Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Lucian Msamati, Carlos Diehz, Sergio Castellitto and Brían F O’Byrne
(3.5/5)This papal drama is a provocative and mildly funny take on the process involved in the appointment of a Pope. A Pope is appointed for life as head of the Catholic Church and Vatican City. His words are held as...
Cast: Ritik Ghanshani, Rajesh Tailang, Ayesha Kaduskar, Deepika Amin and Kanwaljit Singh
(3/5)Pandemic as a backdrop, ‘Bada Naam Karenge’ brings back the Rajshri magic, this time on OTT. With Sooraj Barjatya at the helm of affairs, it’s a sweet love story that charts the coming together of two families. The nine-episode series...
A familiar kitchen katha! Women chop, cook, serve and wait on the table to get their report cards. Men shout instructions — chutney should be hand-ground and not mixie-made, roti should be served straight from the tawa, biryani cooked in...
‘The child is father of the man…’ Whatever William Wordsworth may have meant by that poetic expression, sons and fathers are as inextricably linked as a mother’s umbilical connection binds her to her children. Yet, fathers and sons are always...
Pushpa 2 Netflix Nail-biting drama, action, romance, catchy songs and an icon called Pushpa Raj have just reached the shores of Netflix. ‘Pushpa 2’, the blockbuster sequel to the 2021 mega-hit ‘Pushpa: The Rise’, is now streaming in Telugu, Hindi,...
Cast: Sterling K Brown, Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Aliyah Mastin, Percy Daggs and James Marsden
(3/5)Paradise… is that even a place in this world? As the series by the same name takes you into its labyrinths, you actually realise it isn’t the same earth we are living in right now. Yet, it opens like a...
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Pooja Hegde, Pavail Gulati, Pravesh Rana, Girish Kulkarni, Kubbra Sait and Aditi Sandhya Sharma
(2/5)When the lead hero, Shahid Kapoor, talks of the relevance of ‘Deewar’, should we pay attention to the subtext? Indeed, ‘Deva’, like many of Amitabh Bachchan’s films as the angry young man, is about a man seething and bristling from...
Cast: Barbara Mori, Juan Pablo Medina, Danish Husain, Julian Tello, Samuel Perez, Paloma Alvamar
(3/5)“That day I didn’t know how to push. But since then, I have learned to cross seas and move mountains, and you have taught me that,” says the mother to her son, and that one statement sums up ‘Lucca’s World’....
Cast: Paresh Rawal, Adil Hussain, Revathy, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Jayesh More and Anindita Bose
(3.5/5)This is an experience closest to being hypnotised! The moment director Ananth Narayan Mahadevan transports us to the Calcutta of yore, the days of cassette players, ambassador cars and landline telephones, and puts us in Tarini Bandopadhyay’s (Paresh Rawal’s) world,...
Prime Video Picking up from the previous season’s cliffhanger, ‘Harlem’ focuses on friendship and changes in relationships of the four protagonists. The show deepens its exploration of the characters’ personal and professional lives, tackling the themes of motherhood, singlehood and...
Cast: R Madhavan, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Kirti Kulhari, Rashami Desai and Sukumar Tudu
(1/5)With a title like this, one expects the ‘hisaab’ to be a metaphor for some score to be settled between the hero and the villain. But as far as the lead character of ‘Hisaab Barabar’ is concerned, the word is...
Cast: Sharelle Rosado, Maranda Johnson, Ashley Wheeler, Lastonia Leviston, Alexis Welch Stoudemire, Porsha Berto, Sade Vanessa, Keeta Hill and Julz Goddard
(2/5)Riches, trophy spouses, a reality check and coloured women charting their own career paths — the eight-episode Netflix series offers a peek into the uber-rich world of Miami millionaires. Luxe homes, fancy yachts, champagne and caviar meals, swanky wheels to...
Think music composers of yesteryear and chances are that the name Roshan wouldn’t figure on the top of your mind. For the present generation and even a generation before that, the surname Roshan is but obviously a byword for superstar...
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Veer Pahariya, Sara Ali Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Sharad Kelkar, Manish Choudhary, Mohit Chauhan and Varun Badola
(2.5/5)A film releasing close to Republic Day and starring the new-age Bharat Kumar, the poster boy of patriotism Akshay Kumar, and you enter the cinema halls with a bit of dread. But you are pleasantly surprised both by the storyline...
Cast: Jaideep Ahlawat, Ishwak Singh, Gul Panag, Tillotama Shome, Anurag Arora, Nagesh Kukunoor, Jahnu Barua, Prashant Tamang, Merenla Imsong, LC Sekhose, Nikita Grover, Bodhisattva Sharma and Kenny Basumatary
(3.5/5)If ‘Paatal Lok’ has been one of your favourite series and you have been all agog waiting for its second season, which has dropped after a long wait of five years, first and foremost, drop the comparison meter. For, the...
Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Anupam Kher, Mahima Chaudhry, Milind Soman, Shreyas Talpade and Vishak Nair
(1.5/5)This one might as well have been titled ‘All We Imagine As Indira’. Tilted head, facial twitches, quavering voice, shifty glances... in Kangana Ranaut’s ‘Emergency’, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi comes across as more of a nervous wreck than an...
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Aaman Devgan, Rasha Thadani, Piyush Mishra, Mohit Malik and Diana Penty
(2.5/5)Even though ‘Azaad’ marks the debut of two industry kids — Aaman Devgan (Ajay Devgn’s nephew) and Rasha Thadani (Raveena Tandon’s daughter), the film is actually about a horse. Not just that it’s titled after it, but the majestic stallion...
‘Goldfish’ is a poignant rendition of the reality of dementia and how it affects human relations. Deepti Naval (Sadhana Tripathi) and Kalki Koechlin (Anamika Fields), as mother and daughter, delicately pick the strings of emotions from an engulfing silence of...
Netflix ‘The Breakthrough’, a brand new Swedish mini-series, is a mystery crime thriller focusing on a detective who joins forces with a genealogist to solve a double homicide case that has been unsolved for nearly 16 years. The show is...
Cast: Sonu Sood, Jacqueline Fernandez, Vijay Raaz, Naseeruddin Shah, Dibyendu Bhattacharya and Shiv Jyoti Rajput
(2.5/5)Everyone loves a good story! And, Moga da munda, who has earned a name for himself as an actor and masses’ hero, makes a rather ‘killing’ debut as a writer-director in ‘Fateh’. The story is set in Punjab, where villagers...
A young man is yanked out of a train in the middle of nowhere. This seemingly benign lungi-clad man fights a truckload of goons singlehandedly and flies off with the chopper of the gang leader after pulling off an atrocious...
Living in a world where we are increasingly being drawn into the vortex of anti-ageing techniques and processes, the crux of Demi Moore-starrer ‘The Substance’ is not exactly a revelation. The obsession for unrealistic beauty standards and the pursuit for...
Cast: Zahan Kapoor, Rahul Bhat, Paramvir Cheema, Anurag Thakur, Rajshri Deshpande, Sidhant Gupta, Tota Roy Chowdhury and Rajendra Gupta
(3.5/5)Nonika Singh Jails are a world of their own making and ‘a law unto themselves’. Time and again, we have been reminded that prisons not only house hardened criminals, but are hubs of crime too. We have often seen the...
‘Ullozhukku’, a brilliantly crafted Malayalam movie, strikes a delicate balance between heartbreak and hope, delivering a narrative that resonates deeply. With its beautifully penned script and stellar performances, the film delves into the lives of two women — Anju (Parvathy...
Cast: Lil Rel Howery, Ray Hammond, Billy Magnussen, Evan West, Jamie Chung, Chace Crawford, Mathew Danbury, Jillian Bell
(2.5/5)‘Reunion’, a murder mystery set against the backdrop of a high school get-together, is at best a one-time watch. The batch is meeting 20 years after the school got over, but the celebrations go awry following the murder of the...
Cast: Rosalind Eleazar, Jessica Plummer, Richard Armitage, Lenny Henry, Steve Pemberton, Marc Warren, Samantha Spiro and Lisa Faulkner
(2.5/5)Her father died nearly 11 years ago. About the same time, her fiance disappeared from her life and it seems from the face of the earth. And she is no ordinary woman but the dogged Detective Inspector Kat Donovan. Could...
Henrik Burman's documentary "Avicii: I'm Tim" explores Grammy-nominated Swedish DJ Tim Bergling's heart-breaking journey
The mystery of a missing wife and two lead actors pitted against each other. It does not take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out who is the guilty party here. In case it is, refer to ‘Khoj’, the Rishi Kapoor-starrer...
Cast: Jeff Ross, John Stamos, Adam Ray, Tim Dillon, Sam Morril, Mark Normand, Hannah Berner and Patricia Williams
(2.5/5)Occasionally, a roast master needs to get out of Dodge, says comedian Jeff Ross… not for ‘Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year’ though, that Ross hosts, and enjoys, most of the time. The last comedy special of the year...
Cast: Varun Dhawan, Keerthy Suresh, Wamiqa Gabbi, Jackie Shroff, Rajpal Yadav, Zara Zyanna, Sheeba Chaddha, Zakir Hussain and Prakash Belawadi
(2/5)‘Baby John’ has all the trappings of a mass entertainer, having been produced by Atlee, the record-maker ‘Jawan’ director whose remake of Tamil film ‘Their’ it is. Headlined by a fairly bankable star, Varun Dhawan, who can certainly act, he...