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…
Category: Film Reviews
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
Sully: Captain America
Thanks to Sully, I now know — as much as there is to be known safely at least — what it must be like to be part of a incapacitated plane.
Skiptrace: Not as much fun as it should be
Skiptrace is an action comedy, but you wouldn’t know when a rather serious opening scene shows Bennie Chan (Jackie Chan, playing an aging detective) failing to stop his partner from exploding underwater. Director Renny Harlin seems to have thought it would be touching, but it almost ends up seeming tragicomic. Soon though, the promised Chan…
Mechanic: Resurrection: Assassin city
uch tasks on screen, much like in games like Grand Theft Auto, generate an adrenaline rush, providing the enjoyment arising from experiencing a heightened sense of stress in a safe, controlled environment.
