The Path of Zarathustra – Gobbledegook!
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Oorvazi Irani. Starring Oorvazi Irani, Rushad Rana, Shishir Sharma, Tom Alter, Darius Shroff, Firdausi Jussawala The Path of Zarathustra has a lot of philosophical mumbo-jumbo, incoherent dialogue and absolutely no plot at all. … [Read More..]
The Transporter: Refueled – Sounds like Hollywood is running on empty
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Camille Delamarre. Starring Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol, Ray Stevenson Hollywood is remaking and rehashing everything they can put their hands on nowadays. Zero creative ideas or writing in Hollywood what! Zilch, nada, nothing. They … [Read More..]
She’s Funny That Way – Charming but not clever
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Starring Imogen Poots, Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn, Rhys Ifans, Will Forte, Illeana Douglas, Cybill Shepherd, Austin Pendleton, George Morfogen, Debi Mazar, Richard Lewis With the feel of a Woody Allen … [Read More..]
We Are Your Friends – With friends like these who needs enemies
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Max Joseph. Starring Zac Efron, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski, Jon Bernthal, Jonny Weston, Alex Shaffer, Shiloh Fernandez A story about how to become a DJ that really only says you have to go through … [Read More..]
Nagesh Kukunoor (Dhanak) – “A lot of actors can be more difficult than kids!”
Dhanak (Rainbows), directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, has been voted Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival 2015 and has also been one of the TIFF Kids Selection of Films. It also recently premiered in Toronto. During this period, we had … [Read More..]
DVD Review: It Follows – Interesting special feature with the music guy
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> I thought the movie was okay. It’s gotten some good reviews and I think that’s mostly because of its brilliant music that ramps up the tension and keeps you interested. Here’s our review of the … [Read More..]
Black Mass – Not very original but holds your attention
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, David Harbour, Julianne Nicholson, Rory Cochrane, Corey Stoll Running Time: 122 minutes What’s the Black Mass? Well … [Read More..]
Pawn Sacrifice – As interesting as watching two men playing chess
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Edward Zwick. Starring Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lily Rabe, Robin Weigert Running time: 1 hour 56 minutes The parts about the world’s greatest chess player Bobby Fischer going paranoid weren’t … [Read More..]
DVD/Movie Review: Cake – So-so film with a nice performance by Aniston
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Daniel Barnz. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Sam Worthington, Anna Kendrick, Adriana Barraza, Chris Messina, Felicity Huffman, William H Macy Running time: 1 hour 38 minutes Cake is a weird film where Jennifer Aniston as … [Read More..]
Glimpses of TIFF at 40 by Swati Sharan
<Report by: Swati Sharan> This year (2015), the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) turned 40 and brought with it many delights. Amongst these were three films I had the pleasure of reviewing in one day. Interestingly, the reviewing organically led … [Read More..]
