Wes Craven's blockbuster classic spawned a new wave of slashers that horror fans (mostly) loved, even if mainstream critics ...

What do we make of Ari Aster? Is he one of the most compelling filmmakers of our era? Or, as his detractors cry out on social media, a one-trick pony who got hot at the right time? (An interesting ...

My favorite poem is Dylan Thomas’ Fern Hill, in which Thomas talks about the inevitable changes in life and our shifting perspectives paralleling those changes. Maybe that’s an oversimplification that ...

In a culture where thinness is still the price of admission, choice becomes murky. Representation becomes hollow when those who once stood outside the norm quietly conform – not necessarily because ...

In a culture where thinness is still the price of admission, choice becomes murky. Representation becomes hollow when those who once stood outside the norm quietly conform – not necessarily because ...

The magic of monsoon is certainly multilayered. Can artists romanticise the rain or find a reason to dance and skip?

THE SHORT GAME is a movie following a struggling golfer trying to obtain a scholarship by winning the State Championship ...

JSK', which has Anupama Parameshwaran in her strongest role yet, could've been a better, more sophisticated legal drama had it not given in to, for one, the temptations of forcefully incorporating cli ...

Clichés are the refuge of the lazy journalist, and the métier of the sports writer. And now, it seems, they are also racist.

The Wilhelm scream is one of the most recognisable sound effects in cinema history, notably used in 'Star Wars', but who performed the classic scream?

The puzzle is an actual — and clever — demonstration of the ways our minds set artificial boundaries. But even people who ...

Great film directors can create and convey philosophical concepts through imagery, just as great philosophers do through language.