Synopsis – The story of Agnes – the wife of William Shakespeare – as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. A human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Hamlet. My Take – Though William Shakespeare and his works continue to remain a source for adaptation for many filmmakers, this latest … Continue reading Hamnet (2025) Review!!
Synopsis -Kapil plays a man who truly loves one woman and wants to build a life with her. But things spiral out of control when he mistakenly ends up marrying three other women, each from a different religion: Muslim, Christian, and Hindu. My Take – Released in 2015, at a time when Kapil Sharma had become a nationwide celebrity for his comic timing, the Abbas … Continue reading Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – DEA agent and partner pursue thieves: their own rebellious teens, who began robbing cartel using parent tactics and classified intel. My Take – Considering how their previous collaboration, Stuber (2019), was quite lighthearted, I expected the reunion between Dave Bautista and director Michael Dowse to be somewhere on the same lines, particularly given its synopsis about teens stealing from the cartel without their … Continue reading Trap House (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A recently separated couple take their shared dog on a holiday trip to cheer him up, but end up reconnecting romantically. My Take – While last week saw Prime Video put an underappreciated mom at the center of a Christmas flick, their latest release sees the streaming giant appeal to animal lovers during the festive period by picking up a rare topic about … Continue reading Merv (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – One year after the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, Abby runs away to reconnect with her animatronic friends, uncovering dark secrets about the true origins of Freddy’s and unleashing a horror hidden for decades. My Take – At times, I really don’t understand fandoms. While I’ve never had the experience of playing the Five Nights at Freddy’s horror video games, I really … Continue reading Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Centers on Claire, who plans a special Christmas but is forgotten by her family. When they realize she’s missing, their holiday is at risk until she returns to give them the celebration they deserve. My Take – It is quite well know that women are overworked during festivities. They spend hours in the kitchen, perfecting the holiday dishes, while the men and the … Continue reading Oh. What. Fun. (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Dhurandhar is a star-studded saga inspired by incredible true events set in the gritty criminal vein of underworld with a backdrop of Indian patriotism, featuring action sequences, Shakespearean betrayals, and tradecrafts of espionage. My Take – While it might have seemed like the disastrous results of ‘War 2‘ would have waived off producers and filmmakers from heavily investing in colossally structured spy ventures … Continue reading Dhurandhar (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive. My Take – Is there an afterlife? If yes, what happens in it? These are certain questions humans have … Continue reading Eternity (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet. My Take – When it arrived back in 2019, nobody expected ‘Knives Out‘ to be such a success story, let alone earn $312.9 million on its $40 million budget. But writer-director Rian Johnson’s whodunit brought back memories of the starry, slippery fun of the 70s and 80s, when films like this would be a dime … Continue reading Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Nawabuddin seeks to learn shayari poetry from Urdu poet Ajiz. He meets Ajiz’s daughter, sparking romance. They share poetry and tea until misunderstandings drive them apart. My Take – Indeed, this year has been the year of romances, with films like Saiyaara, Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat, and Tere Ishk Mein (which also released this last weekend), not just raking in box office numbers, … Continue reading Gustaakh Ishq (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Brave rabbit cop Judy Hopps and her friend, the fox Nick Wilde, team up again to crack a new case, the most perilous and intricate of their careers. My Take – At the time of its release, nobody expected Zootopia (2016), an original Disney feature with themes of race and prejudice at its center, to be such a success story. Mainly as audiences worldwide … Continue reading Zootopia 2 (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Shankar and Mukti’s intense love story unfolds against exploring surrender and transformation through an all-consuming romance that heals, hurts, and changes them. My Take – Back in 2013, filmmaker Aanand L. Rai introduced the world to Kundan, played by Dhanush, a reckless, passionate, and unapologetic lover, willing to go to any lengths to win over his love. But while, his desire remained unfulfilled … Continue reading Tere Ishk Mein (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century. My Take – In general, every film is about something, even sometimes about something monumental, but that’s not the case of this latest directorial effort … Continue reading Train Dreams (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A woman’s desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realizing that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real. My Take – With the critical & commercial success of Talk To Me (2022) actively establishing the Philippou brothers, most famously known as RackaRacka, as filmmakers to watch out for, more and more YouTube stars have begun their journey … Continue reading Shelby Oaks (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Going for a trip to Europe during Christmas, Dan had planned the perfect vacation for his family, until his past continues to haunt them in unexpected ways. My Take – At this point, action comedy has become a genre that is so prevalent on streaming services that it has become a crime to form any kind of expectation, because they all offer the … Continue reading The Family Plan 2 (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Three unhappy husbands plan to leave their boring marriages. Their bold scheme offers liberation and thrill, but the aftermath takes surprising turns. My Take – Released in 2004, the Indra Kumar directed Masti (2004) worked well enough as breezy and mildly naughty comedy that relied heavily on the chemistry between Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Aftab Shivdasani to keep things engaging. And then … Continue reading Mastii 4 (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Valiant Indian soldiers fight against Chinese troops during the 1962 Sino-Indian War, preventing a potential occupation of Ladakh region in the Battle of Rezang La. My Take – While the world awaits the arrival of the much unneeded sequel to Border (1997) in two months, another starry affair that is once again expected to lean on generic chest-thumping and predictable chants as it slides into … Continue reading 120 Bahadur (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Follows Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical. My Take – Released last year, director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of one of the most beloved Broadway musicals of the 21st century, that loosely adapted the Gregory Maguire novel, Wicked: The … Continue reading Wicked: For Good (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A WWII psychiatrist evaluates Nazi leaders before the Nuremberg trials, growing increasingly obsessed with understanding evil as he forms a disturbing bond with Hermann Göring. My Take – Every year has to see the release of a WWII film, though they often claim to tell heroic stories that have not been told before, they are also often accused of prodding an audience into … Continue reading Nuremberg (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Stevie and her little brother Elliot journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family. My Take – Though Netflix‘s animation wing are continuing to prove that they have what it takes to compete with bigger studios like Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks and others, at least visually, their overall output has been a set … Continue reading In Your Dreams (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Twin brothers, identical looks but different values, face brotherhood, betrayal, love, and redemption. Their paths weave through crime into a deeper story of human nature and its results. My Take – Released just two months ago, Nishaanchi worked well enough as a messy, indulgent, stretched, occasionally frustrating, yet endlessly fascinating Hindi heartland crime-comedy. A decent entertainer that for its nearly three hours run … Continue reading Nishaanchi 2 (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A man joins a game show where contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are pursued by “hunters” hired to kill them. My Take – Of course, we have seen many films about game shows or entertainment disguised as propaganda, and a countless others about dystopias. In fact, just two months ago saw the release of the excellent The Long Walk, a similarly … Continue reading The Running Man (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Love faces its toughest test yet as Ashish visits Ayesha’s family home. Will the age-gap romance win hearts or stir things up? My Take – Released in 2019, De De Pyaar De, co-written by Luv Ranjan & Tarun Jain, and directed by debutante Akiv Ali, managed to find a good audience for itself by presenting the chaos that ensued when a middle-aged NRI … Continue reading De De Pyaar De 2 (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A diamond heist reunites retired Horsemen illusionists with new performers as they target a dangerous criminal. My Take – With a template premise that focuses on a group of illusionist-thieves who pull off globally coordinated heists using a sleight of hand, stagecraft, and a level of luck that can only exist in cinema, the ‘Now You See Me‘ franchise has always been recognized … Continue reading Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Brian has just been fired from his job. He becomes a stay-at-home dad. He accepts a playdate invitation from another stay-at-home dad who turns out to be a loose cannon. My Take – At this point there is nothing new the buddy-action formula can offer. But like most I remain a sucker for the genre that was once a staple of cinema for … Continue reading Playdate (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A national battle for justice, faith, and women’s rights, stemming from a woman’s legal battle against her ex-husband for abandoning her and their children, inspired by the historic Shah Bano case. My Take – While most of the filmmakers in the Hindi film industry seem to be concerned with delivering the next safe mainstream choice, the sub-genre of courtroom dramas seems to be … Continue reading Haq (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. My Take – The world didn’t necessarily need yet another adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, but I have learned to trust Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican monster-loving maestro who … Continue reading Frankenstein (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary. My Take – Though the Predator has been dwindling around for over 37 years in pop culture, it was the Dan Trachtenberg directed straight-to-Hulu feature, Prey (2022) that finally provided the franchise much needed boost by stripping the alien hunter down to basics in … Continue reading Predator: Badlands (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A provocative, modern reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play. HEDDA finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. My Take – Indeed only in a short period of time, writer-director Nia DaCosta has proven herself to be not only just one of the most efficient directors in recent years, but also an … Continue reading Hedda (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. My Take – Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is back again to tease our own sanity by re-teaming with his regular collaborator Emma Stone, who has famously shaved her head for the role and deserves credit for her continued willingness to take … Continue reading Bugonia (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation. My Take – Having shown himself to be more than capable of handling both extravagantly staged action, in his Oscar-winning breakout All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), and exceptional intrigue, in … Continue reading Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – In Northern England, a man heads out on a journey into the woods to reconnect with the estranged hermit brother with whom he shared a complicated past that was altered by life-changing events decades ago. My Take – Indeed, Daniel Day-Lewis is and will always be one of the most celebrated actors who ever lived, with many iconic roles to his name. With The … Continue reading Anemone (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A couple’s vacation at a secluded estate is upended when they’re forced to share the mansion with a mysterious couple. A dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, triggering a battle for survival. My Take – I get it why Airbnb horror has been blowing up as a popular sub-genre in recent years. Mainly as millions of people … Continue reading Bone Lake (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Bruce Springsteen’s journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band. Based on Warren Zanes’ book. My Take – With the ongoing barrage of music biopics hitting the screens every few months, it seemed inevitable that Bruce “the Boss” Springsteen’s story would soon follow suit. After all, the Grammy-winning musician known for … Continue reading Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Review!
Synopsis – Centers on the strained relationship between young mother Morgan Grant and her teenage daughter Clara, exacerbated by Morgan’s husband Chris’s tragic death, forcing them to navigate life’s challenges together. My Take – With last year’s It Ends with Us turning out to be a massive box office success, grossing $351 million against its $25m budget, despite receiving mixed reviews and being mired in controversy, … Continue reading Regretting You (2025) Review!!!
Synopsis – When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond. My Take – This is not fiction anymore. With wars, multiple attacks happening around the globe in real time, we are already living in super tense times were the threat of nuclear strikes, specifically at the helm of nine countries … Continue reading A House of Dynamite (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – An upscale suburban mom brings a new nanny, Polly Murphy, into her home, only to discover she is not the person she claims to be. My Take – We all know about those evil nanny films. Films which usually see a well-to-do white family hire a sweet childminder to help with the kids, but then it is discovered that she’s not the perfect … Continue reading The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – When a powerful politician falls for a strong-willed superstar, their passionate romance quickly spirals into a dangerous game of obsession, pride, and heartbreak. My Take – Anyone aware of Milap Milan Zaveri‘s filmography should know that the writer-director, irrespective of the genre, believes in delivering unapologetic loud 80s-style masala content. Unsurprisingly for his latest too, he has used the same approach. But while he … Continue reading Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Two destined lovers battle supernatural forces, family ties, and nature itself to defend their forbidden romance in a mystical world where ancient powers and prophecies threaten to keep them apart. My Take – Despite seeing many stumbles, the universe building craze continues on in world cinema, and while Indian cinema is arguably still finding its feet, the Maddock Horror Comedy Universe has (so … Continue reading Thamma (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Siblings Megan and Noah discover a dead body, long buried in their parents’ basement, sending them down a rabbit hole of crime and murder. My Take – Though he continues to be best known for playing Bill S. Preston, Esq., in the ‘Bill & Ted‘ science fiction comedy films, and for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys, unknown … Continue reading Adulthood (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy venture capitalist. My Take – This might sound like a pessimistic way to look at life, but most of us strongly believe that the rich have it easier, while the rest of us are just simply left to dwell in our messed-up lives, hoping, … Continue reading Good Fortune (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A seemingly simple case of a missing girl, Poonam, puts Inspector Vishwas Bhagwat on a chase to find the culprit behind a sinister trail of disappearing girls. My Take – In a time when every streaming platform is determined to churn out as many as possible serial killer stories in both long and short forms, ZEE5 seems to have found themselves a template where … Continue reading Bhagwat Chapter One: Raakshas (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, his sister begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake. My Take – I guess we all know by now about one of horror film’s oldest traditions: if a killer sells tickets, they don’t … Continue reading Black Phone 2 (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A young man’s perennial crush leads him into an unexpected threesome, he thinks it’s his ultimate fantasy come true. When the fantasy ends, all three are left with sobering real-world consequences, to take responsibility for their actions. My Take – With recent films expanding their scope in exploring unconventional family interactions or non-traditional relationships, it was inevitable that they would get in to … Continue reading The Threesome (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A stirring near-futuristic romance of two best friends who harbor an unspoken love for one another even after a test matches one of them up with their supposed soulmate. My Take – Is it just me, or aren’t we getting a lot of Black Mirror-adjacent dystopia drama nowadays? Particularly those centered on how the digital wave has or will change personal relationships. And … Continue reading All of You (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A woman spends the night fighting for her existence as she slips down a rabbit hole contained inside a gift from a late-night visitor. My Take – Horror films and mysterious boxes have a long history, most popularly seen in the ‘Hellraiser‘ franchise. And they always have the same gist – a protagonist (or a bunch of them) receive an intriguing box following which, … Continue reading Vicious (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A charismatic criminal, while on the run from the police, hides in a hidden space of a toy store. There, he adopts a new identity and becomes involved with an employee, beginning a relationship as unlikely as it is risky. My Take – Some true stories are just hard to believe. Such is the case of Jeff Manchester, an Army 82nd Airborne veteran … Continue reading Roofman (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – On a lavish yacht for an assignment, a journalist sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one believes her, she risks her life to uncover the truth. My Take – Ever since The Girl on the Train (2016) and Gone Girl (2014) adaptations found box office success, the modern mystery novel has evolved into something more nuanced than it was in the past. … Continue reading The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light. My Take – With a filmography that consists of works such as A Bigger Splash (2015), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Suspiria (2018), Bones and All (2022), … Continue reading After the Hunt (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – A highly sophisticated Program, Ares, is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission. My Take – Despite posing important questions about technology, the ‘Tron‘ series have always been about the special effects and the fight sequences. The original 1982 Steven Lisberger directed sci-fi about computer programmers entering vast and gleaming software landscapes was one of the first films … Continue reading Tron: Ares (2025) Review!!
