See for Me [2021]: ‘Tribeca’ Review – Subversive home-invasion film plays on morale dilemma but lacks subtlety
The home invasion genre has been so crowded with entries, that it has become extremely difficult to subvert it. In…
Understanding Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
The thing about adaptations is that they can be done in a million different ways. Therefore, there’s a lot of…
Poser [2021]: ‘Tribeca’ Review – A volatile dissection of the need to belong
Podcasts are the thing right now. If you aren’t doing one, it is deemed that you don’t have anything to…
Who Will Start Another Fire [2021] Review: A Mixed Bag with Powerful Surprises And Incredible Messaging
Anthology films have an added edge over fictional features. That is, the running time never serves as a burden for…
Black Easter [2021] Review – Christploitation time travel film is an absolute cringe-fest
When a film claims – not once but thrice, that it is not islamophobic, there is no way on earth…
There Is No Evil [2020] Review: Short films about Killing in Iran
The Persian title of ‘There Is No Evil’ is ‘Sheytân vojūd nadârad.’ This translates to ‘Satan does not exist.’ As…
The Portrayal of the Subaltern in Sachy’s Ayyappanum Koshiyum (2020)
The 2020 Prithviraj- Biju Menon starrer Ayyappanum Koshiyum (2020) directed by the late K. R. Sachidhanandhan, popularly known as Sachy,…
Ozu’s Equinox Flower [1958] : The Autumn of the Patriarch
Whether Yasujiro Ozu’s final six films, all of which were shot in color, can be categorized into an entirely separate…