By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Red Sparrow”; Director: Francis Lawrence; Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, Mary-Louise Parker, Charlotte Rampling, Ciaran Hinds; Rating: ***1/2 Based on the similarly titled novel penned by former…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hamne Gandhi Ko Maar Diya”; Director: Naeem A. Siddique; Cast: Jatin Goswami, Pratima Kanan, Sameeksha Bhatnagar, Subrat Dutta, Shabih Jafri, Utkarshika Yadav, Azad Mishra, Manoj Verma, Amlesh Jaiswal and Rakesh Dubey;…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Valley”; Director: Saila Kariat; Cast: Alyy Khan, Suchitra Pillai, Samina Peerzada, Agneeta Thacker, Salma Khan, Hope Lauren, Emielyn Das, Jake T. Austin, Barry Corbin and Christa B. Allen; Rating: **1/2…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Lady Bird”; Director: Greta Gerwig; Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf; Rating: *** 1/2 There is a lot of what one would call window-dressing in a very positive way. But at…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Lady Bird”; Director: Greta Gerwig; Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothee Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein; Rating: ***1/2 This intriguingly titled film, with its coming-of-age tale, is the solo,…
By Vikas Datta Title: Stark Raving Ad: A Giddy Guide to Indian Ads You Love (Or Hate); Author: Ritu Singh; Publisher: Hachette India; Pages: 272; Price: Rs 350 The devil who stressed envy was okay…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Welcome To New York”; Director: Chakri Toleti; Cast: Diljit Dosanjh, Karan Johar, Boman Irani, Lara Dutta, Ritesh Deshmukh; Rating: ** First things first. This is not a proper feature film…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety”; Director: Luv Ranjan; Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Bharucha, Sunny Singh Nijjar, Alok Nath, Deepika Amin, Ayesha Raza Mishra, Virendra Saxena, Pawan Chopra, Rajesh Jais, Sonu Kaur;…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Welcome To New York”; Director: Chakri Toleti; Cast: Diljit Dosanjh, Sonakshi Sinha, Karan Johar, Sushant Singh Rajput, Rana Daggubati, Aditya Roy Kapur, Lara Dutta, Riteish Deshmukh, Boman Irani; Rating: *1/2 Director…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety”; Director: Luv Ranjan; Cast: Kartik Aryan, Nushrat Bharucha, Sunny Singh; Rating: **** 1/2 There is something to be said in favour of the spoken word…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Love Per Square Foot”; Director: Anand Tiwari; Cast: Vicky Kaushal, Angira Dhar, Alankrita Sahai, Raghubir Yadav, Supriya Pathak, Ratna Pathak Shah, Kunaal Roy Kapur; Rating: *** 1/2 Not too many…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”; Director: Martin McDonagh; Cast: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Zeljko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, John Hawkes, Peter…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Aiyaari”; Director: Neeraj Pandey; Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Sidharth Malhotra, Rakul Preet Singh, Pooja Chopra, Adil Hussain, Kumud Mishra, Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher; Rating: ***1/2 Director Neeraj Pandey’s “Aiyaari”, which means…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Shape of Water”; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer, Nick Searcy, David Hewlett, Lauren Lee Smith, Martin Roach, Allegra…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz”; Director: Onir; Cast: Geetanjali Thapa, Zain Khan Durrani, Shray Rai Tiwari, Mona Ambegaonkar, Chandreyee Ghosh, Saheb Bhattacharjee and Shefali Chauhan; Rating: *** In today’s world of instant romance…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hostiles”; Director: Scott Cooper; Cast: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Jesse Plemons, Adam Beach, Rory Cochrane, Peter Mullan, Scott Wilson, Paul Anderson, Timothee Chalamet, Ben Foster, Jonathan Majors, John Benjamin…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Aiyaary”; Starring: Manoj Bajpai, Siddharth Malhotra, Naseeruddin Shah, Rakul Preet Singh; Director: Neeraj Pandey; Rating: **** (4 stars) At first, “Aiyaary” seems less seamless than it actually is. Where is…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Black Panther”; Director: Ryan Coogler; Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyongo, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, Angela…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “The Shape Of Water”; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Cast: Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Michael Shannon and Octavia Spencer; Rating: *** 1/2 It’s a beautifully conceived tale of a love so…
By Subhash K. Jha Film:Hostiles, Director:Scott Cooper, Cast:Christian Bale, Rosemund Pike Rating: ***1/2 Outwardly, like most films of the ‘Western’ genre, “Hostiles” is a celebration of savagery. It opens with a disturbingly graphic sequence of…