The 50 Best Films Of 2016
If I could describe 2016 in three words it would be – Poetry, grief and terror. The three recurring themes…
I, Daniel Blake [2016]: A Poignant Social-Realist Drama
It’s been five decades since Mr. Ken Loach made the hard-hitting television drama Cathy Come Home. The 75 minute drama…
Embrace of the Serpent [2015] : Wildness Personified
There has always been moments of insanity when men has ventured too close to the forests. The thick outgrow of…
The Sexual Ambivalence of Brandon Sullivan In Shame
Steve McQueen’s Shame focuses on the life of Brandon Sullivan played by Michael Fassbender. On the surface, the film deals…
10 Best Films From BIFFES 2017
10 Best Films From BIFFES 2017: The 9th Bengaluru International Film Festival featured 230 great films over the span of…
Lion [2016] – A Melodrama with Considerable Stretches of Admirable Nuance
At first glance, Garth Davis’ feature-film debut Lion (2016) seems to be a repeat of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2008)…
Kaili Blues [2016] : A poetic journey in a Time Warp
Let me tell you a story before I ‘try’ to write on ‘Kaili Blues.’ A middle-aged man caged in a…
Silence [2016] : A Flawed Masterpiece
When suffering becomes one with opaque mists in alien lands at far away corners of this world, when answers only…