20 Must-See Documentaries of 2016
In the beginning, there was the tool. A tool used to capture people’s quotidian activities. Until the time this tool…
Dear Zindagi [2016] : A Love Letter to Life
Is Life really complex or are we just making it look like one? Maybe there is an easy option to…
Neruda [2016] : JIO MAMI Mumbai Film Festival Review
What makes Neruda a great film lies in the way Pablo Larrain & co-writer Guillermo Calderón playfully engaged us out of the biographic element, to present a meta, sometimes poetic dream of a storyteller. It’s a biopic that almost defies its own subject matter to become a subtle investigation of how and why a person decides to romanticize with words and phrases. Why he make his characters fall in love and above all, why he…
10 Films the HOF-Men Recommend: 5th Edition
Here are the 10 films that made it to the 5th edition of our ‘HOF-Men Recommend’ Series. You can check…
Arrival (2016) ‘Mashup’ Review: Alice in No-Man’s Land
Someone rightly said, “Beauty lies in simplicity.” But I wonder, “So does horror.” Review by Nafees Ahmed Denis Villeneuve can…
War Dogs (2016) ‘Mashup’ Review: Todd Phillips is no Martin Scorsese
Review by Kalpit Tandon As America and Russia are reaching diplomatic truce in Israel under the backdrop of battered ISIS and…
Kaul- A Calling (2016): Encounter with the Unknown
I don’t exactly remember when I met Kaul. Was it yesterday? Was it in past life? Or maybe I never met Kaul. I feel its presence in rain, in distant mountains and chirping birds. It exists only in nature, a film that’s right in front of you, but you cannot see it.
Kaul (A Calling) is the miracle every cinephile prays for but a few pay for.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them [2016] : A Very Well Told Moving Magical Tale
When it finally ends, it leaves you with a very likable, warm and fuzzy feeling inside, and you go home with a heart full of happiness. Fantastic Beasts, in the end, stands as a really nice, endearing entertainer and one of the best movies I have seen in this year so far.