Mystery

The sluggish first two-thirds of the short story “A Sacrifice” is even more dominant but offers no new information to the audiences and only what they have seen several times before. No one can even say that it is horrible, it is instead a typical boring film in which you gradually forget the name of […]

The first 15 minutes of “What Remains” follow a shadowing of Mads Lake, after whom Mads becomes almost Sigge Storm, Scandinavian with a beard, scruffily timid in a Rukka outdoors coat, about to embark on a new adventure after several years inside a mental hospital. Cleveland visits a man living in a bad neighborhood and […]

The Blumhouse production’s newest chapter is called ‘Imaginary’, with the name of Jeff Wadlow’ as the Jonathan’s producer of ‘Truth of Dare’. Blumhouse seems to be hit or miss and in my eyes, ‘Imaginary’ is another fill-up in a list of mediocres. The film suffers from the plague of excessive plot synopsis and premise overload […]

There’s a popular belief among film critics that the suburbs are awful. It’s high time the critics should watch this movie. The ideal nuclear families that possess McMansions are at times far from being ideal. The new domestic setting is not exactly fresh, but such settings, which are so interesting and fun to behold, are […]

Damaged: At their best, at least, the audience has been treated to a walloping dose of gore in many of the countless gruesome serial killer films that emerged in the imitator bandwagon to “Se7en” thirty years back. However, good suspense and atmosphere and new narrative concepts seem much harder to come by. This is definitely […]

An actress took a seat next to me at a wedding reception in London, and though effort she spoke with the plummy diction and flawless projection learnt as cheap seats at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. “You do understand,” she stuck in her surliest voice as though speaking the words of Coward that “AC-tor […]

At first, trees appear to stretch tall up to heaven in straight lines. The segments of the trunks do not hit each other, bumble-bees connive in the space between the formidable pillars, and the blessings of the greenery are in abundance as the rays penetrate into the earth. But, as The Devil’s Bath continues, murky […]

Sleeping Dogs: It feels like the redemption arc of Russell Crowe is nearby. But I have said that since ‘The Nice Guys’ so I could be wrong. He’s truly in that moment of his career when he has nothing more to prove, and he’s often the best element of every single project in which he […]

It’s What’s Inside: There is one overarching reason to make a body-swap movie. Let’s get one thing very clear though: while it is true that on occasions, metafictional films do try to encourage the audience to learn some level of compassion and understanding by walking around in somebody else’s skin and lending themselves to imaginary […]

Although it might seem surprising, there was a time when people said that “Watchmen: Chapter I” by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons could never be made into a film. It was the Citizen Kane of superhero comics after all with its unique blend of storytelling, critical art and visual creativity which harnessed the potential of […]