By Subhash K. Jha Web series: “Kaafir” (ZEE5, 8 episodes); Cast: Dia Mirza, Mohit Raina; Director: Sonam Nair, Rating: *** (3 stars) Kashmir and its blood-soaked political history renders itself well to cinematic treatment. It…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Leila” on Netflix; Cast: Huma Qureshi, Siddharth, Rahul Khanna, Seema Biswas and Arif Zakaria; Directors: Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman and Pawan Kumar; Rating: **** In the beginning there is the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Men In Black: International”; Director: F. Gary Gray; Cast: Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth, Liam Neeson, Laurent Bourgeois and Larry Bourgeois; Rating: *** Director F. Gary Gray’s “Men in Black: International”, the…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: Game Over; Starring: Tapsee Pannu, Director: Ashwin Saravanan; Rating: ****(4 stars) There is blood on the hands of all of us, who quietly watch women and children being brutally violated…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Game Over”; Director: Ashvin Saravanan; Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Vinodhini, Ramya Subramanian, Sanchana Natarajan and Anish Kuruvilla; Rating: ** With all the trappings of its genre tropes, the film “Game Over”…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Secret Life of Pets 2”; Director: Chris Renaud; Voices: Patton Oswalt, Kevin Hart, Eric Stonestreet, Jenny Slate, Tiffany Haddish, Lake Bell, Nick Kroll, Dana Carvey, Ellie Kemper, Chris Renaud, Hannibal…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “I Am Mother” on Netflix; Director: Grant Sputore; Cast: Clara Rugaard and Hilary Swank; Rating: **(2 stars) There are only two human characters in this dystopian, futuristic film that presumes…
By Subhash K. Jha Show: “Mind The Malhotras” on Amazon Prime Video; Director: Sahil Sangha and Ajay Bhuyan; Cast: Cyrus Sahukar, Mini Mathur; Rating: ** In spite of undeniable crackling chemistry between the two very…
By Subhash K. Jha Show: “Hostages” on Hotstar; Director: Sudhir Mishra; Cast: Ronit Roy, Tisca Chopra, Parvin Dabas, Dalip Tahil; Rating: ** Sitting through the 10 artificially frenetic episodes of this thriller is a slog….
By Subhash K. Jha Show: “Chernobyl”, a five-part HBO mini series; Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Emily Watson and Paul Ritter; Director: Johan Renck; Rating; *** 1/2 (3 and a half stars) It’s easy to see where…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “A Monsoon Date”, a short film on Eros Now; Director: Tanuja Chandra; Rating: *** (3 stars) There is a date and then are are the dates. As the unnamed girl…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: Bharat; Starring: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sunil Grover, Disha Patani, Jackie shroff; Director: Ali Abbas Zafar; Rating: ****(4 stars) It’s easy to be dismissive of a film that has no…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “X-Men: Dark Phoenix”; Director: Simon Kinberg; Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Summer Fontana, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters, Jessica Chastain Rating:…
Film: “Bharat”; Director: Ali Abbas Zafar; Cast: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Disha Patani, Sunil Grover, Tabu, Jackie Shroff, Aasif Sheikh, Sonali Kulkarni, Shashank Arora, Nora Fatehi; Rating: ** Adapted from 2014 released South Korean film,…
By Subhash K. Jha Movie: “The Perfection” (Netflix); Cast: Allison Williams, Logan Browning; Director: Richard Shepard; Rating: * (one star) This is a horror film that could have been so much more than what it…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Chasing Happiness”, a documentary on the Jonas Brothers on Amazon Prime Video; Director: John Llloyd Taylor; Rating: *** 1/2 Confession time. I had never heard of, nor heard the songs…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Nakkash”; Writer-Director: Zaigham Imam; Cast: Inaamulhaq, Sharib Hashmi and Kumud Mishra; Rating: *** Varanasi has hosted many recent films. “Nakkash” takes us into the uncomfortable and ruinous realm of the…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Shuruaat Ka Twist”, an omnibus of six short stories; Directors: Praveen Fernandez, Hanish Kalia, Heena d’Souza, Sanjiv Kishinchandani, Aavlokita and Gaurav Mehra; Rating: *** New talent is always welcome. The…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Chopsticks” on Netflix; Cast: Abhay Deol, Mithila Palkar and Vijay Raaz; Director: Sachin Yardi; Rating: *1/2 There is a vast difference between smart cinema and smartass cinema. The latter is…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Rocketman”; Director: Dexter Fletcher; Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Gemma Jones, Byrce Dallas Howard, Steven Mackintosh, Tate Donovan, Stephen Graham, Charlie Ross, Celinde Schoenmaker and Matthew Illesley, Kit Connor;…
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