Unsung Auteurs: Jennings Lang | FilmInk

When it comes to the now somewhat maligned “disaster movie” genre popularised in the 1970s, one figure stands above all others in the form of producer, writer and director Irwin Allen, whose extraordinary double-shot of The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure remains the high point of the genre. There…

Commando: Revisiting the Movie That Definitively Made Schwarzenegger A Hero

INTRO: If there’s one word that perfectly sums up the bombastic nature of 80s action cinema, it has to be ‘excess’. Action behemoths, big hair, muscles, fantastical landscapes, and arm-wrestling matches that could be won by the simple flip of your favourite cap. It was an amazing decade for movies, and…

Explained: Kiran Rao-Aamir Khan vs Sandeep Reddy Vanga – It’s Complicated

Image (L) courtesy: raodyness, Image (R) courtesy: sandeepreddy.vanga Aamir Khan, ex-wife Kiran Rao and Animal director Sandeep Reddy Vanga are currently involved in a three-way exchange of critical commentary, both implied and direct. In this, Aamir is a silent participant but also the fulcrum around which the controversy has coalesced.…

Mama June Shannon Net Worth: How Much is She Worth in 2024?

It’s 2024. What is Mama June Shannon’s net worth? Infamously, June spent a fortune on drugs during her downward spiral just a few years ago. She lost everything, and her family is still paying the price. Now, with the support of family and of course of her WEtv show that…

Dance, spin, juggle: How flow arts bring happiness to Bengaluru

In his seminal work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi outlined his theory that people are happiest when they are in ‘flow’, a condition wherein they are absorbed in an activity for its own sake. In Csíkszentmihályi’s words, when you are operating this way, “Time flies. Every action,…

Unsung Auteurs: Matthew Saville | FilmInk

A former ad man, Matthew Saville was initially inspired by the careers of Alan Parker and Ridley Scott, directors able to move from commercials to feature films with great success. But as Saville acknowledged to FilmInk back in 2003 with the gift of hindsight, Alan and Ridley never had to…