By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Dog’s Way Home”; Director: Charles Martin Smith; Cast: Ashley Judd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jonah Hauer-King, Edward James Olmos, Alexandra Shipp; Rating: *** Based on the bestselling novel of the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Setters”; Director: Ashwini Chaudhary; Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Aftab Shivdasani, Sonnalli Seygall, Vijay Raaz, Pavan Malhotra, Ishita Dutta, Jameel Khan; Rating: ** Welcome to modern India, the land of progress and corruption….
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “After”; Director: Jenny Cage; Cast: Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin; Rating: * This has got to be the sloppiest sop-fest in the recent history of romantic cinema. Awkward and uneven, clumsily…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Ugly Dolls”; Director: Kelly Asbury; Voice Cast: Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas, Janelle Monae, Blake Shelton, Pitbull, Gabriel Iglesias, Wanda Sykes, Leehom Wang, Charli XCX, Bebe Rexha, Lizzo, Emma Roberts; Rating: **…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “After”; Director: Jenny Gage; Cast: Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Inanna Sarkis, Samuel Larsen, Dylan Arnold, Swen Temmel, Meadow Williams, Selma Blair, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals; Rating: ** Director Jenny Gage’s “After”…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Setters”; Director: Ashwini Chaudhary; Starring: Aftab Shivdasani, Shreyas Talpade, Pavan Malhotra, Vijay Raaz; Rating: *** (3 and a half stars) Welcome to the murky world of academic fixers. If you…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Blank”; Director: Behzad Khambata; Cast: Sunny Deol, Karan Kapadia, Karanvir Sharma, Ishita Dutta; Rating: **1/2 Designed as a mystery thriller, “Blank” is the drama of a suicide bomber who is on…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Blank”: Director: Behzad Khambata; Cast: Sunny Deol, Karan Kapadia, Ishita Dutt, Karanvir Sharma and Jameel Khan; Rating: **** In a film where the devil lies (and never tells the truth)…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: Avengers Endgame; Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johannsen, Jeremy Rainer, Don Cheadle, Josh Brolin; Director: Anthony & Joe Russo; Rating: ***(3 stars) Entering the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Avengers: Endgame”; Directors: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo; Cast: Robert Downey Jr. Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jon Favreau, Benedict Wong, Tessa Thompson, Josh…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Tarpan”; Director: Neelam R. Singh; Cast: Nand Kishore Pant, Sanjay Kumar, Arun Shekhar, Rahul Chauhan, Poonam Alok Ingle, Nilam Kumari, Vandana Asthana, Padamja Rai, Lalit Jogi, Abhishek Madarecha; Rating: **1/2 Debutante…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Music Teacher” (Netflix); Cast: Manav Kaul, Divya Dutta, Amrita Bagchi, Neena Gupta; Director: Sarthak Dasgupta; Rating: **(2 stars) Not all that looks somber, subdued and layered at the top is…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Jersey”; Language: Telugu Director: Gowtam Tinnanuri Cast: Nani and Shraddha Srinath Rating: *** “Jersey” opens with a bearded 40-ish Nani running after a girl at a bookshop with a copy…
Jersey Twitter Review: An emotional journey of an underdog (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) Nani’s latest movie Jersey has created a good buzz even before the release with good songs and an emotional trailer. Now the D-Day has arrived…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: Kalank; Director: Abhishek Varman; Starring: Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Sonakshi Sinha; Rating: ****(4 stars) After I finished watching this long winding but ultimately…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Curse of the Weeping Woman”; Director: Michael Chaves; Cast: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol Ramirez, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen and Roman Christou; Rating: ** A fascinating concept,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Kalank”; Director: Abhishek Varman; Cast: Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditya Roy Kapur, Kunal Kemmu, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit, Kiara Advani, Hiten Tejwani, Kriti Sanon; Rating: **1/2 Set in the…
By Subhash K. Jha Show: “Laakhon Mein Ek Season 2” on Amazon Prime; Director: Abhishek Sengupta; Cast: Shweta Tripathi; Rating: ***1/2 The web series is the millennial equivalent of the street play. We get to…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hellboy”; Director: Neil Marshall; Cast: David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane and Daniel Dae Kim; Rating: ** Hell hath no fury when a woman is scorned, and to curb…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Five Feet Apart”; Cast: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse; Director: Justin Baldoni; Rating: * 1/2 (one and a half stars) Milking illness for tears is an epidemic obsession in…