Endless Poetry [2016]: JIO MAMI Mumbai Film Festival Review
That caterpillar called poetry
Hiding behind the book of biology
Shaken by tremor of emotions
Rejected the world of underwear
To become what he had always been
Kubo and the Two Strings [2016]: Of Memories and Magic
The best part about ‘Kubo’ is despite being a story of very different, imaginary world and using magic, monsters and other-worldly things as a plot device, it manages to remain a very humane movie. A movie, to which you can actually relate and feel for. It takes you to a trip down memory lane, reminds you of how beautiful your life once was or how nice it could have been. It gently tells you to…
Nerve [2016] : A Candy Soaked Nightmare
A neon-drenched, pulsating nightmare for everyone out there whose life is crippled by the ever blooming popularity of the internet generation.
Nerve, is an instant entertainer which uses its fabulous pace to question some very interesting questions about our lifestyle, obsessions and our tendency to be the best in a world that’s blurred by an insta drive to fame and name.
After The Storm [2016] – JIO MAMI Mumbai Film Festival Review
As a child, one dreams of what they want to be when they grow up. While getting to that point takes all kinds of pit-stops, sometimes your life turns out differently from what you’ve imagined. Kore-eda himself confesses that he wanted to be a successful writer and not a film-maker and somehow things didn’t work his way. After the Storm tells us that it’s totally okay to have failed at what you wanted to be…
The Cow [1969] – A Pioneering Masterpiece of Iranian Cinema
Censorship has been a constant factor in Iranian cinema: either to curb criticism against the regime’s ideological stand or to…
Atlanta: Of Mighty Ambitions and Mediocre Lives
If you want something that not as happy-go-lucky as Master of None but surely not as bleak as Louie, Atlanta sits somewhere right in between. It brilliantly reflects on the struggles, vexations and doleful lives of the black Americans, but not without giving a slight glimmer of hope for a better future in upcoming seasons.
Nothing Personal [2009] : A wonderful ode to privacy and solitude!
There are so many unspoken emotions and feelings that are carefully presented in Urszula Antoniak’ Nothing Personal that you can almost feel every touch, smell the potatoes boiling and listen past those headphones feeling every beat of the classic music playing along. Nothing Personal works like magic in a wonderful countryside. Where, road lead you to the right path and where solitude is not considered to be a sign of inappropriateness. It is not only…
Terror Trinity 2016: The Wailing, Under the Shadow, The Witch
2016 is a year of horror films. Out of the many that came our way, 3 films stand-out.