By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha”; Director: Suneel Darshan; Cast: Shiv Darshan, Natasha Fernandez, Upen Patel, Rumi Khan, Soni Kaur, Lalitmohan Tiwari; Rating: *1/2 Designed as a mystery thriller with doses…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Transformers: The Last Knight”; Director: Michael Bay; Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Stanley Tucci, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock, Jerrod Carmichael, Isabela Moner, Santiago Cabrera, Glenn Morshower, John Turturro and Tony Hale;…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Baby Driver” Director: Edgar Wright; Cast: Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Eiza Gonzalez, Flea, Sky Ferreira and Lanny Joon; Rating: *** Director: Edgar…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Okja”; Director: Bong Joon Ho; Cast: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Seo-hyeon Ahn, Steven Yeun and Lily Collins; Rating: **** If “Okja” (currently streaming on Netflix) were an Indian film, in all…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Big Sick”; Director: Michael Showalter; Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Anupam Kher, Zenobia Shroff, Adeel Akhtar, Bo Burham, Aidy Bryant, Shenaz Treasurywala and Kurt Braunohler; Rating:…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Duvvada Jagannadham”; Director: Harish Shankar; Cast: Allu Arjun, Pooja Hegde, Rao Ramesh, Subbaraj, Tanikella Bharani, Posani Krishna Murali and Vennela Kishore; Rating: ** Allu Arjun is the Salman Khan of…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Duvvada Jagannadham” Language: Telugu Director: Harish Shankar Cast: Allu Arjun, Pooja Hegde, Rao Ramesh, Subbaraj, Tanikella Bharani, Posani Krishna Murali and Vennela Kishore Rating: *** When you decide to watch Telugu…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Greeks Had a Word For It – Words You Never Knew You Can’t Do Without; Author: Andrew Taylor; Publisher: Corgi Books/Penguin Random House; Pages: 202; Price: Rs 399 Marmalade, bikini,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Tubelight” Director: Kabir Khan Cast: Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Zhu Zhu, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Yashpal Sharma, Matin Rey Tangu and Isha Talwar Rating: *** Salman Khan had once said, “Cinema should…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Cars 3”; Director: Brian Fee; Cast: Owen Wilson, Cristela Alonzo, Armie Hammer, Bonnie Hunt Chris Cooper, Nathan Fillion, Tony Shalhoub, Lea DeLaria, Paul Dooley, Kerry Washington, Guido Quaroni, Larry, Cheech Marin,…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Super Singh”; Language: Punjabi; Director: Anurag Singh; Cast: Diljit Dosanjh, Sonam Bajwa and Pavan Malhotra; Rating:** The good news about Diljit Dosanjh’s super hero act is that it was released…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Maragatha Naanayam”; Director: TVK Saravanan; Cast: Aadhi, Nikki Galrani, Ramadass, Anandraj, Daniel Pope, Arunraja Kamaraj and Sangili Murugan; Rating: ***1/2 “Maragatha Naanayam”, a whacked-out horror-comedy, entertains more than expected and that,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Despicable Me 3”; Directors: Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda, Eric Guillon; Cast: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker, Miranda Cosgrove, Steve Coogan, Jenny Slate, Dana Gaier, Nev Scharrel, Julie Andrews, Pierre Coffin;…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Bank Chor”; Director: Bumpy; Cast: Vivek AnandA Oberoi, Riteish Deshmukh, Rhea Chakraborty,Vikram Thapa, Sahil Vaid, Bhuvan Arora; Rating: 0 stars God promise, I tried hard to laugh at this silly…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Bank Chor”; Director: Bumpy; Cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Rhea Chakraborty, Sahil Vaid, Bhuvan Arora and Vikram Thapa; Rating: **1/2 Imagine you are at a grand banquet and throughout you have…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Phullu”; Director: Abhishek Saxena; Cast: Sharib Ali Hashmi, Jyotii Sethi, Nutan Surya, Inaamulhaq; Rating: ***1/2 I remember the first time a woman actually mentioned she was having her “chums”. She…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “All Eyez on Me”; Director: Benny Boom; Cast: Demetrius Shipp Jr., Kat Graham, Lauren Cohan, Hill Harper, Jamal Woolard, Danai Gurira; Rating: ** Directed by Benny Boom, “All Eyez on Me,”…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Phullu”; Director: Abhishek Saxena; Cast: Sharib Ali Hashmi, Jyotii Sethi, Nutan Surya, Inaamulhaq; Rating: ** Good intentions, bad execution is the way one can sum up “Phullu”, a film with a…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “G Kutta Se”; Writer-Director: Rahul Dahiya; Cast: Rajveer Singh, Neha Chauhan, Nitin Pandit, Rashmi Singh Somvanshi; Rating: ****1/2 There are some films that seduce us with starkness. “G Kutta Se”…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “The Wishing Tree”; Writer-Director: Manika Sharma; Cast: Shabana Azmi, Harshpreet Kaur, Mark Shaw, Shivani Joshi and Abhas Yadav; Rating: ** At times, cinema is more commendable for its intention rather…