Masks, thumping music, missions, exotic locations and Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt running like a bat out of hell to save “those we hold close, and those we never meet,” are all present and correct in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning , the eighth movie in the blisteringly successful franchise. Two months after the events … Read more
Angelina Jolie and Marie Colomb attend the ‘Eddington’ red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2025 in Cannes, France. | Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES Hollywood icon Angelina Jolie made a dazzling appearance on the Cannes Film Festival 2025 red carpet, wearing a stunning embroidered strapless gown … Read more
Nayanthara and Anil Ravipudi. | Photo Credit: Shine Screens/YouTube Nayanthara has joined the cast of the upcoming movie starring Chiranjeevi. Tentatively titled Mega 157, the Telugu movie will be directed by Anil Ravipudi. Sahu Garapati and Sushmita Konidela will produce the movie under the banners Shine Screens and Goldbox Entertainment respectively. The makers announced Nayanthara’s … Read more
Rangayana Raghu in ‘Agnyathavasi’. | Photo Credit: Saregama Kannada/YouTube Critically acclaimed Kannada mystery-thriller Agnyathavasi will be premiering exclusively on ZEE5. The film, directed by Janardhan Chikkanna, is produced by Hemanth M Rao of Sapta Sagaradaache Ello fame. The film is co-produced by Prachura P P, and Jayalakshmi. Rangayana Raghu plays the lead role in the … Read more
LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 15: Tom Cruise on stage during the Global Premiere of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on May 15, 2025, in London, England. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures) | Photo Credit: TIM P. WHITBY Hollywood star Tom Cruise expressed his admiration for … Read more
Avneet Kaur with Tom Cruise at the London premiere of ‘Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning’. | Photo Credit: avneetkaur_13/Instagram Avneet Kaur, who has been sharing pictures with global legend andMission: Impossible star Tom Cruise, has now treated fans to a series of new pictures from the London premiere of his much-awaited film, Mission: Impossible–The Final … Read more
Ari Aster, Joaquin Phoenix and Lars Knudsen attend the ‘Eddington’ red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2025 in Cannes, France. | Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES Ari Aster’s COVID-era Western Eddington, about a 2020 America quickly losing its mind to conspiracy theories, TikTok and political extremism, … Read more
Rajkummar Rao and Wamiqa Gabbi in ‘Bhool Chuk Maaf’. | Photo Credit: Maddock Films/YouTube Bhool Chuk Maaf, the Rajkummar Rao and Wamiqa Gabbi-starrer time loop comedy, will now release in theatres and not on OTT, producer Dinesh Vijan said on Thursday. Vijan’s production banner Maddock Films had recently announced that the movie will skip its … Read more
Santhanam and Rajendran in a still from ‘Devil’s Double Next Level’ | Photo Credit: Think Music India/YouTube Let naysayers and non-believers say what they want, the Dhilluku Dhuddu films are the kind of guilty pleasure that must keep this world running. There’s a bungalow, a ghost or two, a foul-mouthed Santhanam, a Rajendran who leaves … Read more
Pawan Kalyan in ‘Hari Hara Veera Mallu’. | Photo Credit: Mega Surya Production/YouTube After multiple postponements, Hari Hara Veera Mallu,starring Pawan Kalyan, has locked a fresh release date. The Telugu film is directed by Jyothi Krishna and Krish Jagarlamudi. The film was first slated to release on March 29, 2025. The makers pushed the release … Read more
It is tough to look at 23 (Iravai Moodu) solely as a film. The indie-spirited Telugu venture based on real incidents, written and directed by Raj R, is part social commentary, presented in a docu-drama style. Armed with a cast that includes 25 newcomers and a few established names, Raj questions if the justice system … Read more
A still from ‘Maaman’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Should a family only be a pillar to support us, or can we ever look at it as a social unit made up of independent lives? Does marriage by design lead to familial bonds? If not, when does a relationship truly feel like family? Also, why … Read more
English-Nepalese psychological thriller Maya Ko Maya, headlined by Vinay Pathak, Nepal’s breakout star Anna Sharma, Saloni Batra and Satyajeet Dubey has wrapped its principal photography, makers announced on Friday. Set in modern Nepal and based on real events, the film is directed by Rohit Karan Baidya. Maya Ko Maya is eyeing a worldwide release in … Read more
Filmmaker and actor Nandita Das, actor Shahana Goswami and director Jeo Baby discussed censorship and OTT platforms in the discussion titled “The Female Gaze: Redefining Cinema on the Global Stage” at The Hindu Huddle 2025 moderated by The Hindu’s Shilajit Mitra. Films that are being made in India now face three kinds of censorship, said … Read more
A look at India at Cannes 2025 so far | Photo Credit: Getty Images, X/ @SAMTHEBESTEST_, Insagram/ @jacquelienefernandez, Instagram/ @urvashirautela As the French Riviera basks a brand new selection of film’s from around the world, the 78th Cannes Film Festival (May 13–24) is already proving to be another big year for Indian representation. No longer … Read more
A still from the sets of ‘Dhamaal 4’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Dhamaal 4, the latest in the long-running Hindi comedy franchise, will release in cinemas on Eid, 2026, the makers announced on Friday (May 16). Directed by veteran Indra Kumar, the new instalment features Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi and Jaaved Jaaferi. … Read more
Actor Theo Navarro-Mussy. | Photo Credit: theonavmuss/Instagram The Cannes Film Festival has banned French actor Theo Navarro-Mussy from appearing on the red carpet for Thursday’s premiere of French competition film Case 137 due to sexual assault allegations against him. Festival director Thierry Fremaux told Telerama magazine on Wednesday that he had decided, along with the … Read more
As reports of theatres turning into battlegrounds emerged during the Chhaava wave, we observed with consternation how the outside world impacts the audience behaviour inside. Filmmaker Vani Subramanian’s latest documentary, Cinema Pe Cinema: The Theatres. The Movies. And Us explores this ‘inside-outside’ conundrum. To be screened at the Habitat Film Festival from May 16 to 25, it starts as a memory-scape of women and men … Read more
Maranamass’ Luke is subversive and a nuisance; he has even tried to sell the local police station. He is a peroxide blond ‘sigma’ who wears loud clothes and speaks Gen Z. But hidden underneath that bravado, which borders on foolishness, is the boy-next-door that we have all come to love — actor-director Basil Joseph. Maranamass … Read more
A poster for ‘Vvan – Force of the Forrest’ | Photo Credit: Instagram/Sidharth Malhotra Folk thriller movie Vvan – Force of the Forrest, headlined by actor Sidharth Malhotra, will make its debut in Indian theatres on May 15, 2026, the makers announced on Friday. The project, which hails from Ektaa R Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms Ltd … Read more
Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’. Tom Cruise is a bonafide movie star, probably the last of a dying breed. Whether he is gifting the famous white chocolate coconut Bundt cake in the holiday season to his loved ones, or standing on top of London’s BFI IMAX Cinema, or doing a charming … Read more
Harish Mallya, an ardent film buff from Bengaluru, concedes that his theatre visits have come down post the COVID-19 pandemic period. An engineer and a curator of world cinema for the Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes), Harish had the habit of watching a film every Friday without fail for decades. In the current situation, he … Read more
Tom Cruise, left, and Michael B. Jordan pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ on Thursday, May 15, 2025, in London | Photo Credit: AP Tom Cruise received a hearty surprise at the London premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on May 15, … Read more
Cosmo Jarvis | Photo Credit: Instagram/ @cosmo.jarvis Cosmo Jarvis, fresh off his breakout performance in FX’s Shōgun, is set play a young Joseph Stalin in the upcoming biopic Young Stalin. Directed by Georgian-French filmmaker Géla Babluani (13 Tzameti, Money), the film explores the formative years of the Soviet dictator before he seized global infamy. Based … Read more
Jacqueline Fernandez and Nitanshi Goel | Photo Credit: Getty Images, X/ @SAMTHEBESTEST_ Day 3 of the 78th Cannes Film Festival saw Bollywood star Jacqueline Fernandez make a striking appearance as she officially represented Indian cinema under the Red Sea Film Foundation’s Women in Cinema initiative. Skipping the opening ceremony red carpet, Jacqueline arrived at the … Read more
Karan Johar and Alia Bhatt | Photo Credit: THG Filmmaker Karan Johar is hitting back hard at those who continue to brand Alia Bhatt a “nepo kid.” In an interview with Baradwaj Rangan for Galatta Plus, Johar defended the actress he launched in Student of the Year (2012), making it clear he’s had enough of … Read more
Harish Mallya, an ardent film buff from Bengaluru, concedes that his theatre visits have come down post the COVID-19 pandemic period. An engineer and a curator of world cinema for the Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes), Harish had the habit of watching a film every Friday without fail for decades. In the current situation, he … Read more
Academic Freedom Index, India now ranks as “completely restricted”, its lowest score since the mid-1940s. | Photo: A still from the movie The Two Popes. Robert Francis Prevost became the first pope from the United States on Thursday (May 8, 2025), picking the papal name Leo XIV after cardinals from around the world elected him as … Read more
Ram Pothineni in ‘Andhra King Taluka’. | Photo Credit: Mythri Movie Makers/YouTube The makers of the upcoming Ram Pothineni movie have announced the film’s title. The Telugu movie was tentatively titled RAPO22. The makers released a video to announce the film’s title as Andhra King Taluka. As seen in the title promo, Ram Pothineni seems … Read more
What a smashing segue into Rogue One the finale of Andor Season 2 is! The bitter-sweet ending brings some character arcs to a close and leaves others open-ended, much like life itself, which very rarely ties up all loose ends in a pretty bow. Dropping three episodes weekly is immensely satisfying as it makes Season … Read more