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Review | 'Star Wars' extensions, from 'The Bad Batch' to 'Biomes' and 'Vehicle Flythroughs'
On May 4th - Star Wars Day - DisneyPlusHotstar released a treasure chest of 'Star Wars' stuff. Here's what to watch and what you can skip without losing sleep over it.
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Review | 'The Disciple': The loneliness of the long practising singer
Watch this award winning gem just released on Netflix.
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Mammootty magic: Is it fading or does his star shine bright like he’s the One?
Two films featuring Mammootty released on Amazon Prime Video and Netflix - to watch or not to watch 'One' and 'The Priest'
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Happy Birthday, Shakespeare! What a storyteller you were!
Movies based on Shakespeare’s works that you can watch this weekend of April 23.
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Review | 'Searching for Sheela': A too short documentary on someone who’s a calm keg of dynamite
Sheela's introspection about why she offered herself to Rajneesh is the best part of the documentary. Instead of being about her inner journey home, though, the 58-minute film ends up capturing a series of 'meet the celebrity who was once notorious' type of gatherings.
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Film review: Kitchen chronicles and adjusting to the table manners of a typical Indian household
'The Great Indian Kitchen' holds up a mirror to everything that's wrong with the gender equation in traditional Indian homes and marriages. Fair warning: Don't eat while watching it.
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8 timeless films to watch on the anniversary of the Titanic tragedy
Distress and drama on the oceans: OTT platforms are screening these films and documentaries inspired by misadventures at sea.
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Preview: Star Vs Food | When stars collide with food
Brand new streaming platform DiscoveryPlus will drop weekly episodes of 'Star Vs Food' starting tomorrow.
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Line of Duty: Why we’re hooked to this one truly amazing cop show on Netflix season after season
Into Season Six, we are still troubled by the corruption among the cops and why we need someone to deliver us from the evil PR spin.
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7 best horror shows and films to watch on Netflix and Amazon Prime this weekend
Cold shivers for this hot weather
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Review: The Big Bull | Why we love on-screen rogues
'The Big Bull' is now available on DisneyPlusHotstar. Here's a look at the plot, the acting, the music and the comparison with 'Scam 1992'.
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Nomadland review: Discover yourself in this Oscar-winning film about 'houselessness'
As I watched 'Nomadland' unfold in front of me, I too began to yearn for a place not bound by four walls and years of mortgage payments
ENTERTAINMENT
1232 kms review: Disney+ Hotstar film shows bitter reality of lockdown, shakes us to the core
This is where you stop and ask yourself a question many have asked of journalists reporting on wars. 1232 kms is streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
ENTERTAINMENT
Best Korean dramas on Netflix: K-drama shows that have taken India by storm
Netflix has some of the most amazing Korean shows, and not just those which I love - the ones with blood and gore from swords decapitating heads and gouging torsos and arrows piercing eyes - but also romance and comedy and family dramas.
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Oscars 2021 nominations: The brilliant, the hopeful and the ordinary
I do hope that we are treated to the spectacle of the awards show like every other year.
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Why are homegrown shows on Netflix such a letdown?
If big, famous directors want me to binge watch, then offer something less predictable.
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Women's Day 2021: Through the kohl-lined lens: Women directors just make movies better
Women's Day 2021: Would Sholay be different had a woman directed it? Would Jaya Bhaduri’s character only light lamps and look longingly at Jai or would she do more? Read on to know how a woman director would have made a world of difference in the way we look at some of our favourite movies.
BUSINESS
David Gilmour: Happy Birthday to the man who stood on top of a wall with guitar and ruled the world of music
We are still inhabitants of the Floyd sound years and years later, we’ve made space for new fans and the stars still shine like diamonds in the sky…
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Brace for an art attack on Netflix this weekend
Jordan, 3D printing of guns to a spectacular building called Harpa, Netflix offers you a series of shows focused on art and design for this weekend.
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Netflix's The Big Day Review: Jaw-dropping inside story of brides, grooms
If weddings are meticulously planned and executed, the fun is somehow lost. That becomes clear when you watch ‘The Big Day’ on Netflix. The weddings in the show are not quite a family affair. Rather, it’s the bride who calls the shots all the way. But why does any bride want to plan everyone’s clothes, shoes and jewels? And while it’s fine to have fun and splurge on matching designer outfits, who writes a poem to themselves from their father and gets their father to read it? And why does the father agree? Get ready to scratch your head a lot if you plan to watch this show.
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Valentine's Day Weekend | Top movies to watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar
Many a film director has tried to portray love on screen. Here are our recommendations on this Valentine's Day weekend.
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Weekend watch on Bob Marley’s birthday: Redemption song for reggae legend with documentary, film about revolution through music
No one who met Bob Marley came away untouched. On his birthday, let's take a look at these tributes to the legend.
BUSINESS
‘You cannot catch a fish in clear water’ and other lessons I learnt about money from Netflix documentaries
I watched the entire docu series called Dirty Money on Netflix with a sense of awe. How much money is enough money? How far will people go to make more money? Does money break everyone’s moral compass?
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The White Tiger review: This Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao and Priyanka Chopra-starrer is odd yet satisfying
The trouble with movies made from books is that most of them are teeth-gritting awful. Does Netflix’s The White Tiger starring Priyanka Chopra follow the same path? Let’s find out.
