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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...