Tourist Family Review | A Typical Goodness Package With Some Clever Practical Tweaks

Tourist Family, the new Tamil film written and directed by debutant Abishan Jeevinth, is not a film that breaks any conventions to create a feel-good movie. Abishan follows a very familiar style of building various subplots that will have a payoff at a later stage. But he is very aware of the kind of cliched… Continue reading Tourist Family Review | A Typical Goodness Package With Some Clever Practical Tweaks

Retro Review | This Laughter-Rebellion Tale From Karthik Subbaraj Is an Uneven Gangster Drama

Revolt is something we have seen in the last Karthik Subbaraj directorial, Jigarthanda DoubleX. The climax of that movie sort of captured the essence of the rebellion with those spectacular visuals. His latest film, Retro, has a thematic similarity in terms of the story’s structure with the second Jigarthanda film. But Karthik is trying to… Continue reading Retro Review | This Laughter-Rebellion Tale From Karthik Subbaraj Is an Uneven Gangster Drama

Good Bad Ugly Review | A First-Of-Its-Kind, 141-Minute-Long, CBFC-Certified Mashup Video

Let me begin this review by saying if you are that diehard fan who would scream “Kadavuley Ajithey” despite your star requesting not to do that, you do not need any review to watch this movie, and this review is not at all for such an individual. A movie having fan service moments is a… Continue reading Good Bad Ugly Review | A First-Of-Its-Kind, 141-Minute-Long, CBFC-Certified Mashup Video

Test Review | An Interesting Premise That Takes Too Long to Ignite

The final act and the entire second half of the new Netflix movie Test, the debut directorial venture of YNout studios head S Sashikanth, had some fire in it. The way it becomes an extremely character-driven movie in that patch where every character is in a space where they have to choose between their desire… Continue reading Test Review | An Interesting Premise That Takes Too Long to Ignite

Veera Dheera Sooran Review | A Script That Rejuvenates a Confined Plot With Solid Setups and Payoffs

SU Arun Kumar’s latest film after Chithha is an action drama that tries to get into the complicated dynamics of the rivalry between police and gangsters. If you look at the structure of the screenplay of this movie, it doesn’t have the texture of a film that will have a major star in it. The… Continue reading Veera Dheera Sooran Review | A Script That Rejuvenates a Confined Plot With Solid Setups and Payoffs

Perusu Review | A Potent, Funny Funeral Comedy With Inconsistent Highs and Lows

Perusu, the new Tamil funeral comedy from director Ilango Ram, is the remake of his own Simhala film Tentigo. The movie has a very peculiar and outrageously funny premise. While the premise is offering the movie a lot of opportunity to explore one-liner jokes and situational humor, in the middle portions, it is finding it… Continue reading Perusu Review | A Potent, Funny Funeral Comedy With Inconsistent Highs and Lows

Dragon Review | Ashwath Marimuthu Reinvents the Cranky Hero Trope to Deliver a Smart Entertainer

Ashwath Marimuthu’s new film Dragon starts with a scene where the hero realizes that girls love bad boys over studious achievers. From that point onwards, Dragon has this attire of a celebration of rowdy attitude, and some of the things the hero does in the initial areas of the movie are like a comical version… Continue reading Dragon Review | Ashwath Marimuthu Reinvents the Cranky Hero Trope to Deliver a Smart Entertainer

Nilavuku En Mel Ennadi Kobam Review | A Passable Millennial Gaze at Gen Z Relationships

Nilavuku En Mel Ennadi Kobam, the latest directorial from actor Dhanush, which features a whole bunch of youngsters, was initially planned as a Dhanush starrer directed by Soundarya Rajinikanth. But when the project revived after 7 years with this new star cast, the age category of the characters had dropped significantly. I am talking about… Continue reading Nilavuku En Mel Ennadi Kobam Review | A Passable Millennial Gaze at Gen Z Relationships