Progressive Mask, Regressive Portrayal: Why ‘Hot Spot 2 Much’ Is Pure Ragebait
Director Vignesh Karthik’s style of filmmaking has always been shock-inducing (not in a good way)….
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The Privileged Feminism Of ‘People We Meet On Vacation’: A Review
Whenever a favorite book is turned into a film, the readers are anxious not to…
‘Kaantha’ (2025): A Film About Filmmaking That Doesn’t Quite Deliver
Selvamani Selvaraj’s Kaantha opens ambitiously within the period aesthetics and glamour of the 1950s Tamil…
The Housemaid Feminist Review: Subverting The ‘Madwoman’ Archetype And Class Exploitation
The psychological thriller The Housemaid (2025), directed by Paul Feig, is based on Freida McFadden’s…
The Girlfriend Review: Breaking The ‘Lucky’ Wife Archetype And Tollywood’s Profitable History Of Stalking And Silence
In iSmart Shankar (2019), the protagonist chases a girl. It’s nighttime, and the girl is…