Movie Review

Headlined by Sanjay Kapoor, House of Lies is plagued by a clichéd setting, shoddy plot and seemingly disinterested cast

Johnson Thomas The 2008 film ‘The Strangers’ was indeed a nerve-wracking experience. Sixteen years later, we get a rather watered-down reboot that fails to make the accumulated experience memorable. ‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ is neither stylish, nor energetic. This prequel...

Parbina Rashid It can happen only in Bollywood! To retell the mythological story of our own Savitri and Satyavan, it has to borrow the plot of a French film, ‘Pour Elle’ (2008)! But to give credit to director Abhinay Deo,...

Sheetal There’s always a chance for the viewers to lose interest in a franchise series with each passing season. Thankfully, that’s not the case with the slice-of-life comedy drama ‘Panchayat’. Despite the third season being released after two years, the...

Nonika Singh Cricket unites the whole of India, so it can certainly be a unifier between husband and wife. Only ‘Mr and Mrs Mahi’ is not just about a couple’s love for cricket. Rather, it blends relationship drama with the...

When two women of steel, one a terror mastermind and the other a master spy, clash, the outcome is both exciting and intriguing, which is what makes this web series an interesting watch

JioCinema The science fiction farnchise’s second part hit the theatres two month ago and is now available for digital audiences. The film features Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya as they reprise their roles from part one. It also welcomes the new...

Sheetal There’s a reason sports documentaries are a hit among the fans of the game, for these walk you right into the dressing room where players are discussing strategies. These, however, score a six when they make the game impressionable...

Parbina Rashid Bollywood is not ready to let go of its ‘Animal’ instinct. If anything, it has found its template in the 2023 Ranbir Kapoor-starrer. We thought we had seen the ‘wildest’ side of the industry with Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s...

Nonika Singh AI as a threat to mankind isn’t a novel concept. More than one Hollywood actioner has walked this path and often made for reasonable entertainers, if not an in-depth and incisive study. Only, what seemed like sci-fi a...

Johnson Thomas This George Miller epic, fifth in his Mad Max series, coming after the exceptional ‘Fury Road’, is a treat to watch. It’s a prequel which outlines Furiosa’s origins and the reasons for her rage. Set in a futuristic...

Sheetal With ‘Wonder Woman’, ‘She Hulk’, ‘Black Widow’ and ‘Ms Marvel’ leaving behind a trail of ‘womanification’ of superhero flicks in their wake, Madame Web, another mutant character from Marvel Comics, gets its own film. The character first appeared in...

Parbina Rashid A bunch of ‘disposable’ girls from Seven Oaks group home, a journalist looking for material for her book, and a police officer battling her own past — all connected through a murder. ‘Under The Bridge’ is an eight-part...

Johnson Thomas Written and directed by John Krasinski following the horror-thriller franchise ‘A Quiet Place’, this effort may come as a surprise because it’s really different from those films. The narrative gets off to a brisk start and plunges into...

Nonika Singh It’s common knowledge that a whole lot of married men and women, too, are on dating sites. But one dedicated entirely to promote adultery sounds a bit of a stretch, if you have not heard of this Canadian...

Sheetal In the name of inclusivity, LGBTQIA+ is a subject that has been done to death. Yet, the surface has been barely scratched. We all hailed Zoya Akhtar for the respect given to the trans character in ‘Made in Heaven’,...

Johnson Thomas Disney’s attempt to keep a good thing going has resulted in the resurrection of a franchise which ended with the culmination of a new trilogy in 2017’s ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’. Caesar’s shadow follows...

Parbina Rashid Paul McCartney sang the ‘words of wisdom’ that Mother Mary ‘whispered’ to him and we knew that ‘there will be an answer’ to all our problems. We happily chorused with him, ‘Let it be, Let it be…’ But...

Nonika Singh It goes for your tear ducts from the start. And we see most of the biopic through a film of tears. The inspirational journey of Srikanth Bolla, founder of Bollant Industries, is indeed moving, even if told...

Nonika Singh Journalism ki chita jal rahi hai usi ka dhuan hai… sounds like a hyperbole. Think again. Television journalism is fast plumbing to deplorable depths and touching a nadir. And we all are witness to its decline and death...

The VeilDisney+Hotstar The miniseries revolves around two women who must join forces to avert a looming catastrophe, while playing a dangerous game of truth and lies. Their tussle involves operatives from the CIA and French DGSE as they journey from...

Sheetal Where numbers, money and business are involved, I prefer pressing the skip button. I could never get past the first episode of the much-feted ‘Ozark’! But limited series ‘A Man in Full’ instantly hooks you in. Interestingly, ‘Ozark’ actor...

Johnson Thomas In this movie, Ryan Gosling basically takes over Lee Majors’ Colt Seavers persona from the hit TV series and brings it to the big screen with all the irresistible charm and allurement he is reckoned for. He is...

Parbina Rashid One of the biggest takeaways from my brief stint at the Women’s Studies Research Centre in Gauhati University in the 1990s was how Indian parents condition their daughters to be docile and weak by saddling them with names...

Nonika Singh The signature touch of Sanjay Leela Bhansali is all too visible in his digital debut. Opulence, thy name is ‘Heeramandi’ too. As we step back in time to Lahore of the 1940s and the master of spectacles makes...