Sabegh Dhami

Jason Bourne trying to find titbits of information to figure out his backstory? check. CIA officials over at Langley staring at screens and monitoring/ tailing bond ? check. An automobile chase, or two? check. Bourne beating up a bunch of extras? check. Sniper scene? check. Tailing/ chase through crowded public streets? check. Big…

Review: Captain America: Civil war

Okay, so, I’m just going to say it… Civil war is the gold standard for superhero team up/ shared universe movies. In this new addition to the bulging marvel cinematic universe the world finally wises up to the fact that ever since these damn superheroes showed up crazy city shattering  battles with aliens, robots and all kinds of…

Review: Batman v Superman: Dawn of justice

Batman v Superman is WB’s Amazing Spiderman 2. Not so much a movie as an expensive 150 minute long showreel for the shareholders. It’s a movie that plays like it’s built entirely on studio notes. Its full of weird decisions for example the whole film stops dead in its tracks to set up the justice league by having a character in the…

Review: The Hateful Eight

HOLYSHIT! It’s not his best but The hateful Eight just might be the most ‘Tarantino’ movie. Boy, What a movie!!! Yeah, this movie is all kinds of awesome. It’s The Thing meets Reservoir Dogs with shades of Agatha Christie and on top of that it’s a western and it’s as western as they come. John ‘The Hangman’ Ruth is carrying precious…

Sherlock gets a gothic makeover in The Abominable Bride

  Yup, so if you’ve not seen the first 3 seasons of Sherlock you should probably go do that first because even though The Abominable Bride appears to be a ‘one off’ christmas/new year special, it’s not. It plays like a ‘one off’ whodunit in the victorian setting for the first hour but it’s more of a spring board for the new season.…

THE JINX, SERIAL and MAKING A MURDERER

I’ve spent this festive season buried neck deep in true crime series featuring amazing investigative journalism. I’ve spent most of my free time theorising and speculating. These past few weeks have served as a major reality check for me. This post is dedicated to three great stories that have bothered me, scared me and frustrated me. The Jinx…

Review: Star Wars Episode VII : The force awakens

It’s finally here. The most anticipated film since the last Star Wars film. Does it live up to the hype? Well, lets sum up what the new one’s about first shall we. Since its a JJ Abrams affair there’s obviously a shit ton of lens flare in every single frame of this movie. This one takes place about 30 years after the events of…

My Mumbai film festival roundup

CHAUTHI KOOT Chauthi koot is an independent punjabi film set in the post operation blue star period when the army had to be called upon to rid punjab of Khalistan demanding militants. It’s a film that appears to be split into two narratives. There’s the core story revolving around Joginder’s family, they’ve been ordered by sikh…

Preacher gets a typical “AMC drama series” trailer…

I honestly can’t believe this is really happening. The fact that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are adapting Garth Ennis’ Preacher for tv still feels so surreal but, it’s real, it’s happening and we have our first trailer. I don’t think we see enough to really have any idea of what the show’s going to be like so its pointless to try…

The ultimate John Woo double feature to end all double features: Hard Boiled, The Killer

HARD BOILED This is the ultimate 90’s movie featuring lots of dudes clad in chest high pants and super loose and long blazers. This movie has got EVERYTHING!!! A hard boiled, bad ass, wreck less, irresponsible, trigger happy cop and a hard boiled, wreck less, trigger happy undercover cop; Slo-mo heavy shootout at a restaurant, Slo-mo heavy shootout at a warehouse, Slo-mo heavy shootout at the…

Guillermo Del Toro’s latest english language feature is now my new favourite film to watch on a rainy afternoon while sipping a cup of coffee and I don’t even like coffee. It’s full of lush, beautifully saturated colours and rich, sumptuous production design. it’s exquisitely lit and all these elements combine perfectly to give it an archaic, spooky atmosphere. Narratively it’s oddly similar to…

TV Round-up: The walking dead, The flash, Fargo.

THE WALKING DEAD  This show somehow manages to look crappier and crappier every season. Tacky VFX work and uninspiring camera work. I think it has hit rock bottom in terms of how it looks. Surely it can’t look crappier?!?! Anyways, this season starts with the group finding a pit full of zombies (yeah, I’m going to call them zombies, not “Walkers”) near Alexandria making a lot of noise and that in…

Review roundup: The Walk, Talvar

The Walk There’s really not much to say about The Walk. It’s based on wire walking daredevil Philippe Petit’s biography. He’s the guy who hanged a wire between the twin towers and walked on it. Most of the marketing material for this one focused the petit’s twin towers stunt so I was sort of surprised to find out that a sizeable…

If Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario had released when Breaking Bad was still on air he probably would’ve ended up directing at least half a dozen episodes for Vince Gilligan. Damn, that would’ve been cool. Denis Villeneuve is an interesting director with excellent taste in DOP’s and Sicario is another hellafine looking film from him. Emily Blunt plays Kate Macy. She’s part of this FBI tactical response…

Ridley Scott is back with another space movie and Matt Damon is stuck in space again. Only this time the planet he’s stuck on is red instead of white. And this time, Jessica Chastain gets to go to space as well instead of spending most of her time driving through corn fields while her daddy makes space travel look sad as fuck. If you’ve not seen Interstellar that intro is going to be super…

Quick thoughts on True Detective season 2…

What a weird season! I honestly can’t categorically tell you if it was good or bad. Some where in the middle? Maybe. When it soars, the tension is unbearable. But when it’s bad, it’s like something so weird and confusing it leaves you wondering, is that intentional or just embarrassingly poor. Vince Vaughn typifies this hit and miss nature. When he’s good he’s fucking incredible but that’s…

Pawn Sacrifice is the latest Bobby Fischer biopic. Bobby Fischer was a chess wiz and if you don’t know much about him I’m not going to go into detail here. Just google him. Ok, back to pawn sacrifice, it tells the story of chess maestro Bobby Fischer vs the mighty Russians – plot synopsis straight from the trailer. Gotta say, I did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did. Well, It’s not just…