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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Navarasa (2021)
I finally got around to watching (trying to watch, to be more accurate in hindsight) the much-touted “Navarasa”. An anthology of short films that depict the ‘9 emotions’, it brings together some of the biggest names in the Tamil film industry. Watching it was a…
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Remembering Thilakan
On 1 August, two years ago, one of the finest actors Malayalam cinema has seen took ill on the sets of a film and was rushed to hospital. Nearly two months later, he died on 24 September, having suffered two heart attacks and pneumonia in…
