The Gorilla's Lament

The Bollywood movies of the Nineties could get pretty wild, but Basant (1960) is a product of a different time, an age in which Shammi Kapo...

 Byomkesh Bakshi is the best known detective hero from Bengali literature, and Satyajit Ray is a legendary director, considered by some to b...

Ali Baba Aur 40 Chor (1980) is the Bollywood equivalent of those Russo-Finnish fantasy epics that occasionally pop up on Mystery Science Th...

If you choose to watch An Evening in Paris (1967), you will absolutely get to see at least one evening in Paris, along with other times of ...

From the moment I first saw the amazing movie poster , I have dreamed of watching Rocket Tarzan (1963). For the longest time, that was ea...

Legendary Bollywood actor Dev Anand died this month, so this week I’m reviewing Taxi Driver (1954), which is at once a charming rom...

Mahal (1949) has all the trappings of a Bollywood ghost story: an abandoned mansion, a mysterious woman singing at night, and scary stock...

Bees Saal Baad (1962) is an adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles , perhaps the most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Since t...

While watching The Chess Players (1977), it’s easy to think that nothing is happening. That’s not true, of course; a man dies, shots are...

Aashiq Hussein (Sanjeev Kumar), hero of Husn Aur Ishq (1966), is so moved by reports of the beauty of the Princess Rukshana (Sabina) that...

Bhoot Bungla (1965) has all the elements of a fine psychological thriller. On the very day that Rekha (Tanuja) returns to Indi...