Once upon a time, there was an extraordinary man, who led an extraordinary life, but didn’t know how much extraordinariness he had in him. Unfortunately, it took a cruel blow of fate that brought out this fortitude in him that he was till then unaware of - Fate that gave him his diving [...]

Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti.
Viva Cuba- meaning long live Cuba is a Spanish film set in modern day Cuba. It is directed by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, although I haven’t heard much about the director, I happened to catch the movie on World Movies only a few days ago.
The central characters in the movie are [...]

If big things often come in small packages, then “the children of heaven” is as small as they get. The entire movie is carried on the shoulders of two small, diminutive revelations for the Iranian cinema – Amir Farrokh Hashemian as Ali and Bahare Seddiqi as Zahra.
Ali, a young boy of about nine, unintentionally loses [...]

If Jeunet is the quintessential creative genius of French Cinema, then Pedro Almodovar is his dashing, charismatic-buccaneering Spanish counterpart. He treats every subject so delicately, dexterously and comprehensively that one is left to wonder how could one man know the most well hidden, unfathomable details of the human psyche so intimately – it’s almost as [...]

What a delightful end to the weekend! Although the play is an adaptation of a French play set in the 1700s, the Indian flavor is as scrumptious as the French delicacy, served on a platter of witty dialogues, accomplished ensemble, and brilliant screenplay, which just goes on to show how a relatively simple story can [...]

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird… Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” [...]

With this review, I complete my review hat-trick of movies by Jean-Paul Jeunet – a feat I’m happy to boast about simply because the greatness of this film maker is fait accompli and I’ve watched three of his creations now! In A very long engagement, he makes a splash with his award-winning team of Audrey [...]

What happens when a determined film-maker of mixed Jewish and Arab (imagine!) descent embarks on a journey to capture the creation of a concrete fence in a part of the world, where impenetrable walls of communal hatred, historical animosity and religious conflicts have already been around for decades?
Simone Bitton, a young dynamic filmmaker, goes on [...]

Many plays in India are either commendable renditions of famous American Broadway shows or just plain knock-offs. This one is somewhere between the two; leaning more towards cheap knock-off side though.
The original play, and the Indian version I witnessed, are about the perennial conflicts between the sexes. A struggling (and yet to become) writer Felix [...]

Summer interlude is a story of longing and unrequited love starring Maj Britt Nilsson. Directed by Swedish film director, Ingmar Bergman