After multiple documentaries about Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), there is finally a narrative film on the brash photographer who didn’t blink in his erotic black and white images of black and white ...

There's a reflexive tendency of some viewers to mock or declare their boredom with films about ritualistic sex – Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, David Cronenberg's Crash and Stanley Kubrick ...

MODERN horror films seldom prioritise nerve-shredding suspense – the kind of creeping dread that sends beads of sweat trickling down your spine and haunts your waking dreams. Instead, we're spoon-fed ...

Criticising the culture of item numbers in Hindi films, veteran actor Shabana Azmi today said they are used in movies for "titillation". In a panel discussion at the ongoing FICCI Frames, Azmi said ...

Film-maker Udayan Prasad has a point when he showers praise on Om Puri in these words, “He’s always surprising you — you think you know how exactly he’s going to play a scene and then he does ...