My Mom’s New Boyfriend
A Comedy, With a Side of Espionage While most people expected a simple romantic comedy from My Mom’s New Boyfriend, which was released in 2008, the title alone invoked images of something more substantial, perhaps some intergenerational humor and stiff dinner sequences. What most people got was a head-scratching combination of romantic comedy and crime […]
Werewolves
When the Moon Roared: The Premise That Bit First Werewolves opens with a chilling premise: a supermoon event triggers a latent gene in almost every human, turning them into wolves for one night. The chaos is catastrophic — almost a billion perish under that curse. A year later, the threat returns. Scientist-heroes must race against […]
The Karate Kid
When a Young Boy Learned More Than Karate The release of The Karate Kid in 1984 exceeded the expectations of a typical martial arts film. Apart from the film depicting a new ‘karate kid’ learning the martial art, the story also demonstrated what a young boy Daniel LaRusso had to learn after moving to a […]
Attack on Titan Part 1
Hidden Structures and Their Hidden Strategies When Attack on Titan Part 1 was released in 2015 and showed on the big screens in Japan, in was not just yet another mangga and anime tale turned into a movie. It was a sone of cultural experimentation. Would the story that was dark and scary and yet […]
Mahavatar Narsimha
Mahavatar Narsimha: When Animation Roars Into the Mainstream Some films arrive with the intent to entertain, but others arrive to shift things within the industry that you did not even know needed shifting. Mahavatar Narsimha is one such film. It is an animated retelling of the myth of Narasimha and went beyond being an epic […]
Baaghi 3
The Emotional Arcs That Dealt With Breakthrough Attempts Ronnie, played by Tiger Shroff, displays great physicality as he embodies a sculpted martial artist and dancer. Shroff certainly continues to fulfill these expectations in Baaghi 3. Baaghi 3, however, requires Ronnie to emotionally be torn between love and duty to his brother. Unfortunately, Tiger’s effort is […]
The Old Guard
The Old Guard — When Immortality Feels Like a Curse, Not a Superpower When The Old Guard uploaded on Netflix on July 2020, it was not just another comic adaptation, it was a mix of superhero action with a human drama. The Old Guard was directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, with Charlize Theron in the lead […]
My Mom’s New Boyfriend
When Love Becomes a Spy Game: The Layers Beneath My Mom’s New Boyfriend When analyzing ‘My Mom’s New Boyfriend’ (2008) one may start by identifying the genre as a light romantic comedy with espionage elements. The film offers family awkwardness, flirtation, and espionage as comedy. However, if you analyze it more closely, you will find […]
Monika
When Desire Meets Freedom: The Timeless Pulse of Monika There are films that entertain, and then there are films that whisper — not in words, but in glances, in silences, in restless emotions, in unquantifiable feelings. Ingmar Bergman’s Monika (Summer with Monika, 1953) belongs to that rare kind. A story about two young lovers escaping […]
The Grey
The Grey: When Survival Becomes a Mirror to the Soul In 2012, Joe Carnahan’s The Grey arrived with the promise of primal thrills — Liam Neeson versus wolves in the frozen wilderness. The trailers played up the rugged spectacle: a downed plane, a handful of survivors, and hungry predators circling in the snow. Fans expected […]