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…
Chernobyl: The horror of Nuclear Radiation and a Failed State | Review
On December 2nd 1942, Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prize winning American-Italian physicist, announced the world’s first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in a makeshift Nuclear Reactor called the Chicago Pile – 1 (CP-1). Getting its name from Fermi’s amusing description of it as – “a crude pile of black bricks and wooden timbers”, CP-1 was…
HBO’s GOT documentary The Last Watch makes the show’s ending even more tragic | Opinion
The last ever episode of Game of Thrones aired on the 20th of May in India and we just can’t cope. After a maniacal week of discussions, dissecting the events that took place, the could-have-beens and the should-have-beens, the bones have been buried to rest for now. GOT Season 8, despite its lacunae, was undoubtedly…
Brightburn | Movie Review
A kindly couple in a rural setting, unable to bear children, take in an alien child hurtled into their lives from space. Sounds familiar? Of course it does. Because we all know what happens next. The child grows up to be a righteous paladin of the world and is christened Superman for his extraordinary strength….
‘To Let’ beautifully portrays the dramatic mundaneness of life | Review
When Jerry Seinfeld pitched his concept of televising the everyday life of a stand-up comic, revealing with glee that it would be about “nothing”, it might have sounded like the mad ravings of a lunatic. Why would people watch something that had no protagonist, no story, no purpose ? What the TV networks didn’t realise…
John Wick 3 may be the best action flick since Mad Max: Fury Road | Review
If you are wary of mindless bloodbath and fast-paced fight sequences, you are not alone. Action movie fatigue is a real thing. After the first half, you really stop caring about what anyone’s motivations really are, who is supposed to kill who, and “why is this dude still alive again?”. If you search for the…
