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During the pandemic, a booster dose of the vaccine became a common term. It was intended to boost the immune system’s response to the virus. This week, Vivek Agnihotri injects a booster dose of cinematic virus that he unleashed with The Kashmir Files lest people develop immunity against communal politics. Once again, blending a discriminating version of the past…
Can a horror film be a comfort watch? The Conjuring: Last Rites, the ninth and supposedly final film in the first phase of The Conjuring universeww (Marvel has a lot to answer for), proves that it most certainly can. With all the real-world terrors, bombings and dismemberments, having random demons glower from mirrors or demented…
Spike Lee’s latest Cannes-premiering joint has been hand-rolled with the air of a remix album, brazenly borrowing the bones of a classic, flipping the beats, and layering in a few unexpected features until the old thing feels like something new, if not always seamless. The source, of course, is Akira Kurosawa’s bleak 1963 classic, High…
As the end credits of Ghaati rolled, the words “The Queen – Anushka Shetty” appeared on screen. It felt apt. Anushka carries a regal presence and has proven across her 20-year career that she can embody powerful characters. Directed by Krish Jagarlamudi, this Telugu film is an action-heavy spectacle, with Anushka playing a woman seeking…
A still from ‘Bad Girl’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement If movie reviews were instruction manuals, I’d command you to take a pause and give the film Bad Girl by debutant director Varsha Bharath some hours of your time. This refreshing coming-of-age Tamil film centred around Ramya (played by Anjali Sivaraman) sets out to achieve exactly what…
Raanna and Priyanka Achar in ‘Elumale’. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Elumale (reportedly based on true events)is a romantic thriller and director Punit Rangaswamy has seamlessly blended both the genres in his debut effort. Powered by earnest performances from Raanna and Priyanka Achar, the movie is a triumphant product of a clever script. Revathi (Priyanka…
The viral hit song ‘Monica’ from Rajinikanth’s upcoming film Coolie where actor Pooja Hegde and Soubin Shahir shine in a high-energy performance plays at Antara, a brand new cinema screen at the revamped KG Cinemas. “This is the first time I am watching ‘Monica’ on the big screen,” says Lokesh Kanagaraj, the film’s director while inaugurating the…
A still from ‘The Thursday Murder Club’. | Photo Credit: Netflix/YouTube The Thursday Murder Club would have done much better as a series. Based on the first of Richard Osman’s book series, featuring four pensioners solving crimes from their posh retirement home, Cooper’s Chase, the film would have worked better as a show rather than…
A still from ‘The Thursday Murder Club’. | Photo Credit: Netflix/YouTube The Thursday Murder Club would have done much better as a series. Based on the first of Richard Osman’s book series, featuring four pensioners solving crimes from their posh retirement home, Cooper’s Chase, the film would have worked better as a show rather than…
A musical drama loosely inspired by the life of Padma Shri Raj Begum, Songs of Paradise puts into focus the rich poetic culture of Kashmir that often gets buried under the “Files” of jaundiced perceptions. It is the side of Kashmir that we have hardly seen in Bollywood. Set in a time and space when the idea…
