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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
Ray@100 – The Evil Men and Women Of Satyajit Ray’s Films
Satyajit Ray. The Wikipedia depiction of the man’s talent doesn’t do any justice to his artistry. A multifaceted person who was an auteur, a storyteller, an artist, a musician and […]
The Academy Awards 2021 Nomination – The Cinemawala Prediction.
On March 15, the Academy Award nominations will begin the countdown to the biggest year of the year in Hollywood. Wildly late, and leaned down to the pandemic, this year’s […]
Golden Globes 2021- A Shocker!
For the most part, the Golden Globe Awards went to the films we thought they would, some deserving, some contentious. Split into categories for Drama, and another for Comedy/ Musical […]
Netflix and Chill: Sam Levinson’s ‘Malcolm and Marie’ (2021) Review
Back from the premiere of his debut film, Malcolm is all gung ho whereas Marie is dead calm. The discussion veers from his film to their relationship in no time […]
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 […]
Revisiting The Classics – Martin Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’ (1990)
Sitting down to explore the finest films directed by Martin Scorsese, most might think his seething black and white boxing biography ‘Raging Bull’ (1980) might top the list. Visceral, bloody, […]
Revisiting The Classics – Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ (1960)
Do film buffs truly understand just what a groundbreaking film Alfred Hitchcock’s terrifying ‘Psycho’ was? This was a monumental film, breaking fresh ground for a tried and true genre, and […]
Revisiting The Classics : Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ (1975)
I had just turned sixteen the first time I saw ‘Jaws’ (1975) not knowing the film and work of the director would alter the course of my life. The film […]
The Cinemawala 