Tag: amitabhbachchan

Every year for Diwali, Hinduism's fall festival of lights, Bollywood pulls out the big guns and this year is no different. Thugs of Hindostan is a film many years in the making, starring numerous massive Indian movie stars in a...

On paper, Ribhu Dasgupta's Te3n is a no brainer. A thriller set in Kolkata featuring three of India's most respected actors, produced by thriller specialist Sujoy Ghosh (Kahaani), and based on Korean kidnap movie Montage, it feels like all of...

When you're hanging with a posse who murder, steal, rape and share the bed with the same women and commit every crime imaginable, it's time to reassess your life.  Black is a movie you will not forget once you see...

The first official trailer for hotly anticipated Bollywood superhero flick, Krrish 3 has arrived and it looks, um, explode-y. The film stars Hrithik Roshan, who also anchored the first two films (more on that later), as well as newly minted international...

Only in its second year, the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne is leaping from strength to strength. This year the festival will welcome special guest Amitabh Bachchan, to present the closing night screening of his 1975 blockbuster film Deewar, directed...

With the exception of his bawdy, brash musical Moulin Rouge, I'm a Baz Lurhmann tragic. Strictly Ballroom is one of my favourite movies and even Australia has a certain charm, if you let it wear you down to its level....

I cannot bring myself to post up the painfully generic Blu-Ray cover of Pierre Laffargue's wonderfully oddball neo-blaxploitation action-fantasy starring French rapper McJean Gab'1 as an on-the-lam Parisian bank robber down in Senegal for a diamond heist.  The best way to...

The Canadian DVD release of Pierre Laffargue's heist film Black is only a couple weeks away on April 9th and is available for pre-order from Evokative Films. But first, why not see if you're as lucky as Black was in the...

If R Balakrishnan's Paa were a Hollywood production I would suggest it was an incredibly clumsy attempt at Oscar bait.  But it's not a Hollywood picture and so it simply stands as a reminder of how incredibly strange Bollywood can...

It's all about confessions today (after Embodiment of Evil last night I feel dirty). Thanks to Canadian distributor Evokative Films I have had Black for some time now and have been able to watch it more than once. At first,...

A second viewing of Pierre Laffargue's kitchen-sink genre-mash cements the notion that if there is a reasonable successor to John Carpenter, albeit with more global leanings, Laffargue is quite possibly the man. While not as overtly funny as something like...

[OK, so I am not actually in Montreal right now, but in the spirit of the fine programming on hand at this years festival, I had a look-see at Pierre Laffargue's directorial debut, the action crime extravaganza, Black.] Kitchen-sink filmmaking...