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Cinema ExpressIndiaSoni Razdan hits back at critics after backlash for her anti-firecrackers stance: ‘This is not about religion…’ Earlier this week, Dia Mirza received widespread backlash for her social media posts where she requested people to not burn firecrackers this year on Diwali.

Cinema ExpressIndiaAdam Driver on Heat 2: Confirms antagonist role, shares update on Michael Mann after accidental shooting Actor Adam Driver has confirmed that he will be playing the antagonist in Heat 2 , filmmaker Michael Mann's upcoming follow-up to his 1995 crime thriller Heat .

Cinema ExpressIndiaBreaking Bad star RJ Mitte's demise; report reveals cause of death Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte reportedly died at his home in Brownsville, Texas, on October 12, 2026, at the age of 34. Previously, the cause of the actor's death was determined as suicide.

Cinema ExpressIndiaMr Bhaarath Trailer: A man who looks at the world differently falls in love B Bhaarath is a man who looks at the world from a very different perspective in the trailer of Mr Bhaarath . The trailer was unveiled by the makers on Friday along with the film's new release date.

Cinema ExpressIndiaTamil Film Active Producers Association honours Rajinikanth for Jailer 2 success Recently, we reported about director Nelson's Jailer 2 , starring Rajinikanth in the lead role, becoming the highest-grossing Tamil film of all time, breaking the previous record of the Superstar's…

Cinema ExpressIndiaNazriya clarifies missing out on 3 earlier offers: 'How will I reject Suriya sir's film?' Actor Nazriya Nazim has clarified that she did not deliberately turn down three earlier opportunities to work with Suriya after the actor recently spoke about how he had approached her for his films…

Cinema ExpressIndiaDaniel MacPherson joins Priyanka Chopra and Russell Crowe in Bluefly In August, we reported about Priyanka Chopra and Russell Crowe headlining an upcoming film titled Bluefly , a blend of science-fiction, action, and thriller.

Cinema ExpressIndiaJr NTR supports debut actor Aniesh’s Itlu Arjuna, unveils trailer First-time actor Aniesh is getting a big boost ahead of his debut film, Itlu Arjuna , with Jr NTR coming forward to support the project by unveiling its trailer.

Cinema ExpressIndiaWill Scene continue Suriya's blockbuster run in 2026? Director Jithu Madhavan responds Suriya has been having quite the year so far. His latest release, Scene , directed by Aavesham filmmaker Jithu Madhavan, opened in theatres on Friday to mostly positive reviews from critics and…

Cinema ExpressIndiaScene Movie Review: Suriya-Jithu’s quirky experiment subverts superstardom to fantastic effect Scene Movie Review: Vision. While it might not be the case now, there was a time when almost every interview inevitably had this question: Where do you see yourself in five years?

Cinema ExpressIndiaNooru Kodi Vaanavil Movie Review: This stale romance struggles to find its hues Nooru Kodi Vaanavil Movie Review: Weirdly, the word 'pan' in the Indian movie context means trying to be everything rather than some peculiarity that touches everyone across the board.

Cinema ExpressIndiaShah Rukh Khan shares desire to work with Atlee again: 'Let's create some more...' On Thursday, Shah Rukh Khan took to social media and expressed his gratitude to each of the birthday wishes he received from a prominent personality.

Cinema ExpressIndiaRamayana: Part 1: Shobana steals the show as Ravana's mother Kaikesi; a look into the actor's work Veteran actor Shobana is among the prominent names in the cast of the recent release, Ramayana: Part 1 .

Cinema ExpressIndiaMookuthi Amman 2 movie review: A systematic desecration of the amman genre Mookuthi Amman 2 Movie Review One of South Indian cinema’s original creations, amman films, are a genre of their own.

Cinema ExpressIndiaMeesaya Murukku 2, I'm Game and more: South Cinema's top OTT releases this week Meesaya Murukku 2: Sony LIV, Tamil Meesaya Murukku 2 A continuation of Hiphop Tamizha Adhi’s semi-biographical 2017 film of the same name, Meesaya Murukku 2 follows his journey as he sets out to…

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo