Jude Anthany Joseph's third feature, after Ohm Shanti Oshana and Oru Muthassi Gadha, released on Prime Video at midnight today. This seemingly feel-good film, also seemingly made in limited spaces and with a shoestring budget, tackles a concept and issue never tested before in Malayalam cinema circles. In Sara'S, we follow the life of Sara Vincent (Anna Ben), a young, bubbly, yet unapologetic filmmaker who struggles to make it big in the industry. She continuously assists male directors and is in the scripting works of her dream film. Sara has decided, from her school days, that she would not bear any kids. This is when she meets Jeevan (Sunny Wayne); her relationship with him subsequently brings her ideology and decision into a confrontation with the established norms of society, family and child-rearing. Anna Ben in Sara'S The best aspect in which Sara'S has excelled, without doubt, is its hard-hitting taut script. Debutant Akshay Hareesh deserves praise for managin...
Here's the review on the sequel to the illusion-themed heist thriller: Now You See Me 2 With only one slight change in the female member of the Horsemen (Isla Fisher gives way for Lizzy Caplan), the quartet of illusionists/tricksters/robbers-turn-to-Robin-Hood are back to blow off hidden agendas and cruel intentions of white-collared billionaires and fraudsters. When one of their stage performances to uncover the deceit by a tech mogul goes horribly wrong, they are forcibly recruited by tech maniac/wizard Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe) to steal a chip that can read and have access to every computer in the planet- a typical thread that forms the crux of every heist/sci-fi/spy thrillers. The plot becomes even more messier with more characters- Chase McKinney, evil twin of Merrit McKinney (Woody Harrelson), Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine), looking to tie old strings. The writers try to wedge part-cooked subplots, those of Dylan Rhodes' (Mark Ruffalo) still-not-over ve...