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  • Why Belfast should win the best picture Oscar

    Kenneth Branagh has ventured bravely into contested territory with this deeply personal film, set at the outbreak of the Troubles in the city of his birth. So divisions are inevitable, with those who deplore it as a travesty of political reality ranged against others who recognise their own stories ...
  • ‘Why do they do that?’: Nicolas Cage isn’t down with the Coppol

    Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese believe, variously, that Marvel movies are either “despicable” or “not cinema”. Coppola’s nephew Nicolas Cage this week revealed that his only problem with the Disney-owned superhero cinematic universe is that it didn’t com...
  • Oscars 2022: Why Kristen Stewart deserves the honour — and so d

    As Princess Diana, Kristen Stewart is at once glorious and tragic, reaching out and yet shutting off, hungry and anorexic, trying hard to hold on to her sense of self as her grip on everything around her gets shaky.   In the column Let's Talk About Women, Sneha Bengani looks at films, the wor...
  • Ten years of Alia Bhatt: Decoding the steady success of one of

    Alia Bhatt's decade-long successes are testimony to a change in what people watch, enjoy, and how stories have evolved in cinema.   Alia Bhatt has completed 10 years as the leading lady in Hindi cinema this year. Most recently, she has delivered a superhit Sanjay Leela Bhansali period crime d...
  • In his memoir, Oscar-nominated actor Will Smith presents a raw

    Ahead of him possibly getting third time lucky with a Best Actor win for King Richard at Oscars 2022, here's how you can get to know Will Smith better, through the lens of his recently released memoir.   Will Smith, one of the most respected Hollywood actors, has never won an Oscar.   ...