At the end of the film, the movie Sherlock Toms is trying to project its leading man as an intelligent enforcement officer. But the path the film has chosen is the awkward part here. Making an entire second half a rescue operation, this movie from Shafi struggles due to a fragile screenplay. The screenplay dangles… Continue reading Sherlock Toms
Category: Review
Solo
Bejoy Nambiar is a director who has impressively utilized the visual language of movie making. His first Malayalam movie Solo, starring Dulquer Salmaan is an anthology that is based on four of the five Pancha Bhootas Air, Fire, Water and Earth. Bejoy is trying to showcase various aspects of being alone through various stories that… Continue reading Solo
Udaharanam Sujatha
Udaharanam Sujatha is the official remake of the 2016 Hindi movie Nil Battey Sannata which was written by Nitesh Tiwari (director of Dangal) and directed by his wife Ashwini Iyer Tiwari. Phantom Praveen has come up with the Malayalam version of this film and I must say that it does justice to the original by… Continue reading Udaharanam Sujatha
Ramaleela
Ramaleela is the story of a politician who wants to come up clean in a criminal case that has been lodged against him. Just like the teaser and posters, there are numerous references in this movie that would make you wonder whether they are trying to infuse stuff that are beyond this movie in to… Continue reading Ramaleela
Haseena Parkar
Haseena Parkar directed by Apoorva Lakhia is presented as a court room drama where we get to see the flash back of Haseena’s life as the prosecutor questions her in front of the judge. But the court arguments are pretty lame and the movie itself is this typical glorification of a negative persona and thus… Continue reading Haseena Parkar
Newton
At the end of the jungle sequence in the movie Newton, a few people in the audience laughed. And I felt that laughter which came out of shear ignorance is the reason why a movie like Newton got made. Newton from director Amit V Masurkar is a fabulously made hard hitting black comedy that looks… Continue reading Newton
Pokkiri Simon
There is a pattern that has worked for films like Amar Akbar Anthony (Malayalam) which is creating a lot of funny sequences and ending the story with a topic that hits you hard on an emotional level. Pokkiri Simon from Jijo Antony is somewhat attempting the same thing. But the impact here is not that… Continue reading Pokkiri Simon
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
The 2014 Matthew Vaughn action spy comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service was a film that I would call as an outrageous entertainer which tweaked the existing spy thriller set up by adding a lot of original stuff. Even after being somewhat silly on paper we all enjoyed it and I remember people putting up memes… Continue reading Kingsman: The Golden Circle