by J Hurtado, May 22, 2012 10:25 PM
This Friday, May 25th, Disney and UTV are taking another stab at the Indian film market with the 2D CG animated epic, Arjun: The Warrior Prince. The film has been in the works for several years, and I recall...
by J Hurtado, May 22, 2012 10:05 PM
We don't get many feel good films about impoverished orphans these days. The time when Little Orphan Annie could perk us up have gone, and we're more often left with sad bastard films that wrench tears from our bodies mercilessly,...
by J Hurtado, May 22, 2012 9:15 PM
My favorite new film of 2012 has finally secured a Blu-ray release. Agneepath blew me away when I first saw it on opening night, and a week later when I took my wife along, I was even more impressed. Indian...
by J Hurtado, May 19, 2012 11:21 PM
Criminal thinking is really the same everywhere, isn't it? Warring clans are warring clans. In some countries they wear suits, in others, they wear lungi (ankle length skirts for men which can be wrapped around the waist when needed). We...
by J Hurtado, May 18, 2012 8:00 AM
Anyone who follows my writing here on the site, and particularly my reviews, knows that I'm a huge history geek. I'm easily swayed by a good historical drama, and the first to stab a bad one in the eye. Bedabrata...
by J Hurtado, May 16, 2012 2:05 PM
The 12th annual New York Indian Film Festival is nearly here, and they've got some great events and films to share. The festival begins on Wednesday, May 23rd and runs through May 27th. During that time, attendees will be treated...
by J Hurtado, May 12, 2012 2:50 AM
The list of lauded short film directors who've fallen into obscurity after attempting the jump to features and failing to connect is a long and sad one. Ashvin Kumar, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his short Little...
by J Hurtado, May 10, 2012 2:42 PM
The last three years have been good to Bollywood action stalwart, Salman Khan. For a long time in the middle part of the last decade, he was beginning to fade from the public's good graces following a number of terrible...
by J Hurtado, May 8, 2012 8:46 PM
In 2005 Synapse Films released the most fantastic collection of exploitation trailers the world had ever seen, 42nd Street Forever. There were boobs, butts, and blaxploitation; sexploitation, drugs, and rock 'n roll; and horror, action, and all manner of '60s...
by Matthew Lee, May 8, 2012 2:00 PM
Another year, another film promising to rejuvenate martial arts cinema - Gareth Huw Evans's sophomore feature The Raid comes riding a tidal wave of hype to that effect, in fact, promising ass-kicking the likes of which you've never seen. Once...