Punjabi superstars Diljit Dosanjh and Neeru Bajwa impress with their onscreen chemistry in this third outing of the hit franchisee
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Sheetal Set in Rautu Ki Beli village in Uttarakhand, this detective noir film comes from ‘The Fakir of Venice’ director Anand Surapur. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Inspector Deepak Negi, this would rate among his most subtle performances. Streaming on Zee5,...
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29 Jun 2024 -
Johnson Thomas Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s debut directorial feature is a multi-generational ensemble about the modern, middle-class female experience. It focuses on the lives of urban girls/women with Sharma as their common surname. We get a fairly warm, tender dekko into...
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29 Jun 2024 -
Parbina Rashid Celine Dion made us believe in the ‘Power of Love’ when we were young (Jennifer Rush originally sang the song, but Dion owned it with her 1993 cover). Decades later, she makes us believe in the ‘power of...
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29 Jun 2024 -
Nonika Singh Many of us cinephiles have always believed that India’s answer to Hollywood’s ‘Avengers’ and Marvel Cinematic Universe lies in our layered and surrealistic mythology. Telugu director Nag Ashwin has not only managed to dig deep into our mythical...
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29 Jun 2024 -
Vikrant Parmar It’s a fight between good and evil — everyone knows who wins, right? In the Netflix movie Maharaj the course is the same, only the route full of potholes! But before that, why are the religious sentiments of...
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28 Jun 2024 -
Netflix: Trigger Warning
Cast: Jessica Alba, Anthony Michael Hall, Mark Webber, Jake Weary, Tone Bell, Gabriel Basso, Kaiwi Lyman and Hari Dhillon
(1.5/5)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....
22 Jun 2024 -
The Exorcism
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, David Hyde Pierce, Adrian Pasdar and Tracey Bonner
(2/5)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...
22 Jun 2024 -
Ishq Vishk Rebound
Cast: Rohit Saraf, Pashmina Roshan, Jibraan Khan, Naila Grrewal, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Shilpa Tulaskar, Akarsh Khurana and Kusha Kapila
(2/5)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…...
22 Jun 2024 -
Prime Video: Federer: Twelve Final Days
Cast: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Mirka Federer, Tony Godsick and Anna Wintour
(3/5)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:...
22 Jun 2024 -
Kudi Haryane Val Di
Cast: Ammy Virk, Sonam Bajwa, Yashpal Sharma, Yograj Singh, Ajay Hooda, Hardeep Gill, Honey Mattu, Seema Kaushal, Mahabir Bhullar and Manpreet Dolly
(2.5/5)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...
17 Jun 2024 -
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Cast: Manav Vij, Monika Panwar, Saloni Batra, Gopal Datt, Rajesh Tailang, Naved Aslam and Saria Iqbal
(2/5)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:...
15 Jun 2024 -
Inside Out 2
Cast: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman, Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Ayo Edebiri
(3.5/5)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...
15 Jun 2024 -
The Watchers
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Siobhan Hewlett, Alistair Brammer, Hannah Howland, Oliver Finnegan and Charles Camrose
(2/5)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...
15 Jun 2024 -
Chandu Champion
Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Ayan Khan Sroha, Bhuvan Arora, Yashpal Sharma, Rajpal Yadav, Aniruddh Dave, Vijay Raaz, Shreyas Talpade, Bhagyashri Borse and Sonali Kulkarni
(3/5)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?...
15 Jun 2024 -
Eric
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Ivan Morris Howe, Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III, Roberta Colindrez, Jeff Hephner, Wade Allain-Marcus, Mark Gillis , Dan Fogler and Clarke Peters
(3/5)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...
12 Jun 2024 -
jiocinema Blackout
Cast: Vikrant Massey, Anant Vijay Joshi, Sunil Grover, Mouni Roy, Chhaya Kadam, Jisshu Sengupta, Ruhani Singh, Karan Sudhakar Sonawane and Saurabh Dilip Ghadge
(1.5/5)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...
08 Jun 2024 -
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Nunez, Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Jacob Scipio, Melanie Liburd, Tasha Smith, Rhea Seehorn, Tiffany Haddish, Joe Pantoliano, DJ Khaled, John Salley
(3/5)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...
08 Jun 2024 -
How to Rob A Bank
Cast: Jordan Burtchett, Tristan McKinnon, Kurt Ostlund, Gavin Langelo, Lesley Mirza and Scott Patey
(3/5)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...
08 Jun 2024 -
Netflix Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
Cast: Karoly Kozma, Imre Csok, Balazs Kato, Soma Zambori
(4/5)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...
08 Jun 2024 -
House of Lies
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
04 Jun 2024 -
The Strangers: Chapter 1
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...
01 Jun 2024 -
Savi
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,...
01 Jun 2024 -
Prime Video: Panchayat 3
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...
01 Jun 2024 -
Mr and Mrs Mahi
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...
01 Jun 2024 -
THE VEIL
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
28 May 2024 -
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...
25 May 2024 -
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...
25 May 2024 -
Bhaiyya Ji
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...
25 May 2024 -
Atlas
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...
25 May 2024