Rating, Aug. 8 -- 4/5

It's been a long, long time, perhaps months, maybe even a couple of years since I walked out of a theatre with a heart this full. As the credits rolled for Ohh My Dog, I wasn't thinking about box office numbers or opening-day collections. I was thinking about one thing. Why aren't we celebrating films like this anymore?

When I entered the theatre, the silence hit me before the film even began. I could literally count the audience on my fingers. An almost empty auditorium for a film that deserved whistles, applause, laughter and tears shared by a packed house. It honestly broke my heart.

Somewhere along the way, we've started equating good cinema with massive budgets, superstar line-ups, gravity-defying action and ...