The Boy And The Heron offers a thrilling joyride inside Hayo Miyazaki's unquantifiable imagination, applauds Sukanya Verma.
For the first time in India, Chandigarh-based Compact Disc India Ltd (CDIL), an integrated media and entertainment company, will animate a true love story titled Eternal Love in English which will revolve around the Taj Mahal. The company has secured an animation outsourcing contract worth $15.70 million from a Los Angeles-based firm through its arm Mediaone Ventures Ltd for the film which is slated to be released in December 2009.
Kerala-based Kinfra Film & Video Park has received the commerce ministry's approval to set up an International Animation School that is to be built on a private-public-partnership basis.
It was the best interview of my life,' declares the delighted father.
March was high on fashion, thanks to our glamorous ladies, who didn't shy away from making bold and beautiful style statements.
Meet 8-year-old Inbar who likes to play in her small backyard pool in Israel with her favourite swimming buddy -- her pet python.
This comes as a rare miss for RRR, which bagged a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for the song Naatu Naatu and Critics Choice Awards for Best Foreign Language film and Best Song.
Shaan talks about things that are close to his heart.
Aseem Chhabra is impressed by Rima Das's Bulbul Can Sing, Ritesh Batra's Photograph and eight other outstanding films.
Lakadbaggha takes up too many issues and does not do justice to them, points out Deepa Gahlot.
Joginder Tuteja lets us know what to expect.
'Since we are in the same party now, there has to be political camaraderie if nothing more.'
Phil Stilgoe's company Centroid worked on the motion capture technology in Rajinikanth's Kochadiiyaan. He gives us an insight on working on this ambitious project.
The animated characters of Lord Ganesha and Mooshak are consistently endearing throughout the film as they go around performing their naughty antics.
'Pandi was promised something, that is not happening, so his anger is not of a villain's.' 'That's how all normal humans would react, or they stay silent.' 'Our violence is our silence. So in this world, everybody is innocent.'
It was a year of so many contradictions and contrasts that it became dangerous to talk about movies, people lost their heads discussing Friday releases, psychiatrists began dabbling in film criticism, and film critics turned into psychiatrists, says Sreehari Nair.
Namrata Thakker meets celeb pets, who have been gracing our Instagram feed for a while now.
'This is a film that speaks to the spirit of women who have been cast into the bottom of India's social hierarchy, and how they have navigated their way to redefine the meaning of power.'
'When I saw Poacher, I couldn't stop watching it! It's a binge and how!'
Sukanya Verma recaps everything we learned this year in showbiz.
Imaad Shah's Tuesday's Women, Haoban Paban Kumar's Iron Women of Manipur, Shivam Singh Rajput's Ladakh 470 and Samman Roy's The Exile are among 10 titles to watch out for at the 17th edition of the Film Bazaar.
'Some icons are living textbooks, teaching us about leadership, success, and legacy. Extraordinary yet human and approachable, they inspire and guide us.' 'India has lost a true son and champion.'
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse feels like a lovely celebration of Spider-Man as the superhero we all love, raves Mayur Sanap.
Producer Sunil Doshi has acquired a catalogue of 11 animation titles from Japan's biggest production house Studio Ghibli, created by Hayao Miyazaki.
Here's looking at the big stars, who have lent their voices for the animated version of Mahabharat.
Just before Christmas, film and television stars partied with the Mumbai Police at their annual show, Umang.
Shubman Gill will lend his voice to Indian Spider-Man in the upcoming animated movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Aadujeevitham marks a new direction for Malayalam cinema, where ambition meets resources and the right people, all in favour of stories that deserve to be told on the biggest stage of them all, notes Arjun Menon.
Director Nikhil Advani reveals that his new film is a fiction, and not based on true incidents.
Here's a look at the nominees for the year's biggest prize.
'Bapi's characters looked and spoke like people we know.'
'I get little chance to go on holidays. Last year, I went to Barcelona for a week. I loved that place.' Sonakshi Sinha talks about her busy work schedule.
Comedies are a difficult genre to pull off in today's day and age, thanks to the audiences' increasing exposure to diverse content and dwindling attention spans. Still, there are quite a few Tamil movies that can bring on the laughs. Arjun Menon lists the recent releases you can watch at home.
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) have announced an exclusive partnership to offer a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 3D Animation and Visual Effects.
'When I was working on this story, Vicky was not really in my mind because we had to show the journey from 20 years to 60 years.'
With 2023 breaking records at the box office, quite a few actresses contributed to the blockbuster numbers.
'I'm sandwiched between Katrina's films, which is a great spot to be in.'
The construction work of Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya is underway in full swing and the second phase of its foundation work would be ready by January end, officials have said.
