Midsommar (2019) - Available on Telegram

If the horror genre is an art, then Ari Aster is a modern day artist. Yes I know James Wan fans would be disappointed. For me James Wan is a cliche horror filmmaker who uses close up/ low angle/ panning shots better than others, with high-nod bgm to improvise goosebumps and a fictional universe around partially real cults. But Ari Aster is exactly opposite to this, he had an absolute dream debut with Hereditary which was…

"We've been travelling like a leaf blowing in the wind" How relatable this quote is. We plan everything in our life's journey intellectually, sophisticatedly, aligned in the perfect manner and yet we are not sure of the destination, because life happens. Theo Angelopoulos's modern odyssey evokes the emotions you didn't even know you had and shows you the 2 sides of the world through the eyes of 2 adorable siblings.

Voula and her five year old brother Alexandros run away from home…

Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (Netflix)

Mentioning Zack Snyder at the beginning of this post to avoid future backlash from Snyderverse people. I was waiting more for this film but my time and expectations (obviously!) were wasted miserably. We usually ignore the movie credits scenes at the beginning but here, when you finish watching Army of the Dead, you realize that there were more emotions, feel and context in the credit scenes than the whole film.

So its a post-apocalypse cum…

"to love... to have children"

I was 9 years old when my father took me to Metro Cinema (Mumbai) to watch JP Dutta's 1997 magnum opus war action drama Border. It was my first movie experience on a big screen and back then Metro Cinema had a 70mm screen with dolby digital sound effects. Watching a war movie on such a big scale was a fascinating experience to my tiny eyes. Lesser I knew that in the coming age this…