Amazon Prime: Pa. Ranjith’s ‘Sarpatta Parambarai’ (2021) Review
Boxing, as a sport, has always been a sign of masculinity. Two men, sparring with each other using their fists, landing blows on the opponent while docking the punches, is […]
Amazon Prime : Mahesh Narayanan’s ‘Malik’ (2021) Review
There have been countless films that are inspired by Francis Ford Copolla’s gangster saga ‘The Godfather’. The epic story of Vito and Micheal Corleone has always been a yardstick of […]
Revisiting The Classics – Oliver Stone’s ‘Natural Born Killers’ (1994)
More than a quarter-century has passed since Oliver Stone’s electrifying ‘Natural Born Killers’ first thundered onto movie screens for the first time, alighting a hurricane of controversy. By the nineties, […]
Amazon Prime Original – ‘The Family Man’ – Season 2 Review
“Doing something great is overrated because then people expect that from you all the time. What they don’t realise, is you’re as screwed up as they are”. ~ Mare Sheehan, […]
‘Mare Of Easttown’ (2021) Review
Mistakes. If the life of a human being has to be summarised in one word, it would be – mistakes. Since biblical times, our actions or inactions are often labelled […]
Netflix and Chill – ‘Alma Matters: Inside The IIT Dream’ (2021) Review
In the year 2001, which now feels a lifetime ago, I had appeared for the IIT JEE entrance examination. Thanks to the inherent herd mentality, everyone in the study group […]
Mari Selvaraj’s ‘Karnan’ (2021) Review
‘Karnan’ opens with a young girl lying on a road suffering from an epileptic fit and on the brink of death. Lorries and Buses pass by, but no-one stops. She eventually […]
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 […]
John Lee Hancock’s ‘The Little Things’ (2021) Review
Jared Leto has always been a sublimely gifted actor, from his early work in ‘Fight Club’ (1999), his doomed drug addict in the electrifying masterpiece ‘Requiem for a Dream’ (2000), […]
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 […]
Amazon Prime Original – ‘Unpaused’ (2020) Review
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 […]
Revisiting The Classics – Alan J Pakula’s ‘All the President’s Men’ (1976)
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 […]
Revisiting The Classics – Sidney Lumet’s ‘Network’ (1976)
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 […]
Revisiting The Classics – Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ (1974)
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 […]
