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- Readers Write In #542: Annathe, Varisu, and oversimplified relationships
- Interview: Manju Warrier (Ayisha, Thunivu)
- Interview: ‘Trial by Fire’ forged (Rajshri Deshpande, Abhay Deol) and director Prashant Nair
- Readers Write In #541: Vaalvi succeeds the place Kuttey fails
- Readers Write In #540: 20 Years of Okkadu: The making of Mahesh Babu
- Book Excerpt: Escape for Love
- Anupam Patnaik’s ‘Pratikshya’ (Odia) is an affecting household drama about father-son friction and loads extra
- Exploring the Mindscape #1: With PC Sreeram
- Interview: Ramya Subramanian
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 2: On the Pongal movies and their stars
- Readers Write In #539: ‘Thunivu’ film assessment: Screenwriting issues, star energy options
- H Vinoth’s ‘Thunivu’ has an excellent premise for a heist film however the writing doesn’t match up
- Vamshi Paidipally’s ‘Varisu’ is outdated wine in an older bottle, relying solely on Vijay’s “mass moments”
- Interview: Rashmika Mandanna (Varisu)
- Interview: Vamshi Paidipally (Varisu)
- Interview: H Vinoth (Thunivu)
- Readers Write In #538: Dreams from the Cityscape
- Interview: Yami Gautam
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 1: On AR Rahman, on his birthday
- Readers Write In #537: My journey with ‘Ponniyin Selvan’, from watcher to reader to author
- Interview: Rima Das
- From the Web (FTW) #1: Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Haasan in dialog
- About the flicks – 1969 / 2022
- Readers Write In #536: My favorite Hindi movies of 2022
- Happy 2023, everybody!
- Mega Critics Roundtable 2022, by Nona Prince
- Interview: Hrithik Roshan
- Readers Write In #535: Love in the present day…Wait, what love?
- Readers Write In #534: Balls of Steel
- The Galatta Plus Tamil Cinema Round Table 2022
- Readers Write In #533: The Boy Who Cried Film
- Rohit Shetty’s ‘Cirkus’ has a number of scattered laughs and loads of actually boring patches
- Interview: Sunny Leone (Oh My Ghost)
- The emotional stakes are low, however as a scare-dispensing machine, Ashwin Saravanan’s ‘Connect’ does a fairly first rate job
- Readers Write In #532: Ending of ‘Better Call Saul’ Explained
- Interview: Ashwin Saravanan (Connect)
- In ‘Avatar 2: The Way of Water’, James Cameron continues to push film know-how whereas remaining content material with essentially the most generic writing
- Readers Write In #531: Just a few ideas on ‘Goodbye’
- Interview: ‘Travels’ Ramji Natarajan (Location finder for RRR, Dilwale, Endhiran, and many others.)
- Mahesh Narayanan’s ‘Ariyippu’ (Malayalam) is a superb “thriller” that strips away all thrills to current a sensible portrait of a migrant couple
- Readers Write In #530: Kantara: A Socio-Ethical Perspective
- My Top 10 record of movies for the Sight & Sound ballot, 2022
- Anvita Dutt’s beautiful ‘Qala’, on Netflix, places us into the way of thinking of a disturbed playback singer
- Deepak’s well-researched ‘Witness’, on SonyLIV, is a narrative about guide scavenging that’s extra earnest than emotional
- The Galatta Plus Pan-India Round Table 2022
- Readers Write In #529: Thoughts on GASLIGHT, RANGOON RADHA
- Readers Write In #528: Thoughts on Love Today (Film)
- Alphonse Puthren’s ‘Gold’ (Malayalam) has loads of massive concepts however they don’t come collectively as a satisfying entire
- Interview: Guru Somasundaram (Winner of ‘Best Actor’, India, on the Asian Academy Creative Awards)
- Vivek’s underwhelming ‘The Teacher’ (Malayalam) may need labored higher as a pulpy B-movie than a “serious film with good intentions”