By: Shane J Alliew, Running at 100 minutes, director Joe Wright’s film is the story about an agoraphobic woman Dr. Anna Fox (Amy Adams) living alone in New York who begins spying on her new neighbors, only to witness a murder. An estranged child psychologist, Anna is fighting her ownContinue Reading
By: Shane Joseph Alliew Running at 135 minutes, Haseen Dillruba, directed by Vinil Mathew (known for Hasee Toh Phasee), is based on Roald Dahl’s short story Lamb to the Slaughter. The plot is a series of flashbacks and present-day police enquiry scenarios where Rani Kashyap (Tapsee Pannu) is being investigatedContinue Reading
Urban life has always been fantasized in cinema. Even Bollywood loves to show the glamour and convenience that comes with life in the city. It’s no wonder that cities see increasing immigration of people from rural areas every year. But these movies fail to show the downsides that come withContinue Reading
In Mahesh Narayanan’s new film ‘C U Soon’, a man named Jimmy (Roshan Mathews) meets and falls in love with Anu (Darshana Rajendran) mainly through video conference calls and text messages. Their dating exercise turns into a serious relationship before Jimmy and his techie cousin Kevin (Fahad Faasil) discover mysteriousContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, March 2, 2020: A newly released Malayalam feature film with English subtitles takes on mega star evangelists. National Award-winning director Anwar Rasheed has returned to movie making after seven years with a story about the business of religion. The film challenges the corporate and transnational lobbiesContinue Reading
By: Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service A new film on the life of St. Faustina Kowalska, the Polish nun whose visions of Jesus led to the Divine Mercy devotion, had a one-night-only showing Oct. 28 on more than 700 screens across the United States. The 90-minute movie, “Love and Mercy:Continue Reading
By Priyanka Roy Any comment, leave alone a review, on Saand Ki Aankh would be incomplete without an acknowledgement of how the reel meshes with the real. This film about two sexagenarians bulls-eyeing their way through patriarchy and gender discrimination, suppression and sexism in the oppressed heartland of India isContinue Reading
By Shane J. Alliew Running at 132 minutes and made at a budget of 200 million rupees, Raaj Shaandilyaa’s directorial debut, Dream Girl has raked in ten times its budget and is currently running to near-packed houses across the country. What made this comedy of errors click, causing the producersContinue Reading
By Shane Alliew Running at 130 minutes, Article 15, is another hard-hitting film from director Anubhav Sinha (Mulk, 2018), this time challenging the ethos of casteism which is embedded in the fabric of the Indian society, running far deep and wide than what one can ever imagine. Ayan Ranjan (AyushmannContinue Reading
By Shane Alliew Running at 129 minutes, Joh Watts (Spiderman: Homecoming, 2017) directed Spiderman: Far From Home is the sequel to the aforesaid film. It should not be viewed as one which has been released after Avengers: Endgame, even though the opening credits pay rich tributes to Tony Stark (loveContinue Reading