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35 years of Godfather III: A movie so burdened by its predecessors, it forgot what it stood for

December 30, 2025 3:26 pm

The entire film makes you wonder whether these are the same characters we all fell in love with, and whether Francis Ford Coppola even paid attention to what these people were doing.

Restored The Godfather Trilogy to release in Indian theatres over the next three months

August 27, 2025 4:19 pm

The 4K restored versions of Francis Ford Coppola-directed trilogy are brought back on the big screen by PVR INOX

Bestsellers to blockbusters: 5 iconic books that became Hollywood masterpieces

July 14, 2025 7:18 pm

Book-to-movie adaptations that captivated reader and viewers alike.

In Sarkar’s opening scene, Ram Gopal Varma crafts a legend as deep and fierce as Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather

July 02, 2025 12:16 pm

Opening Act: In the opening scene of Sarkar, Ram Gopal Varma plays with the conventions of filmmaking, establishing himself as a director unafraid to defy norms and challenge cinematic tradition.

Revisiting Mani Ratnam and Kamal Haasan’s Nayakan, not as a gangster epic, but as an existential melodrama in disguise

June 03, 2025 7:59 am

Nayakan is not Tamil cinema’s The Godfather or Yash Chopra’s Deewaar. Those comparisons are perfunctory. At its heart, it is an existential quest of a man.

Details of Francis Ford Coppola's chaotic mismanagement of Megalopolis leak: 'Has this guy ever made a movie before?'

May 15, 2024 8:51 am

Francis Ford Coppola's passion project Megalopolis has been wrought with mismanagement, the filmmaker's lack of clarity, and his allegedly inappropriate behaviour towards women.

(L-R) MS Dhoni in attendance during FIH Women's Olympic Qualifiers in Ranchi; Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy during the men's doubles final badminton match against South Korea's Seo Seung-jae and Kang Min-hyuk at the India Open; Jannik Sinner celebrates winning his semi final match against Serbia's Novak Djokovic (AP | PTI | REUTERS)

What Jannik Sinner and Dhoni have in common and how he can beat Medvedev in Australian Open final

January 28, 2024 1:01 pm

An expressionless match-face and an elegant mind that never gets clouded with thoughts of defeat, is something that only champions are blessed with.

Get Gotti review: Overstuffed and obnoxious, new Netflix series glorifies the Godfather of New York

October 26, 2023 4:02 pm

Get Gotti review: The three-episode Netflix documentary, about the rise and fall of mobster John Gotti, is like a wannabe Goodfellas for the Instagram Reels era.

Al Pacino on The Godfather sequence that saved him from being fired from the movie: 'I wouldn't be here today...' | Scene Stealer

November 21, 2022 8:48 am

Today, we revisit this one compelling scene from The Godfather, which apparently saved Hollywood legend Al Pacino from getting fired from the feature.

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The Oscars has finally apologised for its treatment of a Native American actor in 1973. It may be too little

August 18, 2022 8:32 am

The long overdue mea culpa to Littlefeather, however, feels like an afterthought, considering how little Hollywood has done in the intervening years to address the specific problem that she sought to highlight.