The Oscars 2023 – The Final Predictions
Six months of “awards season” will come to an end this Sunday mercifully with the presentation of the Academy Awards, still the award in cinema that matters most (even if […]
The Ten Best Films Of 2021, Ranked.
THEY’RE BAAAAAACK!!! Movies returned with a thundering triumph this year, exploding back on big screens. As we all slowly, hopefully, leave our basements and adjust our eyes to daylight, movie making […]
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 […]
Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’ (2021) Review
“Your ledger is dripping, it’s GUSHING red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything? This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child […]
The Top Ten Indian Films Of 2021(So Far)
It’s almost half way through the year. Amidst the pandemic and the lockdown, all of us, have somehow trying to live in this ‘new normal’ way of life. Lockdown caused […]
Amazon Prime: Amit Masurkar’s ‘Sherni’ (2021) Review
“Bandar baat ka khela.. khele main hai jhamele bade.. Neend main hoe hazamat, jaage toh phir tote ude…” “Bandar-baat”, aka the story of two cats fighting for a cake and […]
Tharun Moorty’s ‘Operation Java’ (2021) Review
In today’s world, the whole of humanity is governed by the iron hands of technology. Everywhere we go, everything we do, we knowingly or unknowingly leave a digital footprint that […]
Amazon Prime – Anudeep KV’s ‘Jathi Ratnalu’ (2021) Review
Comedy is a serious business. Gags can turn into boring ‘hmms’ and uninterested ’zzzs’ if the jokes don’t land well. Satire can fall flat, if it doesn’t serve its purpose. […]
Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar’ (2021) Review
On the breakfast table, a guest asks Sandeep about the fluctuations of the stock market to which her landlord rather snidely remarks that a lady who handles the customer service […]
Zee 5 Original Film – ‘Nail Polish’ (2021) Review
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 […]
The Ten Best Hindi Films Of 2020, Ranked.
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. […]
The Ten Best Films Of 2020, Ranked.
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 […]
Amazon Prime Original- ‘Durgamati’ (2020) Review
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 […]
Bejoy Nambiar’s ‘Taish’ (2020) Review
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 […]
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