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Curry Baker’s supernatural horror film Obsession, starring lesser known Hollywood faces, has already emerged as the success story of 2026. The film, made on a modest budget which falls somewhere between $750,000 (Rs 7.14 crore) and $1 million (Rs 9.50 crore), has earned ten times its budget across three weeks since its release on May 15. It’s now amassed $108.80 million (Rs 102.60 crore) at the worldwide box office.Obsession premiered first at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last year in the Midnight Madness section. Within a month, it was acquired by Focus Features for $14 million to $15 million,…

3 min readLos AngelesMay 30, 2026 01:11 PM IST Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar as editor of the original 1977 “Star Wars” has died, a lawyer for her family said Friday. Lucas, who was married to “Star Wars” creator George Lucas from 1969 to 1983, died Wednesday from metastatic cancer, the attorney, Deidre Von Rock, said in an email to The Associated Press. Marcia Lucas died in Rancho Mirage, California, surrounded by loved ones, Von Rock said. She was 80. Marcia Lucas was the editor on 1983’s “Return of the Jedi” and the pre-“Star Wars” George Lucas-directed films “THX…

4 min readMay 28, 2026 03:44 PM IST Written by Seekriti Saha Life throws curveballs at us when we least expect them. While some choose to quietly endure the chaos, others fight back with hope, courage, and a little inspiration. If you are going through a rough patch, these 15 uplifting films might be exactly the emotional boost you need. Mona Lisa Smile Julia Roberts plays Katherine Watson, a new art history professor at the all-women’s Wellesley College, who challenges her privileged students to achieve more in life than just marriage. Good Will Hunting Will Hunting (Matt Damon), a gifted…

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk may have his own reasons of calling out Christopher Nolan’s “anti-white racism” for casting Black actor Lupita Nyong’o as the Helen of Troy in his upcoming ancient epic The Odyssey, a film adaptation of the text by ancient Greek poet Homer.  But his concerns of the lack of Greek representation in the film have now found resonance in people from Greece itself.A guest contributor in the Greek City Times called out Nolan’s ignorance of their people in a recent open latter.  “Greek people did not disappear after the age of myth. Greek culture was not frozen…

4 min readNew DelhiMay 22, 2026 02:06 PM IST The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired its final episode on May 21, and while fans expected a special episode, Stephen, in his opening monologue, said that they would be doing a “normal episode which is always special.” “The best way to celebrate is just to do a regular episode where I come out and talk about the national conversation,” he said. Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, Tim Meadows were seated in the audience and playfully interrupted his opening monologue as they joked about being the “special guest” for the evening. Bryan…

5 min readCannesMay 22, 2026 12:51 PM IST Coward movie review: When you think of the war in the trenches during the first World War, the images that come to mind are that of mud trampled under a million boots, young soldiers hunkered down just below the enemy sightline in the cold and damp, never knowing when it will be their turn to die, the grim reaper never far away. When the tall, silent Pierre (Emmanuel Macchia) arrives at a Belgian front, the war has been on for some time, even if it isn’t specifically mentioned. He learns, quickly enough,…

The Man I Love movie review: The 80s in NYC was a scene, man. If you’re of a certain vintage, you may have actually heard this line — from the know-it-all seniors when you arrived in any liberal arts college in Delhi University as a newbie, those exalted beings who smoked Charminars and wore drainpipe jeans and floppy hair and big Beatles glasses who were, in hindsight, probably spouting received wisdom.There are no such gaps between perception and knowing in Ira Sachs’ marvellous re-creation of that very specific Reagan era in ‘The Man I Love’, which brings alive the sights and…

3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: May 21, 2026 01:04 PM IST Hollywood legend Bruce Willis was diagnosed with dementia a few years ago. The veteran actor’s daughter Rumer Willis recently shared an update about the Die Hard star, opening up about how his personality has changed since the diagnosis. In an interview, Rumer revealed that Bruce has become more tender and emotionally softer, after carrying his ‘macho dude’ image for years. During a chat on The Inside Edit, she shared, “I’m so grateful I get to go see him… Even though it’s different now, I’m so grateful. There’s a sweetness. He’s…

4 min readCannesMay 20, 2026 01:51 PM IST Minotaur movie review: There are only a handful of filmmakers who consistently hit their mark when they intertwine broad-scale events with intimacy. One of them is Andrei Zvyaguintsev, who has been living in Paris after a near-death experience with Covid, and who is back in Cannes competition with yet another terrific film. You may call it an exile. The Russian filmmaker himself has gone on record about not being able to live, in all conscience, in his own country after the invasion of Ukraine. Minotaur, shot in Latvia (not Russia where all…

5 min readMay 19, 2026 11:16 AM IST When a bunch of kids are greeted by a school principal saying jovially, no Draculas here, you are meant to surmise a few things. That the children have a connection with Romania, and that this remote Norwegian town with a fjord on one side and mountains on the other, is a new experience for them. Turns out that The Gheorghiu family, with a Romanian father and Norwegian mother, and their five children — two teenagers, two younger ones, and the fifth, a babe in arms, have relocated from Romania and come to…