Movie-Review

I watched Minnal Murali 🌩 day before yesterday and absolutely loved it. Tovino Thomas’s character development from a selfish everyday guy to a hero who understands what a hero means is so well done and you can’t help feeling a little sympathy for his nemesis either! Guru Somasundaram in the villain role absolutely kills it, his obsession in place, his motivations for doing what he’s doing, eventually transforming into rogue revenge is a treat to watch. If you’re looking for One movie to end this year with, let Minnal Murali, directed by Basil Joseph be the one. And do watch it in Malayalam. With subtitles if you need them. It’s a bloody delight ♥

There are no spoilers here but I have thoughts about the journey I’ve been a part of as a viewer aboard this Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) rollercoaster and I’m going to share a little bit of that here. Movies are churned out by the hundreds every year. So what makes superhero movies so special? What makes Superheroes special? There is definitely a faction out there that will say “Nothing”, but the vast majority of us, superheroes are a symbol of hope and wonder, the fact that acts are being done by individuals that the rest of us can only…marvel..over. For all the hypocritical beings that we are, we still yearn for personal justice and superheroes seem to provide us that. ...

I don’t watch many movies at home because I lack the patience and 20 minute “A Bit of Fry and Laurie” episodes are so much more fun. But I had some extra time on my hands today and a little more resilience, so I watched - “Unbreakable " - by M Night Shyamalan - I watched this for the first time today, almost 18 years after it was released on 12 Jan 2001. And what a movie it was :O The pace was very slow without seeming like a drag, pausing carefully at every point where pause seemed necessary. It’s the first time I’ve seen Bruce Willis in a non-John McClane role and I am impressed. He’s his characteristic tough-guy self with very few emotions on his face, maybe a hint of a smile once in a while, but it worked. Samuel L Jackson - This guy played the “obsessed comic book nerd wishing for superheroes to be real” to perfection; I even got tired of him at some point, which is more to his credit than anything for playing the unnecessary Messiah brilliantly. ...

Last Saturday, I found myself free enough to accompany a couple of friends to watch Lokesh Kanagaraj & Kamal Hassan’s latest action-thriller and by now, a blockbuster - Vikram. While I wasn’t very active on social media to know much of the details around the movie (and not knowing particularly One of the details made it so much more enjoyable a watch for me). People had told me one thing though - that Kaithi, also directed by Lokesh had something to do with Vikram, so it was fortuitous that I had only watched it recently and the details were still fresh in my mind. ...