Niranj Vaidyanathan is a wildlife photographer from Bangalore, India and has been pursuing photography seriously since the past two years. Niranj, who grew up around animals and cameras found it a natural choice to take up photography.
“Ever since my childhood, I grew up in the company of birds and animals. Growing up, I realized [...]

What is it that makes us human? What is it that makes each of us unique? Sophie Barthe’s Cold Souls takes on this heavy subject in a mind-bending and very meta story constructed with a lot of dark, subtle humour. Paul Giamatti, one of the most reliable actors working today, takes the lead, treating viewers [...]

“Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans—in fact, few Kansans—had ever heard of Holcomb.”
November 15, 1959 turned out to be a bizarre day in the lives of the good people of Holcomb - a small, closely knit, god-fearing town located in the west of Kansas State. Comprising principally of blue-collar, middle-class American citizens [...]

Truth, justice, and the American way. These are the wholesome ideals in which the Superman mythology has its roots, which must have made it doubly traumatic for fans when George Reeves, the man who played Superman on TV in the 1950s, was said to have committed suicide. Allen Coulter’s Hollywoodland takes the mystery surrounding Reeves’ [...]

There’s a style of filmmaking that I don’t seem to respond to. I find it in A Prophet — a nominee this year for Best Foreign Language Film, representing France — and I’ve found it in recent French films Flight of the Red Balloon and Summer Hours, which are alike in that they received near [...]

The ancient Byzantine historian Procopius wrote a book called Anecdota, more commonly known as Arcana histora (The Secret History) chronicling the scandals and court intrigues of the rule of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I, who reigned in the years 525 to 565 A.D. In it, Procopius described his hatred for the Emperor and [...]

A wedding, a birth, and a funeral. These are the tent poles around which Edward Yang builds Yi Yi, his thoughtful and moving portrait of a family struggling to survive against the ordinary occurrences of life. It’s films like this one that remind you that the biggest budgets, the flashiest special effects, and the biggest [...]