By Troy Ribeiro “The Kitchen”; Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleason; Direction: Andrea Berloff; Rating: ** (two stars) Written and directed by Andrea Berloff and based on a DC Vertigo comic-book miniseries…
Angel Has Fallen Review: An action-packed pot-boiler (Rating: **1/2) (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Angel Has Fallen”; Director: Ric Roman Waugh; Cast: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lance Reddick, Tim Blake Nelson, Riper…
The Angry Birds Movie 2 Review: It is action-packed, entertaining (Rating: ***) (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Angry Birds Movie 2”; Director: Thurop Van Orman; Voice Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Jones, Peter Dinklage, Josh…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Crawl”; Director: Alexandre Aja; Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson; Rating: ***1/2 Crawl is one of the unexpectedly better films released this ‘Dump period’, (August to September), when commercial and…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Yomeddine”; Director: A. B. Shawky; Cast: Rady Gamal, Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Shoq Emara, Hany El-Tabei, Yasser El-Ayouti, Galal El Ashry, Mohamed Abdelazim; Rating: *** Debutante director, A. B. Shawky’s Yomeddine is a…
By Vinayak Chakravorty “Batla House”; Cast: John Abraham, Mrunal Thakur, Ravi Kishen; Direction: Nikkhil Advani; Rating: ** & 1/2 (two and a half stars) In various interviews, the “Batla House” team has declared that their…
By Subhash K. Jha “Evaru” (Telugu) Starring Adivi Sesh, Regina Cassandra, Naveen Andrews Direction: Venkat Ramji Rating: **** (4 stars) No matter how cynical you are about suspense thrillers, the end-twist in “Evaru” (which very…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”; Director: Quentin Tarantino; Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Julia Butters, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Mike…
By Vinayak Chakravorty Film: “Mission Mangal” Cast: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Nithya Menen, Sharman Joshi; H.G. Dattatreya Direction: Jagan Shakti Rating: **& 1/2 (two and a half stars) Going…
Film: “Pranaam”; Cast: Rajeev Khandelwal, Sameksha Singh, Vikram Gokhle, Atul Kulkarni, Anirudh Dave, Abhimanyu Singh; Director: Sanjiv Jaiswal The Eighties films in Bollywood were all about revenge and drama when the hero-turned-villain was always successful…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Barot House” (streaming on Zee5); Starring Amit Sadh, Manjari Phadnis Directed by Bugs Bhargava; Rating: ** and 1/2 (two and a half stars) As a parable on violence and crime,…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Manmadhudu 2” (Telugu) Cast: Nagarjuna, Rakul Preet Singh, Lakshmi; Direction: Rahul Ravindran Rating: **** (four stars) At 60, Nagarjuna preserves a boyish charm that renders itself with great effectiveness…
By Vinayak Chakravorty Film: “Pranaam”; Cast: Rajeev Khandelwal, Sameksha Singh, Abhimanyu Singh; Direction: Sanjiv Jaiswal; Rating: ** (two stars) A peon’s son dreams of being an IAS officer, somewhere in heartland India. Twists in fate…
By Vinayak Chakravorty Film: “Jabariya Jodi”; Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra; Aparshakti Khurana; Direction: Prashant Singh; Rating: ** (two stars) Sidharth Malhotra as a smalltown goon cuts a funny picture. Inadvertently so, because although this…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”; Director: Andre Avredal; Cast: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Austin Zajur, Natalie Ganzhom, Austin Abrams, Kathleen Pollard; Rating…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Dora and the Lost City of Gold”; Director: James Bobin; Cast: Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Pena, Eva Longoria, Adriana Barraza, Temuera Morrison, Jeff Wahlberg, Nicholas Coombe, Madeleine Madden, Danny Trejo;…
By Vinayak Chakravorty Film: “Khandaani Shafakhana”; Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Varun Sharma, Priyanshu Jora; Direction: Shilpi Dasgupta; Rating: ** (two stars) Sex is not a dirty word. “Khandaani Shafakhana” opens with that intrepid assertion. A little…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw”; Director: David Leitch; Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Cliff Curtis, Helen Mirren, Elza Gonzalez, Eddie Marsan, Eliana Sua; Rating: **1/2 This…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Ash Is Purest White”; Director: Jia Zhang-Ke; Cast: Tao Zhao, Liao Fan, Xu Zheng, Casper Liang, Feng Xiaogang, Diao Yinan, Zhang Yibai, Ding Jiali, Zhang Yi, Dong Zijian; Rating: ***1/2 Ash…
Here we go USA Premiere show response for #DearComrade Movie. Cast : VijayDeverakonda, Rashmika Mandanna Directed by : Bharat Kamma Music : Justin Prabhakaran Cinematography : Sujith Production : Mythri Movie Makers & BigBen Cinemas…
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