Papa Do Preach There are more money shots in Furious 7 than a dozen action flicks put together. Now, that’s pure escapist fare. One that lures the entire strata of society—from the Bourgeoisie to the Proletariat—into its make-believe world. Continue reading
Category Archives: English
2014 / English / Movie Review
Interstellar (or) How to Transcend Space and Time for Dummies
Numerous nights have I spent gazing the skies, sliding my fingers across the stars to trace the borders of my favorite constellation, “Hey! there’s the Big Dipper, or is that Scorpion? Look, how Polaris lights up the sky in Ursa Minor”, I would quip to my friend. In that stillness of the night, time too … Continue reading
2014 / English / Movie Review / Short Take
Fleeting Thoughts on Chef, Lucy, Neeson, Blue Ruin and Rover
Jon Favreau’s Chef did the impossible. It pulled me out of hibernation. Much like the movie’s premise to do your own thing, and to do what you do best, Chef worked for me at the meta level and gently nudged me to re-start writing about movies. So, DUN…DUN…DUN…presenting the resurrection of Prakash J with four … Continue reading
2014 / English / Movie Review
A Touch of Sin, Sound, Love, Sex and Lucia
Life is a great teacher, a master. And so are film festivals. 100 years of Indian cinema and 62 years after India organized its very first international film festival, yours truly finally got an opportunity to attend his very first film festival in its entirety (yep, he’s attended some before but never in their entirety … Continue reading
2013 / English / Movie Review
Gravity (2013)
Technology, Performance, Metaphor and the Monomyth in Gravity Who teaches a baby how to walk? Nature, God, parents? But metaphorically speaking, who teaches a broken, down-in-the-dumps adult how to ‘walk’? Can one even teach such a thing? Director Alfonso Cuarón just did that with his space truckin’, metaphor infested, gravity-defying thriller Gravity. He even goes … Continue reading
