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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...

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...

Dunkirk- a war film about survival

A film by Christopher Nolan on a monumental event in world history promised moviegoers an immersive theatrical experience.    A whopping number of 400,000 British soldiers are stranded on Dunkirk beach, a site flanked by German warships and fighter planes. Commander Bolton ( Kenneth Branagh ) carries the onus of adventurously evacuating the colossal populace of troopers, which becomes a herculean task, even when "they can practically see it from there-home." Nolan deftly weaves in three different story-lines, centering around the historically significant beach of Dunkirk. The historic victory of the British civilian population even when the army faced a "colossal military disaster" is depicted with the required patriotism; however that is justified with Nolan's atrocious portrayal of the unspeakable horrors the hapless soldiers faced while in their tryst with fate and survival. James D'Arcy and Kenneth Branagh          Even though...