By Troy Ribeiro 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 and…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Thank You For Your Service”; Director: Jason Hall; Cast: Miles Teller, Haley Bennett, Joe Cole, Amy Schumer, Beulah Koale, Scott Haze and Keisha Castle-Hughes; Rating: *** “Thank You For Your Service”…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Coco”; Directors: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina; Cast: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Noel Ubach, Renee Victor, Jaime Camil, Gabriel Iglesias, Ana Ofelia Murguia and Edward James Olmos; Rating:…
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking setting up of an expert committee of historians and social activists to examine Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Padmavati” to ensure there…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Julie 2’; Director: Deepak Shivdasani; Starring: Rai Laxmi, Ravi Kishan, Aditya Shrivastava, Pankaj Tripathy; Rating: *** (3 stars) Films about the movie industry tend to demonstrate the sleazy side of…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Ajji”; Director: Devashish Makhija; Cast: Sushma Deshpande, Sharvani Suryavanshi, Sadiya Siddiqui, Manuj Sharma, Sudhir Pandey, Kiran Khoje and Smita Tambe; Rating: **** It’s not so much the horror of a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Kadvi Hawa”; Director: Nila Madhab Panda; Cast: Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, Tillotama Shome, Bhupesh Singh, Ekta Sawant; Rating: ***1/2 Based on true stories, “Kadvi Hawa” is the bitter pill that reminds…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Kadvi Hawa’; Director: Nila Madhab Pandya; Starring: Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, Tillotama Shome; Rating: **** Look at what we’ve done to Mother Earth. She is no longer Mother, she is…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Justice League” Director: Zack Snyder Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, J.K. Simmons, Ciaran Hinds, Amber…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “An Insignificant Man”; Directors: Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla; Cast: Arvind Kejriwal, Yogendra Yadav, Santosh Koli, Sheila Dikshit; Rating: **1/2 “An Insignificant Man” is an intermittently inspiring documentary that chronicles the meteoric…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Panchlait”; Director: Prem Prakash Modi; Cast: Amitosh Nagpal, Anuradha Mukherjee, Yashpal Sharma, Rajesh Sharma, Ravi Jhankal, Brijendra Kala, Lalit Parimoo, Pranay Narayan, Arunima Ghosh; Rating: **1/2 This film is based on…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Tumhari Sulu”; Director: Suresh Triveni; Cast: Vidya Balan, Manav Kaul, Neha Dhupia, Malishka Mendonza; Rating: *** “Tumhari Sulu” is the story of Sulochana Dubey aka Sulu (Vidya Balan), a middle class…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana”; Director: Ratnaa Sinha; Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Kriti Kharbanda; Rating: *** Kanpur joins the growing league of north Indian towns that have lately been used to locate…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The House Next Door”; Director: Milind Rau; Cast: Siddharth, Andrea Jeremiah, Atul Kulkarni, Suresh, Anisha Angelina Victor and Prakash Belawadi; Rating: *** Based on a true story, director Milind Rau’s horror…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “The House Next Door”; Director: Milind Rau; Cast: Siddharth, Andrea Jeremiah, Atul Kulkarni, Suresh, Anisha Angelina Victor, Prakash Belawadi; Rating: *** Horror as a genre can be horrific in Indian…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Qarib Qarib Singlle”; Director: Tanuja Chandra; Cast: Irrfan Khan, Parvathy, Bajrangbali Singh, Neha Dhupia, Isha Sharvani, Pushtii Shakti, Brijendra Kala and Luke Kenny; Rating: **1/2 Director Tanuja Chandra’s “Qarib Qarib Singlle”…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana”; Director: Ratnaa Sinha; Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Kriti Kharbanda, Govind Namdeo, Navni Parihar, Manoj Pahwa and KK Raina, Rating: *** Set against the backdrop of Kanpur, “Shaadi Mein…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “My Little Pony”; Director: Jayson Thiessen; Cast: Emily Blunt, Chenoweth, Liev Schreiber, Sia, Michael Pena, Taye Diggs, Uzo Aduba and Zoe Saldana; Rating: **1/2 This 2D animated musical fantasy is based…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Qarib Qarib Singlle”; Cast: Irrfan Khan, Parvathy; Director: Tanuja Chandra; Rating: **** Look, there are lots of problems in “Qarib Qarib Singlle” — as there are in life. But that’s…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “A Bad Moms Christmas”; Directors: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore; Cast: Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Jay Hernandez, Cheryl Hines, Peter Gallagher, Justin Hartley, Christine Baranski and Susan Sarandon; Rating: **…