Pic Of The Week: ISLE OF DOGS
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Pic Of The Week: ISLE OF DOGS

Genre: Animation, Fantasy  101 minutes  Rating: 4/5 Director: Wes Anderson  BFF, not so long ago, signified something else: it meant the friendly and loyal dog. Writer/producer/director Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel) takes us through a story of exile and reinforces our belief, though circumlocutorily, that BFF is still the canine. Orphaned…

Film Review: Sicario: Day Of The Soldado
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Film Review: Sicario: Day Of The Soldado

Genre: Thriller, Crime Rating: 2.5/5 125 minutes Director: Stefano Sollima Political connotations abound in the sequel to ‘Sicario’ (2015) as the US government machinery is let loose to battle the forces which smuggle in illegal immigrants from the porous US-Mexican border. Alongside battling the exterior forces, a few scenes in the beginning seem to suggest…

Film Review: SANJU
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Film Review: SANJU

Genre: Biography, Drama, Comedy Rating: 3.5/5 162 minutes Director: Rajkumar Hirani Clearly deviating from their forte — comedy (Munnabhai films, 3 Idiots), established writers Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi have tried their best to incorporate elements of the genre in their biopic of Sanjay Dutt — ‘Sanju’. The film traces certain phases of Dutt’s chequered…

Film Review: Hereditary

Film Review: Hereditary

‘Collateral Damage’… “She wasn’t altogether there at the end,” says Annie Graham (Toni Collette) of her mother, Ellen, while delivering her eulogy. She also describes the departed woman, with whom Annie had a none-too-warm relationship, as ‘secretive’ and ‘private’. Among those attending the funeral are her husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne), teenaged son Peter (Alex Wolff)…

Film Review: RACE 3
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Film Review: RACE 3

Genre: Thriller, Action Rating: 1/5 160 minutes Director: Remo D’souza             ‘Not A Podium Finish’  Ten years ago, the immaculately white-suited-booted brothers Abbas and Mastan Burmawalla set the template for action-thrillers with their ‘Race’ (adapted from ‘Goodbye Lover’), followed by a sequel five years later. Sidelined from the third installment…

Film Review: Parmanu: Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom

Film Review: Parmanu: Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom

‘Bigfoot in the Park’ ‘‘These creatures don’t need our protection, they need our absence”. This would probably be true for all non-humans but in the film its referred to the extinct dinosaurs which inhabited the earth aeons ago and which were ‘revived’ a quarter century ago by the brilliant filmmaker Steven Spielberg. It’s the fifth in…

License To Shoot

License To Shoot

[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Even before its release, ‘Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain’ has bagged thirteen international awards, including one for Faroukh Mistry for ‘Best Cinematography Feature Film’ at the Five Continents International Film Festival earlier this year. Three Filmfare trophies – two earned by his acclaimed cinematographer father, Fali Mistry for ‘Guide’ and ‘Fakira’, and one by…