Recent Posts

• Readers Write In #1092: When the stars wax and wane, Part III (of III)
• Readers Write In #1091: From tender lion to thundering lions – of adventures and close calls with the king of the savannah
• Interview: Shiva Nirvana / GV Prakash (‘Irumudi / Irumudi Kattu’)
• Readers Write In #1090: The Romance of Not Having
• Jude Anthany Joseph’s ‘Thudakkam’ is a basic but reasonably well-made thriller
• Readers Write In #1089: The Price of an Andhra Cuisine Thali
• Readers Write In #1088: Petite Maman: When the Past Becomes a Playmate
• Readers Write In #1087: Classic Hollywood: Giant (1956)
• Readers Write In #1086: When the stars wax and wane, Part II (of III)
• Krishnakumar Ramakumar’s ‘G.D.N’ is a series of hasty highlights from the life of a great man
• Arun Matheswaran’s ‘DC’ is a treasure trove of surface-level genre pleasures
• Interview: Ravi Basrur (‘Toxic’)
• Readers Write In #1085: When the stars wax and wane, Part I (of III)
• Readers Write In #1084: Hotel California
• Readers Write In #1083: Stranded in Germany: A Quest for the Perfect Biriyani
• Readers Write In #1082: We are comrades, Rahini!
• Readers Write In #1081: Chidambaram’s Balan, Written by Jithu Madhavan: A Tender Adventure Through a Cold World  
• Interview: Madhavan, Sathyaraj, Krishnakumar Ramakumar (‘G.D.N’)
• Readers Write In #1080: The super special snowflakes
• Interview: Jude Anthany Joseph (‘Thudakkam’)
• Readers Write In #1079: The ‘animal’ that still lurks inside us
• Readers Write In #1078: Kali, Rakthabhija, and Others
• Kiran Das’s ‘Unmadham’ is a solid thriller, a supernatural whodunit that keeps crossing the lines between the real and the surreal
• Interview: Vijay Varma (‘Matka King’)
• Readers Write In #1077: Sister Midnight:A Journey Through the Absurd and the Intimate
• Readers Write In #1076: My experience watching Jana Nayagan
• Interview: Vismaya Mohanlal (‘Thudakkam’)
• Interview: Sai Rajesh (‘Chennai Love Story’, ‘Baby’)
• Interview: Venkat K Narayana / KVN Productions (‘Jana Nayagan’, ‘Toxic’)
• Readers Write In #1075: The Wine-Dark Movies
• Readers Write In #1074: IR – I Radiate!
• Readers Write In #1073: Where is our 150 crore spectacle?  
• Readers Write In #1072: The Otherside: An enjoyable documentary despite its issues
• Readers Write In #1071: Spielberg’s Disclosure Day: Corporate Greed Meets Cosmic Grace
• Readers Write In #1070: Aliens in Plane Sight
• Readers Write In #1069: The India Story: An overlong, simplistic moral science lesson
• Despite the issues in the second half, Ravi Namburii’s ‘Chennai Love Story’ is a unique and watchable love story
• Interview: Kunchacko Boban (‘Unmadham’)
• Readers Write In #1068: Classic Hollywood: The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
• Interview: Kiran Abbavaram (‘Chennai Love Story’)
• Readers Write In #1067: ‘Thalapathy Vijay’ deserved a much better celebration for his farewell movie, which ‘Jana Nayagan’ fails to provide! 
• Charu Wakan’s ‘Maharaja Hostel’ is a lightweight horror-comedy that’s pleasantly nuts
• Readers Write In #1066: Odyssey is not a Nolan film, yet it is a Nolan film!
• Interview: Venky Atluri (‘Vishwanath & Sons’)
• H Vinoth’s ‘Jana Nayagan’ says goodbye to Vijay the star and welcomes Vijay the saviour
• Sourav Palodhi’s ‘Onekdin Por’ is a gentle, affecting drama about the need for companionship
• Pari Elavazhagan’s ‘Anbe Diana’ is an inter-culture romance that’s undone by messy writing
• Readers Write In #1065: The Drama: What makes us really bad?
• Readers Write In #1064: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Modernizing the well-known Hero’s Journey
• Readers Write In #1063: Rafael Nadal documentary ‘Rafa’ – a saga of extreme pain and extreme endurance