TIFF 2019 Exclusive : Taika Waititi’s ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Review
Finding a genre where this wildly original, bold and daring film fits is an impossibility. While it is without question a black comedy, pulling elements of Mel Brooks, the Marx […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : ‘Judy’ and ‘Hustlers’ Review
By Sunday in previous years most of the big Hollywood films have screened, but this year it seems an effort was made to keep them screening through the second half […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : James Mangold’s ‘Ford vs Ferrari’ Review
Angry at being rebuffed to buy the Ferrari company, Henry Ford (Tracey Letts) hires a team to build a better, faster car that will soundly defeat the Italian car giant. […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : Todd Phillips’s ‘Joker’ Review
Owing much to the darkness of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’ (1976) and ‘The King of Comedy’ (1983), Todd Phillips has crafted a dread filed, the hypnotic nightmare of a film […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : ‘Just Mercy’ and ‘Red Penguins’ Reviews
The worst sound in the world is someone with a cold sniffing so hard you just know by the sound whatever horrors in their nostrils are now running down their […]
TIFF 2019 Day – 1 : ‘Hidden Life’ and ‘The Lighthouse’ Reviews
The day began at eight am, grabbing a coffee and scone at a nearby Second Cup I made my way to the cinema in the massive Scotiabank Theatre. The home […]
15 Most Jaw Dropping Moments At TIFF
Since 1994 I have attended the annual film festival in Toronto called TIFF. It began in the late seventies as the brainchild of William Marshall as The Festival Of Festivals, […]
Netflix and Chill : Olivia Wilde’s ‘Booksmart’ (2019) – A John H Foote Review
Remember Beanie Feldstein from Lady Bird (2017)? She played the best friend alienated by Lady Bird herself, though they manage to reconcile before a valued friendship is lost forever. She is also […]
Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ (2019) – A John H Foote Review
It has been twenty five years since a young director named Quentin Tarantino exploded onto the movie scene with his astonishing film ‘Pulp Fiction’ (1994) which went on to be […]
Ten Films that celebrates Independence and Freedom
Freedom. Independence. These may sound like mere words, but they mean so much more. Imagine a place where you can’t even take a decision, without someone else’s permission. Imagine a […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Greatest Films, Ranked
His very name, like Spielberg or Scorsese, suggests cinema. However, the films of Quentin Tarantino unfold like a jolt of electricity applied to your brain. Like the shot of adrenaline […]
Netflix and Chill – ‘The Great Hack’ Review
I know a guy in my neighbourhood, who used to be this naive, quiet child. Growing up, he always used to get compared to his younger sibling who was better […]
Phantom Film’s ‘Super 30’ Review
Biopics are in vogue these days. It’s good in a way, that film makers have finally started to look beyond the usual fare of Bollywood razzmatazz. Inspiring stories of ordinary […]
Anubhav Sinha’s ‘Article 15’ Review – India Burning!
Kabhi Hum Harijan ho jaate hain…Kabhi hum bahujan ho jaate hain… Bas kabhi jan nahi ban paye, jisse Jan Gan Man main hamari bhi ginti ho… A wishful revolutionary played […]
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