Sooni Taraporevala's film Little Zizou -- which can be watched for free these days on Hulu -- always makes me yearn for my first true love: Bombay.

Film: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) Cast includes: Riz Ahmed (Four Lions), Live Schreiber (Defiance), Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Kiefer Suther...

Mira Nair's film of the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist isn't about terrorism, Kiefer Sutherland observes, but about the reaction to terrorism -- a very different thing.

Mira Nair's film of the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist isn't about terrorism, Kiefer Sutherland observes, but about the reaction to terrorism - a ...

Whatever its flaws, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is rich in drama and resonant with fraught cultural issues. It feels especially timely now, arriving so soon after the terror bombings in Boston and the aftermath of some ugly suspicions aimed at all Muslims.

Now Toronto is upon us, with its brain-scrambling lineup of 300 films, a healthy 90 by women directors -- up more than 20 percent from last year's fest. Of the 17 high-profile Galas, 6 titles are by women.

The 69th edition of the Venice Film Festival will open with the out-of-competition screening of Mira Nair's thriller "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," o...

A plethora of award-winning, controversial, and ground-breaking movies were presented to the New York City cognoscenti who attended this year's New York Indian Film Festival.

The most persistent feeling one has at a big event like the Toronto International Film Festival -- other than the feeling of exhaustion -- is that you're somehow running behind.

Though film directing has been an overwhelmingly male preserve, there's an enduring legacy of women directors to celebrate. To prove my point, here are ten of my own favorite titles helmed by women.

It's as if, once Hilary Swank got her hair cut and lightened and had the faux freckles applied, well, that was the whole character.

the latest role for Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank is portraying aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart in the aptly titled Amelia.

What to make of omnibus/anthology films such as New York, I Love You? Do you judge them by the best of the short films contained within? Or by the wo...

Between the big smile, mouth full of teeth and unique vocal cadence, Swank fashioned such an uncanny facsimile of Earhart that Amelia is garnering awards talk even while still flying into theaters.

I hardly knew anything about Earhart before seeing Amelia -- and I didn't feel like I knew much more when I left.

Watching Amelia, a biopic of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, is like spending two hours reading a Wikipedia entry on the title character.

The film gets its name from the movie's protagonist, a motherless little boy who escapes both his self-absorbed and overbearing father by playing a computer soccer game featuring Zidane.