Through The Mist

Midsommar Movie Review You can tell how visually stunning this movie it's by its poster! Midsommar is a horror movie written and directed by Hereditary fame Ari Aster starring Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, and Jack Reynor.  'A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.' - Official Movie Premise Now this movie came out in 2019 and went unnoticed by me, somehow but in the ongoing lockdown I got to finally see this movie. I loved hereditary on all the fronts as an entertaining as well as a serious movie. going into Midsommar I had expected at least to be scared but Nah, I was totally disappointed.  I have a mixed feeling whether I liked this movie or not but let's just get on with the review and try to find out whether you should watch it or not because it...

Sexism and Misogyny is pretty much the answer It's hard to get a banner for these movies. South India cinema always remained somewhat a niched genre in itself in Indian cinema. It was confined to the Southern states and hardly ever reached the general audience through television. Around 2005 to 2006 the South Indian cinema finally started to gain a wider audience through dubbing and became popular among kids and younger audiences. Bollywood took its notice and started remaking these movies and literally printing money out of it. While the trend remains the same and people's love for these movies keeps growing I for one absolutely hate these movies. Now, don't jump to any conclusion. There are various reasons why these movies don't work for me. If they work for you it's absolutely fine. They work for my family too and I cannot change that. They are entertaining because the filmmakers take the absurdity to the next level. The ratings these films get...

I AM MOTHER || Movie Review Pathfinder anyone? Consuming Sci-fis is a great way to be sad, get depressed and drown yourself in nihilism yet somehow they manage to induce hope, motivation, and love in our minds.  I watched the Netflix Exclusive I AM MOTHER last night and it is a great Sci-Fi revolving around the same interesting or boring, overused debate of Artificial Intelligence or Humans. Can AI really take place of humans? What it means to be sentient? Are emotions exclusive to us only or they can be simplified down to binaries? Also. why humans need to go extinct for a better world. This has been an interesting debate for me since I was a kid and I always find these boring movies a great way to forget about the current issues and focus more on the issues that we may have to face in our species future.  Let's get into the review. What I Liked? The Plot & The Direction A teenage girl is raised by a robot designed to repopulate Earth. Thei...

The Hunt || Movie Review Only the 'woke' liberals will understand the literature, amma right bois? The Hunt directed by Craig Zobel and stars people whom I won't name because it will be a spoiler.  This movie inspired a lot of controversy in America and I still don't understand why. It all that Hillary, Trump, 'Racist' Hollywood, blah blah bullshit. As an Indian, or even as a left or right winged guy, I don't find anything that is even remotely offensive in this movie. Rather I think this movie perfectly reflects the current creation of online echo chambers and nicely tries to criticize it.  ' Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are -- or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. ' This is part of the official premise of the movie which I have partly pasted because the movie was and other movies a...

Knives Out || Movie Review At least one of your favorite actors is in this film. Knives Out is a murder mystery, basically, who did it kind of film directed by Rian Johnson starring heavy hitters such as Danial Craig, Michael Shannon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Chris Evans, Christopher Plummer, as well as rising talents like Lakeith Stanfield, Ana de Armas, and Catherine Langford. I don't remember the last time I watched a feel-good movie, maybe it was a rewatch of LoTR in 2017 but after that nothing of sorts nor do I remember watching a 'who did it?' kind of movie, maybe it was Altered Carbon in 2018. Knives Out was on my watchlist since it came out and today I finally watched it and so here's my review of Knives Out. What I liked? The Plot & The Direction All of them are lying. Harlen Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is a super-rich crime novelist and on the night after his 85th birthday is killed.  All of the family members were...

As Boring As Suicide Squad? All the posters are pretty amazing. Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey or Birds of Prey AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN is just a Harley Quinn movie directed by Cathy Yan having a cast full of pretty women such as Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollet-Bell and Rosie Perez.  I wasn't interested in the movie at all but still gave it a go today and believe me if you hated the 2016s Suicide Squad then you should probably skip this movie. I don't have much good stuff to talk about and this whole review will be me ranting over this painfully boring movie. What I liked? We all can agree that no one else can play Harley Quinn's character as good as Margot Robbie. Her acting is the saving grace of this film. Other actresses have also acted well. They did best with all those cheesy dialogues and one-liners. They were able to make me laugh a little once in a while. Another thing that I like is a fe...

Put On A Happy Face But you won't get it... Yes, yes, I know it's been half a year since the movie released and there is no need of me to write this review as it seems everyone else but I had watched this film when it hit the theaters. There was a lot of controversy around the film and I never bothered to see the film because of the superhero film fatigue I'm having since 2017. But as a standalone movie with Joaquin Phoenix in the lead, I had hoped it will be a good movie and it is a decent film. Some doubts were there as I haven't watched any of Todd Phillips's works yet.  I finally watched the movie today and let's talk about it. What I Liked? The Plot & The Direction Let's bring in another controversy, I'm a misogynist too. When the early set photos were leaked I was sure that it will be a darker and more serious take on the character which already is very violent. Another thing that I had thought was that the critic...