Skip to main content

Recent

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

By
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...
Post a Comment

Christopher Nolan's next titled 'Tenet'

Image
By
The wait for Christopher Nolan's next had begun since the release of the epic war film Dunkirk in 2017. The English director has proved his cinematic elan with his highly successful films, which followed non linear story lines, elastic timelines, multiple character arcs, and mind-blowing psychological themes. Memento, The Prestige, Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar and Dunkirk still remain the best films, in their own genres, released in this century. His visionary film making has made him the favorite for many cinephiles, and his play with complexities, time, visuals and spectacle have become cases of study for students, scholars, and obviously movie-goers.

Christopher Nolan
Nolan fans and audiences have now learned that Nolan's next venture is titled Tenet and will be released in next year's summer on July 17, 2020. The project, which is yet to go on floors, is being described by various sources as an "action epic" and a "globetrotting adventure, whose events could unfold in seven different parts of the world." The Hollywood Reporter calls Tenet an "action epic evolving from the world of international espionage." Does sound thrilling.

 Just when the existence of the Bond saga lies in the threat of oblivion and the tentpole actor of the Mission: Impossible series, Tom Cruise, heads into inevitable retirement blues (I am his biggest fan), here's Nolan giving his signature treatment and making to the espionage genre. What the audiences will get in the summer of 2020 with Tenet are making critics all the more curious.

Makers also released the stellar cast who would the play the various roles in this big-budget, that could promise an film experience of epic scale. Usual collaborators will join hands with new entrants into the Nolan filmography. The cast will be led by John David 
Washington (Black KkKlansman), Robert Pattinson (Twilight), Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), Kenneth Branagh (Dunkirk), Clémence Poésy (In Bruges), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Dimple Kapadia (Bollywood's Bobby), and usual Nolan collaborator Michael Caine. 

Apart from the cast, the technicians who would work behind the camera for Tenet was also announced. Nolan's cinematographer collaborator Hoyte van Hoytema (Dunkirk, Interstellar) will return for Tenet. Nathan Crowley (Dunkirk) will return to design the sets for the movie, while the visual effects department will be supervised by Andrew Jackson (Mad Max: Fury Road). Tenet will mark Nolan's departure from his frequent collaborator in the music department, Hans Zimmer, who will be replaced by Oscar-winning Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther).

 For more updates, follow our Facebook page.

Reviewer-The Blog©
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dora and the Lost City of Gold- when children's beloved character comes to life on-screen

By
  Nickelodeon's iconic character, Dora the Explorer, is coming to life on screen as Paramount Pictures readies the worldwide release of the live-action film based on the beloved character, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, due to release on August this year. The distributors, Paramount Pictures released the official trailer for the movie, promising the fans yet another treasure hunt, accompanying Dora The Explorer. The makers have released the official synopsis for Dora and the Lost City of Gold- Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora (Isabela Moner) for her most dangerous adventure ever – High School. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg), a mysterious jungle inhabitant (Eugenio Derbez), and a rag tag group of teens on a live-action adventure to save her parents (Eva Longoria, Michael Peña) and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost...
Post a Comment
Read more

'Raat Akeli Hai' review: A murder mystery powered by an almost-perfect cast and tonally perfect making, but fizzles out in parts

By
Honey Trehan's debut film, Raat Akeli Hai , released digitally on Netflix on the 31st of July. Starring a talented crop of fine artists such as Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Shweta Tripathi, Tigmanshu Dhulia and many others, Raat Akeli Hai was touted to be a film in the crime thriller genre, with many already labeling it as an Indian Knives Out. Here's our review on the desi crime thriller. A dead man, that too a powerful patriarch/politician, shot point blank in a sprawling mansion in the rural hinterlands of Gwalior, a posse of family members with unclear intentions who have not heard a thing or the commotion that ensued before it, and an unwanted newcomer to the family whose origins and backgrounds are shadier than those of the family members combined. Add to that a cop, like in other similar movies of the genre, hell bent on digging up the truth. What debutant Honey Trehan and writer Smita Singh orchestrates here is the perfect setting for a gripping whodunit. Whethe...
Post a Comment
Read more

'Dil Bechara' review: Sushant Singh's final outing is also a refreshingly fresh adaptation

By
Dil Bechara, Sushant Singh Rajput 's final screen outing before his untimely demise last month, released yesterday on Disney+Hotstar. Directed by debutant Mukesh Chhabra and starring Rajput along with Sanjana Sanghi, Dil Bechara is the Indian adaptation of the popular John Green novel,  The Fault in Our Stars , which had it's own Hollywood adaptation in 2014. Dil Bechara is currently streaming for free on Disney+Hotstar . Like it's parent novel, Dil Bechara follows the life of Kizie Basu (Sanjana Sanghi), a cancer patient, who falls in love with a cancer survivor, Manny (Rajput), who infuses in Kizie an infectious but joyful energy to "seize the moment" and to make the most of her life. Kizie meets Manny for the first time, as he effortlessly sways to the title track, a peppy urbane 'Dil Bechara' by A.R Rahman. Kizie and Manny bond over Kizie's infatuation and fascination over an incomplete song, penned and composed by a mysterious musician named Abhim...
4 comments
Read more