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Varied movie genres will include action thrillers, drama, comedy. 02 Jun, 2021 - 08:36 AM IST     |     By indiantelevision.com Team     Mumbai : Lionsgate Play, one of the fastest-growing OTT platforms in India, is now showing unmatchable content across various genres in June. Lionsgate Play has announced an impressive line up of the biggest blockbusters for the Indian audience.  Indiantelevision.com presents you with a list of six movies that audiences may watch on the OTT platfo...

In one of my several reviews of the "Up" documentaries, I referred to the series as the noblest project in cinema history. I am older now and might refrain from such hyperbole. But we are all older now, and this series proves it in a most deeply moving way. You know the premise. In 1964, British TV produced a film titled "7 Up," which focused on the lives, hopes and expectations of 14 children. They tended to sort out into upper and working classes. One unspoken question was whether the British...

“The Undoing,” starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, was HBO’s most watched series of 2020. Through the twists and turns of a murder mystery, it also explores themes of economic privilege, race and marriage. On Thursday, May 20 at 12:00pm ET, Washington Post movie critic Ann Hornaday speaks with Kidman and Grant about their roles, the creative opportunities in the streaming television landscape and their friendship offscreen.

Golden Hill. That novel, set in 18 th century New York, was plot-driven and twisty. Light Perpetual is cyclical and symphonic. It follows the fates of five characters, all from the fictional London neighborhood of Bexford, by sampling one day from their lives at 15-year intervals, beginning with their wartime childhoods and stretching to the end of the first decade of this century. But before the novel can do any of that, they must die. Advertisement Light Perpetual opens with the vaporization...

Ben Lawrence 4/5 In The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym, Paula Byrne sheds light on the comic novelists surprisingly racy youth Advertisement Advertisement Weve noticed youre adblocking. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Thank you for your support. Need help? Close

It was almost spring last year, and Marian Luntz was hearing all the buzz from the big international winter film festivals. Sydney. Rotterdam. Berlin. As longtime film curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Luntz was doing what she does every year: tracking films she might like to program for the museum. MFAH was off to a strong 2020. They showed all of the nominated Oscar Shorts, as they do every year. “People turned out in droves,” Luntz recalled recently over coffee. And the ...

Every ’90s Blockbuster Movie Ranked Thirty years on, the 1990s has solidified its stature as one of the magical decades in filmmaking, much like how we view the ’30s and the ’70s. Precisely, this Gen X-decade pulled together the Hollywood studio power of the ’30s and the groundbreaking creativity of the ’70s, crocheting commercialism and art into the movie behemoths we speak of in legend as the ’90s blockbuster — which we’ve now ranked all by Tomatometer! First off, in putting ...

Frankie Howerd lives the Roman life in Up Pompeii (1971) Credit: Alamy Early on in Domina, Sky’s new drama about the life of the Roman Empress Livia Drusilla, there is a scene in which the 15-year-old Livia finds the future Emperor Augustus trying to force himself on her. She stops him by grabbing hold of his, ahem, imperial jewels – and the implication is that her hand will metaphorically remain there once she has married him, keeping the first ruler of the world’s greatest empire under...

This dark comedy from Marc Cherry, the creator of  Desperate Housewives is led by Ginnifer Goodwin, Lucy Liu and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. They play three women across three different decades, who all live in the same house in Pasadena, California and who (as the title would suggest) commit murder. We meet Beth Ann Stanton (Ginnifer Goodwin) in 1963, Simone Grove (Lucy Liu), onto her third marriage in 1984, and Taylor Harding (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), who’s in an open marriage in 2019. Eac...

The 100 Best Documentaries of All Time By Elizabeth Jackson, Stacker News AND Nicole Johnson, Stacker News On 5/5/21 at 8:00 PM EDT Great documentaries often give access and illumination to stories that would otherwise go untold. The subject of a great documentary can be anything from a single individuals life to a broader political event, and the effect of the films can be anything from uplifting to devastating. To celebrate the genre, Stacker created a ranking of the to...