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'Sara'S' review: Anchored by a powerful script, this simple film breaks the conventions of the feel-good template

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...

Mission Impossible:Fallout - a breathtakingly fantastic spy flick powered by Tom Cruise

 For a franchise that has made jaw-dropping action sequences it's "big thing", fans expected nothing less from Ethan Hunt and Co. when producers announced the sixth installment. Reviewer-The Blog © is back with it's review on the much awaited Tom Cruise flick.     IMF super spy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team, which comprises Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), are tasked with finding three highly lethal plutonium cores, in the possession of The Apostles, a covert mercenary group built on the ruins of The Syndicate, the rogue organization headed by the now captured Solomon Lane, Rogue Nation's chief antagonist. When the operation goes haywire, Hunt has to reluctantly join forces with CIA agent August Walker (Henry Cavill) to retrieve the apocalyptic cores while battling with unseen shadows. Henry Cavill, Tom Cruise, and  Rebecca Ferguson        Every industry has those faces who seem to outwit the phe...

Captain Marvel Trailer- Breakdown

 Captain Marvel has already created news since it's announcement as the first movie in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe with a female lead. The wait for the 21st installment in the MCU, spearheaded by the highly talented Brie Larson, reached unimaginable heights with the breathtaking post credit scene in the colossal Avengers: Infinity War. Since then, diehard fans of the MCU had been eagerly waiting for some news on the upcoming flick. It seems that the studio has finally satiated their desire by releasing a 2-minute trailer that came out just hours ago, through the ABC show Good Morning America. Considering that Captain Marvel would act as a prelude to the much-awaited Avengers 4, Reviewer -The  Blog tries to breakdown the trailer, giving more clues and keys to more possible theories about how the movie would pan out. So, let's start from the beginning. 1. The Explosion and Landing   The trailer opens up with an on-air blast sending a disinteg...

Dunkirk- a war film about survival

A film by Christopher Nolan on a monumental event in world history promised moviegoers an immersive theatrical experience.    A whopping number of 400,000 British soldiers are stranded on Dunkirk beach, a site flanked by German warships and fighter planes. Commander Bolton ( Kenneth Branagh ) carries the onus of adventurously evacuating the colossal populace of troopers, which becomes a herculean task, even when "they can practically see it from there-home." Nolan deftly weaves in three different story-lines, centering around the historically significant beach of Dunkirk. The historic victory of the British civilian population even when the army faced a "colossal military disaster" is depicted with the required patriotism; however that is justified with Nolan's atrocious portrayal of the unspeakable horrors the hapless soldiers faced while in their tryst with fate and survival. James D'Arcy and Kenneth Branagh          Even though...

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri- when a mother embarks on a mission...

Reviewer-The Blog © is back after a very long hiatus with the review of the most acclaimed movie of 2017.  Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), a middle-aged mother, frustrated by the Ebbing Police Department's indifference towards the investigation on her daughter's rape and subsequent murder, sets out on a mission to vent her anger by renting three unnoticed billboards, which consequently rattles up a few cages and raises a lot of eyebrows. The billboards question the inefficiency of the Ebbing Police Department, singling out a workaholic William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), the Chief of the Department, on whom the "buck stops", and irritates Willoughby's good-hearted yet racist confidante, Officer Jason Dixon (Sam Rockwell). How the eponymous billboards change the life of these central characters and the townspeople of Ebbing, Missouri form the crux of the story. Woody Harrelson and Frances McDormand   Martin McDonagh, undoubtedly a maestro in c...