Why cats play such a huge role in ‘Bad Girl’ and other tales

Also this week: Reviews of ‘Homebound’ and ‘One Battle After Another’; Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low revisited. Here are this week's top reads from The Reel.


Varsha Bharath’s acclaimed Tamil film Bad Girl has been re-released with a Hindi dub. Bharath’s debut feature is the funny-sad saga of Ramya (Sivaraman) going three crucial stages of life, from girlhood to womanhood. Cats feature in the film – and beyond it.

Here’s the review of the original Tamil version of Bad Girl.

After weeks of waiting (and stalking), Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra director Dominic Arun managed to find the time to talk about his Malayalam blockbuster, co-written with Santhy Balachandran.

Spike Lee’s new film Highest 2 Lowest is based on both Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low and Ed McBain’s novel King’s Ransom.

In Sanju Surendran’s Khidki Gaav (If On a Winter’s Night), a couple move in together and then move in different directions.

Love, sex, war, revolution, remembering, forgetting, car chases, fathers and daughters – Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest masterpiece has it all.

Neeraj Ghaywan’s moving film Homebound, which is also India’s official submission to the Oscars, is finally out in cinemas.

The popular Japanese anime series Chainsaw Man gets its own movie, sub-titled Reze Arc.

In the web series Janaawar, a small-town cop is overworked and ill-treated.

Journalism matters! Revisiting the Robert Redford-Dustin Hoffman starrer All The President’s Men.

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