When my family and I decided to see Ralph Breaks the Internet on Thanksgiving, I was excited. I really liked Wreck-It Ralph for being a love letter to old-school gaming while also having a heartwarming story of friendship, selflessness, and learning to accept with grace that which you can’t change. Now the sequel takes the same colorful characters to […]
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I admit – I am a techno optimist: I believe that overall technology makes our lives better. But I also have the utmost appreciation for and am often mesmerized by the beauty of nature. Our so called “dumb” universe is a marvelous, mesmerizing and stupefyingly beautiful place. It is also pretty clear that to get where we […]
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Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill, Volume 2” is an exuberant celebration of moviemaking, coasting with heedless joy from one audacious chapter to another, working as irony, working as satire, working as drama, working as pure action. I liked it even more than “Kill Bill, Volume 1” (2003). It’s not a sequel but a continuation and completion, […]
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The film HOME by Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a beautifully shot panorama of the Earth and the damage done to it by modern humanity. It includes a moving narration about the evolution of the Earth, nature, agriculture, humans, and the crises of habitat destruction, energy depletion, climate disruption, degradation…of the environment, health, economic disparity, and more. […]
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To say Bajrangi Bhaijaan is geared towards maximum emotional impact is an understatement. It is engineered for it. Its parts have been carefully assembled so as to make you laugh every other scene, tear up every 10 minutes. One normally gets this kind of emotional walloping with a Rajkumar Hirani film, but Bajrangi Bhaijaan hits […]
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My favourite part of any new Pixar release is the short that comes with it. To me, each short displays the best of the company’s inventiveness in both animation and story telling. Alan Barillaro’s Piper, the short that accompanies Finding Dory definitely does not disappoint. As much as I enjoyed the larger film, Piper was by far the best part […]
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Guess what online readers? Tonight, I got to watch “Venom,” which came out five days ago. Now, I will give everyone my thoughts on the movie. Matthew Rozsa started his review by admitting, “Call me crazy — certainly I’m in a minority when it comes to my fellow critics — but I liked “Venom.” Heck, if it […]
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You know you’ve made it when BBC marketing includes your name in the title of a book, let alone a TV series. The Power of Art might seem a catchy title in its own right, but by assigning the ownership of the concept to Simon Schama, the publisher is admitting that the cult of personality is a greater […]
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BACK IN 2011, when Guillermo del Toro was first starting to hype his forthcoming movie Pacific Rim, he gleefully described it as “giant fucking monsters against giant fucking robots.” That’s how he always talked about it, with childlike glee. But he was also steeped in its antecedents: Toho monster films, Voltron, decades of sci-fi. The film he was planning was a playground […]
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Deep Purple famously asked their sound engineers to make “everything louder than everything else”, a phrase variously adopted by the likes of Motörhead and Meat Loaf to characterise their OTT ethos. It’s clearly struck a chord with George Miller as he reboots his low-budget 1979 road-warrior hit with more money, more trucks, and much more noise. Watching Mad Max: […]
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