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Big Eyes, Review: Submissive painter and harmful charmer, making waifs
Big Eyes, Review: Submissive painter and harmful charmer, making waifsBig Eyes! Horror? No. Psychological thriller? No way. Comedy? In part, yes. A biopic about a hypnotist? Close, but it’s about a...
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Taken 3, Review: Haven 3--End of the road for fugitive Mills Kills
Taken 3, Review: Haven 3--End of the road for fugitive Mills KillsLiam Neeson returns as ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills in Taken 3, aka Tak3n (no spell-check required), the latest film in the...
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American Sniper, Review: Kyler instinct--all hits, no misses!
American Sniper, Review: Kyler instinct--all hits, no misses!Clint Eastwood told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz recently that he was not fond of the war in Iraq, but was "always sympathetic to...
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Paddington, Review: Please see this film. Thank you.
Paddington, Review: Please see this film. Thank you.In 1956, a BBC cameraman bought a small toy bear left alone on a shelf in the iconic Selfridges store, London, for his wife Brenda. Named Paddington,...
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The Theory of Everything, Review: A Practical Treat for Everyone
The Theory of Everything, Review: A Practical Treat for EveryoneAmong the most brilliant theoretical physicists of his era, and maybe since Einstein, Stephen Hawking turned 73 last week. From 1979 to...
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The Imitation Game, Review: Every spectator is a winner
The Imitation Game, Review: Every spectator is a winnerBefore the publication of Oxford mathematician Andrew Hodges’ ground-breaking 1983 biography, Alan Turing: The Enigma, the British mathematician...
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Dolly Ki Doli (Dolly’s bridal palanquin), Review: The Milky Way
Dolly Ki Doli (Dolly’s bridal palanquin), Review: The Milky WayDolly Ki Doli is about a cheat called Dolly, and her support gang of confidence tricksters. Their modus operandi is that Dolly’s so-called...
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Baby, Review: Premature
Baby, Review: PrematureA Wednesday director Neeraj Pandey’s film Baby was previewed for the press on Thursday. It is made under his Friday Films banner and reunites Akshay Kumar with Pandey, after...
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Mortdecai, Review: Mortal art
Mortdecai, Review: Mortal artDirected by David Koepp and written by Eric Aronson (who co-wrote 2001’s On the Line, which nobody wants to remember), the film is inspired by the books of Kyril...
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DILIP KUMAR: Me and the Padma Vibhushan winner
DILIP KUMAR: Me and the Padma Vibhushan winnerGetting the nation’s second highest civilian honour at 92 years and 45 days of age maybe a good example of beating the clock by the proverbial whisker, and...
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Seventh Son, Review: Father Gregory v/s Mother Malkin
Seventh Son, Review: Father Gregory v/s Mother MalkinReleased two years after the first announced date, the witch-ghost-ghast-ghoul-spook-troll-warlock film fails to scare or...
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Birdman/The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, Review: The Expected Vice of...
Birdman/The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, Review: The Expected Vice of KnowledgeBack in the 1980s and 1990s, actor Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) was known for his superhero role, Birdman, which...
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Foxcatcher, Review: Catch it now
Foxcatcher, Review: Catch it nowBased on true events, Foxcatcher tells the dark story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion...
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Jaideep Sahni’s Master Class at Film Writers’ Association, Mumbai: 15 years...
Jaideep Sahni’s Master Class at Film Writers’ Association, Mumbai: 15 years in 150 minutesBumping into Rajashree, urf (alias) Raju (that is how she likes to be known), a Film and Television Institute...
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Wild Card, Review: Raw Deal
Wild Card, Review: Raw DealBased on the novel Heat, by William Goldman (now 84, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, Marathon Man, Dreamcatcher), who also wrote the screenplay,...
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The Boy Next Door, Review: Lo ranking
The Boy Next Door, Review: Lo rankingShortly after her divorce from a philandering husband, a woman (school teacher) gets seduced by a mysterious younger man, ostensibly to look after his...
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Jupiter Ascending, Review: Earthling, give me the Earth!
Jupiter Ascending, Review: ..and the Earth goes to...Delayed for over seven months beyond its scheduled release, the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending released this week in India and many other...
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Roy, Review: ROYters’ block alias ‘balle t balle t’
Roy, Review: ROYters’ block, alias ‘balle t balle t’Papa Anupam Kher thinks it is something to do with a woman. Son Arjun Rampal calls it writers’ block. Both are right. Grewal Senior was referring to...
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Love, Rosie-Review: Love, for Rosie, is not rosy
Love, Rosie-Review: Love, for Rosie, is not rosyWhen a film is full of tender and emotional moments but peppers itself with half-a-dozen comic interludes, it ends up confusing your sentiments. You...
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