It's not everyday that a contemporary Bangla film actually makes you think beyond what's on screen. Maybe once in the bluest moon. For this reason alone, Sudipta Laha's 'Karon Greece Amader Desh Na Othoba Blue-Black o Transparent White' (2025) passes with flying colours in my book. Honestly speaking, I'd probably never have bothered to check it out if its title and poster weren't half this interesting. You surely haven't seen a Bangla film title and poster like this ever before.…
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The Others 2001
Maybe an unpopular opinion, and I'm perfectly aware that there are good enough examples to counter my point, but they are exceptions.
They don't make films like this anymore. It's a subversive film in its own right, but it isn't boastful about it as most horror films that get made today. Now almost everyone's too busy "subverting" or to prove a point or to make "social commentary" on some pressing issues and most often that ends up defining the film…
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A Real Pain 2024
That's how the class clown might feel like on their way back home.
Moved. Very moved. I really want to have what Jesse Eisenberg had while cooking this. Absolute madlad. It taps into the very core of what really makes us human, while maintaining an unbelievably delicate balance of goofy charm and profundity. I want to read the screenplay like right fucking now.
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Flow 2024
That rare animated film about animals where animals are just allowed to be themselves and not anthropomorphized versions of them. Flow imagines life beyond the anthropocene in a seemingly post-apocalyptic world where there seems to be no trace of humans beyond the relics they built of themselves to survive for posterity, but at the end of it all, what really survives for posterity is Nature.
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