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
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
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
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
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
[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
One of my favorite thought experiments is to replay a famous movie with genders flipped and wonder how the movie would have been received. For example, take a movie like Chinna Veedu. Flip the gender of the lead characters. Or movies like Sindhu Bairavi or Mudhal Mariadhai? All these 3 famous Tamil movies are about a guy falling in love with other women while being married. Now that you get
Official Trailer: In the hands of a good director, even a generic serial killer story can become an engaging thriller drama. Por Thozhil is one of those movies. With a clear vision, directors, Vignesh Raja and T.Senthil Paramasivam, narrate the story crisply, don’t digress with unnecessary scenes, and maintain a good momentum building to the tense climax. Movie opens with two cops on night patrol. The topic of conversation between
Official Trailer: In Pariyerum Perumal, Maari Selvaraj explored the struggles of an individual, a college going student, who faced discrimination from the oppressor castes. The writing was organic with interesting characters. The antagonist, the girl’s father, was one of the well-developed characters in Kollywood movies. We got a peek into his state of mind, the peer pressure he faces, the need to conform to the community, oscillating between the caste
Official Trailer: What kind of story one can build with a doll? Toys crossover to the real world and writers toyed with ideas of friendship, family, separation, and existential crisis in Toy Story series. Then we have The Truman Show where the hero lives in a made-up fantasy world till the reality hits him. Writers of Barbie use the similar premise and deliver a well-made satirical ride that is entertaining,