The Prodigal (1955)

This post is my entry to the Sword and Sandal Blogathon hosted by @DebbieVee of the Moon in Gemini blog In 1955 would-be makers of epic fi...

Nawazuddin, child-killer: on film and the suffering of innocents

[ from my Mint Lounge column ] At a time when much of our public discourse centres on how to deal with humour that is jet-black, offensive o...

The Sword and Sandal Blogathon

I'm pleased to announce that I'm going to be partaking in the Sword and Sandal Blogathon which is taking place from the 8th-10th Ju...

The Star of Bethlehem (1912)

Thanhouser's The Star of Bethlehem (dir. Lawrence Marston, 1912) originally ran to three reels, but only around one reel's worth of...

A French adventurer and his tiger in 1850s India: Captain Corcoran, translated

[ Did this review for Scroll ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- “You are knowledgeable, and you have p...

The Canon in the Early Silent Era pt.3

Please note this post is very much a work in progress and as such a few parts of it need closer fact checking In the previous two posts in t...

The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, now in paperback

The cover for the paperback edition of The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: The Filmmaker Everyone Loves is here, and it uses two of the pain...