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. […]
Emerald Fennell’s ‘Promising Young Woman’ (2020) Review
Talk about a scorched earth film!! Talk about an unexpected, scorching performance from Carey Mulligan, who gives what I believe to be the years very best performance!! Mulligan has been […]
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 […]
Disney Hotstar Multiplex: Rajesh Krishnan’s ‘Lootcase’ (2020) Review
The great Charlie Chaplin had once said that life is a tragedy when seen in close up, but a comedy in long-shot. It’s true considering the times we are living […]
Sony Liv Original – Rajat Kapoor’s ‘Kadakh’ Review
Consider this – On the lazy afternoon of Diwali, you’re all gearing up for a party. All decked up, tidied house and all of a sudden, someone ends up at […]
Netflix and Chill: Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Choked-Paisa Bolta Hai’ (2020) Review
Anurag Kashyap, the enfant-terrible of contemporary Indian cinema, is back with his latest offering ‘Choked- Paisa Bolta Hai’ on Netflix. Set in 2016, it’s based on a bank employee’s discovery […]
Revisiting The Classics : Mike Nichols’s ‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf’ (1966)
There are seven great plays of the 20th century that remain as fresh, as powerful and as urgent as the first day they opened on Broadway. They are ‘Death of […]
Revisiting The Classics : Billy Wilder’s ‘Ace In The Hole’ (1951)
Great films that have failed to find an audience have been around since the silent era, so it is no surprise, that in the fifties, the same event took place […]
Amazon Prime Original : Sumukhi Suresh’s ‘Pushpavalli’ Season 2 Review
Stalking is very real. We’ve all grown up listening to the stories of crazy-ass stalkers following girls to their homes, tuitions, hostels. Some of them even hobble ahead of the […]
Bala (2019) – Official Trailer
Bala (2019) | Official Trailer | Ayushmaan Khurrana | Bhumi Pednekar | Yami Gautam | Saurabh Shukla | Seema Pahwa | Javed Jaffery | Abhishek Banerjee | Amar Kaushik | […]
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 […]
Hotstar Special : ‘The Office’ Review
Fans of the original British series tend to disagree when it’s compared with its US counterpart. And rightly so, because you just can’t beat the original. I haven’t seen the […]
‘TVF Tripling’ : Season 2 – Review
To be honest, I had heard about ‘Tripling’ from many but didn’t check it out at then. The only thing that I liked about TVF was ‘Pitchers’ and the hilarious […]
20 Years Of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai – The Destruction Of An Entire Generation
It’s been twenty years since KJo entered into our lives, via a sugary, syrupy malady called ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’. Life has never been the same, since then. This article […]
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