Manjhi: The Mountain Man (2015) Movie Review: A Simplistic Love Story
Ketan Mehta’s Manjhi The mountain man is an ordinary film about an extraordinary man. One that needs to be seen just because of the amount of hard-work and zeal this crazy little fellow showed when a hapless incident changed his life for the worse. But when I sit down and fathom over the films overall emotional heft, it comes out as a lost cause. A person like Dashrath Manjhi & an actor like Nawazuddin Siddiqui,…
The Nightmare (2015) Review: An Eerie Encounter with Darkness
I firmly believe that only a documentary can capture horror in its purest form. Most of the horror movies draw…
Phoenix (2014) Review: Mired love
Phoenix is not a plot driven film but it is driven by the estranged emotions that are mired by deception and yearn for true love. It is very intriguing and has subtle sense of suspense on how both the characters unfold. Their guilt, their redemption. “Phoenix” ends with a haunting performance of “Speak Low,” the Kurt Weill/Ogden Nash by Nelly that will chill us to the bone. Phoenix may seems like ‘A…
The Big Lebowski (1998) Review: The Dude
If Dudeism was a religion, Lebowski would be the GOD dictating rules to the disciples. The term “Dude” has gained such a cult status that Twitterati mourned the fact that Jeff Bridges didn’t start his 2010 Best Actor Oscar acceptance speech with, “The Dude Abides.” The gravity of the emblematic ‘Dudeism’ can only be further testified by the fact that it inspired a novel, The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers, by…
Cop Car (2015) Movie Review – A Grim, Wild Bend!
Roped in to direct the next Spider-Man reboot, Jon Watts’s “Cop Car” (2015) is about two kids – Travis (James…
Dark Places (2015) Movie Review: “Home Is Where The Lies Are..”
I still remember how Gone Girl began, the very first background score to chasing Amy. Everything just made sense. I recently saw Dark Places. The first few things that comes to my mind while I sit down to write about it would be: A pixie haired Charlize Theron in a green colored cap & leather jacket and a brilliant background score that wasn’t used judiciously. When it should be about how interesting and ballistic the…
Creep (2014) Movie Review: A Character Driven Slow-Burn Horror
We have reached to a point where everyone has had it with the found-footage genre. Yes I know its a nice way to showcase a story when you are low on cash, but what I have come to realize through years of it is that the found-footage genre has been used to make the content of a film more effective when it quite frankly isn’t. I am glad that films like Creep prove me wrong…
Eadweard Muybridge: The Man Who Invented Movies
A few weeks ago, I found out about Eadweard, a biopic made on the life of Eadweard Muybridge, released in…