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A Movie & Web Series Review and Suggestion List Blog, specially for Indians.
Friday, May 24, 2024
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (23 May 2024)
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Polite Society (28 Apr 2023)
Genre: Comedy Action Drama
Channel: Jio Cinema
Language: English
Duration: 104 minutes
Writer & Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya, Nimra Bucha, Akshay Khanna, Seraphina Beh, Ella Bruccoleri, Shona Babayemi, Shobu Kapoor, Jeff Mirza
Music: Tom Howe, Shez Manzoor
Editing: Robbie Morrison
Cinematography: Ashley Connor
Polite Society had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on 21 January 2023.
Hilarious in parts, the movie is basically comedy-action-drama woven around a British-Pakistani family where the younger sister who aspires to be a stuntwoman is hell bent on stopping her elder sister's upcoming marriage so that she can get back to fulfill her aspiration of becoming an artist!!
Look out for the martial art style dance adaptation of 'Humpe ye kisne Hara rang dala...' song from the Indian movie 'Devdas' (2002)!!
Overall, it's an entertaining watch.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Katla (17 Jun 2021)
Writer: Sigurjón Kjartansson, Davíð Már Stefánsson, Lilja Sigurðardóttir
Director: Baltasar Kormákur, Börkur Sigþórsson, Þóra Hilmarsdóttir
Cast: Guðrún Eyfjörð, Íris Tanja Flygenring, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Aliette Opheim, Valter Skarsgård, Aldís Amah Hamilton, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Sólveig Arnarsdóttir, Haraldur Ari Stefánsson, Björn Thors, Birgitta Birgisdóttir, Hlynur Atli Harðarson
Editing: Sigurður Eyþórsson, Sigvaldi J. Kárason
Cinematography: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
Running Time: 43 minutes
Near the Icelandic town of Vik, the subglacial volcano Katla has been erupting for about a year spewing ash and smoke billow from the underground mass and the town is visited in succession by ash-caked clones of dead, living and relocated town folks belonging to all gender and age groups, bestowed with qualities and/or presence that is either sought by themselves or others in them!!!
The plot is intriguing & interesting. The cinematography is beautiful. The direction is super confidant. The editing is sharp. Both casting and enactment are wonderful.
Watch the extremely well made 8 episodes mystery-drama and slightly horror series on Netflix. It will catch your utmost attention.
Watching Katla is an altogether new experience.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Once Upon A Crime (14 Sep 2023)
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
And Just Like That Season 2 (22 June 2023)
Most of our sassy girls are now in their mid 50s - slightly tamed but still on the 'lookout', with their smart dialogues and wise expressions justifying all their actions!!
Their presence and bonhomie are as adorable as ever.
Though their dressing has mellowed down considerably and aptly, they still look and dress fabulously.
The webseries explores all kinds of current age relationship possibilities for middle age women - happily married homemaker with kids, happily married professional with kids, widow looking for casual weekly sex, happily married with kid but falling in love with a nonbinary person, never married and looking for hot and steady relationship and lastly a newly divorced looking out for some fun!!!
It is engaging & entertaining but strictly not for the children.
If you have been a fan of Sex and the City franchise, followed by And Just Like That webseries, then do watch this 11 episodes rom-com on JioCinema.
Friday, June 2, 2023
Missing (19 Jan 2023)
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Channel: Netflix
Language: English
Duration: 111 minutes
Director: Will Merrick, Nick Johnson
Cast: Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Nia Long
Introduction:
Missing (2023), a screenlife mystery thriller is an anthology sequel to Searching (2018).
"Screenlife or computer screen film is a genre of visual storytelling where all the events are shown on a computer, tablet or smartphone screen."
Plot:
Los Angeles (USA) based teenager June Allen's (Storm Reid) mother Grace Allen (Nia Long) leaves for a week long trip to Cartagena (Colombia) with her boyfriend Kevin (Ken Leung).
June is supposed to receive them on their return but not only they don't arrive on the due date but also turn incommunicado, leaving June puzzled, confused and scared.
With limited money at her disposal and only her mother's lawyer friend Heather (Amy Landecker) to turn for assistance, who eventually turns up dead, June uses her smart brain and a bevy of online apps and services to finally locate her mother and in the process unravels few shocking truths about her parents.
Analysis:
It's quite amusing to follow June's trail of online actions wherein she meddles through assorted Google services like maps, e-mail etc.; goes through different chat transcripts to find clues; accesses public cameras to locate her mother's whereabouts; mobilizes the FBI attachment in to the consolate; hires Javier (Joaquim de Almeida), a Colombian gig worker for offline actions, while constantly decoding the passwords of the missing persons on different apps!!
It's quite unbelievable to witness how precisely our life movements are being recorded via our digital footprints and assorted CCTV recordings!!
It's eerie to realize how modern technology and online apps can come to your rescue even when you are confined and locked in an unknown deserted location with no cell phone at your disposal!!
Watch out the movie's climax to see it all happen.
Conclusion:
It's not a movie with glamorous star cast or pulsating action with hi-fi gizmos, but it's an intelligent movie with a reality check.
You will understand it better only if you are - computer savvy, used to working with multiple apps and screens at the same time and aware of the usual password recovery methods.
If you have not yet seen a screenlife movie, then do watch it for an altogether new experience.
You can also watch it otherwise. It's a nicely made film.