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A still from ‘Crazxy’ | Photo Credit: @sohumshahfilmss/YouTube We get so many spam calls these days that it is hard to figure out which ones are real. Then, while driving the car, you listen to FM stations where prank calls drive the programming. Director Girish Kohli employs this odd everyday reality in this thrilling race…
Timothée Chalamet in ‘A Complete Unknown’ Do not go into A Complete Unknown expecting your senses to be set upon a magic swirling ship a la Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There or Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese or No Direction Home. James Mangold’s biopic based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book,…
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is the kind of project that seems willed into existence by sheer conviction alone. A stark, unflinching, and rigorously designed meditation on ambition, power, and the immigrant experience, the film unfolds with the same extended grandiosity as the clean, concrete constructs its protagonist spends his life erecting. Running a formidable 202…
Jyotika, Anjali Anand, Shalini Pandey, Shabana Azmi, Nimisha Sajayan in ‘Dabba Cartel’ | Photo Credit: Netflix Shabana Azmi is the fiery queenpin of a female outfit. They ply a disreputable trade. Her underlings feel the heat of her glare. She suffers no fools. I’m talking, of course, about a film called Mandi, directed by the…
A strong ensemble, led by Adarsh Gourav, combined with writer Varun Grover’s earnest delineation of small-town cinematic ambitions, make Reema Kagti’s ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ an engaging character study of desi dream merchants Source link
Kunchacko Boban in ‘Officer on Duty’ Officer On Duty (Malayalam) Starring: Kunchacko Boban, Priyamani, Jagadish, Vishak Nair Direction: Jithu Ashraf Storyline: A police officer, who is back in the force after a demotion, pursues a case involving fake gold chains, but there is more than meets the eye. Runtime: 137 minutes Till a few years…
The first episode of Season 3 of Mike White’s multiple-award winning social satire, The White Lotus, is called Same Spirits, New Forms and boy is that a succinct description! Like the previous two seasons, Season 3 begins with violence. The White Lotus formula of placing a disparate group of white people in luxury properties in…
Han Ji Min and Lee Jun Hyuk in a still from ‘Love Scout’ | Photo Credit: SBS There is a special sort of joy that K-Drama romances where respect, dignity, and communication are treated like main characters bring to the soul. At 12 episodes, Love Scout is the rare K-Drama that leaves you wishing there…
Vicky Kaushal in ‘Chhaava’ Based on Shivaji Sawant’s popular novel, Chhaava is a puff piece on Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Sambhaji, who took on the might of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb for around eight years in the 17th Century. Carrying forward the defiant approach of his father Chhatrapati Shivaji, he kept Aurangzeb occupied in the Deccan during the second half of…
A still from ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ | Photo Credit: Marvel Studios We are in the midst of a Harrison Ford tsunami, with the 82-year-old superstar winning plaudits and a fresh batch of fans for his portrayal of the gruff psychotherapist with Parkinson’s in the series, Shrinking, and his final outing as archaeologist-adventurer in…
