Greetings again from the darkness. This is the era of sequels and spin-offs, and every studio dreams of franchises they can squeeze for profit again and again. The 4th entry in the MIB franchise {MEN IN BLACK (1997), MEN IN BLACK II (2002), MEN IN BLACK 3 (2012)}, is certainly more spinoff than sequel, although there is a nugget that ties it to the earlier … Continue reading Men in Black: International (2019)
Siva Karthikeyan’s SK Productions produces this film that is written and directed by debutant Venugopal and has the YouTube Black Sheep team playing the lead. OK the movie must have been made with the right intention in mind and that intention fructifies only towards the end. Till then the viewer has to bear more than 100 minutes of crude screenplay that houses on poor production … Continue reading Nenjamundu Nermaiyundu Odu Raja (2019)
SPU is produced by Kalpataru pictures and is written and directed by Ramprakash Rayappa. The trailer generated a lot of interest and contemporary directors acting in it too helped in the movie gain attention. SPU starts off in a bizarre fashion and stays ridiculous most of the time until the viewer gets a hint of the reason. But by then the suspense is off and … Continue reading Suttu Pidikka Utharavu (2019)
Y NOT productions produce this film that is written by Ashwin Saravanan and Kavya Ramkumar and is directed by Ashwin Saravanan. GAME OVER’s strength is its very powerful line (story). That in itself was enough to keep the audience engrossed. But then the writers take it to a further level by intelligently weaving layers over the plot and yet not disturbing the core of the … Continue reading Game Over (2019)
Vijay Antony is back with his particular kind of movie (adaptations) that is written and directed by Andrew Louis and produced by Diya movies. In an outrageous move you have a dream song that knocks you out even before you try to sort out the first scene that’s a jolt. The movie then gets back to its senses, but every now and then the songs … Continue reading Kolaigaran(2019)
Ramesh Varma produces this film that is written, directed and cinematographed by Nizar Shafi. SEVEN starts of laboriously and it takes more than a while to get the viewer seriously interested in the film. The serious scenes lack logic and the actors performances makes SEVEN a much more difficult and unconvincing watch. It is only in the second half that the movie wakes up from … Continue reading Seven (2019)
Bharat is adapted from “Ode to my Father” and is directed by Ali Abbas Zafar produced by Reel Life Productions and Salman Khan Films. Bharat does have a very strong premise, but that is all it has. The screenplay meanders aimlessly with layers and layers added to it to make it much more painstaking to watch. The script is like a few chapters disjointed in … Continue reading Bharat (2019)
