She's a really awful breed of educator. Foul-mouthed, conniving and perpetually hung-over, the titular anti-heroine shouldn't even be around students. Beyond a few gross-out gags and an uninhibited performance by Cameron Diaz, Bad Teacher flunks the grade.
This could have been a toothsome twist on a cultish horror-comedy. Instead, the sluggish remake of the 1985 horror flick lacks bite. The screenplay has scant regard for such traditional elements of the genre as tension or suspense.
Not A Love Story is the first film from the director, since Sarkar Raj (2008), which comes with a script. The setting is yet more or less wasted, realistically shot, relatively unexplored. Murder takes place in...
Are we banned in this country from debating merits or demerits of reservation on caste lines altogether? Only cheap, opportunist
netas would think so. They rule. The public be damned.
It’s resolutely old-fashioned. At a time when hand-drawn animation appears to be almost extinct, it is a great pleasure to come across a cartoon that aims to keep the back to basics tradition alive.
It's a sweet, intimate, fable-like film, even unnecessarily sanitised in parts, that touches upon issues of class, poverty, childhood, dreams, without ever quite losing sight of a reasonably plausible, engaging tale to tell.
A cult favourite at the time of its release back in 1968, the first Planet of the Apes spawned four sequels and a remake. But there was one avenue that remained unexplored: a prequel to the original film.
There's a certain obvious logic about utter misery falling on one man being captured in its full horror only through the comic.
Combining live-action and animation, the big screen exploits of the tiny blue-hued characters created by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo back in 1958 are a cut above the commonplace.
The pic is a sweet, rare, candid personal piece; the kind of filmmaking the market has least patience for. The title’s third-rate. The teenybopper advertising is misleading. There is no effort whatsoever to lend finesse to the film, a certain polish to the final product.
What do these characters – Gandhi, Hitler, Aman Verma -- have to do with each other, or the film itself? Doesn’t matter. It’s sheer genius that the filmmakers find enough in this time-space continuum to break into an upbeat Holi song here.
It’s a clever concept all right. Lucklessly, the mishmash of shoot-’em-up westerns and effects-laden sci-fi adventures has no new insights to offer about either of the well-worn genres.
It’s quite a deviation for Kenneth Branagh. After all, an epic fantasy adventure isn’t normally associated with the director of intimate Shakespeare adaptations (Henry V, As You Like It). Rashid Irani writes.
In this multiplex era of comic-book superheroes, computer-driven fantasies and pre-teen oriented drivel, it's refreshing to stumble across a beguilingly old-fashioned romantic comedy.
Rashid Irani writes.
Devgn walks to beats similar to Salman’s Dabanng. He beats the crap out of ruffians outside a village theatre. He restores his woman's honour. Besotted, she chases him. Audiences think even more highly of the hero. He beats the crap some more.
Mayank Shekhar writes.