Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam' hits theatres in Hindi on Friday as Vishwaroop. CNN-IBN Entertainment Editor watched the movie and found there was nothing communally offensive in the film. Most film critics who have seen Vishwaroop said the controversy was much ado about nothing. ...
08:26 AM, Feb 01, 2013
Ben Affleck's Iran hostage drama 'Argo,' 'Lincoln' star Daniel Day-Lewis and 'Zero Dark Thirty''s Jessica Chastain were among big winners at the Critics Choice Movie Awards. ...
11:10 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Last year's top show, Danish thriller 'The Killing', dropped to number 38 on the 2012 list. ...
12:36 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Close on the heels of outburst by a disgruntled West Bengal minister and criticism by a section of media, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she did not want to take action, but those criticising her 'would one day go away'. ...
06:48 PM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: A good story always sells - and 'English Vinglish' is proof it. After a lukewarm response in the first week, the simple story with a big message, picked up at the box office in its second week with homemakers, youngsters and professionals queuing up. Released on Oct 5, the Sridevi-starrer was hailed by critics but initial footfalls didn't match up. Word of mouth publicity indeed helped and people...
12:30 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Lashing out at the critics, Salman Khan said that they were not on the same page as movie audiences. ...
02:04 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Mumbai: Other people might fear critics but not director Rohit Shetty, who believes they are his lucky charm - every film they trash goes on to work magic at the box office! The man, known for slapstick cinema like the Golmaal series and All The Best: The Fun Begins, says he focuses on audiences while designing a project. "Critics are my lucky charm. I am fine if critics thrash my...
01:37 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Los Angeles: Psychological thriller 'Homeland' won the top prize at the Critics Choice Television awards on Monday, edging out the much-admired 'Mad Men,' while 'Community' was voted best comedy. Cable channel Showtime's 'Homeland' was declared best TV drama series and its star Claire Danes won the best dramatic actress award for her performance as a bipolar CIA agent on the hunt for a home-grown terrorist. AMC's 'Breaking Bad' brought home...
12:23 PM, Jun 19, 2012
'Peddlers', directed by Vasan Bala and produced by Anurag Kashyap has been selected to be screened at the Cannes Critics Week. ...
05:22 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: It seems the director Ram Gopal Varma's latest venture 'Department' has failed to grab attention at the box office. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweets,"EXCLUSIVE DATA: #Department is a disaster in UK, USA, Aus, NZ, Fiji, except UAE." The film was not received with much enthusiasm after its release on May 18. The audiences as well as the critics had shown reluctance in giving a thumbs up to the...
01:59 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma doesn't seem happy with Sanjay Dutt, who is among the lead actors in his latest film 'Department'. The director isn't shy of being vocal about his dislike for Sanjay Dutt. Varma writes on micro blogging site Twitter,"Whatever else happening to Department I am supremley happy tht I don't nd 2 see the faces of Sanjay dutt nd Dharam uberoi fr rest of my life."...
11:59 AM, May 22, 2012
Day time, Exterior 29th March FADE IN The day began with busy preparations in the office, we had press shows to cover for the day (Mumbai & Delhi) and then a premiere event of 1000 people (read non journalists, non filmy people). 40 journos invited to Famous Studios, only 7 turn up in time and PR girl is frantically pacing the corridor of famous studio. (Already delayed by 20 minutes,...
02:45 PM, Mar 31, 2012
How can you rate Pyaar Ka Punchnama 9/10, a journalist asked me point blank when I was temporarily on the other side of the fence, facing interviews during the release of my film. Now, a rating never is any indication of how good a film is. It is only an indication of how much the person rating it likes it. And that's the only truth. And no matter what you...
05:23 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmaker Sajid Khan, who is two films old in the industry, is gearing up for his latest film which is a sequel to 'Housefull'. Sajid Khan's both films 'Hey Baby' and 'Housefull' garnered good business at the box office. But he feels that Hindi films are not for the critics. Sajid Khan told reporters, "Critics never rate any blockbuster well. There are four films which have crossed 100 corers....
12:31 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Los Angeles: Black-and-white movie 'The Artist', a homage to the silent era of filmmaking, was named the Best Picture at the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Award, cementing its chances at the Oscars next month. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, the French film, which has taken both critics and audiences with surprise by offering a window to the bygone era of cinema, also won for the Best Costume Design and Best Score....
06:45 PM, Jan 13, 2012
New York: The apocalyptic psychological drama 'Melancholia' was named the year's best film on Saturday by the National Society of Film Critics, which chose its star Kirsten Dunst as best actress and Brad Pitt as best actor for the baseball drama 'Moneyball' as well as 'The Tree of Life'. Lars von Trier lost out on the best director award for his work on 'Melancholia' to Terrence Malick for "The Tree...
01:00 PM, Jan 08, 2012
New Delhi: Recently concluded Mumbai International Film Festival had seen heated discussions over a variety of subjects from bad screenwriting to the role of cinema in nation building. One such debate was about the role of film critics. The director of Bheja Fry and Bheja Fry 2, Sagar Ballary was not happy with the way film critics rejected his latest film Hum Tum Shabana. He was of the opinion that...
05:59 PM, Oct 23, 2011
Mumbai: A film reviewer can be a director's best friend or worst enemy. It was hence not surprising, when to a question about whether he knew of anyone in Bollywood who has paid for a good review for a film, director Nikhil Advani's answer was an instant 'Yes'. Had he himself done so? the answer was an expectedly unequivocal 'No'. The open forum at Mumbai Film Festival on whether film...
11:32 AM, Oct 19, 2011
New Delhi: When it comes to certain stars, the film makes money regardless of what the reviewer says. Then they start looking like small street dogs barking at a huge elephant: Shyam Benegal. Quite a few things in cinema transcend logic, and this is one of them. Films that stick like a bone in the throat of film reviewers go on to do phenomenal business at the box office (yes,...
12:43 PM, Sep 23, 2011
