Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

Calgary Underground Film Festival Offers A Halloween All-Nighter

It sounds like a dream assignment for festival film programmers, particularly those whose cinematic tastes run left of the dial. This Saturday, the Calgary Underground Film...

Mahesh Bhatt To Anchor 'Khwabon Ka Safar' On Epic.

Epic channel is all set to further strengthen its 10 pm slot with the launch of two new shows – ‘Khwaabon ka Safar with Mahesh Bhatt’ and ‘Devlok wi...

Perfecting Pixar’s Movies Takes A Crazy Amount Of Research.

IT WOULD BE so easy to think of Pixar as all play and no work. After all, the Disney-owned studio churns out happy-ending tales with lovable bugs, toys, and race cars for p...

What Will We See At The Haifa Film Festival?

As far as the international film scene goes, cinematic events on the scale of the Haifa Film Festival are a type of summation of the larger festivals such as Berlin, Venice...

True Review TV - Jackson Heights: Diaspora Tales

I am most impressed that Pakistan?s Television industry is tackling Diaspora stories; in that, Jackson Heights on Zindagi is a must see. The stories of the Pakistani immigr...

‘Masaan’ And Other Indian Films Steer Away From Bollywood Escapism

MUMBAI — At the beginning of “Masaan,” the most acclaimed Indian movie of the year, two lovers meet at a ramshackle motel in the holy northern city of Var...

A Female Producer Explains 4 Ways Women Get A Raw Deal In Hollywood.

By this point, it’s been well established that women who work in film have a tougher time of it than men. Even so, when the Tumblr account Shit People Say to Women Di...