French Morocco, 1942. Casablanca to be precise. And that could only mean WWII. A Royal Canadian intelligence officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) finds himself paired as the husband of French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Marion Cotillard), with the German Ambassador Hobar (August Diehl) to Casablanca being their target. Mission assassination accomplished, their pretence at being […]
The title of the film has been taken from a song in ‘Hate Story-3’, which was also directed by Vishal Pandya. But that’s not the only liberty he has taken. He has mutilated — ‘remixed’ being the official term in the industry — at least two iconic songs (‘Pal pal dil ke saath’ and ‘Aise […]
When once asked why he didn’t make romantic films, Alfred Hitchcock had famously replied, “If I made Cinderella, they would be looking for a body in the coach.” Vidya Balan had made Sujoy Ghosh’s female-centric Kahaani a sleeper hit, with its climax unfolding in the dying moments of the film. Four years later, the suspense […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
Though the film is peppered with piquant humour, the wittiest portion of the film is before it even begins. After proffering the viewer copious information and statistics on Raman Raghav, the serial killer of the 60s, comes the audacious disclaimer – ‘This film is not about him’. But let that not be a criterion of […]
Macau is the setting for the quartet of the most celebrated magicians and ace illusionists to perform their stupefying feats in front of an encouraging audience. Danny Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) is the leader of the group, The Horsemen, which includes Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), Lula May (Lizzy Caplan) and Merritt Mckinney (Woodey Harrelson in a […]