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A still from ‘The Night Agent’ Season 2 | Photo Credit: Netflix Like Season 1, The Night Agent takes time to find its groove, but once it does, it hurtles at warp speed to its conclusion leaving a curly opening for Season 3, which has already been green lit. While season 1 was based on…
Reese Witherspoon, left, and Will Ferrell in a scene from ‘You’re Cordially Invited’ | Photo Credit: GLEN WILSON By now, big stars teaming up for a streaming original film — mostly comedy, and made on a budget that makes you wonder about the recovery without a theatrical run — has become a mainstay. What’s been…
Shahid Kapoor and Pooja Hegde in a still from ‘Deva’ | Photo Credit: Zee Studios/YouTube After a long wait, we have a mainstream flick where the hero makes you forget the laps in the logic of the screenplay as director Rosshan Andrrews mounts his Malayalam blockbuster Mumbai Police for the Hindi heartland, a decade after its release. Among the…
A still from Oru Jaathi Jathakam “Misogyny is my fundamental right,” says one of the characters in the initial scenes of the Vineeth Sreenivasan-starrer Oru Jaathi Jathakam, setting the tone for what the movie promises to discuss. The light-hearted flick directed by veteran filmmaker, M Mohanan forays into themes of gender and sexuality while poking fun at…
A still from ‘Ponman’ First impressions can be hard to change, but in Ponman most of our initial assumptions about the characters turn out to be wrong, as it happens in thoughtfully-written films. This change is not brought about by deceptive writing or staging of scenes, but it slowly gets revealed to us in the…
A still from ‘American Primeval’ | Photo Credit: @Netflix/YouTube In the first few minutes of Episode 1 of American Primeval, a man is suddenly shot dead. Sara (Betty Gilpin), who is travelling with her son, Devin (Preston Mota), reaches Fort Bridger, a trading post in Wyoming. She is supposed to meet a guide who will…
A still from ‘Dìdi’ | Photo Credit: Focus Features/YouTube It is the stuff of horrors, mostly, to look back at your teenage years. Not just reminisce over the carefree days but really look at the awkward growing pains. Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical film Dìdi is a similarly unflinching and jarringly specific teenage snapshot capturing the final…
The best art often blooms from the darkest soil, and with The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof has planted his anti-authoritarian treatise, deep and unshakable. Filmed clandestinely, smuggled across borders and screened at Cannes against the explicit wishes of the smothering constraints of Iran’s theocracy, the filmmaker’s latest work feels true to its…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Before diving into the good stuff, let us get the caveats out of the way. Ubisoft granted us four hours with a preview build of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, so some glitches were expected as the developers fine-tune the game. That said, we were among the first in…
A still of Vicky Kaushal from the film Chhaava. File | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Maharashtra Minister Uday Samant has demanded that the upcoming film Chhaava, starring Vicky Kaushal be screened for experts before its release to address objections raised over certain scenes. The movie is based on the life of Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati…
