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….
Largely based on the graphic novel ‘Old Man Logan’ by Mark Millar and ‘X-23: Innocence Lost’ by Craig Kyle, Logan is the tenth and final instalment of the X-Men series, which premiered in 2000. It is also the last of the three Wolverine films which debuted in 2009. Set in 2029, barely a dozen years…
Three hours into the race and thirty minutes into the film, a series of explosions rocked the site (near the finish line) of Boston Marathon on 15 April, 2013 — the third Monday of the month — traditionally celebrated as Patriots Day in that part of the US. Mark Wahlberg is Sgt. Tommy Saunders of…
Alia (Manjari Fadnis) is the sole daughter of Peter Patrick from a middle-class family of Udaipur. Being a girl child, subjected to lowly and menial jobs at home, and generally despised by everyone, her father gets her married, against her will, to loud-talking Kunwar Vikram Pratap Singh (Ashutosh Rana) from an aristocrat family. Jeena takes…
Goa serves as the perfect break from daily routine, to put your feet up and just have fun! Unwind over a siesta, take a walk along the beach, or soothe your mind at the balcony with a hot cup of coffee and a book! So if you’re planning a Goa retreat which comprises pampering yourself…
‘Split’ has James McAvoy playing Kevin, diagnosed with a dissociative identity disorder and assuming 23 apparent identities — as Barry, as Patricia, or as the lisping 9-year-old Hedwig. As Dennis, he attacks the father of Claire (Haley Lu Richardson), before driving off with the girl and her two teenaged colleagues Marcia and Casey (Jessica Sula…
Lion is intended to be a moving tribute to the 80,000 children who manage to get lost in the streets of India every year. Based on the autobiography ‘A Long Way Home’ by Saroo Briesley, the film begins in Khandwa (MP) in 1986, when five-year-old undernourished Saroo (essayed by eight-year old debutant Sunny Pawar), after…
Married for 10 years and First Lady for a shade under three years, Jacqueline Kennedy has been arguably the most popular and charismatic First Lady of the US, even after her remarriage five years after her husband John F. Kennedy’s assimilation. Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s Jackie is an account of her interview to Life correspondent…
Inputs by Khushru Boyce Almost five years after the hugely rewarding and artistically enriching Laughter in the House, which revived the essence of Parsi theatre and resurrected memories of theatre stalwart, late Adi Marzban, its second instalment was unveiled at the Tata Theatre on 19th February, 2017 to a thunderous applause and – as expected…
There’s a lot of thought process (read: passion and defining moments) behind the films of Martin Scorsese — whether they be on crime (with Robert De Niro — Goodfellas, Mean Streets), or on faith & religion (The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun). After waiting for over a quarter century to adapt Shusako Endo’s 1966 novel…
Watching ‘Moonlight’, one could be forgiven for presuming that the film was shot in Africa – the locales, the penury and the privative conditions of the principal characters in the film being adequate affirmation. The film portrays Chiron’s life in three stages – as a 10-year-old boy, as a teenager and finally as an adult….