By Troy Ribeiro Film: “X-Men: Dark Phoenix”; Director: Simon Kinberg; Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Summer Fontana, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters, Jessica Chastain Rating:…
Film: “Bharat”; Director: Ali Abbas Zafar; Cast: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Disha Patani, Sunil Grover, Tabu, Jackie Shroff, Aasif Sheikh, Sonali Kulkarni, Shashank Arora, Nora Fatehi; Rating: ** Adapted from 2014 released South Korean film,…
By Subhash K. Jha Movie: “The Perfection” (Netflix); Cast: Allison Williams, Logan Browning; Director: Richard Shepard; Rating: * (one star) This is a horror film that could have been so much more than what it…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Chasing Happiness”, a documentary on the Jonas Brothers on Amazon Prime Video; Director: John Llloyd Taylor; Rating: *** 1/2 Confession time. I had never heard of, nor heard the songs…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Nakkash”; Writer-Director: Zaigham Imam; Cast: Inaamulhaq, Sharib Hashmi and Kumud Mishra; Rating: *** Varanasi has hosted many recent films. “Nakkash” takes us into the uncomfortable and ruinous realm of the…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Shuruaat Ka Twist”, an omnibus of six short stories; Directors: Praveen Fernandez, Hanish Kalia, Heena d’Souza, Sanjiv Kishinchandani, Aavlokita and Gaurav Mehra; Rating: *** New talent is always welcome. The…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Chopsticks” on Netflix; Cast: Abhay Deol, Mithila Palkar and Vijay Raaz; Director: Sachin Yardi; Rating: *1/2 There is a vast difference between smart cinema and smartass cinema. The latter is…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Rocketman”; Director: Dexter Fletcher; Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Gemma Jones, Byrce Dallas Howard, Steven Mackintosh, Tate Donovan, Stephen Graham, Charlie Ross, Celinde Schoenmaker and Matthew Illesley, Kit Connor;…
By Subhash K. Jha Web Series: “Skyfire” on Zee5; Cast: Prateik Babbar, Sonali Chauhan, Jatin Goswami, Jisshu Sengupta and Shataf Figar; Director: Soumik Sen; Rating: **1/2 It starts with a roar, literally. Unseasonal floods envelope…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”; Director: Michael Dougherty; Cast: Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe, Ziyi Zhang, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, David Strathaim; Rating: ** The…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Nakkash”; Director: Zaigham Imam; Cast: Inaamulhaq, Sharib Hashmi, Kumud Mishra, Pawan Tiwari, Rajesh Sharma and Gulki Joshi; Rating: *** “Nakkash”, meaning engraver (one who designs on metal or wood), is a…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: PM Narendra Modi; Starring: Vivek Oberoi, Manoj Joshi and Suresh Oberoi; Director: Omung Kumar B; Rating: * 1/2 (one-and-a-half stars) This is not the Narendra Modi biopic that we’ve all…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “India’s Most Wanted”; Director: Raj Kumar Gupta; Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Rajesh Sharma, Gaurav Mishra, Prasanth and Aasif Khan; Rating: ** Inspired by true events, director Raj Kumar Gupta’s “India’s Most Wanted”…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Yeh Hai India”; Director: Lom Harsh; Cast: Gavie Chahal, Deana Uppal, Mohan Agashe, Mohan Joshi, Surendra Pal, Ashutosh Kaushik, Antara Banerjee, Bikramjeet Kanwarpal and Karmveer Choudhary; Rating: * A patriotic fever…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “PM Narendra Modi”; Director: Omung Kumar; Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Manoj Joshi, Zarina Wahab, Prashant Narayanan, Rajendra Gupta, Rajesh Sharma, Anjan Srivastav and Jatin Karyekar; Rating: ** Director Omung Kumar’s latest film…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Aladdin”; Director: Guy Ritchie; Cast: Will Smith, Naomi Scott and Mena Massoud; Rating: *1/2 Will Smith delivers his career’s worst performance as the blue genie in this poor, shoddy, ill-conceived…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Brightburn”; Director: David Yarovesky; Cast: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, Meredith Hagner, Becky Wahlstrom, Emmie Hunter, Gret Alan Williams and Annie Humphrey; Rating: ** The title “Brightburn”…
By Subhash K Jha Film: India’s Most Wanted; Starring: Arjun Kapoor, Rajesh Sharma; Writer and Director Rajkumar Gupta; Rating: ****(4 stars) In a milieu of bustling violence, terrorism has been reduced to a formula in…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Aladdin”; Director: Guy Ritchie; Cast: Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari, Navid Negahban, Nasim Pedrad, Billy Magnussen, Jordan Nash, Taliyah Blair, and Numan Acar; Rating: ***1/2 Aladdin and…
Anne Hathaway stars as Josephine Chesterfield and Rebel Wilson as Penny Rust in THE HUSTLE, a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film.Credit: Christian Black / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures© 2018 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved….