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Us - 2019 Directed By : Jordan Peele Us is a very layered horror film. It has lot to say, apart from being an excellent tense horror flick. Jordan Peele had given similar film before, Get Out, which was not very subtle like Us, and was different from this one, but there are same techniques and approaches which obviously draws few valid parallels. Although keeping all that in mind, its safe to say that Us is its own thing and should not be compared to the former film of Peele. Us is deliberately and so skillfully shot, it is certainly a solid work. The cinematography and editing is top notch. The score is chilly and effective. You feel that a lot has been done to achieve what we have seen in the film. The acting is fantastic, especially Nyong'o, who is so dynamic and skilled. She is literally playing two people in the film. Its an ambitious film to say the least. Its overwhelming only to think about how much rich symbolism it has and how much thinking is done to make it....

Death Proof - 2007 Directed by : Quentin Tarantino Death Proof is quite a niche film. So Tarantino-esque. There are cues everywhere suggesting it to be a Tarantino flick. With characters trying to be cool, the scenes of women's feet obsessively throughout, group of people sitting on table and just talking, lot of talking, people shitting curses, and more talking. Only certain type of people might enjoy this. I am stuck in between; neither hated nor loved it. The film is competent, sure. It feels like it. The camera work is top notch, the cinematography is great, and the stunts, breathtaking. But its so obsessed with itself. I later learnt that Death Proof is an attempt to imitate the general exploitation B films of 70s era of Hollywood. Cant relate. That takes the fun out for me. People who are aware of that context seem to enjoy the film better. With characters just acting as action caricatures, who dont have any psychology but just doing what they are supposed to do. ...

Soul - 2020 Directed by : Pete Docter One of the most misleading advice we get from the people around us is, to have purpose, a passion and in Soul's language; A Spark. When you are naive, 13 or 14, receptive to all that is happening around, you cant help but listen to those advices and think about yourself and think about how does that relate to you. You hunt for your passions and mistake your hobbies and interests as passions. You go on indulging in them just to later find out that, it is not you really wanted. It never was. While the real questions of life gets sidelined and you are left with your own little petty passions in this complex, incomprehensible world.  Even after you find your passion, or something that you truly love to do, there is not really the end of it. It isnt that concrete, or black and white thing where after finding your Spark you will be happy forever after. Tragedies happen, misfortune happen, world never goes according to your plan, the messy world is fu...

Maqbool - 2003 Directed by : Vishal Bhardwaj Maqbool is a clever character study of a man's gradual descent from loyalty to betrayal; from respect to rage; from reason to madness; from life to eventual and tragic death. Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool is powerful adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth, which deals with themes of loyalty, betrayal, love, guilt and death. Set in underworld of Mumbai, Maqbool is realistic portrait of world of gangsters' and their psyche. It is oftentimes dark, serious, repressed and at unexpected times wickedly funny.  Jahagir Khan aka Abba ji(Pankaj Kapoor with his Brando-esque mannerisms), is an aging don of Mumbai, who runs the crime world, with the help of his loyal lieutenant, Maqbool(Irrfan Khan) and Kaka, his loyal(underrated Piyush Mishra). Purohit and Pundit, are two utterly corrupt cops who help them fight their rivals(played charmingly by Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri respectively). They are film's charm and wit. ...

The Fugitive - 1993 Directed by : Andrew Davis From now on whenever I will get a chance to talk or think about thrillers, The Fugitive will always be there in my mind, mingling right there with some of the brilliant thrillers ever made(or the ones I have ever seen); with genius Silence Of The Lambs(1991), Hitchcock's masterpiece North By Northwest(1959), and Polanski's bleak Chinatown(1974). Although it cant match the wit and charm of Hitchcock's North By Northwest, or The Silence Of The Lambs' dread and horror or never the bleakness of Chinatown. But to be honest, it really doesn't have to. It is its own thing. There are things in the film which the former also cant match. Its the perfect thriller in the truest sense. Thriller is hard to define, some musicals are thrillers, so are psychological dramas, and so are some of the science-fiction. There always is a difficulty in defining what a perfect thriller really is. But The Fugitive is perfect thriller by the trues...

Mank - 2020  Directed by : David Fincher  It is not clear that how much of all this is closer to actual reality. And thats the biggest problem with this film. Everything else is as meticulous as any other Fincher movie. One cant help but question about what this film wants to say regarding the event that happened many many decades ago, and whether is it really an accurate depiction of what have had actually happened at the time. The answer for it is not clear nor easy to find.  For those of you don't know Mank is story about Herman Mankiewicz aka Mank(Gary Oldman) who wrote the screenplay for supposedly greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane. And it is a film about, the relationship of Orsen Welles(Tom Burke) with Mank and his own contribution towards the screenplay. And the main center point of the story being, how much is written by each of them. And this film takes an Anti-Welles approach and practically gives all the credit of the screenplay to Mank. Finche...

Baby Driver - 2017 Directed by : Edgar Wright Baby driver is a 2 hours of pure adrenaline rush, with its fast pace, meticulously executed action packed car sequences and the killer soundtrack. Its a pure entertainment. So much is said about the directing style of Edgar Wright(its my first film of him), and watching this certainly makes me excited to see his other works as well. Baby, an Atlanta gateway driver is accidentally becomes indebted to Doc, a crime boss. Doc making most of the opportunity, hires him to do the job which otherwise anyone wouldn't dare to do. The job is to flew away his crime partners from the crime scenes, and drive them somewhere safe. And its not an easy job. And Baby, as Doc says, is best in the bussiness and his lucky charm. Doc's team have other members including, Buddy, Darling, Griff and Bats. Yes! Thats their names, brevity works here. We don't want their names, do we?  Baby is soon on the verge of repaying all the debt which he h...

Ak vs Ak - 2020 Directed by: Vikramaditya Motwane  Ak vs ak is an intriguing experimental film by Vikramaditya Motwane. Who made pretty solid independent films before including;  the gritty and dark Udaan; a masterful coming of age drama, and Trapped which was also very skillful film starring, one of my favourite bollywood actor Rajkumar Rao. This film also boasts solid cast and team. And most interesting part or member being independent filmmaking giant and Motwane's friend, Anurag Kashyap. There was lot of hype around the film, which is surely justified just knowing who made it and who are involved in it.  To say that the film was mediocre would be an insult to such a welcomed experimental film in Bollywood, but it would also be quite inappropriate to praise just for the sake of who made it, and ignoring the many obvious faults it had. There was great sense of enthusiasm around the film before its release, which I also shared in huge amount, but the film, di...