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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 to have c

  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 logical terms be only imaginary. Yet, as an a

  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, the boy’s parents ( Yograj Singh & Upasana

  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 the past and the future while existing

  Last month, the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) announced that in the light of the coronavirus crisis, the Jio MAMI 22 nd Mumbai Film Festival had been pushed to 2021. The next edition of the festival will now tentatively be scheduled for October 2021. While a physical festival, jury and competitive awards remain unviable this year, in an effort to support the journeys of independent films, the festival today announced its Official Selection List 2020 for Indian films (India Gold, India Story and Dimensions Mumbai).   “Our official selection list of Indian films is a show of faith and solidarity in this dark and difficult year. In the light of the festival not happening in 2020, the idea is to support and champion the Indian films that would have screened as part of the festival this year,” said Smriti Kiran (Artistic Director, MAMI and Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival).    The selected films will not be screened this year either in theatres or digitally but will have t

The Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) took a unanimous decision in the light of the coronavirus crisis, the devastating pain and suffering across the country and uncertainty over the reopening of cinemas in Mumbai to push the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival to 2021. The postponement of the upcoming edition of the festival, however, doesn’t signal any flagging of our constant effort to galvanise the industry, curate the best Indian cinema for our audience and support our wonderful creators. Please click here for the official communication with more details on our plans for this year, which include the newly launched knowledge series Dial M For Films, online editions of the Word to Screen Market, Young Critics Lab and the Industry Programme. Jio MAMI 22nd Mumbai Film Festival Postpones 2020 Edition Focus on Year Round Programme and Diverse Online Initiatives An official selection of Indian films to be announced 4th August, 2020, Mumbai - The Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (

David & Goliath Films to produce thought provoking, experimental and socially relevant 50 short format content in next five years Mumbai, 26th June, 2020: Content with the successful run of their first and critically acclaimed short film ‘Every 68 Minutes’ (starring Richa Sharma, Adil Hussain and Tota Roy Choudhury) at numerous national and international film festivals, proud producers Lal Bhatia and Imran Zaki are all set to take their boutique production house, David and Goliath Films, to another creative heights. “We are pleased and feel very invigorated with the kind of response that we are getting at various screenings across the globe for our film ‘Every 68 Minutes’. We will take it to all the possible film festivals to reach a larger set of audience. We are in talks with few leading OTT players to release it later this year. We want to focus on producing engaging, hard-hitting, thought provoking, experimental and socially relevant web series and short format quality