Film: “The Angry Birds Movie”(Animation film) Director: Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly Rating: *1/2 Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha If you are an addict of the franchise game, “The Angry Birds Movie” could be your cuppa…
Film: “Waiting” Language: Hindi Director: Anu Menon Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Kalki Koechlin, Rajat Kapoor, Arjun Mathur, Rajeev Ravindranathan, Suhasini Maniratanam and Ratnabali Bhattacharjee Rating: **1/2 Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Wrapped in a medical drama, and speaking…
Film: “Kaptaan”(Punjabi) Director: Mandeep Singh Cast: Gippy Grewal, Monica Gill, Karishma Kotak Rating: ** Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha In “Kaptaan”, Gippy Grewal plays a languishing, rudderless lawyer, who is in the profession for a lark….
Film: “Sarbjit” Director: Omung Kumar Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Randeep Hooda, Richa Chadha Rating: **** Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha Seeing some of the scathing reviews for “Sarbjit”, I was tempted to fish out the early…
Film: “X Men: Apocalypse” Director: Bryan Singer Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Evan Peters, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alexandra Shipp, Luca Till, Josh…
Film: “Sarbjit” Language: Hindi Director: Omung Kumar Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Randeep Hooda, Richa Chadda, Darshan Kumaar, Ankita Shirvastav Rating: *** 1/2 (3 and a half stars) Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro “Sarbjit” is a biopic of…
Film: “U Turn” Language: Kannada Director: Pawan Kumar Cast: Shraddha Srinath, Roger Narayan, Radhika Chetan, Krishna, Aarna, Pavan, Naveen and Sudha Belwadi Rating: ** Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Three years after his much-acclaimed micro-budget sci-fi romance,…
Film: “Criminal” (in Hindi) Director: Ariel Vromen Cast: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones and Gal Gadot Rating: *** Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha Having read the vicious reviews, “Criminal”, which I braved in Hindi,…
Film: “Buddha in a Traffic Jam” Language: Hindi Director: Vivek Agnihotri Cast: Arunoday Singh, Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi, Mahie Gill and Aanchal Dwivedi Rating: ** Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Using the Chinese philosophy of Tao and…
Film: “Criminal” Director: Ariel Vromen Cast: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Alice Eve, Gal Gadot, Michael Pitt, Jordi Molla, Antje Traue, Scott Adkins, Amaury Nolasco, Danny Webb, Colin Salmon, Lara DeCaro…
Film: “Pencil” Language: Tamil Director: Mani Nagaraj Cast: G. V Prakash Kumar, Sri Divya, Shariq Haasan, VTV Ganesh, Urvashi and T.P. Gajendran Rating: ** Reviewer: Haricharan Pudipeddi Early on, we are told that debutant Mani…
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Language: English Cast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine, Andrea Martin, Gia Carides, Joey Fantone, Elena Kampouris, Alex Wolff, Louis Mandylor, Bess Meisler Director: Kirk Jones; Rating:…
Film: “Azhar” Language: Hindi Director: Tony D’souza Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai, Nargis Fakhri, Kunal Roy Kapur, Lara Dutta, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Gautam Gulati Rating: ** Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro A film by the name of “Azhar”,…
Film: “Dear Dad” Language: Hindi Director: Tanuj Bhramar Cast: Arvind Swamy, Himanshu Sharma, Ekavali Khanna, Aman Uppal, Bhavika Bhasin Arvind Swamy, Himanshu Sharma, Aman Uppal Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha It takes a whole…
Film: “Dear Dad” Language: Hindi Director: Tanuj Bhramar Cast: Arvind Swamy, Himanshu Sharma, Ekavali Khanna, Aman Uppal, Bhavika Bhasin Rating: ** Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro After all the brouhaha last week about Mother’s Day celebrations, Tanuj…
Film: “Money Monster” Language: English Director: Jodie Foster Cast: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell, Caitriona Balfe, Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Meade Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Directed by Jodie Foster, “Money Monster” is a hostage…
Film: “Pele: Birth of a Legend” Cast: Keven de Paula, Vincent D’Onofrio, Seu Jorge, Leonardo Lima Carvalho, Rodrigo Santino, Colm Meany, Mariana Nunes, Diego Boneta, Felipe Simas and Fernando Caruso Directors: Jeff Zimbalist and Michael…
Film: “Zorawar” (Punjabi) Director: Vinnil Markan Cast: Yo Yo Honey Singh, Gurbani Judge, Parul Gulati, Achint Kaur, Mukul Dev, Pavan Malhotra Rating: * Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha Sometimes larger-than-life can be smaller than credibility. Casting…
Film: “24” Language: Hindi Director: Vikram Kumar Cast: Suriya, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nithya Menen Rating: ** Reviewer: Subhash K. Jha Be warned. This overblown overbaked sci fi-meets-mythology-meets-Ekta Kapoor saga of time travel is strictly for…
Movie: One Night Stand Language: Hindi Film: Cast: Sunny Leone, Tanuj Virwani, Nyra Banerjee, Khalid Siddiqui, Narendra Jetley, Ninad Kamat; Director: Jasmine Moses D’Souza Rating: ** Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro With sketchy, stereotypical characters, “One Night Stand” is…