Nils Frahm trippy? Music that ‘covers an ocean of feelings’ – plus improvisation

The concert film ‘Tripping with Nils Frahm’, out on MUBI, follows the German pianist’s performances at the Funkhaus Berlin in 2018.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Dec 03, 2020 · 10:30 am

Marvel’s planned Kamala Khan series is cause for celebration – and opportunity for course correction

The alter ego of Ms Marvel has an ability to destabilise stereotypes of Muslims while reinforcing ideas about American exceptionalism.

Safiyya Hosein, The Conversation

· Dec 02, 2020 · 06:52 pm