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...
Marvel had it's own reasons to celebrate in the 91st Academy Awards, even when favorites like Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody and Roma ended up achievers of the night. Two exceptional movies from the Marvel comics made it's way to earn the coveted statuettes of the Academy Awards- Black Panther from the multi-billion colossal Marvel Cinematic Universe and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Sony Pictures' animation venture (which was not an MCU film). Both movies had earned critical as well as popular acclaim, with many praising them as novel works of sorts. An Academy Award was something that the MCU had lacked ever since it's inception in 2008 with Iron Man. Albeit receiving numerous nominations in the category of Best Visual Effects for it's blockbusters such as Iron Man, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy etc., never had once the franchise grabbed a win in this category. Interestingly the only Marvel film to win a statuette was Sam Raimi's Sp...