Aamir Khan Starrer ‘Dangal’ – Movie Review
The sports biopic ‘Dangal,’ starring Aamir Khan, follows the life of amateur wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat from the northern Indian state of Haryana, who gave up wrestling due to financial difficulties but went on to train his daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari to become world-class wrestlers. Nitesh Tiwari directs the film, which stars Khan […]
Hangman (2015): A Home Invasion Thriller
The critics have given mixed reviews to the found-footage thriller Hangman, directed by Adam Mason. The film begins with the Miller family returning from vacation to find their home broken into and ransacked by someone. As they settled in, reassured by cops that it could be a case of some teenagers wanting a place to […]
ABATTOIR (2016) – Film Review
The film ABATTOIR follows a real estate reporter Julia who goes deep in search of the real reason behind the murder of her sister. Being a reporter and in intense love with her sister and her family, she quickly realizes that there is more to the murder that involves even many other weirdest things. Julia […]
ANTHROPOID (2016) – To Kill the Key Architect of the Holocaust
The wartime thriller ANTHROPOID is based on the extraordinary true story of “Operation Anthropoid,” (carried out on 27th May 1942) in which the Czechoslovakian operatives sought to assassinate Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel i.e. Protection Squadron) Officer Reinhard Heydrich — the key architect of the Holocaust. From the historical point of view, the film follows the people […]
THE TRUST – Movie Review (2016)
Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood’s “THE TRUST” is as engaging and comic as it builds for an unlike moment of truth in the end. I know most these days many of us don’t expect much from a Cage film. However, knowing the fact that he is an Academy Award-winning actor (Leaving Las Vegas), there is […]
THE INFILTRATOR: Film Review
Based on the book by Robert Mazur, THE INFILTRATOR is a well-designed film with an interesting cast led by Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad). The film, set in an exciting on-the-edge drug trafficking and money laundering true-life drama, has some great moments in narrating the story of undercover federal agent Robert “Bob” Mazur who goes deep […]
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Review
Book to film adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is directed by none other than Tim Burton [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns] but somehow the film lacked his trademark touch. Based on the 2011 bestseller Ransom Riggs’s book of the same name, the film had a lot […]
‘Sully’ (2016) – Movie Review
Tom Hanks’ magical performance and Clint Eastwood’s direction, without taking the route of sensationalization, work in favor of the 2016 American biographical drama ‘Sully’. Indeed it is an inspiring true story of airline pilot Chesley Sully Sullenberger’s heroic emergency landing of the US Flight 1549 on the Hudson River. The movie is fast-paced and to […]
TRADED: An Ex-Gunslinger Must Return To His Roots
In director Timothy Woodward Jr’s western drama TRADED, Michael Pare plays an ex-gunslinger Clay Travis, who goes back to his roots in search of his daughter. On the way to find his daughter, he took the help of an unlikely companion Billy (Kris Kristofferson), an old bartender, and ends up leaving a few dead bodies […]
RAAZ REBOOT – We Don’t Need Another Raaz Movie
Recently, we get to watch RAAZ REBOOT – the fourth installment of the Raaz horror movie series. As usual, the movie promised a lot in terms of horror elements but end up delivering more than enough reasons why we no more need another such horror movie from the makers. For a long, it seems the Bhatt clan […]