A Lifeless and Stretched-Out Critique of Modern-Day Journalism One movie that came to my mind while watching the latest Malayalam film Udumbanchola Vision is Aashiq Abu's film Naradan. Both movies are ...

A Movie That Prioritizes Forgettable Comedy over Its Potent Fantasy Element The trailer for the movie Titans, directed by ...

A Tale of Ethical Dilemma Told in a Convoluted, Pretentious Way The movie Orijinal is marketed as a Malayalam time-travel movie, and that has pretty much become its USP. However, when it comes to the ...

If you look at movies like Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, or something like Elysium, those aren’t movies that try to lure the audience by presenting visuals of the future. The idea is to delve ...

The idea of Pradhama Drishtiya Kuttakkar feels like what if a Drishyam scenario arises within the police department. Shahad’s new film is co-written by P. S. Subramanian, a police officer who has ...

There are so many time-loop concepts in Indian cinema, and in the mainstream, we have seen movies like Maanadu, Loop Lapeta, etc. in the recent past. When the trailer of Dhoomakethu dropped, some of ...

The strong suit of the 2024 Malayalam hit film Vaazha was the relatability it created. A big chunk of that movie was on the humor side, where we would see our heroes messing up their lives with all ...

In my review of 2022’s Gatta Kusthi, I had said that even though it’s not a perfect movie, it had a layer that asked the rural drama movies to think differently. Gatta Kusthi was a film about a man ...

There was a time in Tamil cinema, not long back, where everything eventually got connected to agriculture (vevasayam), and our hero will always be that savior of farmers. Vignesh Raja, who made an ...

At its core, the movie Aasha tries to show us the damage one person’s trauma can cause to many others. Safar Sanal’s movie is an attempt to show the wide-scale impact of someone’s unresolved wounds by ...

In 2023, we had this comedy movie named Madhura Manohara Moham, which marked the directorial debut of costume designer Stephy Xavier. Jai Vishnu, the co-writer of the latest Malayalam film Madhuvidhu, ...

One of the reasons Rahul Sadasivan’s last two films, Bramayugam and Bhoothakalam, grabbed the audience’s attention was the way he appreciated their horror-movie intelligence. Be it the theatrics in ...