Still Human [2019]: ‘NYAFF’ Review: What it takes to be human?
The disabled middle-aged man awakens in his wheelchair in the opening scene of “Still Human (Lun lok yan)” – The…
Hard-Core [2019]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – The Hikikomories’ Tale
“Director Nobuhiro Yamashita adapts Takashi Imashiro’s manga series “Hado Koa Heisei Jigoku Burazazu” in this absurd robot comedy that goes…
Stranger Things [Season 3] Review: Back to the Teenage Nostalgia!
I bet you, the first thing you will do after starting the first episode of season 3 is “smile”. It will prove your love for these characters. There is a certain quality about “Stranger Things” that it offers scares, laughs and thrills in a balanced manner in each episode. It oddly offers every cliché in so appetitive manner that one’s issues are defeated by the joyous moments. This is the character-driven summer entertainer where we…
Pale Flower [1964] Review – A Noirish Parable with Striking Imagery
“In many ways, Pale Flower (‘Kawaita hana’, 1964) was Shinoda’s first masterpiece, a film that chronicled the existential dread of…
Super Deluxe Netflix [2019] Review: Super but not deluxe
What if a viewer, while going through his Netflix account, comes across Super Deluxe? If a viewer, while going through…
Raatchasi (2019) Review: A Demon who Condemns Injustice
It is problematic when a film on a social issue turns into a tiring sermon. When such is the case,…
Zombiepura (2019): ‘NYAFF’ Review – A Toothless Undead Comedy
“Lacking the insight of George Romero, the deft cultural recasting of Train to Busan, or even the working-class comic drollness…
Ma [2018]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – A Sumptuously Visualized Horror with a Weak Narrative
Filipino film-maker Kenneth Lim Dugatan’s feature-length debut ‘Ma’ (2018) combines elements of folklore horror and natal horror (a sub-genre of…