When Clint Eastwood stepped in to direct the film, there were bowls of protest. Bruce Beresford and Steven Spielberg both toyed with directing the picture, Beresford going so far as […]
The small township of Newton gets rocked by the news of a murdered teenager known as Ben Rifkin. Soon voices on the internet and social media point fingers at Jacob […]
The word ‘Betaal’ means the devil. For the lovers of the Indian folk tale ‘Vikram and Betaal’, the stories that the Betaal told king Vikramaditya, hanging on his shoulders, were […]
Mythology, is some way or the other, is connected to facts. Perhaps, distorted facts. Some say mythology was the brainchild of the sages. For a layman, it was far more […]
Sometimes there are films that you like for no particular reason. Not because of its songs, not because it’s funny or full of melodrama, but for the way, the film […]
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, a man called George Lucas came up with an idea. He thought of a universe, where interplanetary beings could interact […]
There are seven great plays of the 20th century that remain as fresh, as powerful and as urgent as the first day they opened on Broadway. They are ‘Death of […]
There are very few actors who leave an indelible mark on people. It’s true that we often associate actors with the glitz, the razzmatazz of the showbiz industry. But it […]
Great films that have failed to find an audience have been around since the silent era, so it is no surprise, that in the fifties, the same event took place […]
Sequels achieved their greatest popularity through the seventies and eighties and beyond, though in fairness they have existed since the thirties and the Universal monster series. ‘The Bride of Frankenstein’ […]
The greatest thing about sports or for that matter, any competitive game is that it brings out the real characteristics of the people involved in it. Whereas individual game or […]
To begin, in this film in which Eastwood once again explores an underdog railing against authority, the nearly ninety-year-old two times Oscar-winning Best Director has made a very good film, […]
TVF has been churning out stellar stories for some time now. It has made itself into a solid brand whose core competency is strong storytelling. Shows like ‘Pitchers’, ‘Tripling’, ‘Permanent […]
Clint Eastwood once stated that half of his job was done with casting, that once the actors were in place, he could relax and just let them do their job […]
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