This is an animated, performance-capture 3-D film based on The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé (Georges Remi). The film is actually based on three of the original comic books: The Crab With the Golden Claws (1941), The Secret of the...

  ” ‘Bridesmaids’ was great. Kristen [Wiig] was incredible in that, showing such a range of attitudes. She’s doing pretty well for herself. I remember when the movie first came out there were all those articles saying,  ‘It’s your responsibility to go...

The novel has that magic combination that makes Hollywood drool and shiver these days. It’s a best-selling young adult novel with a teen protagonist and fantastical elements. While I’m not familiar with the book, it will be intriguing to see a teen fantasy flick that explores Hindu...

Following his international breakout with 2009′s “Slumdog Millionaire,” the actor continued his crossover success with appearances in Fox’s ’24.’ Now, with a plum role in the Tom Cruise tentpole, his international profile is about to reach the next level. With...

The scene at the Mumbia, India, premiere of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol showed local fans worked into a frenzy by the mere presence of Tom Cruise – but one Indian paper says their excitement came at a price. The First Bollywood reported that around 200 extras were...

One of Bollywood’s few R rated productions, a banned Sri Lankan movie, Indian film star Aamir Khan dancing in a white leather jumpsuit with a long barrel pistol in each hand –these are just glimpses into the San Francisco 3rd i South Asian Film Festival. Now in its ninth year, the five...

Living in the American prairie, several hours drive from a major metropolitan area, means that catching Bollywood on the big screen is a special occasion. It’s so entertaining and enlightening to see an Indian film in the cinema with an audience that I tend to drop everything when a new...

When Immortals hit theatres last weekend, a collective sigh of disappointment became audible across the nation (at least in the metropolitan cities, where it was released). By Saturday night, film critics and film buffs were divided into two camps – one that believed that Tarsem is...

Ambani purchased half of Dreamworks in a 2009 deal to provide $325 million in financing on future projects. The company owns the rights to distribute in India any movie that Steve Spielberg’s Dreamworks studio makes. The problem is that Tintin was in the works before 2009, and a...