Marriage Story: The Indelible Truth of Being Alive

After making 10 feature films, released over a quarter-century of filmmaking (his debut, Kicking and Screaming, came out in 1995; his other films include The Meyerowitz Stories, The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, and Frances Ha), this, at last, is Noah Baumbach’s breakthrough in the dramatic genre. Marriage Story is truly a work of an […]

Parasite REVIEW: It Eats at the Mind and Grows Inside You!

“A flat-out masterpiece,” “the most important film of the year,” “a wild wild ride,” are only a few accolades that Parasite has earned from the critics who just can’t stop raving about it, and this Korean film might have grabbed your attention recently after it won the Best Subtitled Foreign Film at the 77th Golden Globes. Ending up as No.1 in quite […]

Subrata Mitra: The Forgotten Master of Light

“We Indians do not celebrate our genius, that’s why we need a Richard Attenborough to present our Gandhi to the world. And, we do not appreciate technology as an art, that’s why Subrata Mitra’s retrospective is celebrated in Italy, not here” Ashok Mehta, National award-winning cinematographer of films like Bandit Queen, Moksha and 36 Chowringhee Lane […]

Feluda Pherot!

Yes, Ray’s super sleuth is coming back, though not on the big screen, but as a web-series. Feluda Pherot (or should I write Pheluda Pherot, the phonetically correct spelling that Srijit Mukherji prefers) is the title of his upcoming project. Srijit Mukherji is one of the most popular filmmakers in Bengal today and has been […]

The Shining: The Art of Horror

What springs to your mind when you hear about The Shining? Is it the river of blood flowing through the Overlook Hotel? Or the sinister Grady Twins tormenting poor Danny Torrance? Or maybe it’s Jack Nicholson crashing an axe through the bathroom door and shouting “Here’s Johnny!”? Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror strikes a chord with […]

The One with the Friends Pilot Script

“Look around, you guys. This was your first home. And it was a happy place, filled with love and laughter… Chandler Bing to his newly adopted twins, as his friends and family leave his apartment for the last time. The Bing twins would be 15 now, and September 22nd marks a quarter of a century […]

IT Chapter Two REVIEW: A Deliriously Entertaining Sequel

When the opening chapter of a Stephen King book starts with a six-year-old talking to a clown who lives in a sewer, chances are things are going to take a turn for the worst. King’s book was bifurcated into halves, one hefty chunk going to its 1950s preteens living in a fictional Maine town, and […]

Dark REVIEW: Everything is Connected… The question is not how, but WHEN?

“The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Dark opens with this quote from Albert Einstein. It’s an excerpt from a letter Einstein wrote after learning of the death of his good friend and collaborator Michele Besso; it was meant to help Besso’s family cope with their loss. The first […]

Mission Mangal REVIEW: A Brutal Simplification of a Sophisticated Scientific Triumph

“Vikram lander’s descent was as planned and normal performance was observed up to an altitude of 2.1 km. Subsequently, the communication from the lander to the ground station was lost. The data is being analyzed” These were the words of ISRO chief K. Sivan at around 2.16 am to a room full of crestfallen scientists […]

Spirited Away: The Grace of Immersive Reality

“Anime may depict fictional worlds, but I nonetheless believe that at its core it must have a certain realism. Even if the world depicted is a lie, the trick is to make it seem as real as possible. Stated another way, the animator must fabricate a lie that seems so real viewers will think the […]