By Anand Venkitachalam New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) British extreme metal band Anaal Nathrakh’s 10th studio album, “A New Kind Of Horror”, is unique and chaotic and manages to be extreme in every sense of…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Jack and Dil”; Director: Sachin P. Karande; Cast: Amit Sadh, Sonal Chauhan, Arbaaz Khan, Evelyn Sharma; Rating: ** (2 stars) For serious lovers of cinema in India, “romantic comedy”, have become…
By Subhash K. Jha Fil: “Halloween”; Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Nick Curtis; Director: David Gordon Green; Rating: * 1/2 (one and a half stars) Michael Myers, the masked marauder is back. 40 years is a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween”; Director: Ari Sandel; Cast: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Madison Iseman, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Jack Black, Caleel Harris, Chris Parnell, Ken Jeong; Rating: **1/2 This is a sequel to the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Gaon”; Director: Gautam Sigdar; Cast: Shadab Kamal, Neha Mahajan, Gopal Singh, Rohit Pathak, Dibyendu Bhattachraya, Omkar Das Manikpuri, Shishir Sharma, Praveena Deshpande, Ravikant Mishra; Rating: ** (2 stars) Director Gautam Sigdar’s…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Kaashi in Search of Ganga”; Director: Dhiraj Kumar; Cast: Sharman Joshi, Aishwarya Devan, Manoj Joshi, Akhilendra Mishra, Govind Namdev, Paritosh Tripathi, Kranti Prakash Jha, Manoj Pahwa; Rating: *** (3 stars) Director…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Bazaar”; Director: Gauravv K. Chawla; Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Rohan Mehra, Radhika Apte, Chitrangada Singh; Rating **1/2 Director Gauravv K. Chawla’s “Bazaar” is a film with the cut-throat stock market, as…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Baazaar” Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Rohan Mehra, Radhika Apte, Chitrangda Singh Director: Gauravv K. Chawla Rating: ****(4 Stars) I can’t recall a single notable (or even non-notable) Indian film based…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hunter Killer” Director: Donovan Marsh Cast: Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Michael Nyqvist, Common Rating: ** Adapted from the 2012 novel “Firing Point” by former submarine captain George Wallace and Don…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Halloween” Director: David Gordon Green Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Virginia Gardner, Nick Castle, Mile Robbins Rating: **1/2 Scary films have always been a part of…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Sandakozhi 2” Language: Tamil Director: N. Linguswamy Cast: Vishal Krishna, Keerthy Suresh, Rajkiran and Varlaxmi Sarathkumar Rating; ***1/2 In the rugged, rough and coarse terrain of Madurai, it seems women…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Badhaai Ho”; Starring: Gajaraj Rao, Neena Gupta, Ayushmaan Khurrana, Sanya Malhotra, Surekha Sikri; Director: Amit Ravindernath Sharma; Rating: **** 1/2 Stop right now and do yourself a favour. Go see…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Namaste England”; Director: Vipul Amrutlal Shah; Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra, Aditya Seal, Alankrita Sahay, Satish Kaushik; Rating: *1/2 Designed from a sloppily crafted script sans any logic delivering an equally…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Badhaai Ho”; Director: Amit Ravindernath Sharma; Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Sanya Malhotra, Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao, Sheeba Chaddha, Surekha Sikri, Rahul Tewari, Vimi Mehta; Rating: ***1/2 “Badhaai Ho” is an astutely handled,…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Vada Chennai” Language: Tamil Director: Vetrimaaran Cast: Dhanush, Samuthirakani, Kishore, Ameer, Andrea Jeremiah, Aishwarya Rajesh, and Daniel Balaji Rating: ***** In their third collaboration together, Dhanush and Vetrimaaran – a pair…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “First Man”; Starring: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy; Director: Damien Chazelle; Rating: 3 and a half stars Director Damien Chazelle and actor Ryan Gosling get together again, this time to visit…
By Subhash K. Jha Helicopter Eela: Starring Kajol, Riddhi Sen; Directed by Pradeep Sarkar: Rating: ** 1/2 (2 and a half stars) Seen worse, for sure, this story of an over-possessive mother and her stifled…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Jalebi”; Director: Pushpdeep Bhardwaj; Cast: Rhea Chakraborty, Varun Mitra, Digangana Suryavanshi, Aanya Dureja, Arjun Kanungo, Yusuf Hussain, Arya Poorti, Sonali Sudan, Farida Dadi and Mahesh Thakur; Rating: **1/2 “Unki mohabbat kamal…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “FryDay”, Director: Abhisek Dogra; Cast: Varun Sharma, Govinda, Digangana Suryavanshi, Atul Mathur, Bijendra Kala, Rajesh Sharma, Sanjay Mishra, Prabhleen Sandhu; Rating: **1/2 “FryDay” is as slam-bang and preposterous as any slap…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: Tumbbad; Starring: Sohum Shah, Mohd Samad, Director: Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi; Rating: **** 1/2 (4 and a half stars) What on earth is this? This… this…magnificent creature masquerading as…