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

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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...
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Boyhood - a saga of picturesque metamorphosis

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Boyhood  demonstrates the different phases of a boy's life, from 6 to 18; it turns into a tale of a metamorphosis from boyhood to manhood.   The film begins from 6-year old Mason Evans Jr.( Ellar Coltrane ) and travels through 12 years of the boy and his sister, Samantha Evans's ( Lorelei Linklater ) life. Patricia Arquette  plays Mason's mother, Olivia Evans, who moves in and out of marital relationships, while Ethan Hawke  plays the siblings' divorced  father. Every precious moments of a boy's life appear- birthday parties, graduation parties, family get-togethers, road trips, family meals, launch of a Harry potter book and other milestones.  The film doesn't point out that it is jumping to the next age. Such a transition is marked by the change in physical appearance in Mason and Samantha. Nevertheless, the physical, mental and psychological metamorphose of the siblings is the whole "coming-of-age" story about. A still from the movie...
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The Imitation Game - perfect tale of an Enigma

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  Out of the tens and thousands of minds that worked to change the world, Alan Turing 's mind was one which worked uniquely and appalling to human identity. The Imitation Game illustrates this great man's mind which questioned the limits of human conscience and somewhat predicted what the future would be.   In 1952, detectives enter Alan Turing's house as part of an investigation surrounding a robbery, although nothing is found. It was then he was caught for "gross indecency". The story then drifts back to 1928, where an overly bullied, young but genius Turing, is instantly infatuated when he sees a faired haired classmate, Christopher Morcom; this leads to the realization that he is a homosexual, then a criminal offence. The story soon takes a leap into the World War 2 era (thus making it a nonlinear narrative), where Turing, after earning his Cambridge doctorate, joins a bunch of high IQ "nerds" at Bletchley Park, appointed to crack the uncrack...
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Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

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So here's the second review... The Oscar season got over and  after all the hustle and bustle of award nights, Birdman came out as the final best picture of the year 2014. Here's my review on Birdman. Everything in this world has a dark side, and Birdman proves, and successfully does, that Hollywood has one too. The movie starts off randomly with Riggan Thompson, a fifty-something old washed up actor, apparently levitating in air. Thompson is widely known for portraying an iconic superhero named Birdman which had shaken the box office a couple of  decades ago. Thompson wants to revive his acting career, which had been already defamed after he retired from further production of the series, with a Broadway play based on Raymond Carver's short story "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Love?" Riggan Thompson is now between Scylla and Charybdis: one, with the messy affair of the actors he casts and with the voice in his head which spats and growls a...
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Interstellar

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It is after a long thought that I post my first movie review. It is a movie that I saw just recently and it has already proved itself as another masterpiece of a prominent film director- Interstellar . The movie takes place in 2062, where a crop blight has destroyed almost all food crops and the earth barely survives on corn. Brand (Michael Caine), an astrophysicist in NASA, plans to save mankind by  evacuating the people  from earth and set up habitat for the humans in another planet. Twelve astronauts were sent to explore these planets in different galaxies. Of these one system with three potential worlds shows promise. Therefore, Professor Brand assembles a team of four astronauts, Cooper(Matthew Mcconaughey), Amelia Brand(Anne Hathaway), Doyle(Wes Bentley), and Romilly( David Gyasi), to explore these three planets and find out which one can be mankind's new home. A still from the movie. Pictured: Matthew Mcconaughey The movie borrows som...
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