By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Dev”; Language: Tamil; Director: Rajath Ravishankar; Cast: Karthi, Rakul Preet Singh; Rating: *1/2 After plodding through a plot that crawls at a snail’s pace, I was left wondering why anyone…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “The Wife”; Director: Bjorn Runge; Starring: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater; Rating: **(2 stars) Nothing is more saddening than to see a mediocre film being elevated to a masterly…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Cold Pursuit”; Director: Hans Petter Moland; Cast: Liam Neeson, Tom Bateman, Tom Jackson, Emmy Rossum, Domenick Lombardozzi, Julia Jones, John Doman, Laura Dern; Rating: **1/2 Starring Liam Neeson in the lead…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: Alita: Battle Angel Director: Robert Rodriguez Starring: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz Rating: ** 1/2 (Two and a half stars) “I am a very insignificant girl,” our petite firebrand, easily the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Fakir of Venice”; Director: Anand Surapur; Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Annu Kapoor, Kamal Sidhu, Mathieu Carriere and Valentina Camelutti; Rating: *** Director Anand Surapur’s “The Fakir of Venice” is based on…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Amavas”; Director: Bushan Patel; Cast: Sachiin Joshi, Nargis Fakhri, Vivan Bhatena, Mona Singh, Ali Asgar, Navneet Kaur Dhillon; Rating: * Director Bushan Patel’s “Amavas” will surely top the catalogue as…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Amavas” Director: Bhushan Patel Starring: Sachiin Joshi, Nargis Fakhri, Mona Singh, Asgar Ali, Vivan Bhatena Rating: *** (3 stars) The immovable tropes of the horror genre in Bollywood, move! Well,…
Yatra is a decent watch as per the twitter users. The movie is high on sentiment and went overboard with YSR elevations. Mammootty as YSR did well. Here are some tweets from the people who…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “The Fakir of Venice” Director: Anand Surapur Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Annu Kapoor, Valentina Carnelutti and Kamal Sidhu Rating: *** In his first acting assignment, Farhan Akhtar is splendidly in form…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Alita: Battle Angel” Director: Robert Rodriguez Cast: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Harley, Keaan Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez Rating: ***1/2 “Alita: Battle Angel” is…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Lego Movie 2: The Second Part”; Director: Mike Mitchell; Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day and Maya Rudolph; Rating: **1/2…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” Director: Shelley Chopra Dhar Starring: Anil Kapoor, Sonam K. Ahuja, Juhi Chawla, Rajkummar Rao Rating: ****(4 stars) At the end of this…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” Director: Shelly Chopra Dhar Cast: Sonam K. Ahuja, Anil Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Juhi Chawla, Abhishek Duhan, Akshay Oberoi, Regina Cassandra, Madhu Malathi, Brijendra Kala…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Mary Queen Of Scots” Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie; Director: Josie Rourke Rating: ** (2 stars) History is nobody’s personal property. Filmmakers are free to re-interpret and even vandalise historical…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Escape Room” Director: Adam Robitel Cast: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Tyler Labine, Deborah Ann Woll, Nik Dodani, Jay Ellis Rating: *** Adam Robitel’s “Escape Room” is a taut thriller that surely…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Escape Room”; Director: Adam Robitel; Rating:*(1 star) Why on earth would anyone invest 100 minutes in this foul malevolent piece of wannabe cinema with no redeeming quality except the end-credits?…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Mary Queen of Scots”; Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Guy Pearce, Jack Lowden, Ismael Cruz Cordova; Director: Josie Rourke; ; Rating: *** Written by Beau Willimon based on John Guy’s “Queen…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Thackeray” Director: Abhijit Panse Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Amrita Rao, Sudhir Mishra, Abdul Quadir Amin, Radha Sagar, Laxman Singh Rajput Rating: ***1/2 Director Abhijit Panse’s rendition of this biopic, crafted from…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: 4 More Shots Please (Amazon Series); Cast: Kirti Kulhari, Sayani Gupta, Maanvi Gagroo, Gurbani, Lisa Ray, Amrita Puri, Milind Soman, Neil Bhoopalan; Writer: Devaki Pandit; Director: Anu Menon; Rating: 3…
Akhil’s Mr.Majnu Twitter Review – Love & Emotions (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) Akhil’s 3rd film Mr.Majnu is getting a decent talk from US premiere shows. A majority of the tweeters think Akhil may get his first break with this…