Official Trailer: First, I got to admit that I didn’t notice, never felt, the movie is nearly 3 hours long. No slowing down or drag in the pacing of the narration. While there are many things that made the movie work, my pick would be the director and the writer Lokesh Kanagaraj. Specifically, the writing is the key ingredient which pulled in rest of the compounds seamlessly into the
Beast: Forget Roar, this beast doesn’t make a woof!! Official Trailer: Beast has more misses than hits. For the starters, for the beast to roar, the villains need to be equally strong with character. Just saying the bad guys are Muslim terrorists is not going to cut it. This trope has been beaten to death and is getting to a point of causing nausea. For the money they spent to
Official Trailer: Puzhu is a psychological thriller beautifully imagined in a home invasion genre. Better way to say, it is the invasion of the mind. Kuttan, portrayed by Mamootty, the brahmin protagonist feels his territory is being violated when his sister, Bharathy, portrayed by Parvathy Thiruvothu, moves in with her husband, Kuttappan, portrayed by Appunni Sasi, in the same apartment complex. Kuttan feels the environment is polluted by their moving
Official Trailer: KGF: Chapter 2: KGF: Chapter 1: [SPOILERS AHEAD…] “You don’t become a Don by killing 10 people” Above is the question posed to Rocky by one of the henchmen of Don Shetty of Bombay. We don’t hear the comeback from Rocky immediately. We hear it once Rocky proves why Shetty must fear him. And then we get the retort I didn’t become a Don by killing 10 random
Official Trailer: The Strong Are Now Ripping Apart the Weak. It Happens All The Time When Hollywood ran out of ideas with Zombie Genre, Train to Busan movie came along which reimagined Zombies, brought them alive on a train and gave us a nail-baiting thriller ride. Train to Busan felt like Mad Max: Fury Road on a train. By the time the climax arrived in Train to Busan I was
Official Trailer: Here, the players get to play a fair game under the same conditions. These people suffered with inequality and discrimination out in the world How do you take a simple children’s game and turn in to a game for adults with deadly consequence? If you win the series of games, you get to win and keep billions of dollars. The setup is designed by rich people to have
Official Trailer: So far there are very few anthologies where all the stories worked. After Sillu Karupatti, all the five stories fare better, cross the above average bar, giving something fresh in Freedom Fight. The impact of each story comes out different. Ration and Old Age Home are subtle and leaves the interpretation to the audience. Geethu Unchained conveys the freedom aspect in a straightforward manner, nothing overdone but no
Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KqZoyBQo7c We would have come across security guards in malls, corporates, gated communities. We would have come across delivery boys. We would have seen cleaners in hotels. We know most of them have moved from other places. Migrants from far away states. Unlike us who migrate to dreamlands for a better living, this segment of population moves out of their native villages to get a job, any job,
Official Trailer: It is hard to slot Bhoothakaalam into a genre, a horror, or a psychological thriller. Or is it a psychological-drama-horror-thriller? You can infer the title as the past or the ghosts from the past. Like the series The Haunting of Hill House, do the ghosts lurk in their minds or are they really lurking in the shadows of the house. From the first frame, director, Rahul Sadasivan, skillfully
Official Trailer: How do you make someone to watch the 5-story anthology? Start with one of the worst in the pack. Set the bar low. Then hope relativity kicks in. Even so-so later episodes look better due to the priming by the first one. That is how Putham Puthu Kaalai: Vidiyatha comes across. In first Putham Puthu Kaalai from 2020, stories were set during first wave. This one I think