Every year, with the good, there are bad movies too.

Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.

Ram Gopal Varma is 60 today, April 7.Subhash K Jha plots the once brilliant film-maker's declining movies graph.

Friendships are not merely severed, but built over scuffles.And just about anything can stir things up -- a long-standing feud, a pointless stare, a disrupted moral stance, a fist that ricochets off a face and smacks another face in the near vicinity, observes Sreehari Nair.

There's been so much interesting content on OTT. Subhash K Jha picks his Best Original Feature Films on digital platforms.

Visaranai clearly tops the list.

he battle has moved to the small screen and guess who's winning? Urvi Malvania reports.

Divya Nair lists 2023's Malayalam movies that can be enjoyed by all ages.

In the mood for romance but don't know which movies to watch? Tamil cinema has a lot to offer on OTT, and Arjun Menon lists his favourites.

Arjun Menon looks at some Tamil films from the last decade that tick all the right boxes, and lists where you can watch them.

'If I had continued staying in Kerala and making films, I would have probably lost my life.''I am no longer a film-maker.'

From the flapper fashions of ‘Downton Abbey’ and the skinny suits of ‘Mad Men’ to the label love of ‘Sex and the City’, ‘Emily in Paris’ and ‘The Devil Wears Prada’, here are some of the best dressed films and shows to pamper your peepers 

Nanocomposite carrying an essential oil compound combats bacterial infections on cells and keeps bacteria from developing resistance

The Emami Art Experimental Film Festival, held at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity, will put a spotlight on Canada’s unique contributions to experimental cinema

Every low-budget film this year has flopped

Filmfare recommends: Bollywood films revolving around journalism  Filmfare

With theatres being shut since for over a month now, many small and mid-rung production houses are understood to be in talks with video over-the-top (OTT) platforms for direct-to-digital launch of their unreleased movies.

Bollywood, after all, has always been about people, whether on screen or off it, in front of the camera or behind it, say industry insiders as they grapple with the uncertainties of life and work after lockdown and contemplate the dimensions of a radical makeover.

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This Sunday enjoy some family fun, cathartic vengeance, and sprawling multi-generational dramas.

Astra Lost in Space anime, Shinkalion film, 2019 Godzilla film, Fly Me to Saitama film, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim game also nominated

With many of us still continuing to remain at home and while some won't be able to see their moms in person, here are some of the best Hollywood films to watch on Mother's Day celebrating the motherhood.

What was the reaction of the Bachchan family when Abhishek Bachchan decided to take a two-year-long break from films?

Disney keeps remaking its animated classics because they're a proven box-office success.Insider spoke with three former Disney animators who worked on "Beauty and the Beast," "Hercules," "The Lion King," and "Mulan" who shared their thoughts on the adaptations. They were surprised so many of the films they worked on are getting remade, especially the more recent ones from the '90s.None of them were fans of "The Lion King," criticizing the film's lack of emoting and how closely it adhered to the original."I think it's all about the money and growing the company and making the investors and stockholders happy," "Mulan" co-director Tony Bancroft told Insider. Insider also spoke with producers and VFX artists on "Aladdin" and "The Lion King" who pushed back on claims the remakes are simply cash-grabs.If

On Mother's Day 2020, let's look at some examples of motherhood in Bollywood that were non-traditional and non-biological.

Film industry insiders grapple with the uncertainties of life and work after lockdown and contemplate the dimensions of a radical makeover.

The all India lockdown has totally affected all aspects of the society, including the film industry. The Malayalam film industry is also going through a tough time, as all the releases and film shootings have been cancelled due to the coronavirus

Prithviraj Sukumaran is unmatchable when it comes to his dynamic performances. The actor who turned director with the 2019 movie, Lucifer has completed 19 years in the film industry. Starring Mohanlal as the lead, the action-thriller turned out to be a

Shah Rukh Khan has decided to promote his upcoming production, Betaal, in a fun way. The Badshah of Bollywood is asking fans to channel their inner filmmakers during the lockdown and shoot scary films at home. He announced that winners of

Shah Rukh Khan has decided to promote his upcoming production, Betaal, in a fun way. The Badshah of Bollywood is asking fans to channel their inner filmmakers during the lockdown and shoot scary films at home. He announced that winners of

Ajith Kumar, the beloved Thala Ajith of the Tamil film industry is celebrating his 49th birthday today. This time, the Valimai actor has decided to not celebrate his birthday and has requested his fans to do the same, as the world

It stars Viineet Kumar, Aahana Kumra, Suchitra Pillai, Jitendra Joshi, Jatin Goswami, Manjiri Pupala, and Syna Anand, the series will explore age-old secrets and ideologies.

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Prabhas films bag top spots in BARC ratings

PLEASE REDUCE TO 1-2 SENTENCES. The capability of X-ray diffraction for the microstructure investigations of metastable systems is illustrated on the example of thin films of titanium aluminium nitrides with high aluminium content, which are supersaturated and partially decomposed. In addition to the chemical composition, the surface mobility of the deposited species was employed as a factor influencing the microstructure of the thin films. It is shown how the micromechanical properties of the partially decomposed (Ti,Al)N thin films, which were deduced from the synchrotron diffraction experiments, are related to the thin film microstructure and to the decomposition mechanism. The prominent role of the crystallographic anisotropy of the macroscopic and microscopic lattice deformations in the understanding of the micromechanical properties is addressed.

The preferred orientation growth characteristics and surface roughness of polycrystalline bis­muth (Bi) thin films fabricated on glass substrates using the molecular beam epitaxy method were investigated at temperatures ranging from 18 to 150°C. The crystallization and morphology were analyzed in detail and the polycrystalline metal film structure-zone model (SZM) was modified to fit the polycrystalline Bi thin film. The boundary temperature between Zone T and Zone II in the SZM shifted to higher temperatures with the increase in film thickness or the decrease of growth rate. Furthermore, the effect of the thickness and surface roughness on the transport properties was investigated, especially for Bi thin films in Zone II. A two-transport channels model was adopted to reveal the influence of the film thickness on the competition between the metallic surface states and the semiconducting bulk states, which is consistent with the results of Bi single-crystal films. Therefore, the polycrystalline Bi thin films are expected to replace the single-crystal films in the application of spintronic devices.

Efficient infiltration of a mesoporous titania matrix with conducting organic polymers or small molecules is one key challenge to overcome for hybrid photovoltaic devices. A quantitative analysis of the backfilling efficiency with time-of-flight grazing incidence small-angle neutron scattering (ToF-GISANS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) measurements is presented. Differences in the morphology due to the backfilling of mesoporous titania thin films are compared for the macromolecule poly[4,8-bis­(5-(2-ethyl­hexyl)­thio­phen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b;4,5-b']di­thio­phene-2,6-diyl-alt-(4-(2-ethyl­hexyl)-3-fluoro­thieno[3,4-b]thio­phene-)-2-carboxyl­ate-2-6-diyl)] (PTB7-Th) and the heavy-element containing small molecule 2-pinacol­boronate-3-phenyl­phen­anthro[9,10-b]telluro­phene (PhenTe-BPinPh). Hence, a 1.7 times higher backfilling efficiency of almost 70% is achieved for the small molecule PhenTe-BPinPh compared with the polymer PTB7-Th despite sharing the same volumetric mass density. The precise characterization of structural changes due to backfilling reveals that the volumetric density of backfilled materials plays a minor role in obtaining good backfilling efficiencies and interfaces with large surface contact.

X-ray reflectivity (XRR) is a powerful and popular scattering technique that can give valuable insight into the growth behavior of thin films. This study shows how a simple artificial neural network model can be used to determine the thickness, roughness and density of thin films of different organic semiconductors [diindenoperylene, copper(II) phthalocyanine and α-sexithiophene] on silica from their XRR data with millisecond computation time and with minimal user input or a priori knowledge. For a large experimental data set of 372 XRR curves, it is shown that a simple fully connected model can provide good results with a mean absolute percentage error of 8–18% when compared with the results obtained by a genetic least mean squares fit using the classical Parratt formalism. Furthermore, current drawbacks and prospects for improvement are discussed.

An error in the article by Gao, Zhang, Zhu, Wu, Mo, Pan, Liu & Jiang [J. Appl. Cryst. (2019), 52, 637–642] is corrected.

Single-crystalline-like thin films composed of crystallographically aligned grains are a new prototype of 2D materials developed recently for low-cost and high-performance flexible electronics as well as second-generation high-temperature superconductors. In this work, significant texture improvement in single-crystalline-like materials is achieved through growth of a 330 nm-thick silver layer.