Lust, Caution
Lust, Caution: Desire, Betrayal, And The Burden Of Performance During the period of its release, the world of cinema anticipated scandals after watching the trailer for the movie Lust, Caution, which depicted some confidential issues, love, and infidelity filled with controversial speculations concerning the plot. Despite the movie’s very few emotional elements, the trailer seemed […]
The Package
The Package: A Thriller which was More Than Just Bullets When Andrew Davis came up with The Package in the year 1989, most people thought of a typical military suspense. From the trailer, one would conclude that the highlight of the movie was the intense chase scenes throughout the city of Chicago, the nail biting […]
Wild Things
A Film Beyond Its Initial Scope Upon its release, Wild Things was touted as a crime thriller deeply woven with sultry, neo-noir elements, with shifts, betrayals, and captivating performances around every twist. and was a sultry neo-noir crime thriller with a web of twists, betrayal, and unforgettable performances. However, no one could have predicted the […]
Bhagam Bhag
The Comedy That Had A Heavy and A Chaotic Mask Priyadarshan’s “Bhagam Bhag” (2006) could as easily be termed as any of his geeky slapstick roller coasters, brimming with mix-ups and belly-laughs. The same slippery, twinkling element of comedy that made movies with Akshay Kumar, Govinda and Paresh Rawal a treat was hardly a cover. […]
Three
When a Film Became More Than a Film Some movies come out, and once they have made their money, they vanish. Then there are movies like Three, which refuses to be just a film. It was not just a story out there on a screen. It made headlines, and spilled into chai shop gossips, WhatsApp […]
Friend of the Family II
The Sequel Which Promised More Than Seduction The announcement of Friend of the Family II caught the fans of the original film by a reaction of a mixture of curiosity and skepticism. Its safe to say, the first film left its mark as a cult erotic drama. The second part is set to delve into […]
Intimate Obsession
By All Accounts, It Was Desire, But It Felt Like a Confession Mid-90s, a different kind of erotic thriller that would come to be known as ‘Intimate Obsession,’ bore the distant stench of a different kind of odor- the odoless glossy, scandalous, and totally Vegas style thrillers of the decade, in the absence of the […]
Loving Adults
A Marriage on the Edge of Collapse When Loving Adults premiered on Netflix in 2022, it joined the canon of Nordic noir with a uniquely intimate and unsettling twist. Based on Anna Ekberg’s novel Kærlighed for voksne, the film tells the story of Christian (Dar Salim) and Leonora (Sonja Richter), a married couple whose seemingly […]
Get Out
A Visit That Became a Nightmare When Jordan Peele’s Get Out hit theaters in 2017, it was marketed as a psychological horror-thriller, but audiences quickly realized it was something far deeper. The story followed Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), a young Black photographer visiting the suburban home of his white girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams). What […]
Live Flesh
When Film Characters Came to Life Live Flesh / Carne Trémula (1997) by Pedro Almodóvar is not just a movie but rather a living and pulsating work of art full of love and betrayal, and focused around a changing Spain. It is built on the one of the novels by Ruth Rendell and, like other […]