By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Jersey”; Language: Telugu Director: Gowtam Tinnanuri Cast: Nani and Shraddha Srinath Rating: *** “Jersey” opens with a bearded 40-ish Nani running after a girl at a bookshop with a copy…
Jersey Twitter Review: An emotional journey of an underdog (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) Nani’s latest movie Jersey has created a good buzz even before the release with good songs and an emotional trailer. Now the D-Day has arrived…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: Kalank; Director: Abhishek Varman; Starring: Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Sonakshi Sinha; Rating: ****(4 stars) After I finished watching this long winding but ultimately…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Curse of the Weeping Woman”; Director: Michael Chaves; Cast: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol Ramirez, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen and Roman Christou; Rating: ** A fascinating concept,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Kalank”; Director: Abhishek Varman; Cast: Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditya Roy Kapur, Kunal Kemmu, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit, Kiara Advani, Hiten Tejwani, Kriti Sanon; Rating: **1/2 Set in the…
By Subhash K. Jha Show: “Laakhon Mein Ek Season 2” on Amazon Prime; Director: Abhishek Sengupta; Cast: Shweta Tripathi; Rating: ***1/2 The web series is the millennial equivalent of the street play. We get to…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hellboy”; Director: Neil Marshall; Cast: David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane and Daniel Dae Kim; Rating: ** Hell hath no fury when a woman is scorned, and to curb…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Five Feet Apart”; Cast: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse; Director: Justin Baldoni; Rating: * 1/2 (one and a half stars) Milking illness for tears is an epidemic obsession in…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Vinci Da” (Bengali); Cast: Rudranil Ghosh, Ritwick Chakraborty, Anirban Bhattacharya, Sohini Sarkar; Director: Srijit Mukherjee; Rating: **** 1/2 (four and a half stars) Two thoughts struck me simultaneously as I…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: The Tashkent Files; Starring: Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Tripathy, Shweta Prasad, Pallavi Joshi, Mandira Bedi, Rajesh Verma, Prashant Gupta; Director: Vivek Agnihotri; Rating: * 1/2 (one and a half…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?”; Cast: Manav Kaul, Nandita Das and Saurabh Shukla; Writer-Director: Soumitra Ranade; Rating: *** Apart from the seething fury directed at a social structure…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?”; Director: Soumitra Ranade; Cast: Nandita Das, Saurabh Shukla, Manav Kaul, Kishore Kadam, Atul Kale; Rating: *** In 1980, Saeed Akhtar Mirza had directed a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Tashkent Files”; Director: Vivek Agnihotri; Cast: Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Shweta Basu Prasad, Mandira Bedi, Pallavi Joshi, Rajesh Sharma, Vinay Pathak, Pankaj Tripathi, Vishwa Mohan Badola, Prakash Belawadi, Achint Kaur, Prashant…
Chitralahari Twitter Review: Finally a Loser becomes a Winner (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) Sai Dharma Tej’s latest attempt to make a come back is getting decent reviews from the Twitter audience. It’s an emotional journey of a loser…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Free Solo”; Directors: E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin; Cast: Alex Honnold, Jimmy Chin, Dierdre Wolownick and Sanni McCandles: **** The first shot of this documentary is disorienting as well as…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Pet Sematary”; Directors: Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer; Cast: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, Jete Laurence, Hugo Lavoie, Lucas Lavoie and John Lithgow; Rating: **1/2 “Pet Sematary”, a horror fantasy, is a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Five Feet Apart”; Director: Justin Baldoni; Cast: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Moises Arias, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Parminder Nagra; Rating: **1/2 A silver lining to a dark cloud makes a good…
By Subhash K. Jha Web Series: “Criminal Justice” on Hotstar; Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia and Vishal Furia; Cast: Vikrant Massey, Pankaj Tripathi, Mita Vashisht, Jackie Shroff and Pankaj Saraswat; Rating: ***1/2 Only 15 minutes into this…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Majili” (Tamil); Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Samantha Akkineni, Divyansha Kaushik; Director: Shiva Nirvana; Rating: *** 1/2 (3 and a half stars) There is a sense of tragic continuity, a resigned acceptance…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Shazam!”; Director: David F Sandberg; Cast: Zachary Levi, Mark Strong; Rating: ***(3 stars) There is something to be said about bringing back the ‘F’ word into cinema. Fun, fun and…