Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I enjoyed Mickey 17. The enjoyment does have nuance because even though the film is deliriously entertaining, it did have moments that left me scratching my head. However, those moments are triggered more so, because of curiosity and I will eventually watch it again.
What does work though is Robert Pattinson who does a fantastic job at portraying two different characters with two different personalities with seamless ease. Bong Joon Ho brings in a lot of his absurdist tendencies within…
The tragedy is that there are aspects to Chhava that are compelling - a son inheriting a war from an illustrious father who was able to thwart the powerful and greedy Aurangzeb in many ways and instill a sense of 'Swarajya' in the Maratha clan. Will the son live up to his father's image? Will the son be able to prevail over his enemies?
The scripting and direction unfortunately fall short of depicting this story because they fall flat. In…
If the journey of a cinephile were marked by the movies he or she watches, the majority of these individual milestones might be movies that would range from good to okay to sometimes, absolutely mediocre. But then, there are some movies that will validate all the reasons to why one is a cinephile in the first place. Godzilla Minus One in one such film. I can only be in awe, that a Godzilla film can elicit the words 'life-affirming', 'frightening'…
Munjya is a film that more or less, works - in the sense, that there are certain merits that push the film above it's very obvious flaws. The soul of the film lies in the performance of Suhas Joshi, a veteran of Marathi theatre and stage. She lights up the screen with genuine kindness and it is her character that stays with you after the film ends. The ghost of 'Munjya' is also imbued with an arresting personality and hence…