Author: Abu Shahed Emon

While watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day, I found myself caring less about how high Peter Parker could swing and more…

Mezbaur Rahman Sumon’s Roid is a film whose true power cannot be fully grasped if it is read merely as…

It is an ordinary evening in Dhaka. A middle-class family sits around the dinner table. Dinner is served, but conversation…

A controversial remark by Bangladesh’s education minister is about far more than offended students. It reveals deeper questions about how…

For years, sections of Bangladesh’s commercial film industry have often caricatured festival cinema as slow, depressing, inaccessible, or disconnected from…

In societies where family honor is often more important than personal pain, abuse often continues not because people are unaware,…

Survival cinema, as a subgenre of adventure storytelling, has always been rooted in one fundamental idea: a human being pushed…

When discussing Bonolota Express, based on Humayun Ahmed’s novel Kichukhon, a key issue comes forward – the long-standing challenge of…

Released this Eid, Pressure Cooker feels like a truly bold and risky step in Raihan Rafi’s career. Eid films usually…

Every Eid season tells us something about Bangladeshi cinema. For filmmakers like me, watching the trailers of Eid releases is…