The Brothers Sun – An entertaining action-comedy full of fun backed by strong writing

Official Trailer: [SPOILERS AHEAD…] What if Michael Corleone didn’t take the path of his father? What if he continued with his life of a normal person away from the mafia? What if Vito Corleone’s wife had her own career ambitions? What do you get if you start with these broader questions, and build a story? You get The Brothers Sun!! We follow the Taipei gangster, Charles Sun, who is settled

 

Koozhangal (Pebbles) – A Visual Storytelling Masterpiece

Official Trailer:  Similar to Kadaisi Vivasayi, Koozhangal is a movie hard to describe in words and has to be experienced. If you love cinemas that are about life and closer to reality don’t miss this. The storyline is a simple one, a young boy travels with his violent and alcoholic father to bring back his mother, who has run away from home due to father’s abuse. But there is so

 

Kadaisi Vivasayi

Kadaisi Vivasayi: There are movies to be experienced and hard to describe it in words. Like Rashomon, 2001: Space Odyssey, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Killer (by David Fincher). Kadaisi Vivasayi is one of those. Kadaisi Vivasayi is not an action movie like Mad Max: Fury Road. It falls in different side of the spectrum but as a cinema the experience is similar. If you love cinemas that are about

 

Fast Cuts – Love Today, Irugapatru

Love Today: Girl, Nikitha, breaks the news to dad. Dad wants to meet the boy, Uthaman. Dad agrees to the marriage on one condition: Uthaman and Nikitha need to exchange their phones for a day. Do they really know each other? They have nothing to hide, right? This is an interesting premise. Full of potential and great material for the writer and director to explore. Unfortunately, idea that looks good

 

Fast Cuts – Kannur Squad, Ayothi

Two movies. One packages a good cinema while giving space to the heroisms. Second one fails to impress as a cinema but scores in tugging our hearts with its core message of humanity. Ayothi: Ignore the flaws this is a movie highly needed for the current India we live in 👏 Looking at the name I feared the movie is a Saami Padam, a movie about God. What a pleasant

 

The Killer – What it takes to be a perfect movie about a precise assassin

Official Trailer: Movies about assassins are always intriguing and captivating if they are well made…Day of the Jackal, Collateral, The Killer (John Woo), No Country for Old Men, Nikita, Munich to call out a few. Well written villains and bad guys are more exciting to watch than the heroes 😀 Director David Fincher is not new to this domain. He has given us Zodiac, Seven, and Mindhunter which are about

 

Muthal Mariyathai – a movie that has aged well and engages us even after 3 decades

Yeraatha Malai song: Listening to Malaysia Vasudevan’s songs collection the other day brought back old memories. My wife and I started discussing his memorable numbers, range, and emotion. Discussion led to topic of movies where his voice elevated the movie and the first movie that came to our mind was Muthal Mariyathai. So, we decided to watch the movie over the weekend. I had watched the movie first time during

 

Fast Cuts – Oldboy, I Saw the Devil

Finally caught up with these two Korean movies from my watch list. Both are on the recommended list of many of the movie critics. Do they fall under mainstream or cult, I am not sure. I am not a big fan of slotting a movie into arty, cult, or mainstream. I go by, did the movie work for me or not. Did the director succeed on what he or she

 

Doughnut Economics – Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist by Kate Raworth – Not a book review!!

The thought of how long I must continue to work 8hours a day with someone else owning my time has been swirling in my head for quite a while now. Yes, we get paid for the work and we need the money to solve the money problems. But it is not just work. It is also the emotional planning related to work we carry around beyond work hours – planning

 

Jailer – feels like watching short videos, going from one mass (as it is referred to) scene to another with no plot, no connection

[SPOILERS AHEAD…] Official Trailer: How does it feel to watch continuously 15 10-minutes porn movies stitched together with the intent of getting a release every 10mts? Jailer feels like one, going from one mass scene to another every 15mts with no plot. No effort to make a connection between the scenes. There is no build-up to the action. The only connection is Rajni. I guess the assumption makers have made