I liked Dangal. It has everything you’d expect to see in a sports film. It has everything you’ve previously enjoyed in a sports film. Yet…
Category: Film Reviews
La La Land: The stuff of dreams
La La Land shows how songs can make for deeply satisfying exploratory adventures into the characters’ subconscious. It shows how such musical exaggerations can be beautifully escapist.
Arrival: A thought-provoking, satisfying take on alien invasion
You realise at that moment that this is exactly how an encounter with an alien would likely be. You wouldn’t rush at it with excitement. You wouldn’t cower from it in fear. You’d take tentative, cautious steps of curiosity, all the while unable to reconcile with the reality of it all.
Trolls: A moderately entertaining albeit predictable story in a novel universe
If Trolls were a dessert, it’d be a chocolate-dipped peanut butter cup-stuffed Oreo.
Train to Busan: Engaging, despite offering nothing new
It is incredible how quickly Train to Busan gets you to care about its characters. They are all archetypes, and none of their names register. This is how I remember some of them: gusty, funny guy with pregnant wife (Ma Dong-seok), selfish father (Gong Yoo), little girl with parental issues (Kim Su-an), homeless man (Choi…
Sudhir Srinivasan 