Twenty years of The Wire: How HBO show put America's crime underbelly on pop culture map
Archita Kashyap • 3 years agoThe biggest achievement of The Wire, which premiered on HBO in 2002, has to be the direct tone and uncompromising focus on the flaws in America’s law and order system and class divide.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie review: Familiar but fun story of heroes and villains, aimed firmly at kids
Menon • 3 years agoSonic 2 doffs its hat to the MCU so often, that every time Sonic uses one of his rings to open a portal, I half-expect Benedict Wong to step out of it.
Will Ajay Devgn's digital debut Rudra truly delve into the 'Edge of Darkness' that made Idris Elba's Luther popular?
Vinayakc • 3 years agoAjay Devgn’s insistence that Rudra “doesn’t feel the need to use violence as a weapon” seems to be an assurance that his adaptation of Luther tones down the shocking bits in order to accommodate the desi palate.
2021 marked return of the Western, from revisionist tales in Concrete Cowboy to modern takes like The Power of the Dog
Aditya Mani Jha • 3 years agoAs good as 2021 was for the Western, one cannot finish this assessment without addressing the Rust set tragedy. You can have all the gun-twirling scenes you want onscreen but Hollywood simply cannot afford to have any more accidents on set, lest the Western genre itself fall out of favour.
Sexiest Man Alive: Ant-Man star Paul Rudd gets the 2021 title by People magazine
• 3 years ago"I’m going to lean into it hard. I’m going to own this. I’m not going to try to be like ‘Oh, I’m so modest.’ I’m getting business cards made," says Paul Rudd
Madhuri Dixit, Jennifer Aniston among celebs to attend Netflix fan event TUDUM
Fp Staff • 3 years agoTUDUM: A Netflix Global Fan Event will be held on 25 September in a virtual format.
The Suicide Squad: A guide to comic-book origins of lesser known characters, from Peacemaker to Polka-Dot Man
• 4 years agoWhile The Suicide Squad brings back Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), and Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), it adds a new set of squad members pulled from deep in the pages of DC Comics history.
James Gunn on directing The Suicide Squad, returning to Guardians of the Galaxy, and balancing DC and Marvel
• 4 years agoJames Gunn discusses his firing and rehiring by Marvel, the making of The Suicide Squad for DC, and his perspective on the two superhero franchises.
The Suicide Squad review round-up: James Gunn's 'complete do-over' amounts to best version of 'modern comic-book filmmaking'
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCritics are all praise for The Suicide Squad, claiming it has a 'nasty enjoyable vibe which eludes its predecessor'
Warner Bros to release The Suicide Squad on 5 August, The Conjuring 3 on 15 August in India: A round-up of film and TV announcements
Fp Staff • 4 years agoOther announcements include Amol Palekar and Barun Sobti's ZEE5 original film 200, and child actor Alexa Swinton's casting in the Sex and the City revival.