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 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 ...

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

The running time of the latest police thriller, Aaram, starring Saiju Kurup in the lead role, is only 109 minutes. And still, one would feel that they are beating around the bush in the earlier parts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The thing with almost all Girish AD movies is that his story ideas are very thin, and if you try to make them a one-liner, they will all sound like the most generic concepts possible. What makes his ...

DC from Arun Matheswaran is a reimagination of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s iconic novel Devdas. Arun ramps up the speed and focuses more on the phase where Devdas realizes his mistakes. With the new ...

Vismaya Mohanlal’s Thudakkam, yes, that’s exactly the name of the movie in the censor certificate, is a good example of a director making an effort to use all the tools available to make an average ...

Unmadham, the directorial debut of editor Kiran Das, has one of the most exciting interval blocks in recent times, as the sequence makes us wonder how the movie will shape up afterward. But whatever ...

Adithyan Chandrashekhar’s new movie after Enkilum Chandrike, Pluto, is a chaos comedy that has this sci-fi backdrop of an alien coming to Earth. While the early bits of the movie make us think it is a ...