Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
The Nice Guys deepfake.
Still fun, though. Especially in context with the Hollywood strikes from last year. Was just expecting a lot more of the wry humor and some buddy-comedy angle. In typical Leitch fashion, goes on far too long with a weak third act - addressing which by breaking the fourth wall clearly wasn't enough.
Earlier this year, Indian news network NDTV -- one of the only remaining mainstream media channels in the country that raised questions against its government -- was acquired by the country's top oligarch, the Adani Group. An open supporter and old friend of the country's prime minister, Gautam Adani's acquisition further raised doubts about the state's crackdown on freedom of speech and expression, manifested by disqualification of opposition MPs and wide crackdown on dissenters as well as dissidents. Following the…
Bollywood just go on and on talking about telling fun and masala films meant just for audience entertainment INSTEAD OF JUST DOING IT.
And there comes this Malayalam powerhouse of a film that blasts on all cylinders of the masala-movie template, fueling it through a subtext and filmmaking vigor so strong that would make your belly ache.
On a conceptual level, "Aavesham" blends two of the most beloved subgenres of comedy in Indian cinema - that of gangster comedies and…