The Top Ten Performances Of Robert Duvall, Ranked.
In 1981, the New York Times declared him Americas greatest actor. Long before that, before his great success on film, acting guru Sanford Meisner said, “There are two great actors […]
In 1981, the New York Times declared him Americas greatest actor. Long before that, before his great success on film, acting guru Sanford Meisner said, “There are two great actors […]
The year 2020 was cruel to everyone including the film watchers, as it led many films to postpone their releases. Majority of the films were released on the OTT platforms. […]
As Bob Dylan prophetically sang in the mournful, timely song “The Times are a-Changin’” and indeed 2020 brought many changes that will be felt for years to come. The movie-going […]
The year 2020 will always be known as the year when hell was unleashed all over the world, in the form of Covid-19. Rendering the world virtually worthless, this disease […]
Robert Redford, always a political activist, bought the rights to the book written by the two reporters who exposed Watergate, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. He knew in his gut […]
Sidney Lumet’s lacerating black comedy, ‘Network’, which is also a cautionary film about the power of television seemed to see far into the future with blistering clarity, exploring how reality […]
The old fashioned credits begin and over them we hear solemn music, then a solitary horn, lonely and mournful, foreshadowing what J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) will feel by the end […]
The past decade has seen a renaissance in movies. Not so long ago, movies were expected to have a 3-hour run time, a grand plot, songs, fight sequences and comedy. […]
It’s an interesting journey for a film, especially when it goes from the script to the screen. Multiple factors weigh-in, as the transformation takes place from a spiral-bound notebook to […]
I sat down to watch ‘Paava Kadhaigal’ because of the eclectic directors that came together for its making. I expected a classy concoction of clever punchline stories like those of […]
The complexities of the human brain have always perplexed scientists. Per them, the human brain is capable of many superlative feats and the average human uses only 7% of it […]
Covid-19 has rendered the world inoperative. In a year where a single strain of the virus, caught the whole world off guard and forced it to its knees, mankind learnt […]
Horror-comedies are in vogue these days. Films like ‘Stree’ have shown that with the right dosage of comedy and horror, the viewers would lap up a supernatural or a fantasy […]
The axe forgets but the tree remembers. This African proverb aptly sums up the motif that runs through the whole duration of ‘Taish’ – Revenge. It’s a sordid tale of […]
The game of Ludo represents the randomness of life. Nobody can predict the next number on the dice, as it’s being rolled by the player. Just like the arbitrary events […]
“A love story disguised as a ghost story.” Horror, for me, is not an easy genre to watch. I usually need company, daylight, the mute button and other tools that […]
It was someday in 1995, I don’t remember exactly which though. I was ten, eleven years old and was in the early stages of the pre-teenage rebellion. Most of my […]
Vilom – The dictionary meaning of this Hindi word is Opposite. In the context of director Sundar Pal’s debut film, it signifies contradiction or to be more specific, it points […]
There was a time Steven Spielberg was going to direct this, but it never seemed to jell, not even the great Spielberg could get the film off the ground. As […]
They sear themselves into our brains as we see them, staying there forever, on playback in the landscape of our minds. They are the greatest scenes in movie history and […]
Let’s be honest, when we saw the title ‘Ginny weds Sunny’, a blatant, unapologetic rip off of ‘Tanu weds Manu’, we weren’t expecting much. “Unapologetic” is the right word to […]