During a post-movie visit to the women's restroom, I overheard a woman sobbing in a stall. Regardless of whether you agree with the partisan forces that have attached themselves to "Sound of Freedom," the child trafficking thriller starring Jim Caviezel is an unmitigated box office hit. More than this, "Sound of Freedom," which had a $14.5 million budget, is now …
Editor’s Note: Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. The French Amazon original feature “The Mad Women’s Ball,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is out on Amazon Prime today, is the latest addition to the …
Filmmaker Farah Khan on Wednesday remembered when she had witnessed a stampede at a wedding reception after late actor Dilip Kumar entered the venue. Born Mohammed Yusuf Khan in 1922 in Peshawar, he was known by the screen name of Dilip Kumar once he joined Bollywood in the 1940s. "With a heavy heart and profound grief, I announce the passing …
A young “political” journalist desperate for a scoop to save her job attempts to probe the mysterious death of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. Director Vivek Agnihotri’s purpose behind The Tashkent Files is as clear as day, but he spends 144 minutes trying to beat around the bush, appearing to examine varied points of view, lest someone calls this …
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