Category: Cinema
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I walked into the cinema with the biggest hope in my heart that this movie wouldn’t let me down and it didn’t. It delivered, if not more than delivered on my expectations for it. For me, the Bridget Jones movies are a comfort movie, it feels like being wrapped in a big warm hug, but…
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A successful adaptation of a musical into a film is no mean feat. In my opinion, it is quite the risk to attempt to capture the magic that a theatre show exudes and make it into a blockbuster without losing the energy of the performances or using really bad CGI (the 2019 Cats film speaks…
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Over Halloween, I decided to finally sit down and watch ‘The Shining’ after years of saying I would. I watched it probably the scariest way – alone at night, in my room with my headphones on, and I experienced every facet of the ‘creepy’ this film had to offer. After watching it, a few times…
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Esha Sanyal revisits the heartbreaking ‘Moonlight’…
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Karina Nasur gives her opinion on the queer satire ‘Bottoms’…
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Where Tenet (2020) feels like a condensation of all the faults of Christopher Nolan as a director, ‘Oppenheimer’ seems to be his response to those criticisms and a reminder of his mastery of filmmaking. Nolan cleverly weaves through the inception, development and reverberations of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as both biopic…
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2023 is a highly anticipated year for cinephiles and auteurs alike. It promises to offer some riveting narratives and some new styles of postmodern filmmaking. In that spirit, some of our writers introduce you to some of the upcoming films they are curious to watch this year. Does any of your selected favourites make to…
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Thanks to a massive surge in popularity recently with its inclusion in Stranger Things and popular gaming shows like Critical Role, Dungeons & Dragons are arguably more well-known than ever been? Me? I’ve been into it since I was about six or seven, and I would read all my dad’s 3rd edition books and play…
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John Wick: Chapter 4 opens with a bold statement – a match cut that is a direct homage to David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia. This is an incredibly massive mission statement, and not every film can easily get away with a reference to one of cinema’s undisputed classics, but Chad Stahelski, somehow, gets away with…
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Heterogeneity is a popular format of containing the filmic audiences of India, who might have differing preferences or stances over stardom — and these preferences are typically influenced by linguistic, cultural, religious, and political factors. Only a few stars within the pantheon of Indian cinema have been able to transcend these differences and become everyman’s…
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This 2022 flick stars Nathalie Emmanuel (of Misfits, and Game of Thrones) as Evelyn “Evie” Jackson, a recently orphaned woman who receives a DNA test as a gift, following a catering event. After submitting it, she meets her affluent, distant British family. She is drawn in by the grandeur and mystique of Whitby’s Carfax Estate,…
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Our writers look at the very best movies from A24.
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She was billed as ‘pari chehra’, the fairy-faced one. Her picture was in every paper. She was indeed young and lovely, her most remarkable feature being her large, magnetic eyes . . . (p. 169). . . . thus wrote, Saadat Hasan Manto about the woman who was considered as the first female superstar of…
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We all remember the iconic shot of Amy Adams emerging from the middle of the road in Times Square, dressed head to toe in a fairytale princess bridal gown. We’re talking about a curly bouffant accessorized with a tiara, an oversized white dress with puffy shoulders and an exaggerated hoop skirt. Giselle went full-out glam,…