The full-length trailer for Hulu’s ‘Veronica Mars’ Season 4 has arrived. The cult show returns with eight episodes on the streaming platform on July 26, 2019. The new season sees Veronica Mars returning to the seaside town of Neptune just as a series of bombings decimate the party-goers there for spring break. With lives on […]
Film And Drama Reviews
‘On The Basis Of Sex’ is a beautiful film about women empowerment
“A feminist is anyone who recognises the equality and full humanity of women and men” ? Gloria Steinem. In the middle of the film ‘On the Basis of Sex’, we see a passionate teen Jane arguing with her mother, now, a revered figure in the United States justice system-Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) on attending a […]
‘Euphoria’ — a one-time watch!
“I know you are not allowed to say it, but drugs are kind of cool,” So says Rue, the heroine and admittedly unreliable narrator of HBO’s new teen drama ‘Euphoria’, confessing as we see her enjoy a particularly potent high. Moments later, we see a flashback to the near-fatal overdose she suffered a few months […]
‘Frozen 2’ — Princess Elsa must save Arendelle in new trailer
The ‘Frozen 2’ teaser released in February showed Elsa exerting her icy powers and ascending the waves of the ocean, only to get completely catapulted and fall into the watery depths. You can breathe a sigh of relief, though – in the official trailer released this morning, the determined princess rises to the surface. Set […]
New chapter for ‘Elder Scrolls Online’
Bethesda’s ‘Elder Scrolls’ universe is a fascinating place with nearly unfathomable depth, vast amounts of lore and some great characters. The single-player games in the series have been huge hits, particularly ‘Elder Scrolls IV – Oblivion’ and ‘Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim’ and the online version – ‘The Elder Scrolls Online’ captures much of the […]
‘The Dead Don’t Die’ — Jim Jarmusch’s zombie film is an apocalyptic afterthought
Director and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch’s comic deadpan seems ideally suited to the zombie genre. So who better than this indie hipster, who has been an avatar of cool from ‘Stranger Than Paradise’ to Paterson, to take a stroll with the walking dead? Having tackled vampires in high style with 2013’s ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’, the […]
‘Pose’ Season 2 — a revolutionary world where hope prevails
A very odd thing kept happening to me as I watched the first season of ‘Pose’, FX’s drama about New York’s drag ball scene in the 1980s and ’90s. Again and again, the part of my brain trained to understand how modern serialised drama narratives function would predict the worst possible outcome in each scenario […]
‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ is partially a concert film
In the summer of 1975, in the middle of recording his album ‘Desire,’ singer and songwriter Bob Dylan decided that he wanted to go on tour again, but that he also wanted a break. A break from the crowds, from the press scrutiny, maybe even from his own stardom. So in the fall of that […]
‘Chernobyl’ stellar finale makes a case for the show as science fiction
The episode of the week for June 2-8, 2019 is “Vichnaya Pamyat,” the fifth and final episode of the HBO miniseries ‘Chernobyl’. The most chilling scene in the final episode of Chernobyl involves a man speaking calmly in a courtroom as he tosses aside a handful of blue placards, one by one, in favour of […]
‘The Perfection’ — Allison Williams, Logan Browning’s performances elevate this horror-thriller
Richard Shepard’s ‘The Perfection’ is a highly unusual film that keeps moving across the borders of multiple genres. This is a film that is part horror, part thriller, part mystery and part revenge movie, and yet, it never seems as if the film is doing justice to any of the themes it dabbles with. The […]