“Chippa” (film streaming on Netflix); Cast: Sunny Pawar, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Mala Mukherjee, Ronjini Chakraborty; Direction: Safdar Rahman; Rating: * * * (three stars) By Vinayak Chakravorty For those of you who remember little Sunny…
Film: Be Water Starring: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,Linda Lee Cadwell,Dan Inosanto Director: Bao Nguyen Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – After Bruce Lee’s awful demise from a brain’s illness at the young age of 32, in…
Film: Judy and Punch Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Benedict Hardie Director: Mirrah Foulkes Rating: *** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – The movie written and directed by newbie Mirrah Foulkes — is motivated by the…
Film: Shirley Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Logan Lerman Director: Josephine Decker Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Shirley rises above the conventional biopic structure — it contains enough fiction and hypothesis…
Film: Tommaso Starring: Willem Dafoe Director: Abel Ferrara Rating: *** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Willem Dafoe is at his best in Abel Ferrara’s regularly confounding investigation of a pained indie movie director attempting to…
“The Last Days Of American Crime” (Netflix film); Cast: Edgar Ramirez, Anna Brewster, Michael Pitt, Sharlto Copley; Direction: Olivier Megaton; Rating: * * (two stars) By Vinayak Chakravorty The idiom of French action filmmaker Olivier…
Film: 2040 Starring: Damon Gameau, Eva Lazzaro,Zoe Gameau Director: Damon Gameau Rating: **** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Damon Gameau is famous for That Sugar Film (2014) in which he recorded the awful impacts of…
Film: A Good Woman is Hard to Find Starring: Sarah Bolger,Edward Hogg,Andrew Simpson Director: Abner Pastoll Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Having established a strong first connection with his presentation feature film Road…
Film: How to Build a Girl Directed by: Coky Giedroyc Starring: Beanie Feldstein, Paddy Considine, Sarah Solemani, Alfie Allen, Frank Dillane, Laurie Kynaston, Arinzé Kene, Tadhg Murphy, Ziggy Heath, Bobby Schofield, Chris O’Dowd, Joanna Scanlan,…
Film: El Presidente Starring: Karla Souza, Andrés Parra, Paulina Gaitán Creator: Armando Bo Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: George Sylex What’s About? When Chilean soccer is caught in the standard administrative issues to close the era of…
Film: 13 Reasons Why Starring: Dylan Minnette, Katherine Langford, Alisha Boe, Brandon Flynn, Justin Prentice, Ross Butler, Christian Navarro, Devin Druid, Miles Heizer, Brenda Strong, Grace Saif, Kate Walsh, Derek Luke, Timothy Granaderos, Amy Hargreaves,…
“Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai” (Netflix film); Cast: Saiyami Kher, Roshan Mathew, Amruta Subhash, Upendra Limaye; Direction: Anurag Kashyap; Rating: * * * (three stars) By Vinayak Chakravorty Anurag Kashyap’s new directorial is quite unlike anything…
Film: The Last Days of American Crime Starring: Edgar Ramírez, Michael Pitt, Anna Brewster, Patrick Bergin, Sharlto Copley, Brandon Auret, Tamer Burjaq, Terence Maynard, James Richard Marshall Director: Olivier Megaton Rating: * Reviewer: George Sylex…
Film: Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai Starring: Saiyami Kher, Roshan Mathew, Amruta Subhash, Upendra Limaye, Tushar Dalvi, Rajshri Deshpande, Vaisnavi RP, Uday Nene, Parthveer Shukla, Sanjay Bhatia, Aditya Kumar, Milind Pathak Director: Anurag Kashyap Rating: **1/2…
Film: Body Cam Starring: Mary J. Blige, Nat Wolff, David Zayas Director: Malik Vitthal Rating: ** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Director Malik Vitthal’s(Imperial Dreams) most recent film Body Cam is a supernatural kind of…
“Chintu Ka Birthday” (film on Zee5); Cast: Vinay Pathak, Tillotama Shome, Vedant Raj Chibber, Bisha Chaturvedi, Seema Pahwa, Khalid Massou, Mehroos Ahmed Mir, Reginald L Barnes, Nathan Scholz; Direction: Devanshu Kumar and Satyanshu Singh; Rating:…
Film: End of Sentence Starring: John Hawkes, Logan Lerman, Sarah Bolger Director: Elfar Adalsteins Rating: ***1/2 Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Broken families rejoining for a burial service is a subject regularly investigated in movie…
Film: Papicha Starring: Marwan Zeghbib, Lyna Khoudri Director: Mounia Meddour Rating: *** Reviewer: George Sylex Review – Papicha catches what happens when fantasies and disobedience are insufficient to defeat the chances, leaving addresses unanswered, and…
Film: Raktanchal Starring: Nikitin Dheer,Kranti Prakash Jha,Soundarya Sharma Director: Ritam Srivastav Rating: ** Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – In Bollywood, ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ has left such an impression that after this no political gangster film…
Film: Castle in the Ground Starring: Alex Wolff, Neve Campbell, Imogen Poots Director: Joey Klein Rating: **1/2 Reviewer: George Sylex Overview – Castle in the Ground is a frightening plunge into the profundities of opioid…