Pale Blue Eye was awful, but not cartoonishly awful like most of the movies Hollywood churns out these days. For lack of a better anology, unsafe amount of alcohol is what I’ve got to compare it with. It starts with enervating your senses, depriving your pallet of its taste buds, disorienting your brain and finally […]
Extraction 2 felt like a throwback to the kind of Hollywood movies that defined action movie genre for me with its unashamedly over the top enjoyable action sequences that used to form backbone of 90s movies. Gun fights, explosions car chases, brutal hand to hand combats and a highly trained extremely resourceful man put against […]
I remember having a discussion about Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Synecdoche, New York’ with a friend and how when I confessed my ignorance in getting my head around the story he said, with not a little air of condescension, “don’t try to understand, try to appreciate.” I tried then and I’ve tried now with Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam. […]
Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey Unlike the bland, forgettable sludge of ‘comedy’ movies where you are left to forage for what could remotely pass for humor, if you’re prepared to put the propaganda aside, you are in for one hell of a hilarious movie experience. But damn my cynical eye! It’s inclined to look for […]
Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See is a brilliant fictional exploration of the traumatic experience of children caught in the horrors of war. Two absorbing and heart-wrenching parallel stories set in France and Germany during the second world war, woven together with a minimum of stylistic devices, he manages to accomplish a fabulous […]