The 75 Best Movies of the 2010s Decade The decade of the 2010s was a wild cinematic ride, taking me on a coming-of-age journey unlike any other. It all began with a…
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25 Must-See Films at the JIO MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, 2018 Fueled by every possible genre of cinematic independence, the Mumbai Film Festival is here again. It is that time of the…
The first leg of the year is gone. Here are a few films that need you instant attention: Honorable Mention Split | Director: M. Night Shyamalan. M. Night Shyamalan’s Split is a…
There comes a scene where Kristen Stewart nearly breaks down in front of the camera with sheer rawness out of the frustration of turn of events. She sits coiled up on a…
Fueled by every possible genre of cinematic independence, the Mumabi Film Festival is here again. A time of the year when every single cinema lover like us gets pissed-off at their respective bosses and bring their ass Mumbai for this grand event. A place where people not only see films but celebrate films. They wait in queues and gossip about their love for films. A place which is more home that you make it out to be. Like a yearly ritual, we wait for this week of cinematic boners and ever enlightening storms. And while every single one of us believes in watching as many films as possible, time binds us to a bear minimum.
Another year, another Cannes, with the top gong going towards I, Daniel Blake, making English film-maker Ken Loach the eighth director who has ever won the Palme d’Or twice (lucky he didn’t go into retirement after all). The film received mostly positive reviews, as did most of the other award-winning films like The Salesman, American Honey, and Ma’ Rosa, but there was the usual booing, jeering, yelling, and perhaps even throwing of rotten tomatoes at the screenings of a number of films, which resulted in a number of varied responses from the filmmakers.
