‘Shot Caller’ (2017) – An Impressive Prison Story (Film Review)
Ric Roman Waugh’s prison drama Shot Caller is a terrific thriller with not so unique storyline yet has its moments when it takes us through the power centers inside a prison and its far-reaching influence. Well, it is kind of generic when we have seen a good number of prison-related movies and series, but Danish […]
Calibre (2018) – Movie Review – A Netflix Original
This Netflix movie Calibre, starring Jack Lowden and Martin McCann in the lead, introduces us to a hunting expedition in Scotland that goes wrong with a troubling turn of events. Directed by Matt Palmer, the film is dark, gripping, and certainly a must-watch. Calibre is the kind of movie that teaches us to face the […]
THE FOREST (2016) – A film based around Aokigahara
THE FOREST is an American supernatural horror-thriller based on the disreputable Japanese suicide forest known as Aokigahara. However, the film never delves deep into the story behind the forest, but the tale of twin sisters – one of whom goes missing in the infamous woodland. There are few documentaries on the suicide forest in Japan […]
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (REVIEW)
The dinosaurs are back with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Directed by J. A. Bayona), a sequel to the 2015 reboot of the original franchise, with a promise to have a sequel. If we look at the franchise as a whole, this is not the best of the lot; Jurassic World was comparatively much better than […]
Lust Stories – Exploring the forbidden emotion
Netflix original anthology Lust Stories is an attempt to present the forbidden emotion ‘lust’ just as a regular human need, and doing so casts light on Indian society and its moral complexities. While depicting lustfulness, this movie certainly does not have to be any soft-porn or erotic in nature. It’s more to do with human […]
DARC (2018) – Review – An Ultra-violent Gangster Drama
I was looking for some Liam Neeson kind of slick action thriller and got this ultra-violent crime thriller DARC, now streaming on Netflix. Director Julius R. Nasso brings this action-packed, blood-soaked revenge crime thriller that goes with the likes of the Taken film series or Keanu Reeves starrer John Wick series. DARC is actually dark […]
Love Per Square Foot (2018) – With Love, Romance and Humor
With Love Per Square Foot, Netflix ventures into the Hindi film industry to draw the Indian audience with what they like the most – Bollywood clichéd Rom-Com. Well, I say this on a positive note, as most Indians see life through a prism of happiness all-around. This film is full of emotion, love, romance, and […]
Revenge (Netflix, 2017) – Stylish, Intense and Bloody
French director Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature film Revenge is surprisingly stylish and slaughterous with a thrilling premise. It is an out-and-out revenge drama involving three men and a woman who survives a near-death to hunt those three who put her into a mess. Well, it’s one of those survival thrillers where you know that the […]
You Get Me (2017) – Movie Review
You Get Me, a Netflix Original produced by Awesomeness Films, is a romantic-psychological thriller involving a love triangle that takes a wrong turn with few uninspiring characters. Before we move to review the film or give more details of the storyline, let’s make it very clear that this movie caters to young college-going kids, so […]
Orbiter 9 (2017) – Spanish Sci-Fi Romantic Drama
Netflix‘s Spanish sci-fi film Orbiter 9 (Spanish: Órbita 9) follows a young woman Helena (Clara Lago), who is alone in a spaceship spending 20 years of her life from the day of her birth. Assigned with some secret mission by some unknown agency, her parents abandoned the ship, as a technical malfunction left them with no […]