ENTERTAINMENT

Remembering Dolly Parton: From the Great Smoky Mountains Her Songs Will Always Echo Across America and Beyond

For three decades, the Tennessee Valley was more than a place we lived. It became…

‘A Steaming Cup of Chai on a Rainy Afternoon’: Netflix’s ‘Musafir Cafe’ Divides Critics While Winning Hearts

“Musafir Cafe,” streaming now on Netflix, brings together Vikrant Massey, Vedika Pinto, and Mahima Makwana…

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility of Staying in Touch

There are movies we remember because they were extraordinary, and then there are movies we…

Thin Air: Netflix’s ‘Operation Safed Sagar’ Wins its War With Arithmetic Instead of Noise

In 1982, Govind Nihalani put a camera inside a fighter cockpit and left it there.…

Anatomy of Hubris: ‘The Odyssey’ Proves That Men are the Primary Architects of Their Own Misery

Watching Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” in an IMAX theater in Atlanta was a soulful  experience.…

Where Christopher Nolan Failed: Lupita Nyong’o is Given Surprisingly Little With Which to Become Helen of Troy

Great myths do not resist reinterpretation. They resist superficiality. Artistic liberty succeeds only when every…

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…