By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Haraamkhor” Director: Shlok Sharma; Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Shweta Tripathi; Rating: *** 1/2 Director: Shlok Sharma Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Shweta Tripathi Rating: *** 1/2 She is 15, going on…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Khaidi No 150” Director: V.V. Vinayak Cast: Chiranjeevi, Kajal Aggarwal, Ali, Brahmanandam and Tarun Arora Rating: *** “Khaidi No 150” is the perfect red carpet welcome for Chiranjeevi, who has faced…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Bairavaa”; Director: Bharathan Cast: Vijay, Keerthy Suresh, Sathish and Jagapathi Babu Rating: ** It is appalling that Vijay chooses to do a film like “Bairavaa” when he is already on the…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Passengers’ Director: Morten Tyldum Starring: Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence Rating:**1/2 First things first. “Passengers”, a film about two very beautiful people thrown together in outer space, would have been a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Passengers” Director: Morten Tyldum Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia, Emma Clarke Rating: ***1/2 Set on a spaceship with 5,000 passengers and 258 crew members, travelling…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Allied’ Director: Robert Zemeckis Starring: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard Rating:** It’s hard to believe this story of a Canadian intelligence officer who falls in love with a German spy who…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Allied” Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Simon McBurney, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Betts, Matthew Goode, Camille Cottin, August Diehl and Thierry Fremont Rating: *** Have you ever…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “A Monster Calls” Director: Juan Antonio Bayona Cast: Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Liam Neeson, Geraldine Chaplin Rating: ***1/2 “A Monster Calls” is a suspense-packed, coming-of-age tale of…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Assasin’s Creed” Director: Justin Kurzel Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons Rating: *** An apple a day keeps the doctor away. One apple ‘sevs’ the day in this…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Assassin’s Creed” Director: Justin Kurzel Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling, Michael K. Williams, Ariane Labed, Callum Turner, Brendan Gleeson, Essie Davis, Denis Menochet Rating: ** With a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Incarnate” Director: Brad Peyton Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Carice van Houten, Cataline Sandino Moreno, David Mazouz, Keir O’Donnell, Matt Nable, John Pirruccello Rating: ** With minimalistic scares and a passive, complex plot,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Sing” Director: Director: Gaarth Jennings Voices of: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Jennifer Saunders, Jennifer Hudson, Peter Serafinowicz, Nick Kroll, Jay…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Barry” Director: Vikram Gandhi Cast: Devon Tarrell, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jason Mitchell, Ashley Judd Rating: ***1/2 Let’s puff up our chests with pride. This year, Ritesh Batra directed two films featuring…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Vangaveeti”; Director: Ram Gopal Varma Cast: Sandeep Kumar, Vamsi Nakkanti, Vamsi Chaganti and Naina Ganguly Rating: ***1/2 In “Vangaveeti”, based on the gang warfare of the 1980s in Vijayawada, Ram Gopal…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Dangal” Directed by Nitesh Tiwari Starring: Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra Rating: *****(5 stars) There are outstanding films. Then there is “Dangal”. A film so rich…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Dangal” Director: Nitesh Tiwari Cast: Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sana Malhotra, Zaira Wasim, Suhani Bhatnagar, Aparshakti Khurrana, Girish Kulkarni Rating: ***1/2 A fictionalised tale, based on the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Collateral Beauty” Director: David Frankel Cast: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Pena, Helen Mirren, Naomie Harris, Keira Knightley, Jacob Latimore, Ann Dowd, Mary Beth Peil, Kylie Rogers, Liza Colon-Zayas…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Collateral Beauty” Director: David Frankel Cast: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley and Michael Pena Rating: **** “Collateral Beauty” has been dealt with by critics the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Wajah Tum Ho” Director: Vishal Pandya Cast: Sharman Joshi, Rajneesh Duggal, Sana Khan, Gurmeet Choudhari, Himmanshoo A. Malhotra, Sherlyn Chopra, Zarine Khan Rating: ** With a warped story replete with major…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “La La Land” Director: Damien Chazelle Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemary DeWitt, Finn Wittrock, Callie Hernandez, Sonoya Mizuno, Jessica Rothe, Tom Everett, Joss Pence and J.K. Simmons Rating:…