‘Split’ has James McAvoy playing Kevin, diagnosed with a dissociative identity disorder and assuming 23 apparent identities — as Barry, as Patricia, or as the lisping 9-year-old Hedwig. As Dennis, he attacks the father of Claire (Haley Lu Richardson), before driving off with the girl and her two teenaged colleagues Marcia and Casey (Jessica Sula […]
Lion is intended to be a moving tribute to the 80,000 children who manage to get lost in the streets of India every year. Based on the autobiography ‘A Long Way Home’ by Saroo Briesley, the film begins in Khandwa (MP) in 1986, when five-year-old undernourished Saroo (essayed by eight-year old debutant Sunny Pawar), after […]
Married for 10 years and First Lady for a shade under three years, Jacqueline Kennedy has been arguably the most popular and charismatic First Lady of the US, even after her remarriage five years after her husband John F. Kennedy’s assimilation. Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s Jackie is an account of her interview to Life correspondent […]
Inputs by Khushru Boyce Almost five years after the hugely rewarding and artistically enriching Laughter in the House, which revived the essence of Parsi theatre and resurrected memories of theatre stalwart, late Adi Marzban, its second instalment was unveiled at the Tata Theatre on 19th February, 2017 to a thunderous applause and – as expected […]
There’s a lot of thought process (read: passion and defining moments) behind the films of Martin Scorsese — whether they be on crime (with Robert De Niro — Goodfellas, Mean Streets), or on faith & religion (The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun). After waiting for over a quarter century to adapt Shusako Endo’s 1966 novel […]
Watching ‘Moonlight’, one could be forgiven for presuming that the film was shot in Africa – the locales, the penury and the privative conditions of the principal characters in the film being adequate affirmation. The film portrays Chiron’s life in three stages – as a 10-year-old boy, as a teenager and finally as an adult. […]
The colour of the skin and the power of the human ‘computer’ are the mainstay of Hidden Figures, directed and co-written by Theodore Melfi and based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film opens in 1926 in West Virginia, in an era and place when racism and segregation were prevalent in the US. […]
The 2014 prequel ended with John Wick a widower and losing his puppy to the Russian assassins. Barely five days after the eventful first film, director Stahelski (who was a stuntman in Reeves’ Matrix Trilogy), unleashes a wave of some spectacular, and some all too predictable action scenes in John Wick : Chapter 2. Santino’s […]
Zubin Taraporewalla of Parsee Gymkhana (PG) won yet another singles crown, even as PG maintained its supremacy by lifting 4 of the 6 titles at the 28th FOZAWAC All-Parsee Table Tennis tournament held at the Cusrow Baug pavilion on 11th and 12th February – replicating its feat at the Salsette tournament held last month. The […]
A well-intentioned plot, some none-too-brilliant casting and more than a few gauche movements are what make up The Space Between Us, a film set in the near future. Innovative entrepreneur Nathaniel Shepherd (British veteran Gary Oldman) brings to fruition his long-cherished dream of setting up a human colony in neighbouring planet Mars. The only hiccup […]
Akshay Kumar’s voice during the opening disclaimer, that the film is not based on any actual incident, is in total contrast to the 2013 Jolly LL.B. which portrayed the celebrated hit-and-run case in Delhi. The sequel, clearly devised to bank on Akshay’s star-power, has protagonist Jagdishwar Mishra aka Jolly (Akshay) as the 15th legal assistant […]