Too big to be beautiful For Tomorrowland to work without a strong story, the visuals had to be incredible. We aren’t talking normal-incredible here, but Avatar -incredible. The parallels between both films are quite natural. After all, both the main characters in the film, Frank Walker (George Clooney) and Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) get thrown…

Much promise, but… It was always going to happen. With all the horror films being made recently in Tamil cinema — and so many of them doing well — De Monte Colony in Alwarpet, thanks to its creepy history, was always going to serve as fodder for a horror flick. Despite the ‘any resemblance to…

Brave, even if a bit burdensome A word I kept going back to again and again as I was watching Purampokku Engira Podhuvudamai was ‘interesting’. You can argue against many of the points the film subtly makes — and indeed you should — but Purampokku isn’t a lazily made film. Balu (Arya), a communist revolutionary…

All the world’s a joke The disappearance of Mr. Krabs’ (the owner of Krusty Krab) Krabby Patty recipe has caused pandemonium in Bikini Bottom, where our hero SpongeBob, a sea sponge, works as a cook. If you had to reread that, you are clearly unfamiliar with the SpongeBob franchise. As the adage goes, familiarity breeds…

Humour in a dated horror template When Kovai Sarala joins Lawrence in Kanchana-2 for her opening scene, I realised with mild consternation that I’d actually developed some fondness for the franchise. Their scenes — just like in Muni 2: Kanchana — border on the ridiculous, the impractical, but are funny nevertheless, or perhaps because of…