
Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ (2022) Review
WOW!!! Any fears that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ will feel like a very expensive video game can be cast aside. The film is a huge entertainment machine where everyone involved […]
WOW!!! Any fears that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ will feel like a very expensive video game can be cast aside. The film is a huge entertainment machine where everyone involved […]
Michael Bay has been the target of much scornful film criticism over the last few years because his movies have, frankly, sucked. Though he is a master technician, capable […]
So much Oscar history was made last night yet all anyone is talking about is the slap heard around the world, the one Will Smith delivered to comedian Chris Rock, […]
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 […]
Batman is a character that comes with a legacy – a long line of meticulous comics, video games, animated and live-action features done by very talented people. I remember director […]
How many actors have portrayed Batman since 1989? Take a wild guess. In 33 years, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, and now Robert Pattinson have […]
Let’s get right to it—it is a knockout, a masterpiece, brilliant on every level. And to the question everyone will ask: it is equal to the original. In fact, I […]
Had Spielberg’ Schindler’s List not opened in the final months of 1993, I am, absolutely confident that Jane Campion and ‘The Piano’ would have taken Best Picture and Best Director Awards, making […]
Some in the theatre world hold a superstition that to utter the title “Macbeth” or any lines from that play will doom the stage performance. Some actors hold this belief […]
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 […]
Though ‘Red Notice’ will never be nominated for any major Academy Awards, but still I had a hell of a good time watching the film and its stars do what […]
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 […]
As a filmmaker and actor, Kenneth Branagh has run very hot and cold. Hailed as the heir apparent to Laurence Olivier (did we need one?), Branagh exploded into film with […]
Shot in a miraculous eleven days during the height of the pandemic, director Antoine Fuqua and actor Jake Gyllenhaal display remarkable artistry and discipline in creating this film. A straight […]