Join 3,080 different subscribers
Archives
Categories
Recent Posts
- Interview: T Suriavelan (Singapore-based Tamil YouTube hit, Naam)
- From the Web (FTW) #4: The wives who found they had been homosexual
- Interview: Santhosh Narayanan (Malaysia live performance, future movies)
- Readers Write In #561: Letters to my Alter Ego
- Rajeev Ravi’s ‘Thuramukham’ (Nivin Pauly, Arjun Ashokan) is a robust, unsparing 360-degree view of a staff’ wrestle
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 10: Oscar speak (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 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 Okay 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 fantastically 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 occasions
- 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 take 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 during 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 films
- Pattukaran – Rajaism Pannuvom, that includes Baradwaj Rangan
- Venky Atluri’s ‘Vaathi’, starring Dhanush, is a half-decent, not-bad masala film that might have been a lot higher
- Mohan G’s ‘Bakasuran’, starring Selvaraghavan and Natarajan Subramaniam, is a boring drama concerning 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 neighborhood
- Ganesh Okay 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 couple of vigilante cop
- Hansal Mehta’s ‘Faraaz’ works higher as a doc of a tragedy than as a debate concerning the trendy Muslim
- Saheed Arafath’s very good ‘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)