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Here's a nerve-jangling Spanish chiller. Unlike recent run-of-the-mill Hollywood frighteners, debutant director Bayona's The Orphanage achieves a constant sense of dread without any gore spilling or schlocky effects.

Here's the basic set-up for the rural coming-of-age drama The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep: A lonely child (Etel), grappling with the death of his father during World War II, discovers an unusual sea creature at the Scottish lakeside manor managed by his mother (Watson).

Clearly, the formula has lost its fizz. Sporting his trademark leather jacket and crumpled fedora, grizzled sexagenarian Harrison Ford is up to those old tricks again in the fourth installment of the blockbuster series.

So IPL is finally going to end on Sunday. The first to breathe a collective sigh of relief will certainly be the general entertainment channels. Just one look at the ratings is enough to see how the cricket juggernaut has battered the primetime band of biggies like Sony and Zee (don't even ask what it's done to the smaller players).

Whoever said life is easy in another country? I long to go home to my calm Aksa pad. But it will be a while before I do that. German, Swiss, French keyboards - I have managed to negotiate through them all in my attempts to write from the just-concluded Cannes International Film Festival.

As you drive away from CST on to the JJ flyover, peep into one of the houses to your left. You are likely to glimpse an exquisite display of antiques. But don't think of rummaging your wallet-these rare items are not for sale. Never mind.

They are an odd trio. Three estranged brothers, who haven't seen each other since their father's funeral a year ago, grudgingly get together for a train trip across India. Their polarised personalities spark off a comic, if somewhat sketchy, account of lives in disarray.

Patricia Whitman migrates to the foothills of the Himalyas, leaving her husband and three sons, Francis, Peter, and Jack. Years later, when her husband expires, the eldest son Francis invites the other two to India to see their mother.

When an exhausted Delhi lulls itself into sleep, 20-year-old Ria pulls up her best pair of Levi's, glances at her Swatch and, leaving behind a wisp of Chanel, tiptoes past her sleeping roomies.

I know what you're thinking. Oh god, here he goes about the Stones again! Well, tough. If Martin Scorcese has come up with a movie on the Grand Lizards of Rock'n'Roll, then you shut your trap and listen to the soundtrack.

For the past few years the Cannes Film Festival has made small news in the country. 'An Indian on the jury, Aishwarya Rai's dress...' But with English language films and international films making waves with Indian viewers, Cannes has finally come calling.

The four Pevensie children return to Narnia, only to discover that hundreds of years have passed since they ruled there, and the evil King Miraz has taken charge. With the help of a heroic mouse called Reepicheep, and the exiled heir to the throne, Prince Caspian, they set out to overthrow the King, once again with Aslan's help.

Nineteen-year old Anna Popplewell played Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Along with the rest of her onscreen siblings and director Andrew Adamson she's back for the second Narnia film, Prince Caspian, which is due in cinemas today.

Real people and their real stories are the dominant leitmotifs of the high-profile film festival known as much for its Mediterranean location as the new movies it showcases.

The much touted Mike Myers movie, The Love Guru is still a month and half away from its release date (June 20). But it has already sprung controversies and miffed the guardians of the Hindu religion based in the US.

The Wachowski brothers, Andy and Larry, don't ever touch small or quiet film projects. On the evidence of the new candy-coloured kiddie adventure, the brothers who helmed the Matrix trilogy (1999-2003) don't always touch very good ones either.

After debacles like The Village and Lady in the Water, he seems to be on familiar ground this time around. His forthcoming film, The Happening, isn't the only reason for him to be in India. Apart from promoting his next supernatural thriller, the Indian filmmaker is due to receive the Padma Shri later this weekend. 'It's a double occasion, so to speak,' he says.

An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King.

Weapons designer Tony Stark is in Afghanistan to introduce his newly created missile design, 'The Jericho', to the United States Air Force when the unit he is travelling with is attacked by a terrorist group called the Ten Rings.

Dancing has been the oldest form of self-expression and entertainment. But like everything else in this world, dancing is seeing evolution too. What used to be a combo activity of a man and a woman not so long ago has turned into a solo affair.