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  It has been quite some time that I have watched a biographical musical. The last time was Bohemian Rhapsody in theaters in 2019.  Being a Queen fan, I did enjoy the movie and portrayal of Rami Malek. But surprisingly the movie did not echo with me so much and I remember only bits of the movie. At that time, I did hear about Rocketman but did not manage to watch it. After watching this, I have one thing to say at first- "Boy oh boy, I did a huge mistake of not watching it in theaters". This movies deserves to be added in Blu ray collection of movies.    Not much of a listener of Elton John's music (sadly), I went with this movie with nothing to expect. The movie briefly about the life of Reginald Dwight a.k.a Elton John (played by Taron Egerton) from his childhood and gives you glimpses of ups and downs of his career into the world of soft rock and takes you behind the scenes of his glory days. Dexter Fletcher's way of portraying this story as an epic musical r...

It is always difficult to make a true incident look cinematic and make it edgy enough to keep the audience entertained. Good acting and tight script are not much in the hands of director if they want to follow the footsteps of true events. Films like Zodiac even though being long, it keeps it on your seats. "The Good Nurse" falls into that genre. It really isn't the type of movie one really expects. It takes it time to build up the suspense and makes you feel very uncomfortable in the middle of the movie and in the end it does not give you a very satisfying ending and shall keep you confused. It shall make you more interesting on what the hell actually happened in reality.  The director Tobias Lindholm (known for "War" and directing some episodes of Mindhunter) brings that cinematic documentary-ish vibes from the beginning movie. The movie revolves around Amy (Jessica Chastain): a nurse working in Parkfield hospital and trying to make mends for her health issues...

After "Three Billboards of Ebbing Missouri", Martin McDonagh comes back with the In Bruges' Duo Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson who are playing two best friends who stop hanging out and the aftermath of their breakup of this friendship. Having not watched too much of Irish movies, the strong Irish accent set in the town of Inisherin during 1923 did take a toll on me and was quite an adventure to watch it. The story revolves around a specific group of people in the village of Inisherin and starts with a dispute when Colm (Brendan Gleeson) stops talking to his best friend Padraic (Colin Farrell). As of the small town and people mostly knowing everybody, many members of village seem to be concerned on this which includes Padraic's sister Siobhan (Kerry Condon) , Dominic (Barry Keoghan) and some other people.  Even the story starts with a spat with a friendship, it subtly hints at perspectives and goals in life to different people. The scenes do make you laugh at somebo...

Edgar Allan Poe and Franz Kafka haven been major influences in my life. Their poems, stories. novels have been a great thrill to me.  Whenever something shows up related to either of them, I am highly tempted to check on it. The Pale Blue Eye is a movie adaptation of a book which involves two characters: Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) and the cadet turned poet Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) investigating a gruesome murder which occurs in the American Military Academy during 1830s. The movie overall has a different taste to usual detective stories in this genre but still lacks a powerful ending. Scott Cooper's vision to keep the movie in a gloomy phase, using typical gothic horror related imageries, for example showing the Raven at times, and the ghastly murders are typical inspirations one takes from Poe's vision. The story plot reminds me a lot of Tell-Tale Heart mixed with anecdotes of Raven here and there . I am not aware of the actual plot of the book but despite a gritt...

 Throughout the years since I started loving the art of cinema, I have encountered various art forms visioned by various directors. It is safe to say that  Mulholland Drive has made me fall in love and insanely connected to the man behind the curtain : David Lynch. As David turns 77, reviewing one of his classics is a small gift from me to him of how much impact he has done in my life from cinematic, artistic and philosophical point of view. It is insanely hard to describe the emotions and meanings of any of his movies by words, but I will my try best having watched this movie 6 times so far.  Mulholland Drive is one of Lynch's movies which according to me is a nice introduction to Lynch's contribution. If you like this movie, you are good to go to watch his other ones starting from Blue Velvet to Inland Empire. The beauty of his movies is that there are millions of interpretations of what he is trying to say.  He has this unique way of producing a feeling via amazin...

 The year of 2023 has fortunately started with watching the anticipated movie "Babylon" directed by the critically acclaimed director Damien Chazelle. I finally managed to watch it with a couple of my friends and it was quite an experience.  Unlike 2022 where some of the movies did not really lived according to my expectations, Babylon has delivered more than I expected. The 3 hour long fiasco created by Damien has inspirations from many movies with his unique touch. The main characters played by Diego Calva, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt did paint the evolution of sound in cinemas during 1930's and the madness behind the scenes as Chazelle wanted. First of all, kudos to Justin Hurwitz and the whole team for making such amazing background music that keeps you elevated and enhanced the scenes in correct form. The jazzy vibes echoes undoubtedly with Chazelle's Whiplash. If you are a lover of such music, you will be tempted to listen to the score in loop.  The whole vibe of e...