Join 3,080 other subscribers
Archives
Categories
Recent Posts
- Rajeev Ravi’s ‘Thuramukham’ (Nivin Pauly, Arjun Ashokan) is a strong, unsparing 360-degree view of a workers’ struggle
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 10: Oscar talk (on campaigning and ‘Naatu Naatu’ and what it takes to make it)
- Readers Write In #560: Lost and Found
- From the Web (FTW) #3: Ananthu, about himself, SPB and MSV
- From the Web (FTW) #2: Sivaji Ganesan, interviewed in the 1980s
- Interview: Siddharth Anand (Pathaan)
- Luv Ranjan’s ‘Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar’, with Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor, is overlong and under-plotted
- Readers Write In #559: BLOG AWARDS, 2022
- Interview: Charle (Kondraal Paavam)
- Interview: Karan Anshuman, Rana Daggubati, Suparn Varma, Sunder Aaron (Rana Naidu)
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 9: Lessons for first-time directors, from Ganesh K Babu (‘Dada’)
- Readers Write In #558: Ultimeta Varisu
- Readers Write In #557: Ntikkakkakkoru Premondarnn – A simple, feel-good film with effective performances!
- Mansore’s ‘19-20-21’ is a solid, docudrama-style deep dive into the injustices faced by tribals
- Interview: Avinash Tiwary
- Rahat Mahajan’s ‘Meghdoot – The Cloud Messenger’ is a beautifully imagined tale of a love that transcends time
- Readers Write In #556: Abishekspeare in love
- Interview: GV Prakash / Venky Atluri (Vaathi)
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 8: Thoughts on ‘Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya’ (Movie of the Month)
- Readers Write In #555: Call
- Readers Write In #554: Sunny Deol, the man of our times
- Interview: Smriti Mundhra (The Romantics)
- Shan Thulaseedharan’s ‘Dear Vaappi’, starring Lal and Anagha Narayanan, is a modest feel-good drama about chasing a dream
- Vignesh Kumulai’s ‘Karparaa’ is a quiet stunner, an unsentimental look at an aged couple at the mercy of the young
- Readers Write In #553: Vaathi – Predictable, loud and all, but remains passable with moments that work!
- Readers Write In #552: Christy – A love story in which ambiguity could be your deal breaker!
- Readers Write In #551: GVM Crossword
- Readers Write In #550: Memorable mini-moments from our Menon’s movies
- Pattukaran – Rajaism Pannuvom, featuring Baradwaj Rangan
- Venky Atluri’s ‘Vaathi’, starring Dhanush, is a half-decent, not-bad masala movie that could have been much better
- Mohan G’s ‘Bakasuran’, starring Selvaraghavan and Natarajan Subramaniam, is a dull drama about the exploitation of women
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 7: Dhanush / Selvaraghavan / Vaathi-Sir / Bakasuran
- Interview: Selvaraghavan, the actor (Bakasuran)
- Readers Write In #549: ‘‘Dada’ movie review: A potent domestic drama that opts for easy way out
- Readers Write In #548: Not defending a movie tradesman about testosterone, but defending
- The filmmaking is better than the writing in Jithin Issac Thomas’s ‘Rekha’, a love story that morphs into a detective story
- Don Palathara’s ‘Family’ is a wonderfully sinister drama about conforming to one’s community
- Ganesh K Babu’s ‘Dada’, despite its second-half issues, is a solid relationship drama
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 6: Ask the Critic
- B Unnikrishnan’s ‘Christopher’, starring Mammootty, is a loud, blunt weapon of a movie about a vigilante cop
- Hansal Mehta’s ‘Faraaz’ works better as a document of a tragedy than as a debate about the modern Muslim
- Saheed Arafath’s superb ‘Thankam’ disguises an emotional “friendship story” as a police procedural
- Lights, Camera, Analysis: Anurag Kashyap (Almost Pyaar With DJ Mohabbat)
- Lijo Jose Pellissery’s magical new movie with Mammootty, ‘Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam’, is an instant classic
- Interview: Venky Atluri (Sir / Vaathi)
- Interview: Raj & DK, Vijay Sethupathi, Shahid Kapoor, Raashi Khanna (Farzi)
- Readers Write In #547: Maid of the Mist
- Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat’ is a love story that turns the conventional love story on its head
- Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan’s well-intentioned ‘Thalaikoothal’ is a drama that stays at an arm’s length
- Shan’s ‘Bommai Nayagi’ gives Yogi Babu the space to be dramatic, but the story-handling is too simplistic
