By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hotel Artemis”; Director: Drew Pearce; Cast: Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto, Charlie Day, Dave Bautista; Rating: ** Debutant Director Drew…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Soorma”; Director: Shaad Ali; Cast: Diljit Dosanjh, Taapsee Pannu, Angad Bedi, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Vijay Raaz, Mahabir Bhullar, Satish Kaushik; Rating: ***1/2 Shaad Ali’s “Soorma” is a remarkable story of hope and…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Soorma”; Director: Shaad Ali; Starring Diljit Dosanjh, Tapsee Pannu, Angad Bedi, Satish Kaushik, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Vijay Raaz Rating: ****1/2 (4 and a half stars) At a time when supposedly responsible…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Ant Man and the Wasp”; Director: Peyton Reed; Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Pena, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Geer, T.I. David Dastmalchian, Hannah John-Kamen, Abby Ryder Fortson, Randall…
Mumbai, July 10 (IANS) Energetic, entertaining and replete with uncompromising performances. If international reviews of “Sacred Games” are anything to go by, the Mumbai-set drama on India’s dark underworld has given Netflix a “strong start”…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Isle Of Dogs”; Animation; Director: Wes Anderson; Rating: *** stars Even if you are not a dog lover, Wes Anderson’s latest work, a marvel of animation formation suffused in the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Tag”; Director: Jeff Tomsic; Cast: Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Hannibal Buress, Jake Johnson, Isla Fisher, Annabelle Wallis, Leslie Bibb, Rashida Jones, Nora Dunn, Lil Rey Howery, Thomas Middleditch; Rating:…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “For Here or To Go”; Director: Rucha Humnabadkar; Cast: Ali Fazal, Melanie Chandra, Omi Vaidya, Amitosh Nagpal, Rajit Kapur; Rating: **1/2 “For Here or To Go” is director Rucha Humnabadkar’s debut…
Los Angeles, July 6 (IANS) Streaming platform Netflix will from August discontinue a feature that allows users to read and write reviews of various movies and TV shows. The shutdown of the desktop-only feature is…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Isle of Dogs”; Director: Wes Anderson; Voice Cast: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Akira Takayama, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Akira Ito, Scarlett…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hanuman v/s Mahiravan”; Director: Ezhil Vendan; Voice Cast: Rajesh Jolly, Viral Shah, Ganesh Divekar, Sweta Pradhan, Mayur Vyas, Parminder Ghumman, Shailendra Pandey, Nandkishore Pandey; Rating: **1/2 There have been numerous stories…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Sicario: Day of the Soldado”; Director: Stefano Sollima; Cast: Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Elijah Rodriguez and David Castaneda; Rating: **…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Sicario: Day Of The Soldado”; Director: Stefano Sollima; Cast: Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Moner; Rating: **1/2 In that dark No Man’s Land between the US and Mexico, the…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “For Here Or To Go?”; Starring: Ali Fazal, Amitosh Nagpal, Omi Vaidya, Melanie Kannokada, Rajit Kapoor; Director: Rucha Humnabadkar ; Rating: **(2 stars) Do you remember that time when your…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Disobedience”; Director: Sebastian Lelio; Cast: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams and Alessandro Nivola; Rating: ***1/2 In an interview, the gorgeously lucid Rachel Weisz says she read up a lot of lesbian…
Los Angeles, July 2 (IANS) In the wake of recent sexual and workplace harassment allegations brought against Chiles biggest box office hitmaker Nicolas Lopez, Netflix has placed its relationship with the filmmaker “under review”. “Netflix…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Sanju”; Director: Raj Kumar Hirani; Starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Vicky Kaushal, Manisha Koirala, Paresh Rawal, Dia Mirza; Rating: *** (3 stars) So, it was all the media’s fault….
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Sanju” Director: Raj Kumar Hirani Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal, Dia Mirza, Manisha Koirala, Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor, Boman Irani, Anjan Shrivastav Rating: **** Actor Sanjay Dutt’s life may…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Escape Plan 2: Hades” Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, Huang Xioming; Director: Steven C. Miller; Rating: 1/2 star Mumbai, June 29 (IANS) Ranbir Kapoor can exhale. Sylvester Stallone is no…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “120 Beats Per Minute”; Language: French; Cast: Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adele Haenel; Director: Robin Campillo; Rating: *****(5 stars) Very rarely do the characters from a film jump out…