The status quo has changed : Avengers - Infinity War | Review

The last movie to be able to make a statement this phenomenal despite its gargantuan star-cast was the Lord of The Rings: Return Of The King. And let’s be fair, they had made 2 similarly scaled films previously for swinging practice. Marvel has finally brought us to the 10-year and 19-movie milestone of the journey they started us on with Iron Man (2008) that will mark the near end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we recognize...

Hiccuping Through : Hichki | Review

You’ve seen this kind of movie before, in Hollywood as well as Bollywood. It’s the movie where someone enters the lives of a team of rebelliously careless underdogs to turn them around for the better - Coach Carter and Chak De! India to name a few. However where these movies dealt with a team overcoming their personal shackles particularly in a sport, Hichki gives a larger package which is both inspirational, and depictive...

Black Panther: Marvel's most grand product or Marvel's First Sociological Thesis?

Anyone feeling a bit nostalgic for some Magneto-Xavier love? Don’t worry! Marvel comes to the rescue packaging the good old X-Men fight-between-ideals story in a more world-relevant issue and throwing in a bit of monarchy and a whole lot of Africa into the mix. And wait, there’s a bit of James Bond and the Phantom as well (those who know it will see the connection). And really though, it’s not at all bad. It might just be...

The Last Jedi: All that was plain wrong in an otherwise good film

<DISCLAIMER: MASSIVE PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD> Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi came out last weekend, and it almost measured up to the hype. Beautiful CGI work, and brilliant lightsaber fight choreography show this film series has stood the test of time and stood its ground among a plethora of various other sci-fi and superhero movie series. A beautiful final performance by Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley as Rey, the future...

Ragnarok could be worse, and Thor: Ragnarok could be better

I also want an adrenaline sequence all my own with the ‘Immigrant Song’ playing in the background! <So badass> Before we proceed further, heartiest congratulations to director and madcap enthusiast Taika Watiti for reclaiming the phrase “Guilty pleasure” and painting Thor Ragnarok with it; body and innards. Yep. That's him. Taika Watiti. The director.  It’s indeed rare when one is faced with such a conundrum...