Mosul (film streaming on Netflix); Cast: Adam Bessa, Suhail Dabbach, Is’haq Elias, Qutaiba Abdelhaq, Ahmed El Ghanem; Direction: Matthew Michael Carnahan; Rating: * * * and 1/2 (three and a half stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY…
BY VINOD MIRANI India is the flavour of the season. And the entertainment industry adds to this flavour. A few foreign studios came to India to be a part of the Indian film industry. Having…
Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula (Korean film); Cast: Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-jae, Koo Kyo-hwan; Direction: Yeon Sang-ho; Rating: * * and 1/2 (two and a half stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY The…
Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula (Korean film); Cast: Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-jae, Koo Kyo-hwan; Direction: Yeon Sang-ho; Rating: * * and 1/2 (two and a half stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY The…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Nov 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) A video of Yuvraj Medhe giving an audition on Indian Idol 12 has gone viral, not only for his singing skills but also for his back story….
BY VINOD MIRANI The cinema chains, which pleaded and lobbied hard, with various state governments and the Central Government to lift lockdown and let cinemas get back into operation, got their wish eventually. However, it…
Middle Class Melodies (Telugu film with subtitles, on Amazon Prime); Cast: Anand Deverakonda, Varsha Bollamma, Goparaju Ramana, Prabhavathi Varma, Chaitanya Garikipati, Divya Sripada; Direction: Vinod Ananthoju; Rating: * * * (three stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY…
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Nov 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nawazuddin Siddiqui feels OTTs are getting cramped in India and herd mentality is seeping in. The actor says everyone wants to do something on the digital platform,…
Target Number One (Canadian film on Zeeplex); Cast: Antoine Olivier Pilon, Josh Hartnett, Jim Gaffigan, Stephen McHattie, Don McKellar, JC MacKenzie, Amanda Crew; Direction: Daniel Roby; Rating: * * and 1/2 (two and a half…
A Simple Murder (series on SonyLIV); Cast: Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Priya Anand, Amit Sial, Sushant Singh, Yashpal Sharma; Direction: Sachin Pathak; Rating: * * * (three stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY A Simple Murder does become…
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Nov 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Drew Barrymore made it big in Hollywood at the age of seven, only to be blacklisted at the age of 12. The Hollywood actress says living through…
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Nov 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) He grabbed attention of cinegoers with his skilled performance in Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s Beyond The Clouds in 2017. His next, Dhadak, fared below expectations, and though Khaali…
The Crown (series on Netflix); Cast: Olivia Colman, Gillian Anderson, Emma Corrin, Josh O’Connor, Helena Bonham Carter, Emerald Fennell, Tobias Menzies, Stephen Boxer, Erin Doherty, Marion Bailey; Created by: Peter Morgan; Rating: * * *…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Nov 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actress Sanya Malhotra loves to dance, and she wants to combine that passion with acting someday. She is hopeful that the dream project will happen next year….
New Delhi, Nov 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Every role that he essayed remains priceless, no matter the genre of the film or the nature of the character. Yet, there are some performances in the oeuvre of late…
BY VINOD MIRANI Since the first talked-about Made in India OTT content, Sacred Games, featured on Netflix in June 2018, there has been hue and cry about the kind of content that was peddled in…
Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari; Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Diljit Dosanjh, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Annu Kapoor, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Vijay Raaz, Seema Pahwa, Manoj Pahwa; Direction: Abhishek Sharma; Rating: * * and 1/2 (two and a half stars)…
Chhalaang (on Amazon Prime); Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Nushrat Bharucha, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Saurabh Shukla, Ila Arun, Satish Kaushik; Direction: Hansal Mehta; Rating: * * * (three stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY Sports films can no longer…
Ludo (film streaming on Netflix); Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Aditya Roy Kapur, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Rohit Suresh Saraf, Pearle Maaney, Inayat Verma, Asha Negi; Direction: Anurag Basu; Rating: * *…
Laxmii; Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kiara Advani, Sharad Kelkar, Rajesh Sharma, Ayesha Raza Mishra, Manu Rishi Chadha; Direction: Raghava Lawrence; Rating: * * (two stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY Every now and then, it seems, Akshay Kumar…