Akriti Painuly 
The Rig is marketed as a “big-budget” production, but you’ll have a hard time finding that money here. The Rig is a textbook example of how poorly to develop a television show, with CGI that looks like it was lifted from a project from the … Read more
“Enchanted,” the 2007 Disney musical comedy in which Amy Adams played a goody-two-shoes princess exiled from her fairy-tale animated kingdom and transported to the live-action world of New York City, was one of the last really good fish-out-of-water comedies — a genre that was popularised … Read more
The now-outdated joke on the type of pitches that movie executives respond to is actually about what the audience responds to. We are the ones that enjoy tacos with special sauce stuffed inside a bacon burger topped with a pizza bun. And “Violent Night” is … Read more
On the afternoon of June 13, 1997, a fire caused by a poorly maintained transformer broke out in Delhi’s Uphaar Cinema, silently fumigating a filled auditorium with carbon monoxide before plunging the place into darkness for the first time since the movie began showing. Balcony … Read more
It’s a given that everyone enjoys seeing films about dogs. Dogs make for some of the most endearing and cheeriest heroes. Dog Gone embraces this concept by telling the story of Fielding Marshall and his cute dog, Jonker, in a way that is both straightforward … Read more
A police inspector (Rajendra Prasad) approaches Waltair Veerayya (Chiranjeevi), a fisherman and community leader, and requests his assistance in extraditing Solomon Caesar (Bobby Simha) from Malaysia to India. Waltair Veerayya, a purported expert in such endeavours, has volunteered to execute the work for Rs 25 … Read more
“The Kings of the World” by Laura Mora is full of breathtaking images. The road trip in Colombia follows a group of four teens as they attempt to begin a new life away from the violence and poverty they have grown up with. As the … Read more
The Unhappy Holiday Film has nearly become its own subgenre, with this year’s new contributions ranging from sour seasonal rebound rom-coms to gory Yuletide horrors (including this weekend’s “Violent Night” and “Christmas Bloody Christmas”). Assuring viewers that they do not intend to dampen anyone’s holiday … Read more
The brooding awkwardness and severe self-doubt that typically accompany cinematic adolescents as the training wheels of adolescence are removed are absent in “Girl Picture.” In a way, this makes Alli Haapasalo’s fast-paced light drama a novel take on a classic genre, as it paints an … Read more
It’s difficult not to criticize “Missing” based on one’s own aptitude — much less hunger — for observing the world through electronics, yet doing so would be unfair to directors Nick Johnson and Will Merrick. In their directorial debuts, the two narrate the tangled tale … Read more