By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Train To Busan” Director: Yeon Sang-ho Cast: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Choi Woo-sik, Ahn So-hee, Kim Eui-sung, Kim Su-an Rating: ***1/2 Director Yeon Sang-Ho’s “Train To Busan” isn’t a…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” Director: Edward Zwick Cast: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Danika Yarosh Rating: **** Tom Cruise has arrived at a stage in his career where his handsome…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “31st October” Director: Shivaji Lotan Patil Cast: Soha Ali Khan, Vir Das Rating: ***1/2 I was very young on the day Indira Gandhi died. I remember the nationwide horror of…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: Film: “1:13:7 Ek Tera Saath” Director: Arshad Siddiqui Cast: Ssharad Malhotra, Hritu Dudani, Melanie Nazareth, Deepraj Rana, Vishawajit Pradhan, Pankaj Berry, Gargi Patel, Padam Singh, Anubhav Dheer, Aprajita Mahajan, Krishna Raaz…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” Director: Edward Zwick Cast: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Robert Knepper Rating: **1/2 Director Edward Zwick’s “Jack Reacher: Never…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Motu Patlu – King of Kings” Director: Suhas D. Kadav Voices of: Vinay Shukla and Sourav Chakraborty Rating: ** “Motu Patlu – King of Kings” is the first 3D animated feature…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Masterminds” Director: Jared Hess Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Ken Marino, Jason Sudeikis, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Devin Ratray, Jon Daly and Candace Blanchard Rating: **1/2…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Anna: Kisan Baburao Hazare” Writer, Director, Actor: Shashank Udapurkar Rating: *** Serving the cause of cinema may not be as vital and crucial as serving the nation. However, making a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Fuddu” Director: Sunil Subramani Cast: Shubham, Swati Kapoor, Pradeep Gupta, Pawan Kumar Sharma, Vicky Ahuja, Paritosh Sand and Uday Tikekar Rating: *** Set in sin city Mumbai, “Fuddu” is a sweet,…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Motu Patlu: King of Kings” Writer-Director: Suhas D Kadav Rating: ***1/2 It gladdens the heart to see a competent well made animation film from an Indian production house. And full…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Saat Uchakkey” Director: Sanjeev Sharma Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Kay Kay Menon, Anupam Kher, Vijay Raaz, Aditi Sharma, Aparshakti Khurana, Jatin Sarna, Vipul Vig and Nitin Bashin Rating: **1/2 A cop and…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Anna: Kisan Baburao Hazare” Director: Shashank Udapurkar Cast: Shashank Udapurkar, Tanishaa Mukerji, Rajit Kapur, Govind Namdeo, Kishor Kadam, Sharat Saxena and Daya Shankar Pandey Rating: **1/2 This biopic of the social…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Ammani” Language: Tamil Director: Lakshmy Ramakrishnan Cast: Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, Subbalakshmi, Nithin Sathya, George Mariyan and Sri Balaji Rating: ****1/2 Actress Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, who likes to tell her stories through strong, free-spirited…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Saat Uchakkey” Director: Sanjeev Sharma Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Kay Kay Menon, Aditi Sharma, Vijay Raaz, Annu Kapoor, Nitin Bhasin and Anupam Kher Rating: ***1/2 Before things fall apart in this…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Inferno”; Director: Ron Howard; Cast: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Ben Foster, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Ana Ularu, Ida Darvish and Cesare Cremonini; Rating: *1/2 Not all novel adaptations…
By Vikas Datta An unconventional singer – with a raspy, almost nasal voice instead of honeyed tones – burst into public consciousness in the early 1960s with a brace of self-written, hard-hitting songs expressing the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Girl on the Train” Director: Tate Taylor Cast: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Edgar Ramirez, Laura Prepon, Allison Janney, Darren Goldstein, Lisa Kudrow, Lana Young…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Remo; Director: Bakkiyaraj Kannan; Cast: Sivakarthikeyan, Keerthy Suresh Rating: *** “Remo” is a film about cross-dressing. Men masquerading as women, I thought, could only be aesthetic in the hands of…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Remo” Director: Bakkiyaraj Kannan Cast: Sivakarthikeyan, Keerthy Suresh, Sathish, Saranya Ponvannan, Rajendran and Yogi Babu Rating: **1/2 When you walk into a Sivakarthikeyan film, especially one like “Remo”, you can’t expect…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Devi” Director: Vijay Cast: Prabhudheva, Tamannaah Bhatia, Sonu Sood and RJ Balaji Rating: *** If you are a regular watcher of Tamil movies, especially the spate of horror-comedies that have come…