Cast: Sanjay Kapoor, Rituraj K Singh, Ssmilly Suri, Ajitesh Gupta, Hiten Paintal, Simran Kaur Suri
(1.5/5)Headlined by Sanjay Kapoor, House of Lies is plagued by a clichéd setting, shoddy plot and seemingly disinterested cast
Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Ryan Bown, Matus Lajcak, Rachel Shenton, Megan Suri and Gabriel Basso
(2.5/5)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...
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Divya Khossla, Harshvardhan Rane, Mairaj Kakkar, Raageshwari Loomba Swaroop and MK Raina
(2/5)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,...
Cast: Neena Gupta, Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Faisal Malik, Chandan Roy, Sanvikaa, Saad Bilgrami, Pankaj Jha, Kusum Shastri and Vinod Suryawanshi
(3.5/5)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...
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Janhvi Kapoor, Kumud Mishra, Rajesh Sharma, Zarina Wahab, Purnendu Bhattacharya and Arijit Taneja
(2.5/5)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...
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Yumna Marwan, Dali Benssalah, Josh Charles and Thibault de Montalembert
(3/5)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...
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Vipin Sharma, Jatin Goswami, Suvinder Vicky, Zoya Hussain, Akash Makhija, Amrendra Sharma and Bhageerathi Bai Kadam
(1/5)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...
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K Brown, Gregory James Cohan, Mark Strong and Abraham Popoola
(2/5)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...
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne, George Shevtsov, Lachy Hulme, John Howard, Angus Sampson, Charlee Fraser, Elsa Pataky, Nathan Jones, Josh Helman
(4/5)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...
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Kerry Bishé, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts and Adam Scott
(2/5)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...
Cast: Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, Vritika Gupta, Archie Panjabi, Ezra Faroque Khan Chloe Guidry, Javon Walton and Aiyana Goodfellow
(3/5)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...
Cast: Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Fiona Shaw, Catherine Daddario, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Richard Jenkins, Awkwafina, George Clooney, Bradley Cooper, Blake Lively, Louis Gossett Jr.
(3/5)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...
Cast: Ashutosh Rana, Vijay Raaz, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Shivaji Satam, Divya Jagdale, Rajesh Khattar, Smita Tambe, Benafsha Soonawalla
(2.5/5)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’,...
Cast: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Peter Macon, William H Macy, Kevin Durand and Dichen Lachman
(3/5)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...
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Jyothika, Alaya F, Sharad Kelkar, Jameel Khan, Srinivas Beesetty, Anusha Nuthul and Srikant Manna
(3/5)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...
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Bill Camp, Aml Ameen, Tom Pelphrey, Dian Lane, Sarah Jones, Lucy Liu and Chanté Adams
(3/5)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...
Cast: Srishti Bakshi, Neha Rai, Pragya Prasun Singh and Sangeeta Tiwari
(3.5/5)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...
Cast: Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Sharmin Segal, Taha Shah Badussha, Shekhar Suman, Fardeen Khan, Indresh Malik, Adhyayan Suman and Farida Jalal
(3/5)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...
Cast: Jassi Gill, Amyra Dastur, Kavi Singh, Honey Mattu, Balwinder Bullet, Seema Kaushal, Gurdeep Manalia
(2.5/5)Gurnaaz Kaur At the heart of this story is Jassie Gill (Furteela) and Amyra Dastur’s (Noor) love story but the movie touches upon various subjects. It’s a heartfelt exploitation of the challenges and aspirations of college students in Punjab. While...
Cast: Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Celeste O'Connor, Logan Kim, Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, Emily Alyn Lind and James Acaster
(2.5/5)Sheetal As the American supernatural comedy franchise returns with its fifth part, it is nostalgia packed in the right proportions. At the same time, it’s definitely in sync with the much-loved modern-day idea of sci-fi storytelling set against the...
Cast: Fernando Baldassini, Samantha Chang, Alan Cooke, Bill Courtice, Deborah Gladding, Armand LaBarge and David MacDonald
(3/5)Nonika Singh More than one case in crime documentaries has been designated as ‘like never before’. One hundred per cent, ‘What Jennifer Did’ falls in that category. For, how often do you hear a story where a daughter not only...
Cast: Alisha Weir, Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Angus Cloud, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Giancarlo Esposito
(3/5)Johnson Thomas Originally proposed as a re-imagination of the 1936 Universal horror movie, ‘Dracula’s Daughter’, the scripting process turned it into something else altogether. It’s brainless, but a whole lot of fun too. A gang of desperate criminals kidnaps...
Cast: Jimmy Shergill, Lara Dutta, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ashutosh Rana, Elnaaz Norouzi, Prasanna and Aakanksha Singh
(2.5/5)Parbina Rashid A convoy of CRPF jawans moving on the winding roads in Kashmir; a close-up shot revealing the bonhomie among the personnel, one of them on a video call with his wife. She wishes him ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’...