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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

McQuarrie-Cruise combo returns for Mission Impossible 7 and 8

The clandestine spy agency that deals with impossible missions will be back to give audience an adrenaline rush, not once but twice in the back-to-back years of 2021 and 2022. Christopher McQuarrie, the director of Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation and Fallout , announced through his Twitter handle that he will come back to direct two more films for the spy thriller franchise, which began years ago in 1996, with the legendary actor Tom Cruise at the helm of the cast. 2018 saw McQuarrie directing Fallout, which turned out to be highest-grossing film of both Tom Cruise and the franchise. The flick, which also starred Henry Cavill, had also garnered critical acclaim, with some calling it the greatest action film of all time. ( click here to read Reviewer's review of the film ) Fans will have to wait till 2021, to see the next Mission:Impossible movie, featuring Ethan Hunt. While the good news is that the next installment will hit theaters the very next year. Hopes are only h

Reviewer-The Blog's Guide to 91st Oscar Nominations

Note: This will be the first in a series of posts leading to the upcoming 91st Academy Awards- Road To The Oscars The wait is coming to an end. An year full of expectations, surprises and praise will culminate on the prestigious night of the 91st Academy Awards. With 2018 producing a beautiful bunch of superbly made films, we expect the competition to bag the coveted statuette to be tougher than usual. To kick off hopes, the nominees for the various categories of the 2019 Oscars will be announced on Tuesday, 22nd January 2019 at 5:20 am Pacific Time/ 6:50 pm Indian Standard Time. The nominees will be announced by Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The categories for the upcoming Academy Awards are-  actor in a leading role, actress in a leading role, animated feature film, cinematography, directing, documentary feature, documentary short subject, foreign-language film, makeup and hairstyling, best picture, visual effects, ada

John Wick is back, and this time, he is the chased one

He chased. Now he is the one who will be chased. For an assassin for whom trouble knocks at his every doorstep, John Wick faces his most dangerous and gravest challenge yet in John Wick: Chapter 3-Parabellum. Fans of this neo-noir action thriller franchise have now gone to the zenith of their excitement as the makers released the trailer of the third installment of the series, John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum , the previous day. Keanu Reeves will reprise his role as the retired assassin, whom we first saw kicking Russian and American asses in the first installment, after his puppy was shot dead by them. The sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2, showed John dealing with Santino D’Antonio, whom he kills after betraying John and sending assassins after him. The high-octane action movie ended with Winston (Ian McShane) declaring John Wick “excommunicado” from the Continental and announcing a $14 million bounty on the hitman, but not before giving Wick a one hour head start. The upcom

Spider-Man: Far From Home Teaser Trailer - Breakdown

Well...now we know our friendly neighborhood Spidey will be back after being turned into proverbial dust post Thanos's apocalyptic snap in the events of Avengers: Infinity War. However that is not the only possibility we take back after Marvel Studios released the first teaser trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home,  the sequel to the hit Spider-Man: Homecoming  (2017). After much anticipation from the fans of the franchise, they have now got a decent look at what Far From Home will be like and the new characters that will be introduced into the ever-growing universe, that is becoming as colorful and eventful as the multiple universes crafted in the comic book pages. Thanks to the teaser, fans have been hinted of new looks, relationships,and threats that will accompany the beloved web-slinger in his exploits. Here's the detailed analysis and breakdown of the teaser by Reviewer-The Blog. So ripping off the trailer one by one... 1) Spidey's a celebr