Cast: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe and Arthur Conti
(3/5)This film is a sequel to the 1988 horror comedy about a renegade “bio-exorcist” liberated from afterlife. A family tragedy prompts three generations of the Deetz family back home to Winter River. Danny Elfman’s jumpy score helps us along the...
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, Billy Howle, Ishaan Khatter, Meghann Fahy, Dakota Fanning, Donna Lynne Champlin and Jack Reynor
(3.5/5)There are enough rich-people-doing-rich-stuff shows on OTT, so what makes this whodunit murder mystery a clickbait on Netflix? For starters, the impressive ensemble, renowned Danish director Susanne Bier and the fact that it is an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s book...
It’s amazing how a ticking clock can be used to keep us on the edge of our seats for those few minutes as Apollo 13 loses communication with the ground after it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere. This despite knowing that it’s...
Cast: Ananya Panday, Vir Das, Gurfateh Pirzada, Varun Sood, Vihaan Samat, Muskkaan Jaferi, Lisa Mishra and Mini Mathur
(2.5/5)A rich heiress thrown out of her palatial mansion… the basic theme of ‘Call Me Bae’ might remind you of ‘Schitt’s Creek’ in which a multibillionaire family suddenly has to rediscover themselves sans their riches. Baeurf Bella (Ananya Panday), too,...
Cast: Vaibhav Tatwawadi, Mukti Mohan, Akshay Anand, Lakshvir Singh Sharan, Monica Chaudhary
(2/5)An interesting premise fails to deliver because of sketchy writing and scatter-brained treatment
Cast: Bill Skarsgard, FKA Twigs, Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Jordan Bolger, Isabella Wei, Sami Bouajila, David Bowles
(2/5)Rupert Sanders (‘Ghost in the Shell, ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’) re-envisions the dark super-heroics of James O’Barr’s comic about a man who comes back from the dead to avenge his girlfriend’s murder as a sort of homage to Brandon...
Cast: Adam Sandler, Dan Bulla and Jonathan Loughran
Adam Sandler is back on stage with his comedy special. Some stupid jokes, crude ones too, peppy songs to a heartfelt tribute, this not so long Netflix show comes packed with his signature silly voices, funny antics and some really...
Cast: Morfydd Clarke, Robert Aramayo, Charlie Vickers, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, Ciaran Hinds, Markella Kavenagh, Megan Richards, Charles Edwards, Sam Hazeldine, Owain Arthur and Maxim Baldry
(3/5)JRR Tolkien’s novels and Peter Jackson’s trilogies made the world of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ (‘LOTR’) an epic that fans of the fantasy genre couldn’t get enough of. The lore of ‘LOTR’ is sacred and not many have thought...
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Manoj Pahwa, Kumud Mishra, Arvind Swami, Anupam Tripathi, Amrita Puri, Kanwaljeet Singh, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Sushant Singh, Aditya Srivastava, Rajeev Thakur, Dia Mirza, Patralekha and Yashpal Sharma
(3.5/5)Capitulation to terror elements, or a trade-off to save precious lives? Making a series on an incident which many are likely to see as an abject surrender to terrorists requires some courage. In times when we are blowing the trumpet...
Cast: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal and Matt Damon
(2.5/5)Simply put, it’s a ‘lesbian rom-com’ drama belted out by one half of Coen brothers. Together, Joel and Ethan have given us fun movies like ‘Fargo’, ‘The Big Lebowski’, ‘Where Art Thou?’ and the crime thriller, ‘No Country for Old...
Cast: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu, Rosie Ede, Soma Simon
(3/5)There have been nine editions in the ‘Alien’ franchise, and the story has nowhere to go except to mirror and reference past events with newer younger actors. The template remains the same, with a few diversions here and there. ‘Romulus’...
Cast: Lily Collins, Lucas Bravo, Lucien Laviscount, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Camille Razat, Bruno Gouery and Paul Forman
(3/5)The fans of ‘Emily in Paris’, who have been glued to the show ever since it dropped in 2020, know too well — the more things change, the more they remain the same. Thus, you can’t possibly expect dramatic, earth-shaking...
Cast: Salim Khan, Javed Akhtar, Salman Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Arbaaz Khan, Zoya Akhtar, Shabana Azmi and Helen
(3.5/5)‘Kitne aadmi they — do!’ And these ‘do’ were the hottest selling duo, writing 24 films together, 22 of these blockbusters! The famous Salim-Javed story gets to the masses with docu-series ‘Angry Young Men’. And, it’s a masterclass in how...
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Ranvir Shorey, Rasika Duggal, Kirti Kulhari, Kaushik Sen and Rudranil Ghosh
(2.5/5)‘Pushpa, I hate tears’
Mona Five years after ‘Batla House’, director-actor duo Nikkhil Advani and John Abraham once again come together in the Independence Day release ‘Vedaa’. The action drama is a revenge story that moves from verdant Kashmir to royal Rajasthan! The plot...
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Vaani Kapoor, Ammy Virk, Taapsee Pannu, Aditya Seal, Pragya Jaiswal, Fardeen Khan
(2.5/5)Parbina Rashid Voila! Akshay Kumar has shed his fake moustache and the acquired ultra-nationalistic aura for Mudassar Aziz, and that’s quite refreshing. The familiar Khiladi plays an unfamiliar game here, but he is in form. We may not agree with...
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Aparshakti Khurana, Abhishek Banerjee and Atul Srivastava
(3.5/5)Nonika Singh Six years ago, when ‘Stree’ was released, it established horror.com as a commercially viable genre. Yesterday’s sleeper hit is today a full-blown franchise, evident not only in full-house shows across the country, but its surprise guest entries boasting...
Cast: Raghav Juyal, Kritika Kamra, Dhairya Karwa, Harsh Chhaya, Aakash Dixit and Gautami Kapoor
(2.5/5)Sheetal Can one change the past and hence the future? ‘Gyaarah Gyaarah’ by Umesh Bisht answers the question by bending the laws of nature, science and mystery in this investigative thriller. ‘Gyaarah Gyaarah’ is adapted from a Korean series, ‘Signal’,...
Mona For starters, it’s just not another two-hour-long romantic drama, but a phenomenon. When one of the bestselling authors of current times Colleen Hoover’s most notable work, ‘It Ends With Us’, gets a screen outing, there is already a tribe...
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, Edgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Gina Gershon
(2/5)Johnson Thomas Director and co-writer Eli Roth’s attempt to score with a ‘game’ franchise comes a cropper because his vision for the adaptation is sorely lacking in skill and imagination. Lilith (Cate Blanchett), the main heroine, is quick with a...
Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Vikrant Massey, Sunny Kaushal and Jimmy Sheirgill
(3/5)Nonika Singh Those like us who found ‘Haseen Dillruba’ not all that haseen don’t quite expect too much from its sequel. Yet, ‘Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba’ comes riding on an interesting new twist, and additions. To say that ‘Phir…’ is...
Cast: Janhvi Kapoor, Gulshan Devaiah, Roshan Mathew, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Tailang, Meiyang Chang, Rajendra Gupta and Jitendra Joshi
(2.5/5)Sheetal We’ve seen movies involving Indian and Pakistani intelligence agencies, where things generally don’t end well for the ones on the evil side. But what happens when your protagonist is cooperating with the enemy? Director Sudhanshu Saria has made ‘Ulajh’...
Parbina Rashid Prabhas calls him a mad person. “He will beg, borrow, steal or even kill to get 100 per cent out of his actors,” NT Rama Rao Jr chips in. Grudgingly admiring words! Even his cousin, MM Keeravani, talks...
Johnson Thomas Manoj Night Shyamalan’s latest project, ‘Trap’, has him teaming up with Josh Hartnett, who happens to be on a comeback trail himself. This film is meant to be a white-knuckle suspense thriller laced with black comedy and it...
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Saiee Manjrekar, Shantanu Maheshwari and Jimmy Sheirgill
(2/5)Nonika Singh Tales of star-crossed lovers have given us many touching films. Add to it the deep shade of sacrifice as in yesteryear classics or modern-day ‘Raanjhanaa’, and there’s nothing better to tug at our heartstrings. As ‘Auron Mein Kahan...
Sheetal The Bhatt camp has produced the maximum number of horror films in Hindi cinema. Their last outing was with actress Avika Gor. Titled ‘1920: Horrors of the Heart’, it was headlined by debutant director Krishna Bhatt. It failed miserably...
Johnson Thomas This is a freaky yet breathtaking documentary about an acrobatic stunt couple ‘rooftopping’ through several countries around the world. It’s a strange trend no doubt, but these adrenaline junkies refer to it as high art. Angela Nikolau and...
Parbina Rashid Ian Fleming, who was part of Winston Churchill’s top-secret espionage operation during World War II, created James Bond and modelled him after Gus March-Phillipps, the man who led Operation Postmaster in 1942 against the Third Reich. In 2024,...
Nonika Singh X-men buffs know too well that Logan, aka Wolverine, died in the 2017 film ‘Logan’. So, how do you bring him back to life without ‘dishonouring his memory’? Heavy words for a ‘Deadpool’ film, which thrives on irreverent...
Sheetal Unlike what the title suggests, this film is nowhere near ‘Kota Factory’ and there is nothing educational about it. It is set in Noida, where, apparently, getting a pistol is a lot easier than borrowing money. And Tribhuvan Mishra...