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GoT bored

While first 8 episodes of season six were glacial, the following couple of them just went berserk

Howling fantods

Three movies in the recent past gave me the howling fantods

Etonnez-nous!

Calling Andrews a movie critic is a bit like calling Arnold Schwarzenegger a bodybuilder

J Jagannath: Making it big

Watch 'La La Land' and 'American Honey' to understand it's not such a bad thing to dream big

J Jagannath: Linguistics and philosophy

Villeneuve is like the alternative Spielberg we never knew we needed

J Jagannath: Horror of horrors

Babak Anvari's Under The Shadow is a supremely scary movie set in the 1980s when the Iran-Iraq war was at its raging best

J Jagannath: Strange & insecure

The just-released 'Doctor Strange' is quite possibly my most favourite movie made out of the Marvel source material

Film festival amid war

Gifts from a film fest

The former, a French-German-Belgian psychological thriller starring Isabelle Huppert, is based on the rape-without-tears bestseller Oh... by Philippe Djian

Best of the best

I have a few reservations considering how documentaries don't find a mention and neither does a single Indian movie

Alternative Telugu cinema

This year saw a spate of smaller films ruling the roost, while the bombastic mainstream ones fell by the wayside

Through a glass darkly

Great Indian male gaze

Kabali film review: Weapon of mass attraction

J Jagannath comes away from a 6 a.m. screening with mixed emotions about Rajinikanth's latest vehicle for his larger-than-life persona

Kabali re-establishes Rajinikanth's brand power

The movie's pre-release business of Rs 206 crore proves the actor is a blue-chip even Warren Buffett would love to have in his portfolio

Regional cinema, ahoy

Trip of the year

At a time when priapic sex comedies are ruling the roost in Bollywood, Udta Punjab is nothing less than a fresh blast of oxygen

Sairat: A brave new film

This is the kind of a film we expect from Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Dardenne brothers, maybe even Bela Tarr

Time travels

It's got the perfect balance of everything that makes a mainstream movie a critical success as well

Delusions of grandeur

In Maneesh Sharma, Shah Rukh found his own version of Leni Reifenstahl who would deify him to no end