Review: It (2017) – Feeding on your fears! [+67%]
‘It’ has a spectacular opening scene. Little Georgie goes out to play in the rain with his new boat (made by his brother Bill) but…
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Review: Puriyaadha Pudhir (2017) – A cyber-thriller that remains strictly watchable despite its glaring flaws! [+49%]
‘Puriyaadha Pudhir’ (translates to The Mystifying Puzzle) is the long-in-the-offing debut venture of writer-director Ranjit Jeyakodi. The movie opens to a woman jumping off the…
Review: Tharangam (2017) – An experiment that’s mostly cliché-free but cluttered! [+54%]
The beginning of Dominic Arun’s “Tharangam” (bankrolled by Dhanush’s Wunderbar films) reminds you of a cult- classic from the 80s – “Pappan Priyapetta Pappan” –…
Review: American Made – The gringo that always delivers! [+64%]
‘American Made’ is a semi-biographical account of certain events in the life of Barry Seal, a TWA pilot turned CIA-informant who doubled as a drug-smuggler….
Top 10 Tamil movies of 2015/16!
Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru (2016) – A 21 year old Karthick Naren wielded the microphone for one of the best thrillers Indian cinema has seen in recent…
How the minds of average Indian movie-goers have been muddled due to over-dose of masala!
How the minds of average Indian movie-goers have been muddled due to over-dose of masala! Don’t get me wrong! I have nothing against them personally. However, it…
5 Reasons why John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) remains iconic
Forgive me for expressing my undying love for one of the best sci-fi horror flicks of all time. I (re)watched ‘The Thing’ for the umpteenth…