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Six moms and a common problem: being mothers of school-going children in present-day USA. Amy (Mila Kunis) is a woman with a seemingly perfect life--a great marriage, a boy and a girl and a dog; a...
Ghostbusters-Answer the Call, Review: Making the ghost of it Sequel? No. Remake? Well, almost. The term going around is re-boot. Thirty years after the first ghost was busted, we have a new version,...
NYIFF-G5A Film Festival, Closing film, A Far Afternoon: One from the art There must be something about painting genius and longevity. Not only do their works live for centuries, many of the masters...
NYIFF-G5A Film Festival Reviews, U Turn: Highway is my way In many ways, the choice of U Turn as the penultimate screening of the NYIFF-G5A Film Society’s Film Festival, the first ever Mumbai...
Star Trek Beyond, Review: Nebulous Enterprise On TV, Star Trek was conceived in 1966, as a weekly NBC series, running for three seasons. Graduation to the big screen was logical. Since 1979, we have...
NYIFF-G5A Film Festival Reviews, The Threshold: I’ll take your leave A good old joke goes like this: An ideal marriage is one wherein two people become one. The problems arise when they want to...
NYIFF-G5A Film Festival Reviews, Kadambari: Platonic tonic and poetic injustice Literally, ‘of/from the Kadamba tree’, the word kadambari (kaadambari in Hindi and kaadambori in Bengali) lends itself...
Great Grand Masti, Review: Grate Bland Cesti Amar, Meet and Prem. "Amar, meet Prem!" Penilty corner, Penil interest, Penilti-mate Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani. Sapna, Rekha,...
G5A-NYIFF Film Festival Reviews: Daaravtha (Marathi for Threshold) Here’s one more winner screened at ongoing the G5A-NYIFF Film Festival: Best Debut Film of a Director at the 63rd National Film...
Reviews, G5A-NYIFF screenings: Agli Baar, Absent, El’ Ayichi Devashish Makhija is a Kolkata boy who was so shattered by his mother’s death that he got on to a Mumbai-bound train, in an unreserved...
