ENTERTAINMENT

You Should Know the Odyssey and Greek Mythology Fairly Well Before Watching Christopher Nolan’s Magnum Opus

Whether a movie is good or bad, and I realize this even more as I’ve…

‘Employee Dharma Handbook’: The Scourge of Caste Discrimination Showcased in a Play by TheaterWorks

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley kicked off Season 56 with the world premiere of “The Employee Dharma…

I Watched ‘The Odyssey’ First Day, First Show: The Liberties Christopher Nolan Takes With Homer’s Epic Are Real, And They Are Brilliant

FDFS is not an acronym I expect most of my American friends to know. First…

Hollywood’s India Odyssey: Christopher Nolan, Matt Damon, and Tom Holland Bring Homer to Mumbai — and Make History Doing It

At 2:30 in the afternoon on Friday, July 11, 2026, the manager of Olympia Coffee…

Two Journeys, Two Wars, One Human Question: The Odyssey and the Mahabharata

The two works come to us through vastly different compositional traditions, across comparable spans of…

Berkeley Repertory Theater’s ‘The Lunchbox’ Combines Heart, Humor and Hope

Ritesh Batra’s internationally acclaimed film, “The Lunchbox,” adapted into a musical with the same name…

The Inner John Lennon: Watching Credits Roll With A.R. Rahman’s ‘Kya Kamaal Hai’ in Imtiaz Ali’s ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’

The film “Main Vaapas Aaunga” is over, and the credits have begun to roll, and…

At its Beating Heart Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’ is a Poem About Father-Daughter Relationship

“That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess…

Festival Beyond Celluloid: Cannes has a Way of Compressing the World Into a Few Square Miles

Every morning, filmmakers, producers, dreamers, and veterans walk the same streets. They queue for screenings,…

‘The Lunchbox’: The Transformation of Beloved Film Into a Musical Play is Nothing Short of Magical

“We forget things if we have no one to tell them to.” This poignant line…

Movie Magic: Reporting From the Red Carpet and Front-Row Seat at the Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival remains the world’s most prestigious cinema event because it serves as…

Congratulations Stephen, You are Known: A Viewer Confessions on the Eve of the Last ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’

There used to be a recurring bit on The Late Show where Stephen Colbert would…