Surrealist Filmmaker Jan Svankmajer Is About To Make His Final Feature Film & You Can Help Produce It

No filmmaker combines live action with stop-motion quite like Jan Švankmajer, and certainly no filmmaker has used that combination to such imaginative and troubling ...

True Review Television - Threshold Of New Shows

Dahleez which is a finite series of 160 episodes, winds down this weekend, although the requisite 160 episodes haven’t been reached. Sadly, its slot will be taken up ...

Kaleidoscope - Kiddie Party

As summer vacations draw to a close, the marvellous season of children’s plays also comes to a halt. Very few groups who work on children’s theatre during the s...

The Gender Gap Nobody’s Talking About

According to the writer Malcolm Gladwell, 10,000 hours of practice is what it takes to become world class at most things. Part of the reason the Beatles were the Beatles, h...

True Review Movie - TE3N

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty.

Direction: Ribhu Dasgupta

Produced: Sujoy Ghosh, Gulab Singh Tanwar, Hyunw...

True Review Television - An Epic Showcase

Thanks to Lost Recipes hosted by Aditya Bal for Epic Channel, I actually watched culinary masterpieces of my community.  No, it isn’t Dhansak and patra ni machch...

Napa’s Bottlerock Inspires Music-Festival Envy

From a Sacramento perspective, it was easy to feel a bit of envy while strolling around Napa’s BottleRock music festival.
As a Rolling Stones cover band played a...

True Review Movie - Alice Through the Looking Glass review

Cast: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Carter,Sacha Baron Cohen, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall.

Direc...

Kaleidoscope - From A Child’s Heart

It has been observed that more often than not books for or about kids have a male protagonist.  Two recent books buck that trend and have girls leading-- and very inte...