C U Soon(Amazon Prime) Starring Fahad Faasil, Roshan Mathew, Darshana Rajendran Written & directed by Mahesh Naryanan Rating: **** Thank God for happy endings. Well, almost. This thriller about an online dating plan gone...
Aashram(MX Player) Starring Bobby Deol, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Aditi Pohankar Directed by Prakash Jha Rating: *(1 star) A poorest of the poor series, Aashram stumped me with its abject crassness. Lengthy sequences of girls being chased...
Chemical Hearts(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Lili Reinhart,Austin Abrams Directed by Richard Tanne Rating: * 1/2 (1 and a half star) Would you trust a love story whose protagonists are ...
Sadak2(Disney-Hotstar) Starring Sanjay Dutt, Alia Bhatt, Aditya Roy Kapur Directed by Mahesh Bhatt Rating: ** Believe it or not, Gulshan Grover in a walk-on part which he must have accepted for old times’ sake, plays...
Class Of ‘83(Netflix) Starring Bobby Deol,Anup Soni, Joy Sengupta Directed by Atul Sabharwal Rating: ***(3 stars) In how many films from Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer and Shimit Amin’s Ab Tak Chappan to Mahesh Manjrekar’s Kurukshetra and Prabhudheva’s Wanted have we seen the cop-hero battling the dreaded...
Fagara(Hong Kong in Chinese) Starring Sammi Cheng as Acacia, Megan Lai as Branch, Li Xiaofeng as Cherry Directed by Heiward Mark Rating: ** ½ This Hong Kong production has become quite a rage outside its home domain mainly...
Flesh(Eros Now) Starring Swara Bhaskar, Akshay Oberoi Directed by Danish Aslam Rating:** Where does the depiction of exploitation mutate into a form of exploitation itself? The answer is embedded in this...
Hammer(Video On Demand) Starring Will Patton, Mark O’Brian Directed by Christian Sparkes Rating: * ½ Hammer is one of those bogus thrillers that draws inspiration from Guy...
Family Romance LLC(Mubi) Starring Yuichi Ishii,Mahiro Tanimoto Directed by Werner Herzog Rating: *** ½ For Werner Herzog cinema is a medium that is meant to carry forward Man’s ever-renewable conversation with Nature....
Trance(Malayalam, Netflix) Starring Fahadh Faasil as Viju Prasad / Pastor Joshua Carlton,Dileesh Pothan as Avarachan, Nazriya Nazim as Esther Lopez,Gautham Menon as Solomon Davis, Soubin Shahir as Mathew Varghese,Chemban Vinod Jose as Issac Thomas Directed by Anwar Rasheed Rating: **** Given the current bleakness all around us, we have...
Gunjan Saxena The Kargil Girl Starring Janhvi Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Angad Bedi Directed by Sharan Sharma Rating: ****(4 stars) The fierce nepotism debate ends right here. Young Janhvi Kapoor spits that golden spoon out of her (privileged) mouth and throws herself...
You Should Have Left(Video On Demand) Starring Kevin Bacon,Amanda Seyfried Directed by David Koepp Rating: ** Once upon a time , Kevin Bacon was a force to reckon ...
Gulabo Sitabo(Amazon) Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Farrukh Jafar, Ayushmann Khurrana, Vijay Raaz Directed by Shoojit Sircar Rating: **(2 stars) How do I put this politely? Gulabo Sitabo is as funny as molar surgery, or maybe even less because when you are...
Mothoon Starring Nivin Pauly, Roshan Matthews,Sanjana Dipu Written and Directed by Geetu Mohandas Rating: *****(5 stars) Movie Review: In her sophomore film the Malayalam masterpiece Moothon which should be on everyone’s must-see list...
The Whistlers(Romanian) Starring Vlad Ivanov as Cristi, Catrinel Marlon as Gilda Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu Rating: **(2 stars) If I were you, I wouldn’t try to pronounce the names of the...
Banana Split Starring Hannah Marks, Liano Liberato, Dylan Sprouse Directed by Benjmin Kasulke Rating: * ½ (one and a half stars) Barring an Eighth Grade American teen comedies are like instant noodles.Eat digest ...