How it Ends [2021]: ‘SXSW’ Review – An Exuberant Comedy About the End of the World
It’s the last day of everyone on the earth. The meteor is going to strike anytime soon. Liz, anyway, is…
10 Movies With A Surprising Second Half
Ten Movies With A Surprising Second Half: After watching the trailer, the promos, and reading the synopsis, you tend to…
The 20 Best Indian Movies of 2020
It would be quite tricky to describe how 2020 was for Indian movies. With almost every theater shut, the cinematic…
Taste of Cherry [1997]: The Absurdity of Suicide
“But in the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill himself” – Albert Camus Arguably the most…
Recovery [2021]: ‘SXSW’ Review – A Charming, Clever COVID Comedy
The initial peak of novel coronavirus throughout the world was a time of acute crisis, danger and a broiling tension…
The Mole Agent [2020] Review – An Unusual and Insightful Examination of Old Age
Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent (El Agente Topo, 2020) is nominated for ‘Best Documentary Feature Oscar. But I…
Ninjababy [2021]: ‘SXSW’ Review – A Charming, Smart Take on Pregnancy and Coming-of-Age
In the process of childbirth, it’s not only a baby, an infant, who is born. With the child, a mother…
Sunday [2020]: ‘Short Film’ Review – Queering the narrative of the ‘regular neighbourhood uncle’ figure
My relationship to having a haircut has been fractious, characterized by a protestation of all attempts at normalizing, stemming from…