-
Killer Heat (2024)
Killer Heat opens with private detective Nick Bali (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) arriving on a picturesque Greek island to investigate the accidental death of a wealthy resident Leo Vardakis in a freak climbing accident. He has come at the behest of the deceased man’s sister-in-law Penelope (Shailene…
-
Venom: the Last Dance (2024)
VENOMENAL? NOT QUITE. I rarely watch movies on the first day of its release. Yes, I do sometimes; usually Superstar Rajini’s movies (not all of them!), or something I got super-hyped waiting for—like The Batman (the new one). This time was a fluke thanks once…
-
Boston Strangler (2023)
STRANGLER DANGLER For those who don’t know about the infamous string of killings that shook Boston in the 1960s — 13 women killed in near-identical circumstances, all strangled to death with the bodies left decorated with a stocking bow tie around the neck — this…
-
Kill Boksoon (2023)
KILLING TIME WITH KILLERS ‘Kill Boksoon’ builds promise right from the opening scene where two famous assassins face off near a railway track for a stylish yet anti-climatic (dark humour?) fight unto death. It then develops into a full-blown action melodrama that, well, somehow works.…
-
Bheed (2023)
TO BHEED OR NOT TO BHEED As a person of so-called Dalit origins, I can’t help view movies that deal with the issue of caste and caste empowerment without a vicarious sense of representation. “Bheed” too was one such story. It depicts the omnipresent shroud…