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…
Category: Film Reviews
The Accountant: An asset turned liability
For a while, The Accountant trundles on with a heavy sense of purpose, as though burdened by its own awareness of what it seemingly believes to be brilliance. A protagonist, Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck ironically asked to be emotionless), has a disorder that’s revealed through quick flashbacks. “I’d prefer not to label it,” says the…
The Magnificent Seven: Competent, but lacks firepower
What he does do though is portray the beauty inherent in the languor of life in a Western movie… in its enviable, now-obsolete simplicity.
Robinson Crusoe: Cast Away
It must be incredibly tough to wreck some premises—the premise of a shipwrecked man getting marooned in an island, for instance. I am convinced that it must have involved long nights of hard work to make a film as dull as Robinson Crusoe from a story that bursts with adventure, and draws on the time-tested man…
For the love of god!
This week’s column for Metro Plus on how it is quite rare to spot atheistic characters in Tamil cinema
Sudhir Srinivasan 