Seventy years ago, in October 1951, the first episode of a television show was broadcast, that changed the way TV comedy was written, produced, shot and consumed.  I Love Lucy, which …

Corona Chaos: French film Huit Rue de’l Humanite—English title Stuck Together—must be among the earliest, if not the first, full length feature film about the days of lockdown during the pandemic. Directed …

Runaway Brides: The films of Ayushmann Khurrana and Rajkummar Rao have more or less captured the market on problems of men in small North Indian towns. Babloo Bachelor, directed by …

This exchange really took place. At a dinner in the Beverley Hills home of Benedict Bogeaus, junkyard dealer turned movie producer, he declared to his showbiz guests, “We have a woman …

Hell On Earth: Dystopia is not that far into the future—we are living in survival-of-the fittest times. Korean writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk turns human fear, greed and gambling instinct into a terrifying nine-part …

Return to Coopers Chase: Last year, Richard Osman’s novel, The Thursday Murder Club, had become a bestseller. The funny and charming book, was set in a fancy senior citizen’s community called Coopers …

Raaj Kumar came to be known for playing urbane parts, but in one of his early films he played a starving farmer to perfection. On the actor’s 95th birth anniversary, …

The Martins Still Rock: If comedy legends like Steve Martin and Martin Short are in a series together, it is undoubtedly worth a look; and a glimpse of the trailer …

Fifteen years ago, a mainstream film coined the word Gandhigiri. Revisiting Rajkumar Hirani’s masterpiece on Gandhi Jayanti: Lage Raho Munnabhai is that rare comedy that engages your mind, heart, emotions …

Finance For Dummies: Coming from Nigeria is a romcom series (Netflix), titled The Smart Money Woman, based on the novel by Arese Ugwu, who also created the show. The foundation …