Reading Time: 6 minutes Top TV of 2023. Because it’s never too late to look back, innit?
Category Archive: Adventure
Reading Time: 6 minutes The top movies of 2023, ranging from the guilt of an explosion to letting a loved one down to understanding the meaning of true love, and more.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Director David Fincher creates a bracing look at an assassin’s arc of a final cleanup. Even killers eventually feel job ennui.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Director Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise battle AI onscreen and offscreen. They’re winning. For now.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Director Ajay Devgn serves up action that lasts longer and louder than it should, while reducing the country’s bone mass density.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Director Mani Ratnam’s stunning magnum opus is a marvellously complex affair, made deliciously messy by its scheming women.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Writer-director Sofia Coppola creates a delightful movie that’s light on its messaging and yet works its magic on you. Just like a good drink. Or Bill Murray. Or both.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The top TV shows of 2019.
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the final instalment that closes down a sum total of 22 movies, directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo assemble the ravaged lives of the Avengers to deliver a knock-out saga that’s high on spectacle and fan-service, but even higher on the interactions and emotional payload. Loss is immeasurable, be it for the superhero gang or its audience.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Captain Marvel must be the first superhero who faced vicious, non-alien attacks even before she made her onscreen debut. And in this Anna Boden-Ryan Fleck helmed project, there’s an element of grace and humanness, a struggle to match superhero power with emotions that aren’t always the right guiding compass. It also mirrors all that is wrong in today’s more connected, more polarized world. Even as it entertains and gets in its messaging, the movie has a far bigger battle lying ahead. No, not the ‘ Avengers: Endgame’, but the one awaiting it offscreen.