The Oscars 2022 – Summed Up!
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, […]
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 […]
Matt Reeves’s ‘The Batman’ (2022) Review
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 […]
Matt Reeves’s ‘The Batman’ (2022) Review
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 […]
Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ (2021) Review
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 […]
Netflix and Chill: ‘The Power Of The Dog’ (2021) Review
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 […]
Apple TV +: ‘The Tragedy Of Macbeth’ (2021) Review
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 […]
The Ten Best Films Of 2021, Ranked.
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 […]
Netflix And Chill: ‘Red Notice’ (2021) Review
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 […]
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 […]
TIFF 2021 Exclusive: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ (2021) Review
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 […]
TIFF 2021 Exclusive: Antoine Fuqua’s ‘The Guilty’ (2021) Review
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 […]
TIFF 2021 Exclusive: Pablo Larraín’s ‘Spencer’ (2021) Review
In 2016, Pablo Larraín brought to TIFF his film ‘Jackie’, a haunting film about Jackie Kennedy in the seconds, moments, hours, days and weeks after the assassination of her husband, […]
TIFF 2021 Exclusive: Michael Showalter’s ‘The Eyes Of Tammy Faye’ (2021) Review
Accolades came fast for Jessica Chastain, stardom did not. The beautiful red-headed graduate of Juilliard struggled for several years before finally landing a plum role in Al Pacino’s filmed adaptation […]
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