New Delhi, April 3 -- It's about the towel. Anybody can look good in a bespoke tuxedo, but aspiring James Bonds traditionally have to audition by re-enacting the From Russia With Love scene where Sean... Read More
New Delhi, March 25 -- It takes a while to understand what Rooster is about. Or why this HBO series - streaming in India on JioHotstar- even exists. In the show, a man who writes "airport reads" has b... Read More
New Delhi, March 16 -- Robert Redford was not at the Academy Awards. While Sean Penn also did not show up to collect his third Oscar (Best Supporting Actor, One Battle After Another) - possibly becau... Read More
New Delhi, March 14 -- Rachel Weisz has the kind of classical beauty that could launch ships or sink them, cheekbones like alabaster and eyes that smoulder by default, but her real genius is making th... Read More
New Delhi, March 6 -- There are three wars on right now. Maybe four. By the time you read this, more might have broken out. Allegiances are being declared, dictators are backing dictators, human right... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- Some people fit. Literally. There is a lot to be said for romance and longing and poetic sighs, but there are times when bodies know better than hearts and minds. Some are meant... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- In The Godfather, Tom Hagen, the Corleone family's adopted son and consigliere, is neither gangster nor outsider, but something stranger and more essential: a civilian mind funct... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- A few months ago, I started a podcast called Play it Again. One of the first things I learned in the process of creating these was that most of us sound unbearably dull in real-t... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- We are going to make the last movie on earth. because no one will have the balls to make another." This is a pronouncement of promise made by an esoteric fictional filmmaker, an a... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Leonardo DiCaprio has repeatedly said that he drew heavily from The Big Lebowski to portray a stoned ex-revolutionary in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another-by far th... Read More