Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller. Rating: 2.5/5 117 minutes Director: Susanna Fogel Had it not been for the gory violence and almost continual action scenes, I would have been tempted to classify ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ as a screwball comedy. A spin on the title of the 1977 ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ (Roger Moore’s third […]
Genre: Musical 114 minutes Rating: 2.5/5 Director: Ol Parker This sequel to the moderately successful ‘Mamma Mia’, almost exactly a decade ago, lives upto the promise of its sub-title ‘Here We Go Again’, literally and figuratively. Set in Greece (although filmed in Croatia) between 1979 and 2005, the sequel attempts to bridge the (generation) gap […]
Genre: Drama Rating: 3.5/5 140 minutes Director : Anubhav Sinha If the first half set the tone with ‘Naach gaane ke liye theek hai, par hum khaana kahaan khaate hain inke yahaan?’ voiced by a Hindu guest at retired advocate Murad Ali Mohammed’s (Rishi Kapoor) 65th birthday party, the second half has the ‘hum aur […]
Genre: Comedy Rating: 3.5/5 120 minutes Director: Akarsh Khurana Compared to the West, fewer road movies have been made here. One of the first, ‘Chori Chori’ was later remade as ‘Dil Hai Ke Maanta Nahi’. We had Mehmood’s ‘Bombay to Goa’ and Shahid-Kareena’s ‘Jab We Met ‘. But, as the saying goes, these are few […]
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller Rating: 2.5/5 125 minutes Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia It took almost a half century to metamorphose Guru Dutt’s iconic title (thankfully not the film) ‘Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam’ 1962 to ‘Saheb, Biwi aur Gangster’ in 2011. A sequel ‘SBG Returns’ followed a couple of years later. The more-than-moderate success of the two […]
A dialogue such as “There has never been peace without a great suffering” would surely seem out of place in an action thriller, especially when that film belongs to the MI franchise. Now, in its sixth instalment in 22 years and the longest, at 148 minutes, ‘MI-Fallout’ incorporates the best a JB (James Bond or Jason […]
To enable filmmakers infuse it with the desired melodrama, this one too, as with almost all biopics, starts off with the usual disclaimer: although inspired by true events… The film opens with a voiceover that introduces herself as Harpreet Kaur, centre-forward of the Indian hockey team, who admits that ‘this story is not about her […]
Genre: Sci-fi, Fantasy, Adventure Rating: 3/5 118 minutes Director: Peyton Reed For those who had missed out on the 2015 ‘Ant-Man’, Scott Lang aka Ant-Man had been under house arrest for close to two years for his ‘heroic’ role in the Civil War (‘Captain America…’). Fast forward 20 years and we have Scott trying to […]
Genre: Animation, Fantasy 101 minutes Rating: 4/5 Director: Wes Anderson BFF, not so long ago, signified something else: it meant the friendly and loyal dog. Writer/producer/director Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel) takes us through a story of exile and reinforces our belief, though circumlocutorily, that BFF is still the canine. Orphaned […]
Genre: Thriller, Crime Rating: 2.5/5 125 minutes Director: Stefano Sollima Political connotations abound in the sequel to ‘Sicario’ (2015) as the US government machinery is let loose to battle the forces which smuggle in illegal immigrants from the porous US-Mexican border. Alongside battling the exterior forces, a few scenes in the beginning seem to suggest […]
“Based on Vikram Chandra’s 2006 thriller novel of the same name and touted to be the first Indian original series from Netflix, the eight episodes have Saif Ali Khan as the scornful cop, Sartaj Singh, coerced and frustrated by his superiors, on the trail of top crime lord and gangster Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddique). The […]