Devang Ghia reviews Elegy
Elegy [2008]
For sure, Elegy is not a film for every taste. After it got over, I wasn’t sure whether I liked it or not. It takes its own time to get to the point and by the time its there, there may be no point at all. It depends on how furiously […]

Daniel Craig may be called the best Bond after Sean Connery, but that has not stopped him from experimenting with deliciously offbeat and quirky screen personas. His latest, Flashbacks finds him as Joe Scott a fading English movie star hung on orgies and cocaine and too spaced out to do anything with his apathetic existence. But a friend’s death leads him back to the English countryside of his adolescence where a forbidden affair with an older woman had led to tragedy two decades back and changed his life for ever.

Srikanth Srinivasan reviews Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)“Cigar. Cuban. Now you pissed me off!” says the protagonist of Guillermo Del Toro’s latest venture Hellboy II: The Golden Army as the baddie’s sidekick Wink, yields a blow to his face, making his favorite tool fall into water. With a face that […]

12 Angry Men forms the cream of greatest American films ever made and is in the same league as Kubrick’s and Ford’s masterpieces, writes Srikant Srinivasan
12 Angry MenIf I was to choose one debut movie from Hollywood that I would have loved to make, it would not be Citizen Kane (1941), it would not be Duel […]

Somewhere towards the interval, some 45 minutes after The Strangers began, I was filled with two very different emotions. The first was something close to fear, the film had me sitting at the edge of my seat. The second was relief that Hollywood can still make films crafty enough to make us jump. My only concern was whether first-time director Bryan Bertino can sustain the tension till the end. I will come to that later. First a few words about the plot.

An estranged couple decide to spend the night at their secluded summer home, possibly to work out the issues plaguing their relationship.

At a time when film-noir had become a genre and heist films had become a sub-genre, The Killing sought to break away from rigid rules and provide fluidity and hence novelty to the genre, writes Srikanth Srinivasan
The Killing (1956)
Whenever Kubrick’s canon of films is discussed, this quiet little early gem is invariably lost out amidst […]

Eager anticipation turned into sheer disappointment for Rituparna Chatterjee after she watched American comic genius Woody Allen’s latest offering.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)“People tend to think that I am neurotic in my life,” Woody Allen said in an interview to Time Magazine praising his famous portrayals of neurotic characters. Needless to […]

Much like Jim Carrey, whether you like or dislike an Adam Sandler film entirely depends upon whether or not you can tolerate Adam Sandler. Now I happen to have a wide range in taste when it comes to humour and whose nadir happens to be the downright tasteless. So you won’t find a single comment in this review castigating the film for its crude jokes. I just don’t affront to any kind of levels a film may swoop to. Humour for me has only two categories, funny and otherwise.