The Spanish director Sánchez-Cabezudo’s film is based on his own script. (He is the latest among formidable Spanish directors making good films based on own scripts, following the tradition of the gifted directors, Amenabar and Almodovar). Most viewers would appreciate or find good entertainment in the film while mulling over in the different non-linear narrative segments of the story of rape, vigilante killing, extra-marital sex, corruption, village vs. urban comparisons, love for a dead spouse. Each segment provides a different Rashomon-type perspective of sections of the same story from a different angle, as seen by a different character.

Director Melville, one of the stalwarts of the new wave genre, films Le Samourai as a thriller with a cinema-verite approach, creating an atmosphere through pauses and an eye for detail. His style here, is for the lack of a better term, “pure filmmaking”, writes Aniruddha Basu
“There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s,” “Unless […]

Despite being his first feature Anand Rai successfully proves his mastery over the medium and paints the film in a curious dark mood where things appear believable, eerie and (dark) humorous at the same time, writes Bikas Mishra
Strangers: A Must WatchA fantastic, thrilling and engrossing film! And very very reassuring for the Bollywood.
It’s centered around […]

Watch The Kingdom, for it’s one of the few terror related thrillers that really thrills you, writes Vedavyasa Bhat
The KingdomFive minutes into ‘The Kingdom’, I knew I was going to like this movie.
I was going to like it because it seemed to be extremely well researched, well made and well scripted. It reminded me of […]

30 Days of Night is possibly the best after the Underworld series that deals with the vampire theme in seriousness and gives it a sense of credibility through its treatment of the myth of vampires, writes Vedavyasa Bhat
30daysofnightWent to watch this movie not really knowing what it was about. Neither was it heavily promoted, nor had […]

Things start going wrong from the very point, the super-duper hit Teri Aakhein Bhool Bhulaiya song abruptly makes its way on to the screen. Couldn’t enjoy the song, thinking if the projectionist has mounted a wrong reel. It’s the crudest possible way to “insert” a song in a narrative film, writes Bikas Mishra
Vidya Balan […]

Newer perspectives of “Rear Window” crystallize if you have seen over 20 Hitchcock films as I fortunately have, writes Jugu Abraham
Rear Window (1954) - James Stewart, photo courtesy: IMDBAfter viewing the film three times over a span of 20-odd years, the film urges a keen viewer to go beyond the appreciation of the cinematic challenges […]

The Departed is one of the most astounding movies I’ve seen that indicts America for its exhibition of insensitivity and xenophobia, writes Abhishek Bandekar
The DepartedMartin Scorsese’s The Departed is one of the most beautifully layered pieces of modern cinema that deftly and effortlessly sieves together the best of literature & cinema, pop culture & politics, […]