Sicario (2015): Alice in Cartel-Land
Sicario is a straight-forward Hollywood genre movie that adopts a simple plot but thanks to Villeneuve’s deft direction, sterling performances from the three leads, masterclass cinematography blend with nervy score makes this film immensely watchable that creeps into the psyche of three singular characters, demanding the question if breaking the laws and selling out the moral values, is an answer to fight a war.
Mississippi Grind (2015) Review: You Win Some, You Lose Some
Mississippi Grind can better be described as a character study of two people who have nothing in common except for their passion for ‘gambling’. Even if you are not a sucker for gambling based films, “Mississippi Grind” is immensely likable and irresistible, with a few good take away moments imbibed in it.
I Wish (2011) Review: A Heartfelt Tale of Two Siblings
As much as “I wish” benefits from everything accounting, it benefits most from the splendid performance by the kids and adults alike,and its writing & direction by Hirokazu. What is even more commendable that all the kids perform oblivious to the fact that cameras are around them. Hirokazu seems have written the small episodic stories and fused them together seamlessly that constructs to form a single entity at the end. O
10 Great Films High On Films Recommends: 3rd Edition
As one of the Angulo Brothers says Mr. Blonde’s lines while they were enacting the whole climax of Reservoir Dogs, my first reaction to it was exactly like Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction when he was told that hash is legal in Amsterdam, “oh man, I am going” he said out of excitement, I was almost that excited. Here are the 10 films that made it to the 3rd edition of our ‘HOF-Men Recommend’…
Virumandi (2004): Kamal Haasan’s Vehement Tale of Foolhardy Men
Virumandi won the International Award for Best Asian Film at the 2004 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea….
Signs of Life (1968): Windmills of Herzog’s Mind
Werner Herzog, along with Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, is one the most successful and internationally recognized filmmakers of the New German Cinema. Two things helped Herzog to kick start his experiments with filmmaking; an encyclopaedia entry about film making which he stumbled upon at the age of 14 and the 35mm movie camera he stole from the Munich Film School. Herzog’s films are known for having a driven protagonist who are on the…
The Great Beauty (2013): Life and Lies
Riot of beguiling imagery that switches between past and present, gorgeous and grotesque, ‘The Great Beauty(La grande bellezza)’ is a wondrous journey through Rome that is enthralling and creepy in equal measure. Paolo Sorrentino scrupulously tries to reinvent Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita with his immersive sense of direction that strips down the Rome to show superficiality and hollowness amidst its alluring visuals that are hard to take eyes off.
The Martian (2015): Gravity meets Cast Away
Given that Ridley Scott resume consists of two of the greatest Sci-Fi thrillers, Blade Runner & Alien; epic & grandeur films like Gladiator & American Gangster; disastrous epics like Exodus & The Counselor; The Martian (2015) falls somewhere in the middle which comes as a commercially viable Sci-Fi film for all age group that educates you on science well enough to make it sound smarter & cooler.