5 to 7 (2014) Review: Cinq à Sept with The Mermaid
“Some of the best writing in New York won’t be found in books, or movies, or plays, but on the benches of Central Park. Read the benches and you understand.” Throughout the film, we will come across random plaques engraved on the benches of Central Park, sometimes signifying the status of the film at that point, sometimes just randomly carrying the plot forward.
Filth (2013) Movie Review: A Monstrous Dirty Gimmick that Works!
Filth is about people swimming in a quagmire of corruption and mental collapse and the ever unraveling mental-catastrophe. I shall not be a douche and say this out loud: Filth is very hard film to like. Remember the scene from Trainspotting where the main character gets inside a filthy toilet and you feel really uncomfortable.
A Brilliant Young Mind (X+Y) (2014) Review
X+Y is endearing, profoundly emotional , little dramatic but more realistic , challenging film done without breaking a sweat. Matthews avoids cliches & stereotypes to create tangible people coping with the pressures of the world around them. Film doesn’t make you think harder, it is not a cerebral film entirely, but simply touches taps the nerve that connects to your heart.
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…