Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Hiring directors with one or two small indies on their resume to direct big-budget studio tentpoles seems to have become a norm in big studios nowadays with Gareth Edwards, Colin […]
Logan (2017)
Less of a comic-book movie, more of a gritty and violent neo-western, Logan envisions a future so dark that it almost feels completely detached from the X-Men universe. Infact, if there […]
Top 10 Films of 2016
I know I’m pretty late to the party but to my discredit most of the fall movie films take pretty long time to reach my country and when it comes […]
The 2016 Blazing Reel Film Awards
One of my favorite things about blogging on this site is getting the chance to do my own awards which always helps me resolve my (many) frustrations with the yearly Oscar […]
Paterson (2016)
Paterson is a real rarity. It’s a film of minor pleasures that feels abundantly full. A film where very little happens yet as the viewer you are never bored and content […]
Arrival (2016)
Once that sinking feeling of emotion began to hit me, I knew I had witnessed something truly transcendent. It’s so rare for a sci-fi film these days to ask bold […]
Moonlight (2016)
Issues of identity, sexuality and masculinity has always been a fascinating subjects in cinema, but rarely have they ever been explored with such beauty, mastery and eloquence as they are with Barry Jenkins’ […]
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Grief’s a bitch. There’s no getting around it. I have been lucky enough to not experience it in my adolescent life thus far, but I have seen the profound impact […]
Jackie (2016)
Pablo Larraín’s latest film, a biopic about Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman) from the days after JFK’s death, is one of the year’s most frustrating films, one in the sense that […]
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Nocturnal Animals is the second film from fashion designer turned film director Tom Ford, after his debut film from 2009 A Single Man. And while A Single Man was a perfectly fine […]
The Blazing Reel 