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IANS Review: ‘Last Six Hours’ keeps you hooked
Chennai : Director Sunish Kumar’s ‘Last Six Hours’ is a reasonably well made thriller that seems to be heavily influenced by director Fede Alvarez’s superhit film, ‘Don’t Breathe’.
While the Hollywood film, ‘Don’t Breathe’, was more…
IANS Review : ‘The Great Weddings of Munnes’ is the bridge between TV and digital
Mumbai : The Indian digital content is past its nascent stage. Unlike its initial years, more players have stepped into the game, with new platforms coming into play and the existing ones – some registering steady growth while others…
IANS Review: ‘Paper Rocket’: Heart-warming tale of how a tragedy make people bond
Chennai : Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi’s ‘Paper Rocket’ is a heart-warming tale that revolves around a group of six people who, through a road trip, end up healing themselves and others. The wounds they have suffered are deep because they…
IANS Review: ‘Gargi’ a gripping courtroom drama that exposes social ills
Hyderabad : Director Gautham Ramachandran’s ‘Gargi’ is a fantastic court room drama that shines the light on several important issues plaguing the society today, including the often sidelined topic of child sexual abuse and the…
IANS Review: ‘The IPCRESS File’: A hard-boiled British espionage thriller
Los Angeles : Set during the Cold War period, this series is a very loose adaptation of Len Deighton’s first spy novel ‘The IPCRESS File’ which was published in 1962. The novel was also the source material for the 1965 released film of…
IANS Review: ‘Modern Love Mumbai’: A comprehensive mixed flavours of love
Mumbai : ‘L-O-V-E’ – is a familiar four-letter word that takes on a world of meanings. It is transcendent and everyday – found in every nook and corner of living, and the only reliable thing about it is that it is never where you…
IANS Review: ‘Guilty Minds’: Taut and brilliantly packaged
Mumbai : This series is an engaging drama that involves characters indulging in legal practice. It also explores how even powerful people can be brought down- by scandal and how secrets can never truly stay buried. This series…
IANS Review: ‘K.G.F: Chapter 2’: Visually impressive despite a passive narrative
Mumbai : For the uninitiated, K.G.F. stands for the Kolar Gold Fields. This film is a sequel to the 2018 released ‘K.G.F: Chapter 1’.With its timeline stretching from 1951 to 1981 and narrated in a non-linear manner, the film takes off…
IANS Review: With its wafer-thin plot, ‘Beast’ fails to impress
Hyderabad : By Manigandan K.R. Director Nelson Dilipkumar’s ‘Beast’ is an action comedy whose only aim seems to be to glorify its hero’s character. As a result, it fails to impress. It is just an ordinary commercial entertainer that…
IANS Review: ‘Gullak – Season 3’: Evokes old world charm albeit in a modern Indian…
Mumbai : Probably every middle-class household in India relates to the ‘Gullak,’ an earthenware piggybank, where money in small denominations, is kept aside, saved for a rainy day, Similar to this earthenware piggybank, this feel-good,…