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The older and dad‑er my non‑binary body gets, the more I appreciate Jason Statham movies. They’re the most 2.5/5 movies on earth, but nothing beats watching that short, British, bald man kick some ass. Now it feels like he’s taking the Green Eggs and Ham route of action roles. We’ve seen him kill people on…

Richard Lukacs’s no-budget, no-crew, no-AI, eight-minute Sound of the Doldrums is an accomplished work that is all the more impressive for its production conditions. The story of a musician deafened by an accident in which he also lost his wife, the film is an experimental narrative using step printing and stylised editing. These features become…

Readers paying attention to literary discourse these days will no doubt have heard that men don’t read fiction, and that short fiction doesn’t sell.

Watch it for the moving father-daughter relationship and the conversations it sparks about parenting.

Modha Rathri Movie Review: A poster from Modha Rathtri Published on: 22 Aug 2026, 7:28 am

What happens when you inject Hollywood blood into the veins of Arabic cinema? A cinematic coup that stakes a claim on cultural soft power. After headline-grabbing football acquisitions, Saudi Arabia seems to be aiming for global box office dominance by mounting a vanity project. Orchestrated by ‘Bad Boys’ Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the…

Watch it for its heart and relatable characters, though the film could have moved faster

A string of daring robberies shocks 1960s Kolkata, all linked to a mysterious man called Ananta. Once a freedom fighter, he now wages his own war against corruption. As police chase him through the city, the story, inspired by real events, reveals the painful cost of a revolution that failed most of its heroes

The film “The Rip,” starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, follows a group of detectives in Miami navigating a high-stakes criminal investigation. Damon and Affleck portray cop partners Lieutenant Dane Dumars (referred to as “L.T.”) and Detective Sergeant J.D. Byrne, respectively. After receiving a suspicious tip, they arrive at a house where they find, in…

For seasoned thriller viewers, the film offers too few surprises to leave a lasting impact.