Co-writer/director Ramin Bahrani gets the plot out of the way in the first minute of Goodbye Solo. An elderly man, William (Red West), sits in the backseat of a taxicab in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He offers the young Senegalese driver, Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), a thousand dollars to take him to Blowing Rock on October [...]

Calliope, the muse of writing and Clio, the muse of painting, were undeniably sisters. Greek mythology bears conclusive evidence of them being daughters of Zeus, the Thunder God and and Mnemosyne, the Goddess of memory. There has been no evidence of them fighting bitterly with each other. These evidences are of course as conclusive as [...]

The Kills’ Midnight Boom is a thumping energetic record; ostensibly seems to have been deliberately made all cool, and it works well. With haphazard guitars, sounds that burst out through quiet lingering moments into a cloud of shivering energy, and tip-topping reveries about random lovers and tornadoes - it endears itself to the listener.
Arguably some [...]

Joe Sorren, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1970, grew up around Phoenix and later in Flagstaff, Arizona. He started painting in 1991 and received his BFA in 1993 from Northern Arizona University. Joe was first noticed in 1997 as the gold medal winner in the Society of Illustrators of New York competition. He was also [...]

“Hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you’re fooling around”. The last words of Carl Panzram, uttered to his executioner-to-be, are a chilling insight into one of history’s most prolific serial killers. However, even more disturbing are the memoirs that he penned in prison, and handed through the bars [...]

Kaalbela is an acclaimed and an award-winning Bengali novel by Samaresh Majumdar. Set in Calcutta during the turbulent 1970’s, while on one hand it tracks the birth of the Naxalism – a far-Left urban guerrilla movement, through its protagonist Animesh Mitra, on the other it is a deeply personal tale of love and camaraderie during the times of revolution.

Dirty Dancing film star Patrick Swayze has died aged 57, the BBC reported. Annett Wolf said that the US actor, who had been battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years, died with family at his side on Monday. Swayze was diagnosed with advanced stage four pancreatic cancer in January last year. The actor had been [...]

Madonna is more than an artist now. She is a brand. She demands attention, listening, fans, critics, and press. Arguably the only musician now who demands a sizeable fraction of following which the late Michael Jackson had; she unlike the latter has continued to “reinvent” herself, if reinvention is what she has done, especially in [...]

Simon Goinard Phelipot is an illustrator and art director from Paris, France who has been in the artistic profession for the past 7 years. Simon started illustrating naturally with the need to find a media that could express his idea of space, volume, aesthetics, and emotions. The artist mainly works on illustrations for books and [...]

The story of Apocalypse Now is one of almost inconceivable excess. Onscreen it is a behemoth of a film loaded with memorable sequence after memorable sequence, very nearly bursting at the seams with ideas. Off screen it was a staggering undertaking that nearly destroyed everyone involved. It’s too big a movie to be easily summed [...]