We’ve made it to the end of 2020! Congratulations to you all! There hasn’t been that many films this year, I’m not sure why. I’ve heard that there’s this virus going around, but I can’t be sure. Thankfully streaming and independent films more than delivered constituting a largely respectable bunch of releases this year. Without…
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Quarantine Watchlist – Week 2
We are on week 2 of quarantine now. Weekends feel like weekdays and weekdays feel like weekends. Which can only mean the upcoming Easter weekend is going to be a straight up punishment. So to make the best of this weekend, let’s make a pledge to not watch films on our weekdays, not at lunch,…
Quarantine Watchlist – Week 1
After a far too long hiatus, we are back! And this is just about time to start doing something a bit different. Being stuck in quarantine is not fun, so we’re going to try and make it a bit fun, with a whole lot of film with this new weekly newsletter of movie recommendations ,…
Top 10 Films of 2019
2019 has, for the most part, been very good to me. I finally graduated from law school and after a lovely summer break back in India, I got a job. I also have had an absolute blast writing this blog and 2019 has been a phenomenal year to be talking about film. Compared to a…
The King
The King stars Timothée Chalamet as a young and rebellious Hal, forced into taking his place on the throne of England following the deaths of his father (Ben Mendelsohn) and brother (Dean-Charles Chapman). Intending to create a new England, an England his father could never serve, Hal has to set aside his pacifism to enter…
Joker
The clown prince of crime has finally arrived and with him we have a film just as morally divisive as its own lead. Joker tells the origin story of one of pop culture’s most iconic antagonist attempting to tell a story that humanises our eponymous villain giving us an entirely caustic incendiary show. Set in…
Ad Astra
Reach for the stars. Set in the not so distant future Ad Astra follows Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt), a celebrated astronaut who prides himself on constantly having a low pulse embarking on a journey for his missing father. Frequently evocative of Apocalypse Now, director James Gray swaps out a journey up-stream for an intergalactic…
Succession (Season 1)
HBO seems to be working overtime to make sure we all forget that Game of Thrones finale; Succession is probably the best drama on TV you aren’t watching. Succession, created by Jesse Armstrong (Peep Show) follows the Roy family headed by Logan Roy (Brian Cox), the CEO and founder of Waystar Royco, a multimedia conglomerate….
The Lion King (2019)
Unless you’ve literally been living under Pride Rock, you’ve watched the original Lion King from 1994 ( If you haven’t, the “Pride Rock” reference is probably lost on you, and also, what’s life like on Mars?). Disney and director Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Jungle Book) now bring a live-action of this…
Room
Early in Room, Brie Larson’s character, Ma reads to her son Jack, played byJacob Tremblay a segment from The Count of Monte Cristo. Like I mentioned in myreview of “You Were Never Really Here”, every piece of art used in a(good) film, be it music, film or books are always there for a reason. TheCount…
Talking Film 