Michael Shanks' latest is a crawl-under-my-skin horror that is delightfully absurd, funny and hard to peel one’s eyes away from. With stellar performances from Dave Franco and Alison Brie, this film is a riotous, offbeat date-night flick.
About The Author
Sakshi is a sub-editor at the Outlook Entertainment Desk. She’s also a documentary filmmaker and mixed-media artist based in Mumbai.
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Madhuri, Nandini Mutt’s beloved elephant, to return home after weeks of rallies, with aid from the Ambanis. Villagers and supporters across states stand firm, invoking cultural memory and shared belonging. Although larger questions around wildlife safety and ethics persist.
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Indian cinema has long failed in its depiction of mental health issues. But a handful of films refuse to play it safe, stripping away clichés and confronting the brutal, raw truth of trauma, memory loss, and fractured identity. These aren’t tidy stories with tidy resolutions. They dig into the chaos, where healing isn’t linear and reality slips.
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With a voice that mocked the world and still sang of its sufferings with devastating sobriety, Kishore Kumar excelled in the art of chasing desire with a grin and a lump in the throat.
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Directed by Pandiraj, Thalaivan Thalaivii begins with love served through food, then sinks into a spiral of obsessive one-upmanship. Think lovers competing over who loves more, turned up to full volume.
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Artist Frans O. Al-Salmi and photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab, through their art and photographs, were sharing the misery of Gaza with the world, until their lives were cut short by Israeli airstrikes June 30
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Caste is central to Masaan, but what sets it apart is how it weaves together the personal and the social, showing how neither can be separated from the cost of grief. Ten years later, the film still remains acutely relevant, exposing the repercussions of consensual love and freedom in an India that can’t protect it, even in fiction.
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Muzaffar Ali gives his most precise expression for what Umrao Jaan means to him: “My Umrao is sacred. She is for aashiques, lovers. Those who emulate it will be rejected. It is sacred, and it is mine, made for the pure.”
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The argument isn’t that stunts are recklessly executed or that there is absence of safety—it is more that the danger doesn’t end when the camera cuts. What’s harming stuntmen isn’t just the physical risk, but the lack of protection beyond the film sets.
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Despite each actor delivering strong individual performances, their collective presence lacks cohesion—the ensemble never quite clicks as a singular, unified force.
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