An idealistic, young, ambitious Jewish American Scientist finds the perfect coming together of his own individual brilliance, the developments in the Scientific world and the political backdrop of World War 2 to pursue his interests in Atomic physics.

With the Nazi Holocaust unfolding in the background, as a Jewish man, Robert Oppenheimer wants to make himself useful to fight the Nazis.

This in large part is the story of the 'father of the atomic bomb' that most Americans are familiar…

Rocco and His Brothers is the strongest argument that Cinema is on par with Literature when it comes to exploring the human condition.

Rocco and His Brothers follows the story of one family of four brothers and their mother who are forced to leave their rural home for the urban by abject poverty in post War Italy.

Over the course of the next 3 hours, we see these lives wrestle with the forces of modernity, urbanization, socio political winds and…

This is great piece of work from Raoul Peck. This is an adaptation of an excellent piece of work by one of the leading scholars - Sven Lindqvis.

Exterminate All The Brutes is a single narrative put together built upon multiple threads of History that tries to connect Racism, Inequality, Colonialism and all the major forces that have contemporary society.

Raoul Peck's work is excellent and noteworthy and maybe I would have appreciated it more had I watched it a…

Always felt that Oscar Isaac is the rightful heir to the legacy of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. It's just unfortunate he came at a time when Hollywood had changed and moved away from that kind of cinema of the 70s.

Show Me a Hero is that grand opportunity - this is Isaac change to really take on a role that carries the narrative. He delivers.

The dramatic quotient does fall over a 6 episode series and I would…

The buzzword being used to describe Megalopolis is "messy". This is grounded in the premise that there's a set template of what an ideal film should be.

But what is the ideal film? Is it The Godfather? Is the classical narrative arc perfected in The Godfather films the only possibility cinema can offer?

In Megalopolis, the lead character of Cesar Catilina boldy posits 'that to ask these questions, when there's a dialogue about them: that basically is a utopia'.

For…

What do they know of cinema who only cinema know!

In the 1970s, Salim-Javed created the Angry Young Man persona - Vijay in a series of films,immortalized by a lanky Amitabh Bachchan. These films captured a certain social angst, rebellion and frustration in Modern India. By the third decade of independence, a lot of the promise and hope of the 50s were fading away as social disparity, exploitation and corruption took over people's lives.

In Trishul and Shakti, there were…