Film: Oru Pakka Kathai Starring: Megha Akash, Dr. Chef Damodaran, Kalidas Jayaram Director: Balaji Tharaneetharan Rating: *** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Oru Pakka Kathai comes from filmmaker Balaji Tharaneetharan of Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom…
Film: Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors Starring: Pankaj Tripathi, Kirti Kulhari, Anupriya Goenka, Mita Vashisht, Pankaj Saraswat Director: Rohan Sippy, Arjun Mukerjee Rating: *** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – After the fruitful achievement of Criminal…
Film: Bridgerton Starring: Adjoa Andoh, Julie Andrews, Lorraine Ashbourne, Jonathan Bailey, Ruby Barker, Sabrina Bartlett, Harriet Cains, Bessie Carter, Nicola Coughlan, Phoebe Dynevor, Ruth Gemmell, Florence Hunt, Claudia Jessie, Ben Miller, Luke Newton, Regé-Jean Page,…
The Midnight Sky; Cast: George Clooney, Ethan Peck, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demian Bichir, Kyle Chandler, Caoilinn Springall; Direction: George Clooney; Direction: * * and 1/2 (two and a half stars) BY VINAYAK…
Film: Shakeela Starring: Pankaj Tripathi, Richa Chadha, Kajol Chugh Director: Indrajit Lankesh Rating: * Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – In 2011 Milan Luthria and Balaji Motion Pictures recounted the narrative of a Southern Sensation Silk…
Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors (on Disney+ Hotstar VIP); Cast: Kirti Kulhari, Pankaj Tripathi, Anupriya Goenka, Jisshu Sengupta, Deepti Naval, Mita Vashisht, Shilpa Shukla, Ashish Vidyarthi; Direction: Rohan Sippy and Arjun Mukerjee; Rating: * *…
Film: Wonder Woman 1984 Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig Director: Patty Jenkins Rating: **1/2 Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – The primary Wonder Woman film felt like a disclosure. Also, it was the one…
Film: Coolie No. 1 Starring: Varun Dhawan, Sara Ali Khan, Paresh Rawal Director: David Dhawan Rating: *1/2 Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Coolie No. 1 is David Dhawan’s redo of his 1995 film of a…
AK Vs AK (on Netflix); Cast: Anil Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap, Sonam Kapoor, Harshvardhan Kapoor; Direction: Vikramaditya Motwane; Rating: * * * and 1/2 (three and a half stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY Half the trick lies…
Coolie No. 1 (on Amazon Prime Video); Varun Dhawan, Sara Ali Khan, Paresh Rawal, Javed Jaffrey, Rajpal Yadav, Johnny Lever, Sahil Vaid, Shikha Talsania, Vikas Verma, Manoj Joshi, Anil Dhawan, Bharati Achrekar; Direction: David Dhawan;…
Film: AK v/s AK Starring: Anil Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap Director: Vikramaditya Motwane Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – The trailers to this film persuaded it would be kind of a dark comedy with some…
Film: Soul Starring: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton Director: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers Rating: **** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Perhaps the greatest misfortune of the relative multitude of cinematic setbacks of 2020 is…
Sylvie’s Love (on Amazon Prime Video); Cast: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Aja Naomi King, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Eva Longoria, Jemima Kirk; Direction: Eugene Ashe; Rating: * * * and 1/2 (three and a half stars)…
Sandwiched Forever (series on SonyLIV); Cast: Kunaal Roy Kapoor, Aahana Kumra, Atul Kulkarni, Zakir Hussain, Divya Seth Shah, Lubna Salim; Direction: Rohan Sippy; Rating: * * * (three stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY Quite simply, this…
Film: Sylvie’s Love Starring: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria Directors: Eugene Ashe Rating: *** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Filmmaker Eugene Ashe’s wiped out sweet period romance stars Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha as…
Film: The Midnight Sky Starring: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Caoilinn Springall, Sophie Rundle, Ethan Peck Director: George Clooney Rating: **1/2 Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Directed by…
Film: The Croods: A New Age Starring: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds Director: Joel Crawford Rating: *** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – The Croods: A New Age follows the deep rooted spin-off plan that…
Film: Climate of the Hunter Starring: Ginger Gilmartin, Mary Buss, Ben Hall Director: Mickey Reece Rating: *** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Directed by Reece and screenplay written with John Selvidge, Climate of the Hunter…
Film: Alice in Borderland Starring: Kento Yamazaki, Tao Tsuchiya, Nijiro Murakami, Yuki Morinaga, Keita Machida, Ayaka Miyoshi, Dori Sakurada, Aya Asahina, Shuntaro Yanagi, Yutaro Watanabe, Ayame Misaki, Mizuki Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Abe, Nobuaki Kaneko, Sho Aoyagi,…
Unpaused (On Amazon Prime); Cast: Gulshan Devaiah, Sayyami Kher, Sumeet Vyas, Richa Chadha, Lillete Dubey, Rinku Rajguru, Abhishek Banerjee, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Ratna Pathak Shah, Shardul Bharadwaj; Direction: Raj and DK, Nikkhil Advani, Tannishtha Chatterjee,…