Time, surely is interesting. We perceive the flow of time and make assumptions about when something happened. While I don’t know if there was any enigma that people ascribed to time before Einstein showed that it doesn’t flow at the same rate for everyone, I cannot imagine how someone is not intrigued by the very…
Over the past 10 years, the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have consistently been telling the story of 6 powerful gems labeled the Infinity Stones. This 10-year-old plotline has spanned 21 movies, accumulated around 60 superheroes, and gathered a massive fanbase along the way, all of whom have been waiting to know how it…
Shazam is a comedy. Shazam is also a DC movie. I know a DC comedy sounds like an oxymoron but DC has finally decided to give up on the dull brooding superhero theme for their universe and are adopting a more Marvel-esque tone, which as evident from their recent movies is also fetching better reviews…
Avengers Infinity War released almost a year ago and it ended with a reference to Captain Marvel; it is no secret she’s going to be appearing in the sequel. But it’s been almost a year now and we’re kind of beginning to forget what the big deal was with Avengers. So before the release of…
Gully Boy is the story of Murad, a boy from the streets of Mumbai who finds his calling to be a rapper and is faced with numerous societal obstacles in the way of pursuing his passion. With Zoya Akhtar at the helm, and with Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhat starring in lead roles, the movie…
Note: Spoilers follow. At the end of the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, Walter White sits in a bar in New Hamshire watching the co-founders of Grey Matter Technologies speaking about him. A company that he co-founded, based on his research, and then parted ways by selling his share for meager $5000 and settling as…
Before I start, I just want to mention that I am a huge Christopher Nolan fan. I have dissected each of his movies and analyzed them in excruciating detail (I am one of those guys that read The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne). I love every single one of his movies, with Interstellar being…
I went to watch First Man, assuming that it is the story of the moon landing feat achieved by humans in 1969. It was not. It was the story of one man. His name is Neil Armstrong. The First Man. The Good: Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle takes you into the mind of Neil Armstrong. Literally.…
Andhadhun starts with a seemingly unrelated and innocuous scene of a hunter trying to shoot a rabbit. There is no mention of the scene anywhere in the movie, until, deep into the second half the scene pops up again and this time you see the reason for it in the first place. What I realized…
Venom is a symbiote. Two people living in one body. They argue with each other, help each other and need each other. Interesting concept. The Good: Venom has all the good parts of a generic superhero movie. The VFX, the CGI, the stunts, the action, the jokes. What separates it from other movies, of course,…
Mission Impossible Fallout is the sixth movie in the Mission Impossible franchise and continues the plot of the previous movie, Rogue Nation. It brings back much of the same team and delivers one hell of an entertainer. The Good: Mission Impossible is one of those movies where you can literally list out the best scenes…
Padmaavat, formerly known as Padmaavati, has finally made its way to the audience, in spite of being embroiled in a myriad of controversies and having gotten delayed from its original release in December. It’s director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali has always been a strong creative force, with a knack for magnificent visuals and extravagant storytelling, but…
There is a scene in Sanju where Sanjay Dutt’s dying mother Nargis tells him that she wants to watch Sanjay’s first movie in the theatre sitting in between Sanjay and his father, Sunil. Sadly, she does not live to see this day, and during the premier when Sanjay and Sunil wait for the movie to…
10 years have passed since Nick Fury appeared at the end of Iron Man and expressed his desire to assemble a team of superheroes, calling it the Avengers Initiative. Thus started an extremely lucrative franchise of movies called the Marvel Cinematic Universe, whose plots cross over one another. In those 10 years, a myriad of superheroes…
Christopher Nolan is known for his intelligent style of film making, but his body of work has been mostly science fiction. For the first time, Nolan turns to an epic historical story about the evacuation of Dunkirk during WWII. However, if you assumed this change in the genre was going to bind Nolan into making a…
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