By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Ferdinand”; Director: Carlos Saldanha; Cast: John Cena, Kate McKinnon, David Tennant, Gina Rodriguez, Daveed Diggs, Peyton Manning, Bobby Cannavale, Anthony Anderson and Raul Esparza; Rating: ***1/2 Director Carlos Saldanha’s latest animated…
By Aroonim Bhuyan Title: The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace; Authors: Kishore Mahbubani and Jeffery Sng; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 264; Price: Rs 750 As India prepares to host the leaders of the…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Daddy’s Home 2”; Director: Sean Anders; Cast: Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg; Rating:*** It is important to understand that political correctness is not always the right…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House”; Director: Peter Landesman; Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Marton Csokas, Ike Barinholtz, Tony Goldwyn, Bruce Greenwood, Michael C. Hall, Brian d’Arcy…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Fukrey Returns”; Director: Mrighdeep Singh Lamba; Cast: Pulkit Samrat, Varun Sharma, Ali Fazal, Manjot Singh, Richa Chadha and Priya Anand; Rating: **1/2 Sequels are expected to be bigger, better and ideally…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Borg vs McEnroe”; Director: Janus Metz; Cast: Sverrir Gudanson, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgard, Tuva Novotny and Robert Emms; Rating: **1/2 The best of intentions and impeccable casting do not compensate…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Anna Karenina”; Director: Karen Shakhnazarov; Cast: Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Maksim Matveyev, Kirill Grebenshchikov, Vitaliy Kishchenko; Rating: **1/2 “In love there are several truths.” This declaration at the beginning of the narrative affirms…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Daddy’s Home 2”; Director: Sean Anders; Cast: Will Ferrell, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, Linda Cardellini, Scarlett Estevez, Owen Vaccaro, Didi Costine, Allessandra Ambrosio and John Cena; Rating: *1/2 A loosely structured…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Fukrey Returns”; Director: Mrighdeep Singh Lamba; Cast: Richa Chadha, Pulkit Samrat, Ali Fazal, Manjot Singh and Varun Sharma; Rating: ***1/2 (three and a half stars) There is a kind of…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Borg McEnroe”; Director: Janus Metz; Cast: Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgard, Tuva Novotny and Ian Blackman; Rating: *** A sports drama, director Janus Metz’s film “Borg McEnroe” is the story…
By Vikas Datta Title: Kartikeya: The Destroyer’s Son; Author: Anuja Chandramouli; Publisher: Rupa Publications India; Pages: 240; Price: Rs 295 The Hindu pantheon has a number of eminent, eclectic, and enigmatic deities. But few can…
By Vikas Datta Title: Lies of the Land – A Brief History of Political Dishonesty; Author: Adam Macqueen; Publisher: Atlantic Books: Pages: 352; Price: Rs 599 Oxymorons, or pairs of contradictory concepts — say, accurate…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Tera Intezaar”; Director: Rajeev Walia; Cast: Sunny Leone, Arbaaz Khan, Aarya Babbar, Salil Ankola and Sudha Chandran; Rating: 0 stars If God, CBFC and the Karni Sena (not necessarily in…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Tera Intezaar”; Director: Raajeev Walia; Cast: Arbaaz Khan, Sunny Leone, Salil Ankola, Arya Babbar, Hanif Noyda, Sudha Chandran; Rating: * Narrated in a non-linear and in the most convoluted manner, “Tera…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Firangi”; Director: Rajiev Dhingra; Cast: Kapil Sharma, Ishita Dutta, Monica Gill, Edward Sonnenblick, Inaamulhaq, Kumud Mishra, Neeta Mohindra, Aanjjan Srivastav, Rajesh Sharma, Jameel Khan; Rating: **1/2 “Firangi” is not an out-and-out…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Firangi”; Director: Rajiev Dhingra; Starring: Kapil Sharma, Monica Gill,Ishita Dutta, Anjan Shrivastava, Edward Sonenblick; Rating: ****(4 stars) In his second – and far superior to the first – outing as…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Wonder”; Director: Stephen Chbosky; Cast: Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Izabela Vidovic, Mandy Patinkin, Daveed Diggs, Sonia Braga, Danielle Rose Russell, Nadji Jeter, Noah Jupe, Bryce Gheisar, Millie Davis, Elle…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘S Durga’; Director: Sanal Sasidharan; Starring: Rajshree Despande, Kannan Nayar; Rating: *** 1/2 The first 15 minutes of this jolting experiment with truth and nails seems completely unrelated to the…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Murder on the Orient Express”; Director: Kenneth Branagh; Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Boynton, Manuel Garcia Rulfo, Sergei Polunin…
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