An inveterate alcoholic, Gloria (Anne Hathaway) — the once professional, now-fired blogger — gets kicked out of her live-in boyfriend Tim’s (Dan Stevens) pad for her all-night drinking bouts, and er, a little bit of lying. Heading back to her parents’ unused home in New Jersey she chances upon her old classmate Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) […]
Sequels have their own quirky way of exacting interest from potential viewers, especially if the earlier film has been more than a moderate success. Three years after Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania starring Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan hit the screen, comes the second in the franchise, though not a sequel with the lead pair unchanged. […]
Regional films have rarely been acknowledged in mainstream cinema. Nor have they got their merited due. This year alone, Marathi films such as Ekk Albela, Natsamrat and Ventilator have done reasonably well, with Sairat earning rave reviews. The first Marathi film of 2017 has Dilip Prabhavalkar (Mahatma Gandhi of Lage Raho Munabhai) as Appa, R.K. […]
Carol Vanstone (Jennifer Aniston) is the CEO of Zenotek, a computing firm. Her brother Clay (T.J. Miller) is the head of the Chicago branch whose profits have dipped to a meagre 6.5%. Carol’s fiat is to double the profit in three days (just before Christmas) or be prepared for laying off 80 of the branch’s […]
A second sequel, 15 years after the original is by Hollywood standards not an unduly long interval. But, perhaps it would, if the subject is romance and subject is romance and at the core of the film is a 43-year-old childless spinster. Bridget (Renee Zellweger) celebrates her 43rd birthday all by herself. But at a […]
Voices: Katie – Ellie Kemper, Max – Louis C.K., Duke – Eric Stone Street, Rabbit – Kevin Hart A delightful fusion of fur, feather and fin, ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ will certainly cause pet-owners to give themselves a pat on the back and non pet-owners a chance to ponder ….. Why not (bring them […]
A successful prequel is never a certainty for the fate of its subsequent films. Firstly, the title is a bit of a misnomer. The film is all about a young blue tang fish Dory (Ellen De Generes) with a short-term-memory loss syndrome, who gets separated from her parents. The trials–and tribulations-of the adorable Dory while […]