Badlands (1973) Movie Review: An Achingly Beautiful, Instant Classic Debut
As and when aimlessness exploded deep in the veins of American lost towns, they teetered on the verge of despair….
The Commune (2017) ‘Habitat International Film Festival’ Review
The Commune’ takes a wrecking spin on the idea of being together. It basically tells us how even being together can break people from the inside, where even smart people need to take a final decision.
Fallen Angels (1995) Movie Review: The Art Of Longing
Wong Kar Wai’s Fallen Angels (1995) is one of his most underrated films. Raw and grainy, in its literal and figurative sense, it provides an insight into the beginnings of a mind that gave us the smooth and sentimental In The Mood For Love (2001). The maturity with which the latter film dealt with the emotion of longing and heartache came from a far more aggressive and painful portrayal of the same in the earlier…
Loving (2016) Movie Review: With Great Restraint comes Great Power
Outrage and violence are often the predominant responses to oppression and injustice. But, often, the loud sounds of such rage…
For Your Consideration: Bringing out the Dead [1999]
In the end, it is clear that Bringing Out The Dead isn’t one of Scorsese’s most accessible feature films although he pulls no punches and still delivers a strange, often trippy, and harrowing look at Frank Peirce’s state of mind that’s as bewildering as it is entertaining and insightful.
The Lunchbox (2013): Strangers Sharing Loneliness in a Claustrophobic Mumbai
Ritesh Batra’s debut feature The Lunchbox is a film about desperate loneliness shared by two strangers—Saajan Fernandez, a grumpy widower…
Split (2016) ‘Mashup’ Review: A Spine Chilling Horror Tale
Review by Rohitavra Majumdar M. Night Shyamalan has always been pretty erratic when it comes to his filmography. He has…
Mukti Bhawan [2017]: Making Peace with Death
*It’s a Spoiler-filled Write-up, Read only if you have seen the film* The relationship between a father and his son…