By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Peter Rabbit”; Director: Will Gluck; Cast: James Corden, Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Sam Neill, Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Debicki, Margot Robbie, Colin Moody; Rating: ***1/2 Director Will Gluck’s film “Peter Rabbit” is…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “A Quiet Place”; Director: John Krasinski; Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe; Rating: **1/2 Imagine living in a ghost town, where the slightest sound of a footfall or…
By Subhash K Jha ‘Blackmail’; Starring: Irrfan, Kirti Kulhari, Arunodoy Singh, Divya Dutta, Praduman Singh, Anuja Sathe, Omi Vaidya; Directed by Abhinay Deo; Rating: ****(4 Stars) If I didn’t know about Irrfan’s health issue I’d…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Ladies First”, Director: Uraaz Bahl; Rating: **1/2 There is so much that one expects from the sharp-shooting archer Deepika Kumari’s story as told in the terse and brief documentary “Ladies…
By Subhash K Jha ‘Haq Se’; Starring: Rajeev Khandelwal, Surveen Chawla, Parul Gulati, Parvail Gulati; Directed by Ken Ghosh; Rating: ***(3 stars) It requires an abundance of guts and a residue of audacity to yank…
By Ananya Das Book: Pull of Pulses Full of Beans; Author: Salma Husain and Vijay Thukral; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages: 204 pages; Price: Rs 750 “Looks are deceptive”, as the saying goes, and author Salma…
By Subhash K Jha Baaghi 2: Starring Tiger Shroff, Disha Patani, Manoj Bajpai, Randeep Hooda, Deepak Dobriyal; Directed by Ahmed Khan. Rating: * (one and a half stars). All this while we rued what Jacqueline…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Rangasthalam” Director: Sukumar Cast: Ram Charan Teja, Samantha Akkineni, Jagapati Babu Rating: *** There is something enormously endearing about a superstar trying to shed his image to get into the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Baaghi 2”; Director: Ahmed Khan; Cast: Tiger Shroff, Disha Patani, Manoj Bajpayee, Randeep Hooda, Prateik Babbar, Deepak Dobriyal; Rating: **1/2 Though proclaimed as a sequel, “Baaghi 2” is an independent film…
Film: Rangasthalam Language: Telugu Cast: Ram Charan, Samantha Akkineni, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Aadhi Pinisetty, Prakash Raj, Jagapati Babu, Amit Sharma, Naresh, Rohini, Bramhaji, Gauthami, Rajesh Diwakar, Pooja Hegde Director: Sukumar Rating: 3.0 Reviewed By: SOCIALNEWS.XYZ Story: Chitti Babu…
By Subhash K Jha Starring: Pavail Gulati,Shreya Choudhary; Rating: * Apart from a very engaging actor Pavail Gulati, Imtiaz Ali’s new short-film “The Other Way” has only one takeway at the end: the realization that…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Ready Player One”; Director: Steven Spielberg; Cast: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Lena Waithe, Win Morisaki, Philip Zhao, Susan Lynch, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson,…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Disappearance of Emile Zola – Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case; Author: Michael Rosen; Publisher: Faber & Faber; Pages: 320; Price: Rs 599 It is an over-century-old scandal that may…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Wild Wild Country” Director: Chapman Way and MacLain Way; Rating: ** It is easy to get carried away by the sheer sweep of arguments against Osho aka Acharya Rajneesh, and…
By Subhash K Jha Film: Hichki; Directed by Sidharth P Malhotra; Cast: Rani Mukerjee, Neeraj Kabi; Rating: **** There is a disarming idealism at the heart of this inspirational tale told without frills of fancy….
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Strangers: Prey At Night”; Director: Johannes Roberts; Cast: Bailee Madison, Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Lewis Pullman, Emma Bellomy; Rating: ** Director Johannes Roberts’ ‘The Strangers: Prey At Night’ is a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Baa Baaa Black Sheep”; Director: Vishwas Paandya; Cast: Anupam Kher, Kay Kay Menon, Annu Kapoor, Maniesh Paul and Manjari Fadnis; Rating: *1/2 The opening frame of the film states, “Dedicated to…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hichki”; Director: Sidharth P. Malhotra; Cast: Rani Mukerji, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Neeraj Kabi, Shivkumar Subramaniam, Asif Basra, Ivan Rodrigues, Harsh Mayar and Kunal Shinde; Rating: ***1/2 Adapted from a 2008…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Pacific Rim Uprising”; Director: Steven S. DeKnight; Cast: John Boyega, Jing Tian, Scott Eastwood, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Adria Arjona, Cailee Spaeny, Burn Gorman, Levi Meaden and Zhang Jin; Rating: **…
By Vikas Datta Title: Best Before – The Evolution and Future of Processed Food; Author: Nicola Temple; Publisher: Bloomsbury Sigma; Pages: 272 Price: Rs 499 The term “processed food” rings alarm bells for many people,…