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2024 September


‘Superboys of Malegaon’ Review: A Raucous Bollywood Crowd-Pleaser About DIY Filmmaking

‘Superboys of Malegaon’ Review: A Raucous Bollywood Crowd-Pleaser About DIY Filmmaking

This structural awkwardness stems from the film trying to portray every major event in its subjects’ lives, even though the 2012 documentary on which it’s based, Faiza Ahmad Khan’s “Supermen of Malegaon,” only covers one specific parody production of “Superman: The Movie” shot in the late 2000s, after the far-flung friends are forced to reconcile.


Hans Zimmer Rocks Out on His Birthday With ‘Dune,’ ‘Lion King’ and His Daughter at Madison Square Garden: Concert Review

Hans Zimmer Rocks Out on His Birthday With ‘Dune,’ ‘Lion King’ and His Daughter at Madison Square Garden: Concert Review

The legendary composer rocked the stage for nearly three hours, proving that film scores can captivate audiences just as much as set lists from any other popular artist nowadays, be it Chappell Roan, Linkin Park or Sabrina Carpenter (though Zimmer’s fans skewed a bit more middle-aged — and left the glitter and eye shadow at home).


ZEE5 Global Drops the Trailer of ‘Love, Sitara’: An Honest and Heartfelt, Slice-Of-Life Family Drama Starring Sobhita Dhulipala

ZEE5 Global Drops the Trailer of ‘Love, Sitara’: An Honest and Heartfelt, Slice-Of-Life Family Drama Starring Sobhita Dhulipala

With an extensive supporting cast including Sonali Kulkarni, B Jayashree, Virginia Rodrigues, Sanjay Bhutiani, Tamara D’Souza, Rijul Ray among others, Love, Sitara is set to premiere on ZEE5 Global on September 27th.So, brace yourself for a rollercoaster of emotions as this heart-wrenching yet uplifting tale juggles between family dynamics, personal demons, and the courageous journey towards redemption.


‘Riff Raff’ Review: A Drawn-Out Family Comedy With Criminal Entanglements

‘Riff Raff’ Review: A Drawn-Out Family Comedy With Criminal Entanglements

As the secrets of the past catch up with a father and son, threatening to detail their new idyllic lives, the film’s established ideas of love and family don’t so much come into play as they simply hover out of focus, waiting to be deployed.


Familiar Touch (2024) ‘Venice’ Movie Review: Sarah Friedland’s Powerful Debut Centers Ageing with Authority and Agency

Familiar Touch (2024) ‘Venice’ Movie Review: Sarah Friedland’s Powerful Debut Centers Ageing with Authority and Agency

There’s ample room here for sentimental excesses, but this is an amazingly unblinkingly pragmatic avatar of storytelling that never falls for those lazy tricks like consciously working to eke out our emotions.


‘Speak No Evil’ Review: James McAvoy Is a Hoot as a Vacation Friend From Hell in a Horror-Comedy That Overplays Its Slow Burn

‘Speak No Evil’ Review: James McAvoy Is a Hoot as a Vacation Friend From Hell in a Horror-Comedy That Overplays Its Slow Burn

Americans Ben and Louise (Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis, in a winning reunion of AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire”) are first seen listlessly vacationing in Italy with their 11-year-old daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler), before an encounter with Paddy (McAvoy) and his wife Ciara (Aisling Franciosi) brightens up the trip.


‘Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’ Review: A Soulful Celebration of the Live-in-Concert Bruce, Past and Present

‘Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’ Review: A Soulful Celebration of the Live-in-Concert Bruce, Past and Present

The film’s director, Thom Zimny (who co-directed, with Bruce, the intimate 2019 Springsteen performance documentary “Western Stars”), interviews each of them, and when they talk about how sluggishly paced the songs are at first, we think, “Don’t worry about it.


‘The Wild Robot’ Review: It’s No ‘Iron Giant,’ Though DreamWorks’ Tale of a Wayward Droid Is a Keeper

‘The Wild Robot’ Review: It’s No ‘Iron Giant,’ Though DreamWorks’ Tale of a Wayward Droid Is a Keeper

Technically, the hunk of rock where “The Wild Robot” takes place is anything but uninhabited: It’s teeming with life, from the crabs that teach Roz to scale cliffs in the film’s opening minutes to the horde of evil-eyed raccoons determined to ransack her insides.


10 Best Performances by Michael Keaton

10 Best Performances by Michael Keaton

From one editor to another, from fiction to reality, Keaton leads an outstanding ensemble cast as the head of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, a select group of investigative journalists who made waves after reporting on the widespread cover-up of molestation and child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in 2002.


‘40 Acres’ Review: Danielle Deadwyler Leads With Strength in Subversive Siege Thriller

‘40 Acres’ Review: Danielle Deadwyler Leads With Strength in Subversive Siege Thriller

Given the kind of introduction usually reserved for the likes of Clint Eastwood or Bruce Willis as a camera runs up her back, only to reveal her face after plunging a knife into an intruder on her property, it just hits differently when a Black woman is presented with such power, and though R.T. Thorne’s dynamic siege thriller has some familiar moves, it is full of fresh ideas.


Angelina Jolie Says ‘Maria’ Biopic Reflects “Darker Times” in Opera Legend’s Life

Angelina Jolie Says ‘Maria’ Biopic Reflects “Darker Times” in Opera Legend’s Life

Pablo Larrain’s biopic Maria, based on true accounts, tells the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.


‘Universal Basic Guys’ Is Moronic and Dated: TV Review

‘Universal Basic Guys’ Is Moronic and Dated: TV Review

After being laid off from the local hot dog factory and being inducted into a new basic income program, Mark and Hank have plenty of time on their hands to spend their $3,000 monthly checks on high jinks and foolishness.