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Sheetal It’s about time the OTT platforms understood that labelling something as ‘Trigger Warning’, ‘Red Notice’, ‘The Gray Man’ or ‘Heart of Stone’ doesn’t guarantee success or likeability of some known actors, with an action background, as lead characters....

Johnson Thomas This is a half-baked remake of William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist’, in which Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, a washed-up actor and recovering alcoholic. He suddenly gets a lifeline when the original lead actor of a film that...

Nonika Singh It promises to be an atypical love story, a lighthearted look at Gen Z and their love conflicts. Alas, this spiritual sequel to Shahid Kapoor’s debut film ‘Ishq Vishk’ ends up being neither. A film within a film…...

Parbina Rashid “I hope I won’t have to use those tissues…” From the moment Roger Federer utters those words to the moment he breaks down in front of the 6,500-strong crowd at London’s O2 Arena 12 days later, ‘Federer:...

Sheetal Punjabi cinema has become inclusive and the latest theatrical offering, Kudi Haryane Val Di, is an example. With Ammy Virk and Sonam Bajwa as his lead actors, writer-director Rakesh Dhawan shifts his focus on the villages of Haryana. The...

Sheetal There’s a limit to how much one can draw from real-life incidents and wrap it in a new fictional story. On the shocking Burari death incident of mass suicide, we already have a well-made documentary, ‘House of Secrets:...

Johnson Thomas This sequel to the acclaimed Pixar film delves deeper into the emotional roller coaster called adolescence. The narrative follows Riley Andersen (Kensington Tallman) as she transitions from middle school to high school, encountering the turbulence of puberty...

Johnson Thomas AM Shine’s novel is the source material for this half-baked attempt at spooks in the typical Shyamalan tradition. Since it is Night Shyamalan’s 23-year-old daughter Ishana’s debut as a writer/director, it seems the apple hasn’t fallen far...

Nonika Singh A village boy dreaming of winning an Olympics medal, that too in the 1950s? Sounds incredible, improbable…. Indeed, ‘Chandu Champion’ is a story waiting to be told and even more surprising, why hadn’t we heard it before?...

Nonika Singh A broken man, a dysfunctional family and a missing nine-year-old kid at the centre of it, Eric takes us into the darkest recesses of human mind yet like the name of its lead character Vincent’s television show Good...

Sheetal There’s a reason certain films don’t make it to theatres and end up premiering on OTT. ‘Blackout’ falls in the same category. Perhaps director Devang Bhavsar overestimated himself while developing his story into screenplay. The Dalal brothers, Hussain...

Johnson Thomas This is the fourth movie in the series and there’s no let-up here. The ageing buddy-cop duo get into the act and it’s a joyride all the way. They still talk motor-mouthed meaningless stuff, the f-words and...

Nonika Singh He is charming and handsome, looks and lives like a Tarzan, of course on an extravagant tree house. While his identity in the real-life crime documentary is revealed early on, nothing about him or his lifestyle is a...

Parbina Rashid A trip to the Buchenwald Memorial in Weimar, Germany, made me aware of two things — the horror of the Holocaust and the lingering national shame. A mention of my plan to visit the concentration camp made my...

Vikrant Parmar Interest is piqued as the title House of Lies appears on screen first, a Hindi film with an English title (albeit xeroxed from a 2012 American television series)…hmmm maybe it’s a fare to savour. Quite the opposite, it...

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...

Nonika Singh SPECIAL agents trying to bust a terrorist cell… you try hard to supress that yawn! For haven’t you  seen similar premise unfolding in more than one web series. But let it be known, The Veil is not your...

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...