This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Despite the rating, I think I enjoyed this more than Get Out.
From the moment the horror starts, Us is relentless and I love that about it. Frankly, I have never cared much for the horror movie practice of taking a break from the action in order to provide unnecessary backstories for the characters. You see, when I was a child I had this little Pikachu keychain that I would carry with me no matter where I... oh, right, the…
Screened on final day of Weekend Film Appreciation Course at FTII, Pune
It's difficult to reduce a movie that you didn't like to an arbitrary rating when its screening is followed by a passionate Q&A with the director. Abhijeet Deshpande was charming, funny and brutally honest during his interaction with the audience. I guess you really need to be a stone-hearted prick to be a film critic.
But as affable as Deshpande was, something or the other - perhaps budgetary…
Objectively speaking, Lights Out is not a very good movie. It has a decent premise that does not get the support it deserves from the story; the dialogue is lousy; the scare tactics are ordinary and offer nothing new; and the movie's covert depiction of mental illness is problematic, to say the least.
But Lights Out is also probably the last movie I'll ever see with my college friends (even if most of them fell asleep by the time I…
*me before watching black panther*
"Pfft, I don't think representation is that important"
*me 20 mins into black panther*
"OHMYGOD he is wearing a sherwani just like mine"
If the people at the top have any sense, they are going to see Black Panther and Wonder Woman as proof that films led by women and PoC can be successful too because, well, more than half the world belongs to one or both of those categories, and we all like to…
