By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Circle”; Director: James Ponsoldt; Cast: Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, Glenne Headly and Bill Paxton; Rating: ** In today’s tech-age, where social media…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Half Girlfriend”; Director: Mohit Suri; Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor; Rating: *** 1/2 (3 and a half stars) You can accuse Chetan Bhagat’s novels of being lots of things from…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Half Girlfriend”; Director: Mohit Suri; Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Seema Biswas, Rhea Chakraborty, Anisa Butt and Vikrant Massey; Rating: ** Adapted from Chetan Bhagat’s novel by the same name, director…
 Subhash K Jha Film: “Hindi Medium” Director: Saket Chowdhary Starring: Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar, Deepak Dobriyal Rating: **** 1/2 Irrfan Khan was last seen taking on corrupt forces in “Madaari”. He is back, this time…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Sense of an Ending”; Director: Ritesh Batra; Cast: Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Emily Mortimer, Billy Howle, Freya Mavor, Charlotte Rampling, Joe Alwyn and James Wilby; Rating: **1/2 This…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hindi Medium”; Director: Saket Chaudhary; Cast: Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar, Jaspal Sharma, Deepak Dobriyal, Swati Das, Dishita Sehgal, Amrita Singh, Tillotama Shome, Sanjay Suri and Neha Dhupia; Rating: ***1/2 Education is…
By Anuj Sharma New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) After the tepid response to last year’s modular G5 device, South Korean giant LG has now unveiled a premium-segment G6 smartphone that is water-resistant and comes with…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Meri Pyaari Bindu”; Directed by Akshay Roy; Starring: Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra; Rating: **(2 stars) Sometimes a debutant director shows a spark that never quite lights up the screen. God…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Alien: Covenant”; Director: Ridley Scott; Cast: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterson, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demian Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Amy Seimetz, Benjamin Rigby , James Franco; Rating: **…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”; Director: Guy Ritchie; Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Djimon Hounsou, Aidan Gillen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jude Law, Eric Bana, Annabelle Wallis, Peter Ferdinando, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Geoff…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Meri Pyaari Bindu”; Director: Akshay Roy; Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra, Aparajita Adhya and Abish Mathew; Rating: *** “Meri Pyaari Bindu” from the Yash Raj Films (YRF) stable is a sincere…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Sarkar 3”; Director: Ram Gopal Varma; Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Manoj Bajpayee, Amit Sadh, Supriya Pathak Kapur, Ronit Roy, Rohini Hattangadi and Yami Gautam Rating: ***1/2 In “Sarkar 3”, the…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Sarkar 3” Director: Ram Gopal Varma Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Amit Sadh, Manoj Bajpai, Ronit Roy, Yami Gautam Rating: **** It is easy to see the third installment of Ram Gopal…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Loev”; Writer-Director: Sudhanshu Saria; Cast: Shiv Pandit, Dhruv Ganesh and Siddharth Menon; Rating: **** Quite often in this luscious and luminous love story, as I journeyed with Jai and Sahil…
By Anuj Sharma New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Vivo is one Chinese brand that has created a niche in the Indian smartphone market for its top-of-the-line camera and music experience. With the smartphone penetration maturing…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Mantostaan”; Director: Rahat Kazmi; Cast: Raghubir Yadav, Veerendra Saxena, Shoaib Nikash Shah and Sonali Sehgal; Rating: **** The stories of Saadat Hassan Manto are not pretty evening-time entertainment to be…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Guardian of the Galaxy Vol.2” Director: James Gunn Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, Sean Gunn,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Mantostaan”; Director: Rahat Kazmi; Cast: Sonal Sehgal, Shoib Nikash Shah, Raghubir Yadav, Virendra Saxena, Raina Basnet, Sakshi Bhat, Tariq Khan, Rahat Kazmi, Raina Bassnet; Rating: **1/2 Director Rahat Kazmi’s Mantostaan flogs…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion”; Director: S.S. Rajamouli; Cast: Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Ramya Krishnan, Tamannaah Bhatia and Nassar; Rating: ***1/2 If there’s one department in which the second instalment in…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion”; Director: S. S. Rajamouli; Cast: Prabhas Raju, Rana Daggubati, Ramya Krishnan, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah Bhatia, Nasser, Charandeep, Satya Raj, Prabhakar, Rakesh Varre, Rohini, Tanikella Bharani, Teja Kakumanu;…