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- 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 within the Eighties
- 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 administrators, from Ganesh Ok Babu (‘Dada’)
- Readers Write In #558: Ultimeta Varisu
- Readers Write In #557: Ntikkakkakkoru Premondarnn – A easy, feel-good movie with efficient performances!
- Mansore’s ‘19-20-21’ is a strong, docudrama-style deep dive into the injustices confronted by tribals
- Interview: Avinash Tiwary
- Rahat Mahajan’s ‘Meghdoot – The Cloud Messenger’ is a superbly imagined story 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 person of our instances
- 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 have a look at an aged couple on the mercy of the younger
- Readers Write In #553: Vaathi – Predictable, loud and all, however stays satisfactory with moments that work!
- Readers Write In #552: Christy – A love story by which ambiguity could possibly be your deal breaker!
- Readers Write In #551: GVM Crossword
- Readers Write In #550: Memorable mini-moments from our Menon’s motion pictures
- Pattukaran – Rajaism Pannuvom, that includes Baradwaj Rangan
- Venky Atluri’s ‘Vaathi’, starring Dhanush, is a half-decent, not-bad masala film that would have been a lot higher
- Mohan G’s ‘Bakasuran’, starring Selvaraghavan and Natarajan Subramaniam, is a boring drama in regards to the exploitation of girls
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 7: Dhanush / Selvaraghavan / Vaathi-Sir / Bakasuran
- Interview: Selvaraghavan, the actor (Bakasuran)
- Readers Write In #549: ‘‘Dada’ film overview: A potent home drama that opts for straightforward manner out
- Readers Write In #548: Not defending a film tradesman about testosterone, however defending
- The filmmaking is healthier than the writing in Jithin Issac Thomas’s ‘Rekha’, a love story that morphs right into a detective story
- Don Palathara’s ‘Family’ is a splendidly sinister drama about conforming to at least one’s group
- Ganesh Ok Babu’s ‘Dada’, regardless of its second-half points, is a strong relationship drama
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 6: Ask the Critic
- B Unnikrishnan’s ‘Christopher’, starring Mammootty, is a loud, blunt weapon of a film a few vigilante cop
- Hansal Mehta’s ‘Faraaz’ works higher as a doc of a tragedy than as a debate in regards to the fashionable Muslim
- Saheed Arafath’s excellent ‘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 film with Mammootty, ‘Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam’, is an instantaneous basic
- 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 standard love story on its head
- Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan’s well-intentioned ‘Thalaikoothal’ is a drama that stays at an arm’s size
- Shan’s ‘Bommai Nayagi’ offers Yogi Babu the area to be dramatic, however the story-handling is just too simplistic
- Farewell, Vani Jairam
- Readers Write In #546: Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam – A Meditation on Existence