Review
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The opening of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey establishes the stakes. Ithaca’s king has been gone twenty years, his son is a boy learning to be a man, his queen is besieged by suitors who want to claim her and the throne… Meanwhile, Odysseus is stranded on an island with a beautiful woman, with no memory…
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The idea of the Home at Last concert series is to make classical music interesting to kids who have a basic level of interest but, understandably, not the patience to sit in a concert hall for two plus hours. Accordingly, the instructions to attendees include the standard ones (keep your phone on silent, and if…
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Disclaimer: In the tradition of investment advice columns disclosing their open positions on a stock, let me mention first that I have had multiple conversations with Praba Ram — who coauthored this book along with Sheela Preuitt — while they were writing it, so my perspective will be biased. Perhaps the most startling thing about…
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Thoughts on Project Hail Mary, a film that feels entertaining but not satisfying. Ironic how, for a film where the big villain eats sunlight, its biggest weakness turns out to be its lightness.
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If the first film was the setup, the second is the payoff. Personally, I liked the setup better — it did more interesting things with its screen time.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal teams up with Jessie Buckley (with Christian Bale and others for support) to deliver a gloriously unhinged film.
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Thoughts on Dhurandhar, a riveting blood-soaked spy thriller with some top-notch world building.
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You like recipes? Here’s one: Take a serious subject — what do revolutions and revolutionaries look like in the long term? How much of your identity is tied into what you believe? Add a generous portion of zaniness and absurd comedy that wouldn’t be out of place in a Discworld novel or a Monty Python…
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To paraphrase a line from Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in reverse, Coolie gets plenty right, but not where it counts. Less action, more drama would’ve made this a lovely action-drama.
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I recently watched F1 on an Imax screen. The film isn’t trying to break new ground emotionally or dramatically (it’s as though, after revisiting top gun from an older man’s perspective, Kozinski wanted to do the same thing to Days of Thunder – incidentally both were by Tony Scott). But from a filmmaking standpoint, it’s…
