This week, I was lucky enough to attend the Cambridge Film Festival. Among the wide variety of shorts and features chosen for the event, by far the largest-scale attraction was Anora, a major contender for […]

Dunkirk is an evacuation of sustained terror. It is a horror sequence, a suspense sequence, and a battle sequence all in one. It is unlike any other World War II film, with a structure distinct […]

Devara is a mixed bag of emotions, making the audience soar to great heights only to be dragged down into mediocrity. I’ve never been fond of dividing a film into neat categories like first half […]

It feels like as Quentin Tarantino gets older, his work dives into the past where he can change history and create a better world than our present. But as Martin Scorsese grows older, his work […]

“… the very first time I ever saw you standing up on the podium, you were cleaning your glasses, and I felt sorry for you. Because no one as young as you should be so […]

On the surface, “Zwigato” is a story of Manas (Kapil Sharma), who, after his last job at a factory left, found himself in gig economies by becoming a food delivery rider in Bhubaneswar and his […]

Tumbbad is what if Martin Scorsese directed a horror film. Hold on before you sharpen your pitchforks at the mere mention of Martin Scorsese in the same breath as Tumbbad. Comparing an iconic filmmaker like […]

“..anyone can be big behind a gun, I prefer to know my own strength..” Love Lies Bleeding is a palpable gritty 80’s neo-noir, and one of the more arresting revelations of 2024: It’s Natural Born […]

Just when I thought Telugu cinema was doomed because all the big stars are in this pan-Indian game, and hardly 2 out of 10 actually make a good film, while the other so-called stars churn […]

Call Me Bae is more than just another dumb trash you expect it to be, but it is not great to make you question your assumption of it being trash. Call Me Bae is a […]