Frankly, the initial half hour of the film set me wondering as to which gender and age segment of filmgoers it was targeted at. Even an hour later, I was clueless! Selena (Kate Beckinsale), the death-dealing vampire, is on the run from both the Lycans (werewolves) and their traditional rivals — her double-crossing vampire camp. […]
After having helmed ‘Aladdin’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’, directors Clements and Musker have taken their animation legacy further in ‘Moana’. A once sea-faring nomadic tribe has now established residence on the Motumui Island, in ancient Polynesia. Moana (voiced by Hawaiian debutante teenager Auli’l Cravalho) defies her tribal Chief father’s decree not to venture beyond the […]
Whether the title refers to the appearance of the alien spaceship or the advent of a newfangled but groundbreaking film of the sci-fi genre, only time can tell (with around three months to go for the awards’ season). Spaceships turning up on Earth accompanied by blaring sound effects, appalling alien characters emerging from them, the […]
‘For the love of money is the root of all evil’. Aman (Ranvir Shorey) is an unethical real estate broker (now, was the adjective really necessary?) married to Vidya (Neha Dhupia), a news producer in a TV channel. Their love lives are sedate and unexciting and debutant director Bhardwaj does well to depict a materialistic […]
At first glance, DZ seems to be a light-hearted, frothy take on life and the lessons one may imbibe from it. At second glance though, the film comes across as the travails of a twenty-something PYT trying to cope with relationships — both at the familial and romantic levels. But then, one of the disclaimers […]
It’s the age of reality shows and selfies, and in ‘Nerve’ we have a young adult flick to challenge the most bizarre reality show. Venus, aka Vee (Emma Roberts, niece of Julia Roberts) is an introverted high school teenager who is rejected by her crush JP. On the rebound, and aided by her friend Sidney […]
The basic eligibility required of a RAW officer is a martial arts degree: sample ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ (2012) and now ‘Force 2’, and that of an ACP the ability to decipher cryptic messages too – that is, if our filmmakers are to be believed. The top brass of RAW is in a quandary when three […]
The only genuine twist in the film occurs in the opening minutes of the film — three, to be precise — when the car in which the father and 18-year-old son Stephen (Charlie Heaton) are travelling, crashes, with senior dead and junior paralysed. This was preceded by the viewer being shown Stephen’s copious glares of […]
The second part of the film’s title cannot be answered in a more succinct manner: only in the wizarding world of J.K. Rowling. After a stupendous 8 films in 11 years (2001-2011), Joanne Rowling decided — for the first time ever — to pen the screenplay for this prequel to the highly successful Harry Potter […]
If the tagline of the film ‘One girl, two guys — the heat is on’ and promo posters of the film are to be taken as gospel, the filmmakers have attempted to rewrite a basic English idiom into ‘Two’s a crowd, three’s company’. Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your preference), that’s not the case. In […]
Director Abrar and first-time producer PS Chhatwal’s ‘Dongri Ka Raja’ has no pretensions as to which genre it belongs. Anyone familiar with the topography of Dongri would know its relevance, with its birthplace of gangsters and hoodlums, and its proximity to the docks. Beginning with a deafening background score, the film shows snapshots of the […]