Author: Pallavi Dandamudi
1979 in Film: The In-laws – The Perks of Having Weird Relatives
Arthur Hiller’s 1979 cult classic, The In-laws, is in the truest sense of the word, a joyride, emphasis being on ‘ride’. What starts off with a…
1979 in Film: Breaking Away – Cycling into Adulthood
‘Coming of Age’ like any other genre in cinema, is pretty diverse. On the one hand, it is populated with cheesy high-school dramas, with stock…
Ratatouille Movie Review: It’s Delicious!!
In one of the most memorable sequences of Ratatouille,one of the film’s characters, Anton Ego (Peter O’Toole), who is one of Paris’s most influential food…
Zodiac (2007) Movie review: Stranger than fiction…
Mark Twain once wrote, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.” Zodiac is pretty…
Rewind: 1993 – Groundhog Day, the Comedy of Trial and Errors
What would you do if you were stuck in one place and everything you did was exactly the same, and nothing you did really mattered?…
SHAZAM! Review: Navigating Teenage Angst with Superpowers
What’s the most fun you’ve had while watching a movie? When I say fun, it doesn’t necessarily have to be the best movie you have…
Rewind: 1993 – What’s Eating Gilbert Grape: A Predictable, yet Compassionate Parable about Human Suffering
In one of the most telling scenes of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Gilbert (Johnny Depp), when asked about what he wants in life, answers, ‘”I…
Captain Marvel: A Commendable Film But Sadly Not a Great One.
Captain Marvel is a superhero origin story and a good one at that, but the problem is, while there is a lot of the superhero…