The Master Dir:Paul Thomas Anderson Alfred Hitchcock was once asked who he made movies for. He thought carefully and answered,“The critics”. The Master was also made perhaps for the critics and most definitely for the director himself.By all accounts, it’s… Read More ›
A few pictures from our visit to Legoland Malaysia, a place saturated with creativity and colours.It was a hot, crowded and ultimately rainy day.But these pictures tell a happier story.Thats why pictures lie and tell the truth all at once,… Read More ›
The Sessions Dir:Ben Lewin Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes) is completely paralyzed, his body was afflicted by severe polio at a young age and he lives inside an iron lung that helps him breathe.However, he retains all his five senses, and… Read More ›
Zero Dark Thirty(2012), through Indian Eyes Dir: Kathryn Bigelow The Death of Osama Bin Laden was greeted by a gigantic 1.2 billion people smirk in India.Look we told you, he is in Pakistan, the military there is hiding him, the… Read More ›
Silver Linings Playbook(2012) Dir:David O. Russel This film hums with a rhythm that resonates with our soul.The tone of the film which has a mentally ill couple as its centre, is pitch perfect.The characters that inhibit this romantic comedy are… Read More ›
Cloud Atlas(2012) Dir: Lana and Andy Wachowski ,Tom Tykwer An atlas is a human contrivance, inherently inaccurate and reinforcing an old lie, that the earth is flat.And an atlas does one more thing, it refuses to acknowledge that the earth… Read More ›
Inkaar(2013) Dir:Sudhir Mishra The most difficult films are the ones that look at the lives of the most representative elements of the audience and try to hold up a mirror.It cannot be pretty picture.After all its a “dog eat dog… Read More ›
Mama Dir:Andy Muschietti In the opening scene we see a car parked outside a house.The door is open and the car radio can be heard, which informs us that like the last financial crisis this time too (2008) there has… Read More ›
The Impossible Dir: Juan Antonio Bayona This is one of those events about which everyone has a unique memory starting with what they were doing or where they were when they heard the news.The Dec 26th 2004 tsunami which killed… Read More ›
Seven Psychopaths Dir:Martin McDonagh I used to love psychopaths. In movies that is, until they became so commonplace that they started popping up in real life, all around me, my boss, my best friends wife, my neighbours kid.Then Hollywood solved… Read More ›
