Siddhant Adlakha

1 week ago | joysauce.com | Siddhant Adlakha

Lennon was once quoted as saying TV “replaced the fireplace when (he) was a child,” a sentiment MacDonald deploys early on, and treats as his North Star. His structure is straightforward: interspersed with footage from Lennon and Ono’s “One to One” benefit concert at Madison Square Garden in August 1972, the movie traces the duo’s move from London to New York the year prior, as well as their activism, museum installations, and other public performances with political overtones.

2 weeks ago | variety.com | Siddhant Adlakha

With her feature debut “The Teacher,” Palestinian British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi attempts to shine a light on the absurd indignities of living under military occupation. Set in the West Bank — where it was also filmed, over a three-month period — the 2023 Toronto Film Festival selection follows a troubled Palestinian schoolteacher wrestling with his political allegiances at a particularly fraught time for a student he takes under his wing.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Siddhant Adlakha

18 hours agoJojo Siwa broke down in tears after Mickey Rourke made a homophobic comment directed at her on Wednesday’s (9 April) episode of Celebrity Big Brother. The actor, 72, announced he needed a cigarette, stating that he “needs a fag”.

2 weeks ago | polygon.com | Siddhant Adlakha

There are two kinds of messy big-budget movies, and as of 2025, Ryan Coogler has made them both. There’s the Marvel kind (seen in Coogler’s Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), where directorial vision comes second to the studio machine, and to shared-universe requirements, VFX constraints, notes from audience test screenings, and a restrictive house style.

2 weeks ago | joysauce.com | Siddhant Adlakha

From debuting writer-director Jing Ai Ng, Forge is a tale of precious-but-precarious family bonds, set against the backdrop of art crimes in Miami. It’s deliberate in its drama, but languorous in its unveiling, taking its sweet time to put its pieces together despite tipping its hand for the audience in advance. The film is bookended by impeccably crafted sequences, each filled with immense tension.