The debut feature from Satyajit Ray is a touching portrait of life in a small, impoverished village in rural India with the texture and grace of a painting.
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Bollywoodmania! A dozen of the best Indian musicals on Amazon Prime
Bollywood is more than a genre. It’s more than a film industry. It’s a culture in its own right, and Amazon Prime has hundreds available to stream. Which gives subscribers an opportunity to discover a cinematic way of life. In the most general of descriptions, the Bollywood movies of India tend to be long (around […]
Jackie Chan in ‘Kung Fu Yoga’ on Netflix
For Kung Fu Yoga (China, 2017), Jackie Chan returns to the Indiana Jones-inspired adventure comedy of his 1986 hit Armour of God, albeit as an older, more modest archaeologist adventurer, for this co-production between China and India. Jackie is Professor Jack Chan, ostensibly the same character he played in The Myth, who is lured back […]
Blu-ray: Jackie Chan in ‘Railroad Tigers’ and ‘Kung Fu Yoga’
It took so long for Hollywood to finally find a way to harness the unique mix of martial arts mastery, dance-like grace, playful humor, and giddy charm that had made Jackie Chan a superstar throughout the rest of the world that he was almost too old to show off the extent of his physical prowess […]