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The Sports Biopic That Will Never Be
Why should we expect any truthing from Dhoni, The Untold Story? When have our sports biopics ever revealed any untold stories?
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Rambo: Last Blood Review: Sylvester Stallone Has Passed His Expiration Date
Eleven years after Sylvester Stallone’s last outing as the Elon Musk of innovative murder techniques, he’s back as Rambo in a film that makes you feel as if you’ve gone back in time while you’re watching it. Watching Last Blood feels like being served leftovers from the earlier, better films in the series.
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Why a Modern Update on Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne is Important in a Time of War-Mongering
Generations of Bengalis have grown up on the Satyajit Ray fantasy musical Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, which, in its 50th year, has got an animated update. The films have a powerful anti-war message that could not be more relevant in the India of today.
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Green Book Review: A Road Trip Film Low on Racial Drama, High on Buddy Comedy
Green Book takes a muddled viewpoint of racism. But together, Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen bring to screen an unforgettable chemistry that’s poignant, rousing, and which single-handedly enlivens the broad strokes of the film’s script.
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Thor: Love and Thunder is A Big Smash With A Touch of Sensitivity
Taika Waititi’s Thor Love and Thunder delivers like his previous film. With lots of humour, tenderness and a deeply affecting love story at its heart.
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Dave Chappelle’s New Netflix Special Replaces Comedy with Clickbait
It is honestly baffling to see Dave Chappelle go up on stage and attempt to rekindle what he had back in the early 2000s. The world has changed, people have changed, but he seems to expect all of us to forget that and reset to 2005.
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Am I A Stalker? Why We Millennials Have a Little Bit of You’s Joe in Us
Who among us hasn’t given in to the temptation of looking up Tinder matches or a new boss online, before we meet them? It’s what this “harmless” looking up leads to – when Netflix’s You implies that our soulmates might just be our stalkers – that makes it a defining series of our times.
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What if the Titanic Were to Set Sail Today?
Would anybody really give a shit if the Titanic were embarking on its maiden journey in 2018? The short answer is... no.
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76th Golden Globes: Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, and an Exercise in Token Wokeness
The 76th Golden Globes undid all of its sensitivity with how it dealt with two of the biggest awards of the night. It’s never a good sign when an awards ceremony warrants discussion because of its snubs rather than its wins.
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Netflix’s Set It Up Puts the Romance Back in the Rom-Com
If you’ve ever wondered whether it was possible to pull off a millennial iteration of When Harry Met Sally, Set It Up comes very, very close. It exists as a canny tribute to the rom-coms of yesteryear, hitting a sweet, nostalgic feel-good spot.