Movie

Film review by Ghoshen.

Pankaja reviews John Upchurch’s film about a Sikh and a Muslim on a journey in a rickshaw.

Mazahir Rahim (writer) and Hamza Rahim (screenplay), starring Ram Gopal Bajaj, Pankaj Tripathy, Sameer Kochhar.

A film review my Madhuri: “An entertaining diversion into a life you don’t want to live. Well-crafted, suspenseful, but most of all cautionary…”

2017 – Director Aaron Sorkin (Social Network, Steve Jobs, Moneyball)
Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Samantha Isler, Michael Cera
2 hours 20 minutes

To me, running a gambling den is right up there with running a restaurant, or being a plumber, for undesirable occupations. But it can be fun to watch people, and for a couple of hours to empathize with them, doing things we’d never do.

Madhuri reviews Elton John’s biopic.

Rocketman
2019
2 hrs, 1 min
Paramount Pictures
Director: Dexter Fletcher

Taron Egerton, John Reid, Richard Madden, Janie Bwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Charlie rowe, Gemma Jones, Steven Macintosh; with Matthew Illesley as the young Elton

Was/is your family a rotten mess, with its share of assholes, drama queens, paedophiles, absent dads, bullies, and addicts? Mine was; though it had its good points too.

Navyo reviews Paolo Sorrentino’s film ‘La Grande Bellezza’.

Even though The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza, dir. Paolo Sorrentino) won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2014, over 2 years ago, the film does not age, neither is it particularly set in any age. There are no cars, no gadgets, no mobile phones, no clothes that establish it an era. It could be anytime in the last 70 years.

Madhuri reviewed the film starring Aretha Franklin after she saw it in the cinema, and shares what happened on her way home.

Amazing Grace
with Aretha Franklin
and the Southern California Baptist Choir
with Alexander Hamilton, James Cleveland, and Clara Ward
Directors: Sydney Pollack, Alan Elliot
Live recording of the most successful Gospel album in history: Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace
released 10 May 2019
90 minutes

Last week has seen two private screenings of Lakshen’s fresh-off-the-press documentary here in Corfu. A few notes and impressions by Punya (and friends).

Roshani Shay PhD reviews the six-part Netflix documentary series on Rajneeshpuram: “Wild, Wild Country certainly conveys the grandness of the experiment that was Rajneeshpuram.”

Madhuri reviews Alexander Payne’s 2017 film, played by Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Hong Chau and Christoph Waltz.

At first, this gem of a movie seemed to just be about Matt Damon playing Matt Damon as a big lumbering good-hearted doofus of a Midwestern hunk, with a fairly pretty wife and a yen for a bigger, nicer house. I could recognize this – I lived in the Midwest for seven years – and, in the isolatedness of that place and its particular conditioning, getting a big, carefully-appointed house is the unquestioned religious pursuit.

Navyo reviews the recently released techno-thriller starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, directed by James Ponsoldt and based on Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel.

Transparency, openness, honesty, community, cooperation, human rights – these are the altruistic themes of The Circle, an adaptation of Dave Eggers’ futuristic novel of the perils of social media and its corporate monopolization.