Comedy
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KID BLUE (Dir. James Frawley, Dennis Hopper, 1973, US)
* * * A forgotten Western from the early 70s but an altogether brilliantly funny one with Dennis Hopper in fine form as Texas train robber and proletarian semi-Marxist desperado Kid Blue who decides to go straight in a small town in Texas. A comedy Western with a latent counterculture dimension, Kid Blue’s attempts to Continue reading
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A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (Dir. Jan Egleson, 1990, US)
* * * * Director Jan Egleson must have been taking careful notes when he was watching Get Carter because this is a work that is constructed deliciously around the cold dead eyes of Michael Caine which pierces through every frame. Egleson glances into the cutthroat mischief of the corporate world in which the suits Continue reading
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DUNKI (Dir. Rajkumar Hirani, 2023, India) – Home & Away
* * Many contemporary mainstream Hindi films fall short in comparison to their big budget South Indian counterparts. While the latter exhibit technical prowess, such films have regrettably started to trade in a troubling blend of toxic hyper-masculinity and nationalist jingoism. It’s likely that you’re acquainted with the specific films I am alluding to. In Continue reading
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KADAKH (Dir. RAJAT KAPOOR, 2019, India) [spoilers]
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There is a dead body in your apartment but you have a plethora of guests arriving for a party to celebrate Diwali very shortly. So what exactly do you do? It is a sinister dilemma faced by somewhat ordinary people going through a tinderbox of emotions. In other words, the perfect Hitchcockian predicament since the Continue reading
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GHANCHAKKAR / CRAZY (Dir. Rajkumar Gupta, 2013, India)
Director Rajkumar Gupta’s breakthrough came with the underrated Barah Aana in 2009 for which he wrote the screenplay. His directorial debut, Aamir, showed promise with its compact narrative and prescient theme. Aamir was followed by No One Killed Jessica, a UTV production, signalling Gupta’s entry into the mainstream. His latest film, Ghanchakkar (Crazy), sees him Continue reading
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