By Troy Ribeiro Film: “2016 The End”; Director: Jaideep Chopra; Cast: Divyendu Sharma, Harshad Chopra, Kiku Sharda, Priya Banerjee, Supriya Karnik, Narendra Jha, Tom Alter and Rahul Roy; Rating: ** What would you do if…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Blade Runner 2049”; Director: Denis Villeneuve; Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis Carli Juri, Lennie James, Dave Baustista, Jared Leto; Rating: *** Based…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Chef’; Director: Raja Krishna Menon; Starring: Saif Ali Khan, Padmapriya Janakiraman, Svar Kamble; Rating: ****1/2 There is a lot of teasing between the father and son ,played with endearing casualness…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Tu Hai Mera Sunday”; Director: Milind Dhaimade; Cast: Barun Sobti, Shahana Goswami, Vishal Malhotra, Rasika Duggal, Avinash Tiwary, Maanvi Gagroo, Jay Upadhyay, Nakul Bhalla, Shiv Subrahmanyam; Rating: *** Treated as a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Chef”; Director: Raja Krishna Menon; Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Padampriya Janakiraman, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Milind Soman, Svar Kamble, Rating: *** An official Hindi remake of Jon Favreau’s 2014 film by the…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “CRD”; Director: Kranti Kanade; Cast: Saurabh Saraswat, Mrinmayee Godbole, Vinay Sharma and Geetika Tyagi; Rating: *** Sometimes, on that rare occasion when we are not watching, Indian cinema pushes the…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Our Souls At Night”; Cast: Robert Redford and Jane Fonda; Director: Ritesh Batra; Rating: ***** Ritesh Batra is a filmmaker who loves silence and embraces it with all its inbuilt…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Judwaa 2”; Cast: Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Tapsee Pannu, Anupam Kher; Director: David Dhawan; Rating: ***1/2 (3 and a half stars) In our country we revere the dead. And disrespect…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Judwaa 2”; Director: David Dhawan; Cast: Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Tapsee Pannu, Vivan Bhatena, Sachin Khedekar, Zakir Husain, Rajpal Yadav, Anupam Kher and Upasana Singh; Rating: **1/2 Coming from the stable…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Spyder” Writer-Director: A.R. Murugadoss Cast: Mahesh Babu, S.J. Surya, and Rakul Preet Singh Rating: **** There is nothing like a perfect spy thriller. But “Spyder” comes close. It is svelte,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “CRD”; Director: Kranti Kanade; Cast: Saurabh Saraswat, Mrinmayee Godbole, Vinay Sharma, Abhay Mahajan, Isha Keskar and Geetika Sapna Rakesh; Rating: **1/2 Like a rooster in all its morning glory, director Kranti…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “American Made” Director: Doug Liman Cast: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Alejandro Edda, Mauricio Mejia, Caleb Landry Jones, Jesse Plemons, Jayma Mays, Lola Kirke, William Mark McCullough, E. Roger…
Film: Spyder Language: Telugu Cast: Mahesh Babu, Rakul Preet Singh, S. J. Surya, Bharath, Priyadarshi Pullikonda, RJ Balaji Director: A.R Murugadoss Rating: 2.75 Reviewed By: SOCIALNEWS.XYZ Story: Shiva (Mahesh), A tech-savvy crime fighter crosses path with a Psyco killer (Surya)….
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “JD”; Director: Shailendra Pandey; Cast: Lalit Bisht, Vedita Pratap Singh, Govind Namdev, Aman Verma, Arvind Gaur, Meenakshi, Amar Singh; Rating: ** In the very first scene, an editor of a renowned…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Bhoomi”; Director: Omung Kumar; Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sidhant Gupta, Sharad Kelkar, Riddhi Sen, Veer Aryan, Puru Chibber and Shekhar Suman; Rating: *1/2 “Bhoomi” seems to be a rehash…
Mumbai: Actors Aditi Rao Hydari, Sanjay dutt, Sharad Kelkar and Film Director Omung Kumar with Mithun Chakraborty during the promotion of their upcoming film “Bhoomi” on the sets of television show “The Drama Company” in…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Haseena Parkar”; Director: Apoorva Lakhia; Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor, Priyanka Setia, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang, Rating: **** If only Haseena Parkar didn’t suffer from the curse of clunky, inept,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Final Exit”; Director: Dhwanil Mehta; Cast: Kunaal Roy Kapoor, Ananya Sengupta, Scarlett Wilson, Elena Kazan, Archana Vedasastry and Reyhna Malhotra; Rating: ** You’d either love “The Final Exit” or hate…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Haseena Parkar”; Director: Apoorva Lakhia; Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor, Priyanka Setia, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang, Rating: ** A biopic on the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar, Director Apoorva…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Kingsman: The Golden Circle”; Director: Matthew Vaughn; Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges, Pedro Pascal, Edward Holcroft, Hanna Alstrom, Emily Watson, Sophie…