Film: “Ben-Hur” Director: Timur Bekmambetov Cast: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi, Morgan Freeman, Ayelet Zurer, Pilou Asbaek, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Moises Arias Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer : Troy Ribeiro Director Timur Bekmambetov’s “Ben-Hur” is…
Film: “UnIndian” Director: Anupam Sharma Cast: Brett Lee, Tannistha Chatterjee Rating: *1/2 Reviewer: Subhash K Jha “UnIndian” could well be titled “There’s a White Naked Man In Our Daughter’s Bedroom”, as one of the film’s…
Film: “UnIndian” Director: Anupam Sharma Cast: Brett Lee, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Maya Sathi, Supriya Pathak Kapur, Akash Khurana, Arka Das, Sarah Roberts, Nicholas Brown, Gulshan Grover Rating: **1/2 Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro The title, used as an…
Film: “Pete’s Dragon” Director: David Lowery Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Oona Laurence, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban Rating: **1/2 Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Despite being designed as a live action, fantasy adventure drama,…
Film: “Mohenjo Daro” Director: Ashutosh Gowariker Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Kabir Bedi and Pooja Hegde Rating: **** Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha It isn’t easy to make a film about a civilisation that existed thousands of years…
Film: “Mohenjo Daro” Director: Ashutosh Gowariker Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Pooja Hegde, Kabir Bedi, Arunoday Singh, Suhasini Mulay, Nitish Bharadwaj and Sharad Kelkar Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Mounted like an epic with elements of romance,…
Film: “Rustom” Director: Tinu Suresh Desai Cast: Akshay Kumar, Ileana D’Cruz and Esha Gupta and Arjan Bajwa Rating:*** Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha A picture-perfect Naval officer, highly decorated, principled, patriotic and deeply in love with…
Film: “Jason Bourne” Director: Paul Greengrass Cast: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Riz Ahmed, Tommy Lee Jones,Vincent Cassel and Juilia Stiles Rating:*** Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha Almost every principal actor in the fifth, furiously flamboyant phase…
Photo by Kike Sosa Film: “Suicide Squad” Director: David Ayer Cast: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Viola Davis, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Cara Delevingne, Ike Barinholt, Scott Eastwood, Adam Beach,…
Film: “Fever” Director: Rajeev Jhaveri Cast: Rajeev Khandelwal, Gauhar Khan, Ankita Makwana, Caterina Murino, Gemma Atkinson, Victor Banerjee Rating: * Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Touted as a suspense thriller and set in scenic Switzerland, “Fever” is…
Film: “The Legend of Michael Mishra” Director: Manish Jha; Cast: Arshad Warsi, Aditi Rao Hydari, Boman Irani, Kayoze Irani Rating: * Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro In one of the early scenes of the film we are…
Film: “Budhia Singh – Born To Run” Director: Soumendra Padhi Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Mayur Patole, Shruti Marathe, Tillotama Shome, Gopal K. Singh, Gajraj Rao Rating: **** Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Incredible India has incredible stories and…
Film: “Budhia Singh – Born To Run” Writer-Director: Soumendra Padhi Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Mayur Patole, and Tillotama Shome Rating: **** Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha Watching the extreme poverty of wonder-kid Budhia Singh’s life in this…
Film: “Chauthi Koot” Language: Punjabi Cast: Suvinder Vicky and Kanwaljit Singh Director: Gurvinder Singh Rating: ****1/2 Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha So unconcerned is the filmmaker with cinematic scrupulosity that he forgets to go by the…
Film: “Jason Bourne” Director: Paul Greengrass Cast: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed, Ato Essandoh, Scott Shepherd, Bill Camp, Vinzene Kiefer, Stephen Kunken Rating: *** Reviewer: Troy…
Film: Chauthi Koot Director: Gurvinder Singh Cast: Suvinder Vikky, Rajbir Kaur, Gurpreet Kaur Bhangu, Kanwaljit Singh, Rajbir Kaur, Harnek Aulakh Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Rating : ** Rolling on at a self-indulgent pace with a formalistic…
Film: ” Dishoom” Director: Rohit Dhawan Cast: John Abraham,Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Akshaye Khanna Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: Subhash K Jha “Dishoom” is one of the most fast-paced Bollywood bromances in recent times. Bromance, it sure is.And…
Film: The BFG Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jermaine Clement, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall, Bill Hader Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Based on the 1982 novel of the same name…
Film: “Dishoom”; Director: Rohit Dhawan Cast: John Abraham, Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nargis Fakhri, Akshaye Khanna, Rahul Dev and Saqib Saleem Rating: **1/2 Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Set somewhere in the Middle East, “Dishoom” is a…
Film: “The BFG” Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill Rating: **** Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha Viewing Spielbergâs latest fantasy-adventure story is akin to being transported into an embarrassment of visual and emotional riches….