Category Archives: Reviews

Review: Aladdin (2019)

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Sartaj Govind Singh

A good case can be made that Disney’s Aladdin was the first postmodern animated film. It was fully aware of its universal love story of a poor street urchin attempting to win the affections of a fair princess but decided … Continue reading →

Posted in 2019, 2019 Films, Disney, Musicals, Reviews | Tagged Aladdin, Disney, Genie, Guy Ritchie, Jafar, Live Action Remake, Marwan Kenzari, Mena Massoud, Musical, Naomi Scott, Princess Jasmine, Will Smith | Leave a comment

Review: Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Sartaj Govind Singh

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has glistened as much as any of the Infinity Stones in its eleven-year existence on the blockbuster scene. However, its Achilles heel comes from replication of its source material in being an ever-expanding bubble, that with each … Continue reading →

Posted in 2019, 2019 Films, Comic Book Movies, Marvel, Reviews | Tagged Anthony Russo, Avengers Endgame, Brie Larson, Captain America, Chris Evens, Chris Hemsworth, Christopher Marcus, Iron Man, Josh Brolin, Marvel Studios, Robert Downey Jr, Thanos | Leave a comment

Review: Us (2019)

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Sartaj Govind Singh

In 2017, Jordan Peele set the film world ablaze with his social thriller, Get Out. With a premise that insidiously plucked on the familiar notes of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner: the film impressed with its measured direction and blistering commentary, that … Continue reading →

Posted in 2019, 2019 Films, Indie Cinema, Reviews | Tagged Doppelganger, Elizabeth Moss, Evan Alex, Get Out, Jordan Peele, Lupita Nyong’o, Madison Curry, Micheal Ables, Shahadi Wright Joesph, The Tethered, Us, Winston Duke | Leave a comment

Review: Glass (2019)

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Sartaj Govind Singh

M. Night Shyamalan has made a career of weaving cinematic tapestries that are supported by sentiment and emotion as opposed to logic and sense. His films have always felt like they have existed on the fringe of genre fare as … Continue reading →

Posted in 2019, 2019 Films, Reviews | Tagged Bruce Willis, Comic Books, Glass, James McAvoy, M. Night Shyamalan, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Split, Superhero, The Eastrail 177 Trilogy, Unbreakable | 3 Comments

Initial Impression: Last Flag Flying (2017)

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Sartaj Govind Singh

Richard Linklater’s preoccupation with time reaches its most poignant heights in Last Flag Flying. The film is about Vietnam veteran, Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carrel) who reunites with his former war buddies, Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston) and Richard Mueller (Lawrence … Continue reading →

Posted in 2017 Films, Indie Cinema, Reviews, Richard Linklater | Tagged Bryan Cranston, Celine, Jessie, Last Flag Flying, Lawrence Fishburne, Richard Linklater, Steve Carrel, The Before Trilogy, The Iraq War, Time, Vietnam | Leave a comment

Brief Consideration: Aquaman (2018)

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Sartaj Govind Singh

Aquaman is the best superhero movie that George Lucas never got to make. The film impresses as a grandiose four coloured epic that is unexpectedly moving and wholly surprising. Taking inspiration from Geoff Johns’s New 52 comic book series; the … Continue reading →

Posted in Comic Book Movies, DC, Reviews | Tagged Amber Heard, Aquaman, Arthur Curry, Atlantis, DC Comics, james wan, Jason Momoa, Metallica, Nicole Kidman, patrick wilson, Star Wars, Temuera Morrison | Leave a comment

Review: Suspiria (2018)

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Sartaj Govind Singh

Remaking Suspiria is a dicey proposition. Daria Argento’s 1977 film is a towering and effective mood piece. It straddles the line between being a nightmarish Technicolor fairy tale and feeling like a nasty snuff film conjured by its supernatural antagonist. Even with … Continue reading →

Posted in 2018 Films, Reviews | Tagged 1977, Dakota Johnson, Daria Argento, Goblin, Luca Guadaginino, Stanley Kubrick, Suspiria, The Shining, Thom Yorke, Tilda Swinton, Volk, West Berlin | 3 Comments

Review: Halloween (2018)

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Sartaj Govind Singh

John Carpenter’s Halloween was a minimalist masterpiece with an effortlessly versatile central antagonist. He was as much an unconscious manifestation of male aggression to the central heroine, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), as he was the proverbial bogeyman- walking among … Continue reading →

Posted in 2018 Films, Reviews | Tagged Andi Matichak, David Gordon Green, Dr Samuel Loomis, Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Judy Greer, Laurie Strode, Michael Myers, Slasher Films, Slasher Genre, The Shape | 1 Comment

Review: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (BFI London Film Festival)

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Sartaj Govind Singh

By all that is sane and fair, Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited adaptation of Cervantes’s monumental comic novel- Don Quixote, is finally here. While the film’s sheer existence is a cause for celebration, keeping the long and arduous journey to the screen … Continue reading →

Posted in 2018 Films, Film Festivals, Indie Cinema, Rare Post, Rare Reviews, Reviews | Tagged 2018, Adam Driver, BFI London Film Festival, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Jonathan Pryce, Knight of the Rueful Countenance, Lost in La Mancha, Terry Gilliam, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote | Leave a comment

Review: BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Sartaj Govind Singh

BlacKkKlansman spins a fiendishly hilarious yarn that would even make Kirk Lazarus from Tropic Thunder pause in sheer bemusement. Set in the early seventies, BlacKkKlansman chronicles Detective Ron Stallworth’s (John David Washington) infiltration and subsequent exposure of a local Ku … Continue reading →

Posted in 2018 Films, Reviews | Tagged Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman, Blaxploitation, Gone with the Wind, John David Washington, Laura Harrier, Ron Stallworth, Scarlett O'Hara, Spike Lee | 1 Comment