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  Hollywood Film Review Johnson Thomas Unbalanced by over-ambition Film: Wonder Woman 1984 Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Lilly Aspell, Amr Waked Director: Patty Jenkins Rating: * * ½ Runtime: 151 min. (Streaming on HBO Max)   Director Patty Jenkins’ first Wonder Woman outing was a well-balanced entertainer that was believably put together and offered the audience some high-tension adrenaline gushing moments. Gal Gadot’s belief in the role and its place in the superhero hierarchy was evident and she made the role indelibly hers by living the part of Wonder Woman with equal muscle, grace and heart. She put on such high-end testosterone action finesse that the resultant was singularly bedazzling. She was a regal superhero living much beyond the scale that DC comics envisioned her to be. In this, Jenkins’ second DC comic’s adaptation effort of Wonder Woman, a cold war set spectacle, the Superhero is shown ...

  Hollywood Film Review Johnson Thomas Film: Soul (Animation) Cast(voice): Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton Directors: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers Rating: * * * ½ Runtime: 100 mins (Streaming on Disney +, Disney Hotstar)   Pixar’s ‘Soul’ is a magical experience – one that manages to reach the heights that ‘Inside Out’ scaled a few years back. This animation film about a musician Joe who has an out of body experience and must find his way back with the help of an infant soul, is a brilliant psycho-social mapping of a human being’s growth processes.      Joe’s soul is desperate to get back to his Earthly body but being mistaken for a mentor to 22 (Tina Fey) who has no desire to get her pass to an Earthly body, is an impediment he will have to overcome. Joe will have to convince 22 to get away from the abstract Great Before and into photo realistic New York.      The narrative gives weight to an interpretation that could in logica...

  Bollywood Hindi Film Review Johnson Thomas Damaged Revenge drama Film: Sayonee Cast: Tanmay Ssingh, Musskan Sethi, Rahul Roy, Yograj Singh, Upasana Singh Directors : Nitin Kumar Gupta & Abhay Singhal Rating: * ½ Runtime: 112 mins   A romance cum revenge drama this one is a wannabe ‘Ghajini’ but without the vibe, smarts or savagery that catapulted the ‘Momento’ into a monumental hit.        The narrative here is typically slip-shod, loosely connected and doesn’t bother to allow for any empathy towards its lead characters.      Recently crowned and crowing National shooting champion, Rajdeep Randhawa(Tanmay Ssingh) is waylaid by a generically chirpy, bold orphan girl Mahi( Musskan Sethi) who apparently is studying herbology but appears to have all the time to steal Rajdeep’s gold medal and deliver it to an ailing kid who dreams of owning one. And before you can say ‘what the heck?’ the twosome become inseparable, th...

  Hollywood Film Review Johnson Thomas Going Loopy with TIME Film: Tenet Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Dimple Kapadia, Himesh Patel, Clémence Poésy Denzel Smith       Director: Christopher Nolan Rating: * * * Runtime: 150 mins     Mind bending has become Christopher Nolan’s hallmark and with Tenet he not only plays parallel and surround with thoughts but he also goes loopy with Time. Tenet is probably Nolan’s most ambitious (in terms of complexity) with a degree of difficulty that even auteur filmmakers might find too challenging to take on. Nolan has scripted this time-twisting sci-fi fantasy (am calling it fantasy because we don’t really know that this can happen in real time) by using tech tricks and scientific throws like loops, bridges, parallel universes and time inversion to ensnare our minds in a tale that has the protagonist ally with ...