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America Ferrera and Matthew McConaughey in a still from ‘The Lost Bus’ | Photo Credit: Apple TV+ Paul Greengrass elevates genre films to works of anxiety-inducing art. The British director took the spy thriller to a different level with 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy and 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum. He injects non-fiction with imagination and adrenaline…
The first thing Clevatess does is kill its heroes. Thirteen champions brutally dispatched before the story has even begun. If that weren’t enough, the titular demon king razes an entire kingdom for this slight. And yet, amid the smouldering ruins, he pauses to grant a dying boy’s plea: he will take in a human infant….
Janhvi Kapoor and Varun Dhawan in a still from ‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’ | Photo Credit: Dharma Productions Out of Karan Johar’s young proteges, I find Shashank Khaitan’s voice the most influential in taking the Kuch Kuch Hota Hai conversation forward. Film after film, he creates the portrait of the young upper-middle-class Punjabi/ Marwari…
Mark Wahlberg and Rosa Salazar in ‘Play Dirty’ | Photo Credit: Jasin Boland Play Dirtyis the right movie to return to after a break. While combating droopy eyelids and a wandering brain, this violent heist comedy is just what the doctor ordered to get back in the review saddle. The explosive pre-credits sequence sees a…
Rishab Shetty in ‘Kantara Chapter 1’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In a small yet significant scene in Kantara Chapter 1, Berme (Rishab Shetty) tells his mother about the importance of business. It’s not just earning what they deserve, but also a sign of achievement for their marginalised group of people. Berme’s decision to revolt…
In a pivotal stretch of Idli Kadai, actor-director Dhanush’s protagonist Murugan relentlessly attempts to perfect his father’s time-honoured idli recipe. He follows the same routine as his father, uses the same ingredients, and keeps churning the grinding stone, but the idli just isn’t what a generation of Sankarapuram residents have grown up eating. Murugan fails…
A still from ‘House of Guinness’ | Photo Credit: Netflix It’s been over a decade since Steven Knight’s Birmingham-set crime thriller Peaky Blinders gave way to the Netflix prestige drama imprint. Replicating its precise success would be a hard task, but its creator Steven Knight makes an attempt with House of Guinness. Setting up family…
A still from ‘The B***ds of Bollywood’. | Photo Credit: Netflix Social media might have bridged the distance between Bollywood stars and the common man, but the curiosity of fans and trolls to look at the view behind the camera remains unsatiated. Over the years, directors Farah Khan, Zoya Akhtar, and Karan Johar have used…
At the centre of Vala: The Story of a Bangle is, well, a bangle, which everybody seems to want. There is a legend attached to this precious stones-encrusted bangle of Arabian origins, which could lead the audience to think that maybe the film is along the lines of Padakkalam – an antique object with supernatural…
A still from ‘Him’ | Photo Credit: Universal Pictures This is not a Jordan Peele film. The Nope and Get Out director has produced Him, which is directed by Justin Tipping. With that out of the way and also the wildly misleading trailer marketing the film as horror, what we are left with is an…
