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  • Netflix The Life List

    Cast: Sofia Carson, Kyle Allen, Connie Britton, Michael Rowland, Sebastian de Souza, Maria Jung and Kyle Allen

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    To be a great teacher, to play one-on-one with one of the New York Knicks, to try a stand-up comedy act, to find true love… ‘The Life List’ charts the journey of Alexandra, aka Alex, on the wrong side of...

    05 Apr 2025
  • Minecraft, the game, was released in 2011 by Swedish developer Markus Persson, and it was about creative world-building within a digital landscape. The film, though, had a set agenda and it was not possible for the players to choose their...

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    05 Apr 2025
  • Prime video The Bondsman

    Cast: Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Nettles, Beth Grant, Damon Herriman and Maxwell Jenkins

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    Demon and devil! Is there a difference? In Christian theology, a demon refers to a category of evil spirits, while devil is a specific individual, the leader of these demons. In this Thor Freudenthal, Sanaa Hamri, Catriona McKenzie and Lauren...

    05 Apr 2025
  • SonyLiv Chamak: The Conclusion

    Cast: Manoj Pahwa, Gippy Grewal, Paramvir Cheema, Mohit Malik, Isha Talwar, Navneet Nishan, Akasa Singh, Mukesh Chhabra and Prince Kanwaljit Singh

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    What can be more fascinating than a glimpse into what goes on behind the scenes in the Punjabi music industry? Invariably reverberating with rocking beats, it has deep fault lines that are exposed every now and then. So, can a...

    05 Apr 2025
  • Sikandar

    Cast: Salman Khan, Rashmika Mandanna, Kajal Aggarwal, Sathyaraj, Sharman Joshi, Prateik Babbar, Anjini Dhawan, Kishore, Jatin Sarna, Sanjay Kapoor, Nawab Shah and Vishal Vashishtha

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    Logic has never been the strength of Salman Khan’s ‘suspension of credulity’ variant of films. But at least massy entertainment high on actiona and drama with right tadka of comedy has been his and his kind of cinema’s forte. Alas,...

    31 Mar 2025
  • The White Lotus Season 3

    Cast: Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Lalisa Manobal, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Nivola, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Tayme Thapthimthong, Aimee Lou Wood and Sam Rockwell

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    Lust and pleasure, pain and meditation, West and East… can all these inhabit the same space? Well, in Mike White’s third season of ‘The White Lotus’, they do. Those familiar with his award-winning franchise and template are well aware that...

    30 Mar 2025
  • Black Bag

    Cast: Michael Fassbender, Gustaf Skarsgard, Cate Blanchett, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke

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    Stephen Soderbergh’s spy thriller ‘Black Bag’ plays it vocal. It is a taut, smart film with a lot of details and little clues pieced together to form a grand scheme. It’s nothing new as far as the spy fiction genre...

    30 Mar 2025
  • Prime Video Holland

    Cast: Nicole Kidman, Gael García Bernal, Matthew Macfadyen and Jude Hill

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    When a film is titled ‘Holland’ and set in a place filled with Dutch-Americans, tulips and windmills, and all establishments are named after it (Holland Optometry, Holland High School and so on), one expects the town to be as much...

    30 Mar 2025
  • Tenu Ghodi Kinney Chadaya

    Cast: Harby Sangha, Raavi Kaur Bal, Raj Dhaliwal, Mahabir Bhullar, Gurpreet Toti and Gurinder Makhna

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    Having spent an hour and 40 minutes watching a movie and not knowing where to start… this can be a sign of being deeply moved or utterly unimpressed. In this case, it’s the latter, and the rating reflects it. But...

    30 Mar 2025
  • Mufasa The Lion King JioHotstar The movie is about a lost and lonely cub who meets a sympathetic lion named Taka, the heir to the royal bloodline.

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    30 Mar 2025
  • Anora JioHotstar Starring Mikey Madison, Yuriy Borisov and Mark Eydelshteyn, ‘Anora’ follows the journey of a 23-year-old stripper, whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Ivan Zakharov, the young son of a wealthy Russian businessman. The film won...

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    22 Mar 2025
  • Prime Video Be Happy

    Cast: Inayat Verma, Abhishek Bachchan, Nassar, Nora Fatehi and Harleen Sethi

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    In a father-daughter story at heart, a dance reality show forms the backdrop of Remo D’Souza’s directorial ‘Be Happy’. A single father, Shiv Rustogi is raising eight-year-old Dhara along with his father-in-law Nadar in scenic Ooty. The born-to-dance Dhara lands...

    22 Mar 2025
  • Netflix Adolescence

    Cast: Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Faye Marsay and Christine Tremarco

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    When was the last time we were intrigued by the technical side of a film, much more than its subject or acting? Not in recent memory! Director Philip Barantini’s ‘Adolescence’, a four-episode British crime drama about a teenager accused of...

    22 Mar 2025
  • Snow White

    Cast: Rachel Zegler, Emilia Faucher, Gal Gadot, Hadley Fraser, Lorena Andrea and Andrew Burnap

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    Live-action remakes of classic animated tales have been getting tiresome, but ‘Snow White’, the latest from the Disney stable, marks a turning point for the production house. It may not be their best work, but it certainly is not as...

    22 Mar 2025
  • Netflix Khakee: The Bengal Chapter

    Cast: Jeet, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Chitrangada Singh, Ritwik Bhowmik, Aadil Zafar Khan, Parambrata Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Mahaakshay Chakraborty, Pooja Chopra and Aakanksha Singh

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    The second outing of a well-made franchise is a tough nut to crack. ‘Khakee: The Bengal Chapter’, a standalone sequel to Neeraj Pandey’s acclaimed series ‘Khakee: The Bihar Chapter’, faces the same acid test of great expectations. The anticipation is...

    22 Mar 2025
  • Dupahiya Prime Video Directed by Sonam Nair, the comedy drama web series features Gajraj, Renuka, Bhuvan Arora, Sparsh Shrivastava, Shivani Raghuvanshi and Yashpal Sharma in the lead roles. The series also stars an extensive supporting cast, including Renuka Shahane and...

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    08 Mar 2025
  • Prime Video Picture This

    Cast: Simone Ashley, Anoushka Chadha, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Luke Fetherston and Sindhu Vee

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    On the wrong side of 20s, as Pia attends her younger sister’s wedding, the pressure to get married is immense. In comes a Panditji, who predicts that one of her next five dates is going to be her forever happily...

    08 Mar 2025
  • Netflix Nadaaniyan

    Cast: Ibrahim Ali Khan, Khushi Kapoor, Mahima Chaudhry, Suniel Shetty, Dia Mirza and Jugal Hansraj

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    For the longest time, Dharma Productions has been known for reminding us how rich lives matter. Time and again, it has taken viewers not only on a voyeuristic ride into the extravagant lifestyles of the uber rich, but also offered...

    08 Mar 2025
  • Netflix Zero Day

    Cast: Robert De Niro, Angela Bassett, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Joan Allen, Connie Britton and Dan Stevens

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    ‘Zero Day’, a six-episode series, plunges viewers into a high-stakes political conspiracy that leans heavily on its star-studded cast led by the legendary Robert De Niro, who makes his OTT debut. The thriller explores the chaos following a catastrophic global...

    08 Mar 2025
  • SonyLIV The Waking of a Nation

    Cast: Taaruk Raina, Nikita Dutta, Sahil Mehta, Bhawsheel Singh, Alex Reece and Paul McEwan

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    Jallianwala Bagh is an emotion — an emotion so strong that even after more than a century, it keeps finding its way to the silver screen. We last saw this emotion come alive in Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Sardar Udham’, where one...

    08 Mar 2025
  • The Brutalist

    Cast: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird and Isaach de Bankole

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    Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody) arrives in America to rebuild his life. He and his wife Erzsebet (Felicity Jones) were forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. Only after he manages to establish himself...

    01 Mar 2025
  • Ziddi Girls

    Cast: Revathi, Simran, Nandita Das, Nandish Singh Sandhu, Umang Bhadana, Anupriya Caroli, Atiya Tara Nayak and Zaina Ali

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    In times when dissent has a negative connotation and JNU is projected as the template for institutionalised felony, ‘Ziddi Girls’, with themes like freedom of expression and the power of collective resistance at its core, comes across as bold and...

    01 Mar 2025
  • Ek Badnaam Aashram Season 3 Part 2

    Cast: Bobby Deol, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Aaditi Pohankar and Darshan Kumar

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    Ever since ‘Aashram’ dropped in 2020, both the director, Prakash Jha, and Bobby Deol, who plays the devious Baba Nirala, captured our imagination. Indeed, the perils of a successful show are that it often gets extended into many seasons, elongated...

    01 Mar 2025
  • Superboys of Malegaon

    Cast: Adarsh Gourav, Vineet Kumar Singh, Shashank Arora, Anuj Singh Duhan and Riddhi Kumar

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    Nothing is more heartwarming than aspirational stories of underdogs. Only, Reema Kagti’s cinematic recreation of small-town filmmaker Nasir Shaikh’s life is more than just a tale of a man dreaming the unthinkable, and realising it. As she takes us to...

    01 Mar 2025
  • It starts with someone calling 911 to report a case of domestic violence. The caller says he saw a man in a van slapping a woman. The place is Moab, Utah, and the date is August 12, 2021. What follows...

    22 Feb 2025
  • Babygirl

    Cast: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Esther-Rose McGregor, Sophie Wilde, Vaughan Reilly, Victor Slezak and Leslie Silva

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    A dark thriller about uncontrollable desire, ‘Babygirl’ follows a sexually repressed CEO who finds release through a torrid affair with an intern. Director Halina Reijn’s second English-language feature, after 2022’s ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’, follows the erotic-thriller format but it is...

    22 Feb 2025
  • Mere Husband Ki Biwi

    Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar, Rakul Preet Singh, Kanwaljeet Singh, Shakti Kapoor, Dino Morea, Aditya Seal and Tiku Talsania

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    A grieving Ankur Chadha (Arjun Kapoor) is haunted by the memories of his rocky marriage to Prabhleen Dhillon (Bhumi Pednekar) and the bitter divorce. When his friend Bunty’s bachelor party is not able to lift his mood, he heads to...

    22 Feb 2025
  • Zee5 Crime Beat

    Cast: Saqib Saleem, Rahul Bhat, Rajesh Tailang, Danish Husain, Saba Azad and Sai Tamhankar

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    The fine line between journalism and sensationalism is fast becoming wafer-thin. Even those not privy to the world of journalism are aware of the falsehoods the media propagates in search of truth. So, what can the showrunner of ‘Crime Beat’,...

    22 Feb 2025
  • Marco SonyLIV ‘Marco’ is a thriller that tests the limits of one man’s resilience, honour and love for his family. It explores violence, sparking thought-provoking discussions. Its technical brilliance shines through stylish cinematography, masterful slow-motion and sharp editing. The Witcher:...

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    15 Feb 2025
  • Netflix Anuja

    Cast: Sajda Pathan, Ananya Shanbhag, Nagesh Bhonsle, Gulshan Walia

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    The 23-minute short American-Hindi film ‘Anuja’is a tale of resilience, sisterhood and sacrifice. A gifted nine-year-old Anuja (Sajda Pathan), who works in a garment factory with her elder sister Palak (Ananya Shanbhag), gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study in a...

    15 Feb 2025
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