Malayalam cinema
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You know how The Bride runs through (often literally) the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill Vol 1, and with all those geysers of blood spraying around, you thought, “They’re having almost too much fun making this”? Rifle Club is basically the same thing.
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Standard procedure for an upcoming election: all registered gun-owners in a locality are required to deposit their weapons at the nearest police station, and collect them back after the election is over. Everyone in a particular locality has done so, save for one retired army officer named Appu Pillai. When he is unreachable on the
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A superb two-character drama about death, love, agency and doing the right thing.
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There is a preternatural stillness to Kaathal – The Core, Jeo Baby’s latest directorial starring Mammooty and Jyothika. People pray with solemnity, and there’s a lot of praying throughout the film. Courtroom arguments are presented in a normal tone of voice. Even a political campaign where one candidate uses a microphone is interrupted by rain,
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Nominally, Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum is about a pretty thief who tries to steal a gold chain on a bus and what happens next. But to boil it down to such a prosaic description would be a crime in itself. This is one of the most entertaining films of the year.
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There’s a phrase often used in the context of cinema: suspension of disbelief. It is applied as much to the films of David Dhawan as to the slick, expensively-mounted, action-packed star vehicles that inundate the multiplexes every summer. With the former, it is used as an excuse — leave your brains behind and enjoy the
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