Films to watch out for at TIFF 2020
John H Foote will be representing The Cinemawala at the Toronto International Film Festival aka TIFF 2020. Here’s his pick of movies to watch from the festival, which goes virtual […]
Amazon Prime Original: Mahesh Narayanan’s ‘C U Soon’ (2020) Review
When I watched episodes of the Netflix series ‘Black Mirror’, I was horrified at the alternate realities presented, all fueled by technology, which inevitably ended in disaster. Watching ‘C U […]
The Cinemawala Shorts Review: ‘Theerpu’ (2020)
Creating a short film is a difficult task. Within a short frame of time, a story has to unfurl that needs to capture the audience’s imagination in lightening speed. Thus […]
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ (2020) Review
Let me state that the complaints about the sound mix of Tenet are absolutely true, the dialogue is often impossible to decipher. It is hard enough to figure out the […]
Amazon Prime Original – Anand Tiwari’s ‘Bandish Bandits’ (2020) Review
I grew up in the nineties as a Hindi cinema buff. So naturally, my choice of music always revolved around Hindi cinema music. I adored Kumar Sanu, I idolised Kishore […]
The Ten Films From The 70’s Ignored For Best Film By The Academy
Since the forties, there had always been five nominees for Best Picture which of course meant some very fine films were going to be left out, but it is those […]
Mira Nair’s ‘A Suitable Boy’ (2020) Review
Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’, arguably one of the largest single-volume novel in English literature. In a nutshell, it’s about a women’s journey to find a suitable groom for herself. […]
Top 12 Performances Of Ranvir Shorey, Ranked
Top 12 Performances Of Ranvir Shorey, Ranked
Netflix and Chill: Sharan Sharma’s ‘Gunjan Saxena – The Kargil Girl’ (2020) Review
It’s really difficult to be a woman, in a man’s world. Recently I read an account of a female leader in an MNC where she had described in detail, how […]
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 […]
Netflix and Chill: Honey Trehan’s ‘Raat Akeli Hai’ (2020) Review
Have you ever slow cooked any form of food or meat? Slow cooking is the art of culinary, where the food needs to be cooked slowly, at a low to […]
Amazon Prime – Anu Menon’s ‘Shakuntala Devi’ (2020) Review
Shakuntala Devi. The mathematical prodigy from India, who was once hailed as the human-computer, as she beat the computer hands down, pointing out its mistake. There’s hardly any graduate-level student […]
Netflix and Chill – ‘Fear City: New York vs The Mafia’ (2020) Review
New York. The land of the free. The magnificent view of the Manhattan skylines spread across the horizon is breathtaking. It is also a sign of the prosperous America that’s […]
Aaron Schneider’s ‘Greyhound’ (2020) Review
Tom Hanks has enjoyed a solid history with the war genre, in fact, World War II has been very good to the two time Academy Award-winning Best Actor. Hanks was […]
