From The Breakfast Club (1985) to Boyhood (2014), here are 12 movies like Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of his own best-selling novel received widespread critical acclaim for its realistic depiction of teen life. The Perks of Being A Wallflower chronicles the life of a teenager Charlie and his journey through high school ...
Debut director Raj Singh Chaudhary’s Shaadisthan is an intimate portrait of two colliding worlds — one, a conservative middle-class family, the other a rebellious but self-aware group of youngsters — as they grapple and reconcile with their inner wounded, unfulfilled spaces and conflicting ideologies. Powerful performances all around support Shaadisthan‘s emotionally resonant writing. Kirti Kulhari, known for ...
What a delightful film Shaadisthan turns out to be, a breath of fresh air on the road from Mumbai to Ajmer! It doesn’t resort to cliches or sport a motley crowd of actors nor tries too hard about women empowerment. It’s a breeze! Shaadisthan doesn’t preach (mostly), is unpretentious and relatable, and all the actors ...
Shubham Sharma’s latest short film, Even Fake Flowers Have Scent On Happy Days tells the story of a young man at crossroads in life. Loneliness seems to be his only companion until one fateful day when he finds a tape recorder. This commonplace object becomes his unlikely ally as he starts to open up more about ...
What’s the hallmark of a great film, one that stands the test of time? Great script, gorgeous imagery, arresting performances, rousing soundtrack. Sure, it’s all of them put together. But, what stands out for the viewer and helps him remember the film is the theme. So, what is a movie theme? A theme is a ...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Perhaps the most recognisable opening lines to any film franchise, the Star Wars Galaxy is actually home to a cluster of over 400 billion stars and 3 billion habitable systems with countless planets and species orbiting around a massive black hole. With so many seemingly ...
Amazon Prime is steadily ramping up its regional content library in India, led mostly by Tamil films. (Check out the best Tamil movies on Amazon Prime here). But there are a very few Marathi titles, worth exploring. We’ve pulled out some of the best Marathi movies on Amazon Prime available for streaming. These films were playing ...
The South Korean film industry has produced a good amount of high-quality war movies over the years. These films tend to address the scuffle between South Korea and North Korea or attempt to acknowledge the contribution of Koreans to the Vietnam War. We’ve tried to put together some of the best Korean war movies ever ...
In The Toast series today, we celebrate the wonderful life of one of America’s greatest acting legends ever to grace the screen. Born on this day in 1908, the lovable, everyman James Stewart enthralled moviegoers across an incredibly wide filmography, over an illustrious career spanning almost 60 years. Eyes bulging, transfixed on the world far below, ...
No conversation surrounding Indian cinema is quite complete without the mention of the eminent and influential Mrinal Sen. A filmmaker who changed the conventions of cinema and made a mark of his own to create a distinct style of storytelling, Mrinal da has given us some of the most political films till date. Politics from ...
Chronic back pain. Ghost of a dead wife. 500000 kilometres of rumbling. Long lost friends. In reverse chronological order, this is truck driver Ghalib’s life in Ivan Ayr’s second feature film, Meel Patthar. Like his first feature Soni, this one also opened in Venice Film Festival’s Orrizonti (Horizon) section. Meel Patthar (Milestone in English) is a study of insignificant ...
More than two decades have passed since the release of Fight Club and it’s still hailed as the gold standard of a taut thriller that keeps you guessing until the very end. David Fincher toys with our expectations while holding his trump card close to his chest. Just when you thought you had it all ...
An intricately detailed and keenly observed family drama, Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi is a piercing, true-to-life portrait of relationships and the times we live in. When Ramprasad’s (Naseeruddin Shah) sudden death one night brings his family together to observe a 13-day mourning, inconvenient, unpalatable truths and cracks in relationships, long untended, surface. Cracks turned to gaping ...
(This article was updated on January 24, 2024) From The Disciple to Killa, here are some of the finest gems from Marathi cinema streaming on Netflix, Apple TV and Zee5. Marathi cinema, distinguished for its realistic storytelling and exceptional performances, has long been a treasure trove of cultural narratives. The beauty of their films lies ...
The loudest explosions might be in war movies, but there’s something about watching an expert sniper at work as a swerving projectile hits the target with alarmingly accurate precision. A well-made sniper movie can be hard to come by given that it’s not exactly an established genre by itself and that’s exactly where I step ...
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