Here’s how reviewing works on this site. Our contributors watch movies (lots of them!), and then offer very subjective, very personal opinions on them. The objective here (pun intended) is to give you a perspective on the movie or show, and justify it. An informed opinion, if you please. You may wonder then: why should you be reading these reviews, or value these opinions over others? To borrow a thought from famous film critic Barry Norman, CBE (1933-2017), the biggest reason you should consider reading them is that these contributors probably have seen many more movies than the average movie-watcher over a long period of time and draw from a larger pool of movies they have watched, to form opinions. Does that make sense? Read on! If you would like to contribute, get in touch with us on one of our social media pages.
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Rautu Ka Raaz (2024)
Set in a sleepy valley of Uttarakhand, RkR is an investigative murder mystery Unlike most thrillers this one actually moves at a very slow almost lazy pace giving you a feel of the rural landscape of Uttarakhand. Once you get the hang of its pace…
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Tejas (2023)
Courage, Valour, Patriotism and Truth Tejas is a movie that is an all encompassing feature of all the above mentioned characteristics, let me assure you. It takes an immense amount of Courage to pick up the remote, open Zee5 and click on Tejas. The Valour…
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DaMo Ratings Explained
I have so many people complaining about the ratings for my movie reviews, I thought I would explain them to save such complaints in future. Okay so, DaMoRating is always out of 10. Which basically means that 5/10 is average. Now, unlike what people might…
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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.…
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Here we go again
After watching the theatrical trailer filled with numerous flying motorcycles, mortally injured baddies, a tough-talking Tabu as a police officer, inane one-liners and a stern-looking Ajay Devgn wielding a you-guessed-it trident (Trishool, dammit!), the only thing I can say for this patent ‘craziness’ is that…
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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…
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Thankam (2023)
ALL THAT GLITTERS “Thankam” is a good movie — a mix of a thriller a police procedural — that stops short of being excellent. It grips you enough to keep you guessing what might happen next throughout, until the somewhat tame albeit surprising end to…
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The Whale (2022)
A WHALE OF A MOVIE ‘The Whale’ is a movie that leaves you heartbroken but satisfied. You root for the protagonist so much that you wish the story had ended differently, because you desperately want him to find redemption, and the happiness that he seeks,…
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Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)
ABLE ELBA For fans of the original BBC series, “Luther: The Fallen Sun” picks up where it left us, in a movie sequel. It has all the key elements of the series absolutely intact, on a slightly larger scale. Idris Elba once again plays the…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once(2022)
YEOHVERYTHING YEOHRYWHERE ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (EEAAO) is a difficult movie to classify. It blends genres in an unusual way. It is an intense family drama, a love story, a comedy, a science-fiction movie, an action movie and epic adventure with the now done-to-death…
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Christopher (2023)
CHRISTOPHER, WITH LITTLE TO OFFER What can you say about a movie that is an endless parade of predictable clichés right from the word go? Watching it till the end was like watching a train derail on a bridge — you know what to expect,…
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The Romantics (2023) & Cinema… Marte Dum Tak (2023)
FOR THE LOVE OF CINEMA If you are a diehard fan like me, and love cinema in all its many-splendoured glory from the biggest blockbuster extravaganzas to the most measly productions, the duds delivered by the biggest stars to the runaway hits served by rank…
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Iratta (2023)
TWIN TREAT ‘Iratta’ is that Sunday afternoon kind of movie that keeps you riveted from start to finish, through every twist and turn, while you burn brain cells trying to second-guess what is to come next. The movie starts at a police station where a…
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Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (2022)
MORE NIGHTMARE THAN DREAM Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is a strange movie. Reminiscent of the style of films like Elippathayam (1982), it is deliberately slow to the point of ennui. There are cinematic devices strewn around in the narrative ostensibly to evoke a “how clever” from…
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) & The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
The post compares two contrasting movies: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ a grand WWI epic, and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ an intimate tale of lost friendship in a small Irish village. Despite their differences, both films center on a man’s heartbreaking transformation due to…
