When the gentle hero of the film ‘Noblemen’, Shay Sharma, names his injured bird Phoenix, you feel that there could be a deeper significance at play here. Perhaps the young Shay, constantly bullied by his seniors at his hill station boarding school, will be able to rise like a Phoenix. But the film goes into […]
Film And Drama Reviews
‘Annabelle Comes Home’ — Hello, evil-hellspawn dolly!
Nestled somewhere in the Evil Doll Hall of Fame between Chuckie and The Twilight Zone’s Talky Tina, the Conjuring franchise’s resident Satanic toy has enough industry juice to have knocked out three spin-off movies – not bad for a scene-stealing porcelain figure originally used as a supernatural conduit by a Manson-lite cult. Just don’t call […]
‘Five Feet Apart’ is a beautiful film on emotional struggles versus reality
Can you love someone you can never touch? Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient, fighting a war between optimism and fear of losing her loved ones. She is always spreading love and hopes among other patients around her but deep inside, she’s as scared as everybody […]
‘Dark Season 2’ — Netflix’s highly ambitious show flawlessly turns ordinary into outlandish
I stopped and rewound a few minutes of Dark in season 1, after a corpse of one child was revealed to be the corpse of a kid that went missing 30 years ago. I stopped and rewound again – when an old watchmaker was suddenly disclosed to be the author of a book that was […]
‘Kabir Singh’ — an unapologetic celebration of toxic masculinity
Exhibit A. There’s a scene in the new Shahid Kapoor starrer Kabir Singh in which a domestic help accidentally breaks a glass while cleaning the protagonist’s house. The next moment he’s chasing her down flights of stairs like a man possessed, capable of anything. This scene is played for laughs. Exhibit B. In another scene […]
‘Riverdale’ embodies the Shakespearean concept of dynamic characters
There are two types of people in this world, those who tries to suppress the animal inside them and then the ones who let that beast come out. In both cases, what remains constant is the beast. We all have one inside. Riverdale is a town with merry young hearts that find their refuge in […]
‘Anna’ — a girl, some guns and a recycled plot
All you need for a film, Jean-Luc Godard famously declared, is a gun and a girl. His fellow French filmmaker Luc Besson has taken the maxim to heart, albeit with a few upgrades. You could also throw in a knife or two, for example. If the “girl” – a grown woman, really – happens to […]
Avengers Endgame Re-releasing in Theatres With ‘Extra Surprises’
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has confirmed that Avengers: Endgame will be re-released in theaters on June 28. In an interview to Screen Rant, the Marvel boss revealed that there would be a deleted scene, a tribute, and some “extra surprises” for fans. Avengers: Endgame, which served as the culmination of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, which kicked […]
‘Big Little Lies’ — Meryl Streep quotient the main thing buoying the premiere
The Season 2 premiere, “What Have They Done?,” was an at times ungainly creature. It had to expend a lot of effort reopening a story that had been designed to close with Perry’s death, and to introduce new characters like Mary Louise and her hatred of short people. With this much talent involved – and […]
‘Total Dhamaal’ — when a comedy movie makes you cry
‘Total Dhamaal’ is a motivational film which can bring tears to your eyes. The movie exposed many good lessons for us, such as, robbery, greedy is a cause, not to give up, helping of others, it is the first movie which motivated and made me laugh and cry. The film has been directed by Indra […]