The Best UK Pop And Rock Festivals For 2016

Britain’s shrinking southern island boasts some truly golden oldies this year, with headliners the Who and Queen (fronted by Adam “Camp Elvis” Lambert), p...

Retroscope - Meena Kumari

I walked carefully through the film set, encountering black coils of electrical wires, plug points, tripods, pedestal lights, noisy fans at every step of the way that made ...

How A 13 Year Old CEO Is Changing Lives Of School Children

A bespectacled young boy dressed in a smart suit makes his way to the podium amidst thunderous applause. The hall in front of him is filled with MBA students from Syracuse ...

#StarringJohnCho: Fed Up With Hollywood’s Whitewashing, One Photoshop Guru Is Recreating Movie Posters.

Frustrations over a lack of diversity in the 2015 Academy Awards nominations birthed the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite. It took over social media and has dominated Oscars coverage...

Safia Manto: The Woman Who Stood By The Writer Through All Times

So little is known and even less written about the women who have unflinchingly supported their celebrated men. It is true that SafiaDeen would not have been known had she ...

Artificial Intelligence Creativity Machine Learns To Play Beethoven In The Style Of The Beatles’ “Penny Lane”

It is the end of term this week and my film production students asked me to name my favorite part of filmmaking. I told them it’s directing, as it’s something I...

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...

5 Little Girls Who Changed History

If you ask these influential little girls, all it takes to change the world is a hint of curiosity and a will to spark action. These youngsters have made waves, armed with ...

Montclair Film Festival 2016: 'All The World's A Screen,' An American Debut

The Bard, William Shakespeare, turned 400 this past Saturday.
To honor that legacy, BBC's long-standing series of arts documentaries, Arena, commissioned a look at the...