As dry as the martini Bond enjoyed, Connery's 007 was a tour de force of comicbook heroism replete with set pieces and choreographed stunts which he carried off with a Scottish virility, notes Subhash K Jha.
The sixth Jaipur International Film Festival will see 156 films from 90 countries screened at the festival.
A look at this week's hits and misses.
'The Chinese have a set pattern. They demonstrate, warn, threaten, attack and withdraw.' 'We were lulled into complacency, but I am certain things are being corrected now.'
The hits and misses of the week.
Here's what caught our eye at the movies this year.
Entertainment may be its raison d'etre but the tears brought about by cinema are no less significant.
The most thrilling, romantic, terrifying, musical and comical tring tring moments!
Mee Raqsam is an ode to fathers who guide their children to the path where dreams come true, notes Sukanya Verma.
'The reaction to Cutting Chai has been, "I never thought you could do something like this!" and I like that.'
Stars queue up for Farah Khan's grand birthday bash.
'We have seen a lot of Hindi films where the men cheat and ask the women for forgiveness. Then we show that she forgives him and they live happily every after. But till date, there has been no film where a woman cheats and asks for forgiveness and then the male has to decide if he wants to forgive her or not.' Akshay Kumar talks Rustom.
The hits and misses of the week.
'Some of us are overweight, some underweight, some too tall, some too short, some too fair, some too dark, but that's no reason to get bogged down by society's rules about what fits.'
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'After pack-up, Sridevi took a shower in the studio itself, changed, and returned to the set with a wad of notes.' 'She distributed it amongst every technician who had worked on the song Na Jaane Kahan Se Aaye Hai.'
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the weekly verdict.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the weekly verdict.
Modern Love: Mumbai has a mostly good selection of stories, and unlike so many other OTT shows that seem to think profanity and sex depict modernity, this one can be watched with the family without any discomfort, observes Deepa Gahlot.
'If he was unwell in May, he gave no indication of it at all. Tom was his usual cheerful, helpful, kind and generous self.'
Amazon Prime Video has doubled its content investments in India and announced as many as 41 new titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing an open challenge to their streaming competitor, Netflix.
On its 25th anniversary, Sukanya Verma lists 10 things she still loves about Mohra.
As we celebrate his 92nd birthday today, we asked members of the film fraternity to list their personal favourites.
A year has passed since Shashi Kapoor passed into the ages. His movies live on on television, but Shashiji's greatest legacy must remain Mumbai's Prithvi Theatre, where people came to be entertained, informed and, perhaps, also enlightened.
The hits and misses of the week.
Waiting is mostly deftly thought out and speaks on many levels, says Sukanya Verma.
From cool to cocky, fun to furious, stern to sanskari, here are all the crazy lessons you can learn from Bollywood dads this Father's Day.
The hits and misses of the week.
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