Comicstaan Season 2 returned this Friday with 3 episodes releasing together while the rest of the 5 episodes will release every subsequent Friday. The familiar stand up stars take the judge’s seats with a few returning from Season 1 while some, like Zakir Khan take the mantle of judging for the first time. Amazon Prime…
Indie Film of the Month : Paudha | Review
In the 2019 Budget reveal, the cabinet put forward a vision for India to become a $ 5 trillion dollar economy. Despite the economic juggernaut that we are, the heart of India still resides in its small towns. This diaspora of people often carries its belief systems with it into the metros where they create…
I want to like the Indian version of ‘The Office’ but it’s hard | Opinion
While watching the American version of The Office, I have often wondered how Greg Daniels managed to adapt a hit TV show and still create such iconic characters that have become a cult phenomenon. Wasn’t there that ‘whatchamacallit curse’ which created convoluted, lesser versions of great originals when repackaged for a different audience ? Although…
“Game Over” Explained !
2018 gave us a brain mash in Andhadhun, one of the movies of the decade with a convoluted plotline which engendered innumerable fan theories. With “Game Over” we may have stumbled upon the first such brain mash of the year! The movie at its surface is a simple story about a troubled woman who finds…
‘The Perfection’ rewrites the book on plot twists | Netflix | Review
Psychological thrillers are few and far between, and then most of them tend to become either too abstruse to absorb or they suffer from a laggardly plot that doesn’t hold up the performances that come with it. Richard Shepard’s Netflix original feature The Perfection, however, is not one of them. Even with the plethora of content that…
Game Over | Movie Review |Taapsee Pannu
Fear manifests itself in various forms. Some are palpable due to impending danger and some are visceral and occupy the mind completely. The Shining worked because of the looming psychotic presence of Jack, while in The Babadook, the anticipation of the apparition keeps us hooked. Game Over beautifully juxtaposes both types of fear to deliver…
When They See Us may just be the best True Crime adaptation from Netflix yet | Review
On a fateful night on April 19, 1989, a white female jogger named Trisha Meili was found raped and murdered in the North Woods area of New York’s Central Park. Right about the same time, a group of black teenagers, including a hispanic, were arrested in Central Park on charges of assault, robbery and riot….
Bharat | Movie Review | A national disaster of epic proportions
The best thing about Bharat is that it ends! After an excruciating 2 hours and 35 minutes, the exit door bulb lights up and it signifies hope for the wretched movie goer. I remember the scene from Swades when the old woman in the village looks at the bulb which lights up for the very…
Black Mirror Season 5 : Episodes Ranked Worst to Best
Charlie Brooker’s seminal speculative science fiction series Black Mirror brought the exciting romance of the genre back to our TV screen. What sets his writing apart is the impending possibility of the ideas portrayed that are more than likely to happen in our very lifetimes, unlike typical sci-fi dramas where the setting is often a hundred years…
A superhero story this! The “Super 30” trailer is inspiring
The very first sentence of the “Super 30” trailer makes you think. We are a nation of a billion plus people, yet the disparity is perceptible. Super 30 is a story which most of us have heard of, in newspapers and news channels. Ask any IIT aspirant and you will notice the reverence with which…
The trailer for the Indian remake of ‘The Office’ is out and it’s as bad as you’d expect
We never learn, do we ? In an industry where we have had such a fantastic year for writing in 2018 paving a way for more original content, here we are re-packaging a classic comedy with iconic characters like Michael Scott played by Steve Carell, Dwight Shcrute played by Rainn Wilson and Jim Halpert played…
Rocketman | Movie Review
Elton John stands in an attention position as smoke emanates all around him and within a second, he takes off for the firmament!! While you picturise that happening in your mind, let me palliate any doubts by saying that Rocketman is infact a well made biographical movie, albeit with few creative liberties taken here and…
