Pushpa 2: The Rule is on its way to be the fastest grossing Indian film to achieve a number of milestones: 200 crores, 500 crores, 800 crores, and likely within the next 24 hours—1,000 crores. The Telugu film industry has figured out the secret sauce.
For such a big budget mass commercial entertainer that pushes its runtime to a daunting nearly 3.5 hours, Pushpa 2 somehow never loses sight of its vision and rarely lags. Allu Arjun who won the…
The Beekeeper is such an insanely silly, fascinating piece of work.
Jason Statham plays a beekeeper living a quiet life out of an adjacent barn he’s renting from an elderly woman (Phylicia Rashad) living alone. Everything’s pleasantly boring and calm until harm comes to the woman (and his bees) at the hands of some pathetic money hungry cyber-scammers—and what follows is a insanely fun revenge action thriller where things escalate over and over again to ridiculously chaotic heights with none…
Goddamn. Dev Patel makes an audacious directorial debut with Monkey Man, a film that by its own director-writer-actor’s admission processes influences from across the action genre—from Bruce Lee, to Korean cinema, to the greater group of Indian cinema, to the John Wick series which it cheekily references with really astute awareness. The end result of the amalgamation is staggering and stunningly original—and so very competent for a directorial debut.
Patel carries this adrenaline-fueled revenge action thriller through a surprisingly bold…
J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow (La sociedad de la nieve) may be his best film since his debut, The Orphanage (El orfanato) which is one of my favorite horror films to date. As a purely survival thriller film, the sweeping cinematography of the ranges of the Andes, the fuselage wreckage in the snow, and the claustrophobia-inducing dread shots notably the actual crash (!) and the first avalanche (!!) are unforgettable. Beyond that, there’s a sense of technical prowess and…
