By Vinayak Chakravorty Film: “The Zoya Factor”; Cast: Sonam K. Ahuja, Dulquer Salmaan; Director: Abhishek Sharma; Rating: ** and 1/2 (two and half stars) A rom-com centred on cricket would seem like a winning pitch….
By Subhash K. Jha “Tall Girl” (Netflix film); Cast: Ava Michelle, Luke Eisner; Direction: Nzingha Stewart; Rating: * and 1/2 (one and a half stars) Hold on! In a world plagued by problems such…
By Subhash K Jha Blinded By The Light (Netflix release) Cast: Viveik Kalra, Aaron Phagura, Nell Williams; Direction: Gurinder Chadha; Rating: *** and 1/2 (three and a half stars) What Danny Boyle couldn’t do…
Nani’s Gang Leader Review: Revengers Avenge (Rating: 3.25) (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) Film: Nani’s Gang Leader Language: Telugu Cast: Nani, Priyanka Arul Mohan, Lakshmi, Kartikeya Gummakonda, Saranya Ponvannan, Shriya Reddy, Praanya P Rao, Anish Kuruvilla, Vennela Kishore, Priyadarshi…
By Vinayak Chakravorty “Dream Girl”; Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Annu Kapoor, Nushrat Bharucha; Direction: Raaj Shaandilyaa; Rating: *** (three stars) The trick never fails. Put a Bollywood leading man in a woman’s garb, and watch the box-office…
Nani’s Gang Leader has finally hit the theaters. Let’s see what director Vikram K Kumar has packaged in this revenge drama. The movie cast includes Nani as Pencil Parthasarathy, Priyanka Arul Mohan as Priya, Lakshmi…
By Vinayak Chakravorty “Section 375” Cast: Akshaye Khanna, Richa Chadha, Meera Chopra, Rahul Bhat Direction: Ajay Bahl Rating: ***1/2 Rape as saleable masala was often a norm in mainstream Bollywood of yore, to rouse perverse…
By Troy Ribeiro “Ready Or Not”; Cast: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell; Direction: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett; Rating: *** and 1/2 (three and half stars) There is something appealing about…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Ready or Not”; Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett; Cast: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell, Melanie Scrofano, Kristian Bruun, Nicky Guadagni, Elyse Levesque, John Ralston; Rating: ***1/2…
By Subhash K. Jha “Late Night” (Amazon series); Cast: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling; Direction: Nisha Ganatra; Rating: *** and 1/2 (Three and a half stars) I can’t recall the last time when I had so…
By Troy Ribeiro “IT: Chapter Two”; Cast: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgard; Direction: Andy Muschietti; Rating: ** and 1/2 What happens when you have a wafer-thin story and want to stretch the…
By Vinayak Chakravorty Film: Chhichhore Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Shraddha Kapoor, Varun Sharma Direction: Nitesh Tiwari; Rating: *** & 1/2 (three and a half stars) “Chhichhore” is an obvious, all-round winner. It is a fun…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Saaho” (Telugu version review) Cast: Prabhas, Shraddha Kapoor, Jackie Shroff Direction: Sujeeth Rating: ** (two stars) I don’t know if I heard correctly – too much noise both on…
By Vinayak Chakravorty Film: “Saaho” Cast: Prabhas, Shraddha Kapoor; Direction: Sujeeth Rating: ** (2 stars) The big bang theory of Indian mainstream cinema is often best applied with a South Indian dash, “Saaho” tries reiterating…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “47 Meters Down: Uncaged”; Cast: Sophie Nelisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju, Sistine Stallone; Direction: Johannes Roberts; Rating: * & 1/2 “47 Meters Down: Uncaged” is supposed to be a sequel of…
Saaho Movie Twitter Review: A Colossal Failure (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) Saaho, Indian’s biggest action movie finally hits the theaters. The initial reviews from the USA premiers are not encouraging. The twitter audience in the USA opinion except…
By Troy Ribeiro “The Kitchen”; Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleason; Direction: Andrea Berloff; Rating: ** (two stars) Written and directed by Andrea Berloff and based on a DC Vertigo comic-book miniseries…
Angel Has Fallen Review: An action-packed pot-boiler (Rating: **1/2) (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Angel Has Fallen”; Director: Ric Roman Waugh; Cast: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lance Reddick, Tim Blake Nelson, Riper…
The Angry Birds Movie 2 Review: It is action-packed, entertaining (Rating: ***) (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Angry Birds Movie 2”; Director: Thurop Van Orman; Voice Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Jones, Peter Dinklage, Josh…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Crawl”; Director: Alexandre Aja; Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson; Rating: ***1/2 Crawl is one of the unexpectedly better films released this ‘Dump period’, (August to September), when commercial and…