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. […]
Michael Sarnoski’s ‘Pig’ (2021) Review
Of the greatest actors to emerge after the seventies, Sean Penn, Denzel Washington, Eric Roberts, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon and a few others, the most consistently daring and risk-taking remains […]
Amazon Prime : Mahesh Narayanan’s ‘Malik’ (2021) Review
There have been countless films that are inspired by Francis Ford Copolla’s gangster saga ‘The Godfather’. The epic story of Vito and Micheal Corleone has always been a yardstick of […]
Greatest Performances Of Tom Hanks, In The Last Two Decades (2001-2021)
For his magnificent performance in ‘Cast Away’ (2000), Tom Hanks won the coveted New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor seeming to pave the way for a […]
The Top Ten Indian Films Of 2021(So Far)
It’s almost half way through the year. Amidst the pandemic and the lockdown, all of us, have somehow trying to live in this ‘new normal’ way of life. Lockdown caused […]
Netflix and Chill – ‘Ray’ (2021) Review
The great Satyajit Ray, while writing the review for Vittorio De Sica’s ‘The Bicycle Thief’ (1948), had once said – “For a popular medium, the best kind of inspiration should derive […]
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, […]
Amazon Prime Original – ‘The Family Man’ – Season 2 Review
“Doing something great is overrated because then people expect that from you all the time. What they don’t realise, is you’re as screwed up as they are”. ~ Mare Sheehan, […]
‘Mare Of Easttown’ (2021) Review
Mistakes. If the life of a human being has to be summarised in one word, it would be – mistakes. Since biblical times, our actions or inactions are often labelled […]
‘Friends: The Reunion’ (2021) Review
So no one told you life was gonna be this way? If you go on clapping along with the next set of tunes, well, there you are – fan spotted! […]
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 […]
Twenty Years Of The Oscars – Best Actress Snubs!
Amy Adams has been a frequent nominee for Best Actress, yet has just as many times been a shocking omission, ‘Enchanted’ (2007) and ‘Arrival’ (2016) the most bizarre of the […]
Twenty Years Of The Oscars – Best Actor Snubs!
In honour of the great Delroy Lindo, one in a very long line of actors snubbed cruelly (this year) for his sterling performance in ‘Da Five Bloods’, I went back […]
Netflix and Chill – ‘Ajeeb Daastans’ (2021) Review
Anthology films are the flavour of the season. Several short films are put together, with a single theme or thought process which eventually speaks about the stories as a whole. […]
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