With super powers come super responsibilities.If there's anything that India's insanely vibrant and varied film culture has taught us to expect, that is its continued defiance of any and all expectations. And when it comes to Kollywood, Tamil Nadu's own...

We've had batmen, spidermen, zebramen, but wait for it.... Chicken Man is coming, courtesy of Kollywood (the Tamil "cousin" of Bollywood, if you will). Susi Ganesan's fourth feature film கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy) is - at least on paper - one of...

If R Balakrishnan's Paa were a Hollywood production I would suggest it was an incredibly clumsy attempt at Oscar bait.  But it's not a Hollywood picture and so it simply stands as a reminder of how incredibly strange Bollywood...

How fortunate can Twitch be to have two of the Bay Area's best film writers offer previews of what I consider to be this weekend's winner of--as Michael Hawley aptly terms it--November's "smackdown." Film festivalism has never been more... More >>

[Our sincere thanks to Frako Loden for contributing her preview of this year's 3rd i line-up to the Twitch readership.] All the leaves are brown, and the skies are gray. November is here, and so is the most excellent... More >>

(Once again, thanks goes to Dustin Chang for the review)Harishchandrachi Factory, a first feature from Marathi theater director Pareshi Mokathi is immensely crowd-pleasing. It tells the story of the father of Indian cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke (Nandu Madhav), a Groucho Marx-esque,...

A comedy of errors and manners, there's something very classical yet fresh about Indian director/actor Saurabh Shukla's new film. And while it doesn't bat one hundred percent, it's an honest little take on the breakdown of communication that can happen...

Let me get this out of the way fast! Don't let the title fool you, it's kind of a misrepresentation of Rajat Kapoor's film, especially with such a limited meaning in English. In fact, Kapoor doesn't even like the title... More >>

Shot through with Yojimbo like dynamics and seemingly Shakespearean family vendettas, Sadik Ahmed's debut feature is neither a wily commentary on violence nor an overwrought tragedy. It is a meditative, slow burn of a picture, of men drowning in... More >>

Ananth Mahadevan's political thriller exposes Westerners to a little known history of a decades long struggle that began in 1947 India, and escalated in '67 with the splitting of their Communist parties, and of the self proclaimed champions of the... More >>