I have been anxious about myself recently. I do not react to bad movies as before. It is mostly a kind of weak mix of submission and sarcasm. A few sighs here, some puns there and I’m through. But watching Apoorv Singh Karki’s Bhaiyya Ji made me feel young again. All those passionate feelings came […]
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya (“Got So Entangled in Your Words“) can pass as a good movie. In the end, what began as an offbeat romantic comedy about a man falling in love with a robot goes insane in the head. It never even once touches on the logical ethical questions that such a
Fast zombies are not a must. Sometimes, it’s a nice novelty. However, as a subgenre of horror, the notion that zombies express the feeling of creeping dread and inevitability is what it is about. The slowness can actually make the fear more terrifying when done correctly, allowing it time to settle in for long drawn
An adventure of a young boy and girl is started by a small coincidence or the divine intervention. They also learn something about themselves and one another as they are bonded by their powerful connection. This is a basic plot for numerous stories, which anime has embraced over the past few years. But rarely has
The truth is that I do not know too much about City Hunter, an iconic manga by Tsukasa Hojo which was finally made into a Japanese live-action film on Netflix, and directed by Yûichi Satô. Personally, my experience of the franchise has been with the 1993 Hong Kong movie starring Jackie Chan: this cheerfully dated
In this profound and cutting portrayal of James Baldwin, “I Am Not Your Negro” (2016), Raoul Peck traced the haunted connection between two things: Baldwin’s extraordinary insight into being Black in America; and the depth of his sadness, self-doubt as well as relentless truth-telling. For Baldwin, it was always personal and political all at once
It would be a big job to set side by side the story of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba’s murder with Louis Armstrong’s musical tour and the United Nations’ expansion after Africa was decolonized in the 1960s. But it’s even trickier to tell this convoluted tale, filled with multiple characters and plot twists, non-chronologically while filling
It has been known for a long time that plastic is very harmful to the environment. Ben Addelman and Ziya Tong have edited a film which reveals its effect on our bodies. “Plastic People” is one of those must-see documentaries about our world. Whenever it is released (it had its premiere this week at SXSW),
FOLLOWERS is about three women (Revell Carpenter, Molly Edelman, and Gigi James) who are attacked by fans in masks after their livestreamed hiking trip attracts obsessive viewers. A year later, one of the girls sold her story to Netflix, another seems to have moved on, but the last is still grappling with what happened. Feeling
Remember that films like Last Night at Terrace Lanes are not big Hollywood productions. With about one-thirtieth of the budget, director Jamie Nash and company are swinging for the fences and you have to give them props for it, even if it doesn’t end up being a homerun. But hey, getting on base is still
