‘Reach for the moon and the stars will fall in your lap,’ seems to be the philosophy followed by SRK and the people responsible for bringing the film to its title ‘Zero’. In a runtime of two-and-a-half-hours plus, Zero undergoes a series of transformations – possibly more than the number of titles thought of by the…
Three directors for a single Marvel super-hero flick! Even so, too many cooks haven’t spoilt the plot! First noticed in the comic-book in 2011 and now scripted by Rothman with Phil Lord, the new character, Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) is an Afro-American-Latino Brooklyn teenager transformed into his super-hero avatar, when he’s bitten by…
Genre: Drama Rating: 3.5/5 105 minutes Director: Peter Hedges The Beautiful Woman plays a dutiful mother to her wayward son Ben (Lucas Hedges) in ‘Ben is Back’, written and directed by the latter’s father Peter Hedges. It’s Yuletide, and the family consisting of Holly Burns (Julia Roberts), daughter Ivy (Kathryn Newton) — by a previous…
Kedarnath could be succinctly described as a 20-minute film on natural calamity wrapped around in a 2-hour romantic drama. Mansoor (Sushant Singh Rajput), a Muslim lad of modest means and temperament, ekes out a living transporting pilgrims 14 km from Gauri Kund up to the holy town of Kedarnath. Love blossoms when he comes across…
Genre: Horror, Thriller Rating: 2/5 88 minutes Director: Driederik van Rooijen Reviewed by Hoshang K Katrak Films of the horror genre are largely dependent on a dark, sombre background, jumpscares and a background score to match. Hannah Grace has all that in good measure. And of course a little bit of the church with a…
Parsi Times pays a special tribute to the luminary of our times. He was a towering legend, quite literally. The ad and theatre guru, who had mentored, amongst others, Kabir Bedi, Shiamak Davar and Karla Singh, and sired three children – Raell, Quasar and Shazahn from stage luminaries Pearl, Dolly Thakore and Sharon Prabhakar, respectively,…
Hosts Parsee Gymkhana retained their winning streak in the 5th All-Parsee Table Tennis Tournament organised by and held at the Parsee Gymkhana on 24th and 25th November, 2018. The competition saw 77 players – from Surat, Navsari and Pune – vying across five events, with an impressive 79 matches played in just the Open Singles event….
It requires an aged ornithologist, not a scientist – mind you, to address the problems of radiation caused by usage of mobile phones and towers. The ornithologist, appropriately named Pakshirajan (Akshay Kumar), theorises it thus – birds prey on worms and insects, the latter consume foliage, and the radiation destroy birds’ eggs. The film opens…
Former National and International Table-Tennis players joined in the dinner celebrations at the Parsee Gymkhana (Marine Lines) on 17th November, 2018, to honour the First Division Champions team comprising Hoshang Katrak, Sanish Ambekar, Zubin Taraporewalla, Mayuresh Kelkar and Rayomand Marolia. Parsee Gymkhana had, earlier this year, topped the Premier Division at the prestigious Inter-club League…
“So you’re a cop?” inquires a character midway through the film. As if on cue, comes the prompt reply, “No, worse – I’m a journalist.” One was left wondering whether the film was a case of investigative journalism… Based on the characters in the Millennium book series (this one being the fourth) by the late…
‘Good thoughts, good words, good deeds,’ reminds father Bomi Bulsara (Ace Bhatti) to his 20-something buck-toothed son Farrokh (Rami Malek) in their London home, the family having migrated from Zanzibar a half decade earlier. That was in 1970, working as a baggage handler at Heathrow, and in the earlier moments of the film. Cut to…