By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Ocean’s 8”; Director: Gary Ross; Cast: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blachett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Sara Paulson, Awkwafina; Rating: *1/2 For weeks I had been watching the film’s fetching cast…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Hereditary”; Director: Ari Aster; Cast: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Amelia Shapiro; Rating: ** “Hereditary”, a horror film with pretensions of being erudite and profound, is more ill-formed than…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Ocean’s 8”; Director: Gary Ross; Cast: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Ann Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Awkwafina, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Armitage, James Corden; Rating: **1/2 “Ocean’s 8” the fourth…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Incredibles 2”; Director: Brad Bird; Voiceovers by Craig T. Nelson and Holly Hunter; Rating: ***1/2 If you are familiar with the “Ramayan”, you would know 14 years is a lot…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Incredibles 2”; Director: Brad Bird; Voice Cast: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Huckleberry Milner, Catherine Keener, Eli Fucile, Bob Odenkirk, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Bird, Sophie Bush, Brad Bird,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hereditary”; Director: Ari Aster; Cast: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd and Mallory Bechtel; Rating: ***1/2 Director Ari Aster’s immaculately crafted, black-hearted, horror-in-the-home fantasia “Hereditary” eerily keeps…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Lust Stories”, an anthology for Netflix; Directors: Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar; Cast: Radhika Apte, Akash Thosar, Bhumi Pednekar, Neil Bhoopalam, Manisha Koirala, Jaideep Ahlawat, Sanjay…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Race 3”; Starring Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Jacqueline Fernandez, Saqib Saleem, Daisy Shah; Director: Remo D’Souza; Rating: ** (two stars) By the time, Salman Khan ripped off his…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Race 3” Director: Remo D’Souza Cast: Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Bobby Deol, Jacqueline Fernandez, Saqib Saleem, Daisy Shah, Freddy Daruwalla Rating: **1/2 “Race 3”, as the name suggests, is the third…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “The Tale”; Director: Jennifer Fox; Cast: Laura Dern, Isabelle Nelisse, Ellen Burstyn and Jason Ritter; Rating: *** 1/2 I came away shaken but not stirred by this true-life account of…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Kaala”; Director: Pa.Ranjith; Cast: Rajinikanth, Huma Qureshi, Easwari Rao, Nana Patekar, Pankaj Tripathi and Anjali Patil; Rating: *** Pa. Ranjith’s “Kaala”, showcased in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, is a captivating socio-drama….
By Subhash K Jha Film: Kaala Kaarikalan (Tamil dubbed in Hindi) Director: by Pa Ranjith Cast: Rajinikanth, Nana Patekar, Huma Qureshi, Eswari Rao, Anjali Patil Rating: **(2 Stars) The splash of rhetorics and melodrama is…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”; Director: J.A. Bayona; Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Isabella Sermon, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell, Toby Jones, Ted Levine, B.D. Wong, Geraldine Chaplin,…
By Subhash K Jha “Carry On Jatta 2”, Starring: Gippy Garewal, Sonam Bajwa, Binnu Dhillon; Directed by Smeep Kang; Rating: * 1/2. Among the films released this week all over India in multiple languages it…
By Subhash K. Jha Film:”Officer”; Director: Ram Gopal Varma; Cast: Nagarjuna, Anwar Khan; Rating: **1/2 stars. It’s in the effortless casual arrogant way that Nagarjuna strides across the screen that we get to feel the…
Film: “Abhimanyudu” (Telugu); Director: P.S Mithran; Starring: Vishal Krishna, Arjun, Samantha Ruth Prabhu; Rating: *** 1/2 (3 and a half stars) Information theft is epidemic. Go anywhere. It follows you. It is happening in homes…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Veere Di Wedding”; Director: Shashanka Ghosh,; Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Shikha Talsania, Swara Bhaskar, Sumeet Vyas, Ekavali Khanna, Edward Sonnenblick, Vivek Mushran, Neena Gupta, Manoj Pahwa; Rating: **1/2 “Veere Di…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Bhavesh Joshi Superhero”; Director: Vikramaditya Motwane; Cast: Harshvardhan Kapoor, Priyanshu Painyuli and Ashish Verma; Rating: **** Harshvardhan Kapoor doesn’t play the title role in the film. Anyone could. This is…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Veere Di Wedding”; Director: Shashanka Ghosh; Cast: Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Swara Bhasker, Shikha Talsania, Sumeet Vyas; Rating: **** You only live once… Right? Best to make it…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Bhavesh Joshi Superhero”; Director: Vikramaditya Motwane; Cast: Harshvardhan Kapoor, Priyanshu Painyuli, Nishikant Kamat, Ashish Verma, Shibani Dandekar. Despite its flaws, deliberate or unintentional, “Bhavesh Joshi Superhero” is a bold exercise in…