Recent Posts

• “Thuppakki Munai”… A thoroughly underwhelming drama that trivialises important issues
• “Kedarnath”… A generally watchable film whose scenery does more heavy-lifting than the screenplay
• Searching for sci-fi/fantasy like ‘Aquaman’ outside Hollywood leads us to… ‘Enthiran’?
• On Ozu’s birth and death anniversary, a look at ‘Tokyo Story’ and the Yōji Yamada remake, ‘Tokyo Family’
• Interview: Rajiv Menon
• Viewer’s Voice: Valarmathi (Domestic Help)
• Readers Write In #63: Kollywood sequels that matter
• Readers Write In #62: Understanding agrarian crisis
• “Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum”… A deeply moving dissection of the lives of three women across three time periods
• Interview: Yash
• Off the topic: ‘The Cut’ article
• #AskBR – 2.0
• Interview: PC Sreeram
• She Says She Says: Who says women can’t be funny on screen
• ‘Last Tango in Paris’ remains a big deal, both as a movie and as the complicated legacy of Bernardo Bertolucci
• Readers Write In #61: Metacriticism – The difficulty of reviewing a movie in the digital age
• The complicated moral universe of ‘Thugs of Hindostan’ and Shankar’s ‘2.0’
• “2.0”… Shankar’s by-now tedious formula is saved by his imagination and a spirited Superstar
• Kosovo’s submission for the Foreign Language Film Oscar is an LGBTQIA-themed drama, and a big hit
• Interview: Resul Pookutty
• Viewer’s Voice: Arasan (Tailor)
• ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘At Eternity’s Gate’, and how familiarity can influence how we view biopics
• Every Shankar film, ranked
• Interview: Karan Johar
• Readers Write In #60: Thugs of Hinduston is a fantastic tribute to Masala cinema and its leading men
• She Says She Says: Tamil Cinema Heroines
• “Taxiwaala”… A fun horror-thriller that juggles high concept and low comedy
• “Thimiru Pudichavan”… An enjoyably OTT cop drama that’s like a Hari movie done right
• “Kaatrin Mozhi”… This remake could have used better craft and performances, but the core still works
• The man behind the Superstar
• The letter in ‘Casablanca’ versus the ones in Chantal Akerman’s ‘News from Home’
• #AskBR – Sarkar
• Viewer’s Voice: Venu (Herbal Pharmacist)
• Readers Write In #59: Is the film playing Kill-Marry-Hook Up with its female characters?
• The Amateur’s Art #44 – Bubbleman / 333
• “Thugs of Hindostan”… A dull attempt at a masala potboiler that hopes star power will trump the script
• Off the Topic: Sensitive Males
• ‘Seven Samurai’ is certainly a great film, but is it the best foreign film of all time?
• Writing a piece on writing a piece on Kamal Haasan
• Readers Write In #58: Vada Chennai and Wasseypur: Rooting cinema with music
• “Sarkar”… An efficient political platform that should have been a more effective movie
• Off the Topic: Film lovers and frayed tempers?
• Off the Topic: Making sci fi accesible to the masses
• ‘And Breathe Normally’, and the interesting ways in which black and white critics write
• She Says She Says: Mass, Masculinity & Thalapathy Vijay
• “Bulbul Can Sing”…. A languid, beautiful, understated tale of a girl who learns to be herself
• Viewer’s Voice: Arumugam (Istri Wala)
• Readers Write In #57: LGBTs in Hindi cinema in light of the 377 judgment
• The long gaps between the films of David Lean, Terrence Malick and Ildikó Enyedi, whose ‘On Body and Soul’ is on Netflix
• “Badhaai Ho”… A warm, funny tale about how we deal with it when an older woman ends up pregnant