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...
Note: Spotlight is the 2016 Academy Award winner for Best Picture. Depicting a challenging topic such as the Catholic Church child abuse scandal might have appeared as a challenge to director Tom McCarthy and writer Josh Singer, but the way the duo has executed this movie is a testament to the success of factual storytelling. Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), a self-contained and observant journalist, arrives at the Boston Globe as the new chief editor. The year is 2001- a few months before 9/11. He encounters Walter Robinson (Michael Keaton), the editor of the Spotlight team, the oldest continuously operating investigative journalism team, and assigns to the team the task of following up the hidden, but infamous Geoghan case and its subsequent cover-up by the Catholic Church. The team, consisting of Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams), Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Matt Carrol (Brian D'Arcy James) and supervised by Ben Bradlee Jr. (John Slattery), plunges head on to th...