The ninth and concluding film in the set of trilogies that began some four decades ago with A New Hope(1977), best exemplifies why recycling old tropes in stellar CGI and prioritizing fan service over original and ingenious storytelling, is generally… Continue Reading
The world we live in, is a terrible place. Our planet is dying and our resources are dwindling, even as we to quote Greta Thunberg, remain wrapped up in “fairytales of eternal economic growth.” We elect fascists into power, plunging… Continue Reading
Ever since the cliff-hanger finale of Season 3, the fate of Lucifer has been in jeopardy. Fox cancelled it after the revelation that detective Chloe has seen Lucifer’s true face and is grappling with the knowledge that he is in… Continue Reading
More often than not, book-to-movie adaptations, even if they do decently at the box office, tend to fall short of their source material. However, this Amazon mini-series has the rare distinction of surpassing the World Fantasy award-nominated novel that Neil… Continue Reading
The title of Marvel’s latest and possibly the final film in the Infinity Stones saga isn’t misleading at all- it is indeed the endgame for the main characters- Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye- in the… Continue Reading
As a sub-genre of science-fiction, cyberpunk isn’t something new- William Gibson’s Neuromancer(1984), Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sleep (1968), and its loose cinematic re-imagination in the cult sci-fi film Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott, laid the… Continue Reading
With each new instalment, Marvel’s films have become more ambitious, CGI-infested and very predictable. Thus Captain Marvel, which is neatly packaged as a one-off 90s super heroine’s origin story, as well as a nice warm-up to Avengers: Endgame that releases… Continue Reading
I’ve always been fascinated by the dark side of human nature – of thwarted desires, obsessive love, dispossessed and psychopathic individuals as well as by the supernatural, and I’ve always enjoyed how the ‘Gothic’ genre often plays with our worst… Continue Reading