Review
Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ (2022) Review
WOW!!! Any fears that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ will feel like a very expensive video game can be cast aside. The film is a huge entertainment machine where everyone involved […]
Colin Trevorrow’s ‘Jurassic World : Dominion’ (2022) Review
Remember the awe and majesty we felt seeing that massive dinosaur in the very first ‘Jurassic Park’ (1993) film nearly thirty years ago?? Taken to the park on a […]
The Weekend Watch – Episode 1
We’re starting a new column called ‘The Weekend Watch’ where we’ll be talking about movies, and web shows that we watched over the weekend. Now it could be brand new […]
In the loving memory of KK
People of my generation, had grown up listening to his songs. Everyone of my age, at-least had one favourite, sung by him. Be it love or heartbreak, KK was always […]
The Oscars – Are we part of the problem?
Are we part of the trouble with the Oscars?? We critics, writers, and bloggers start talking Oscar at TIFF, which is kind of the unofficial beginning of Oscar season and […]
Matt Reeves’s ‘The Batman’ (2022) Review
Batman is a character that comes with a legacy – a long line of meticulous comics, video games, animated and live-action features done by very talented people. I remember director […]
Matt Reeves’s ‘The Batman’ (2022) Review
How many actors have portrayed Batman since 1989? Take a wild guess. In 33 years, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, and now Robert Pattinson have […]
Netflix And Chill: ‘Red Notice’ (2021) Review
Though ‘Red Notice’ will never be nominated for any major Academy Awards, but still I had a hell of a good time watching the film and its stars do what […]
Twenty Years Of RHTDM (2001)
It was perhaps the month of March, in the year 2002. I was studying in the College of Basic Science at Bhubaneswar. At that point in time, we had the […]
TIFF 2021 Exclusive: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ (2021) Review
As a filmmaker and actor, Kenneth Branagh has run very hot and cold. Hailed as the heir apparent to Laurence Olivier (did we need one?), Branagh exploded into film with […]
TIFF 2021 Exclusive: Antoine Fuqua’s ‘The Guilty’ (2021) Review
Shot in a miraculous eleven days during the height of the pandemic, director Antoine Fuqua and actor Jake Gyllenhaal display remarkable artistry and discipline in creating this film. A straight […]
TIFF 2021 Exclusive: Pablo Larraín’s ‘Spencer’ (2021) Review
In 2016, Pablo Larraín brought to TIFF his film ‘Jackie’, a haunting film about Jackie Kennedy in the seconds, moments, hours, days and weeks after the assassination of her husband, […]
TIFF 2021 Exclusive: Michael Showalter’s ‘The Eyes Of Tammy Faye’ (2021) Review
Accolades came fast for Jessica Chastain, stardom did not. The beautiful red-headed graduate of Juilliard struggled for several years before finally landing a plum role in Al Pacino’s filmed adaptation […]
TIFF 2021 Exclusive: Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ (2021) Review
“This is only the beginning” is the last line uttered in the film making clear there is more to come, though the opening title credit “Dune: Part One” had already […]
The Fading Legend of M. Night Shyamalan
More than 20 years have passed since we were stopped in our tracks with the trailer of Haley Joel Osment whispering with hushed urgency and terror, “I see dead people.” M. […]
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