Below is a useful graph from ANZ Bank which looks at the breakdown of components that make up GDP in New Zealand. The GDP of a country is made up of four things: C+I+G+(X-M). Notice the movement in GDP over… Continue reading →

Spoilers ahead… By showing both sides as fully developed individuals, the line between them is already drawn before the attack. Thus, the points made aren’t particularly new or enlightening. Hansal Mehta follows Shahid and Omerta with another real-life story about the politics of being Muslim – though this time, the interrogation is structured around an […]

Spoilers ahead… Biju Menon and Vineeth Sreenivasan are aces in Syam Pushkaran’s deceptive screenplay, where things don’t come at you the way you expect them to. The opening visual and the opening stretch of Saheed Arafath’s Thankam tell two different stories. The visual is that of loneliness: we see a man facing the sea, his […]

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Spoilers ahead… It’s a cliché by now to quote Shakespeare and say all the world’s a stage, the men and women merely players. But the film really makes us feel we are all part of a cosmic/divine plan. The “hero entry shot” of Mammootty in Lijo Jose Pellissery’s magical new movie, Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam, occurs […]

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By Karthik Amarnath Unpacking the centerfold of Park Chan-Wook’s “Decision to Leave” At a little past the halfway point in Park Chan Wook’s moody new film Decision to Leave, there’s a three minute scene that unfolds at a marketplace. We hear muffled sounds of shoppers but we don’t see them; we’re staring at a bunch of […]

Spoilers ahead… The film does not connect the dots for us. It just gives us a ton of loosely floating dots, and asks us to make patterns from them. Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat feels like a heart-on-sleeve Imtiaz Ali film seen through Anurag Kashyap’s cynical eyes. Alaya F and Karan Mehta play two characters […]

Spoilers ahead… Samuthirakani is one of our best actors, but even he cannot find many shades to the one-dimensional martyr he’s asked to play. Over the opening credits of Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan’s new film – Thalaikoothal – we hear a woman screaming: Idhu enna veeda aaspathiri-ya? It’s an entirely fair question. The woman’s name is Kalai […]

Spoilers ahead… The crux is that we cannot always rely on braver people to get us justice. Even if we are intimidated by more powerful people, we need to stand up for ourselves. Yogi Babu is (sadly) so synonymous with body-shaming comedy that it’s wonderful to see him – in Bommai Nayagi – as someone’s […]

By Sudharsanan Sampath SPOILER ALERT: I watched an exceptional film last week. I don’t know how to talk about this film yet, so I decided to write about it. I watch a lot of films. Some entertain me, like the blockbusters, popcorn films that beg you to witness them on the big screen. Some, I […]

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By G Waugh There may be many reasons to admire a film maker like Woody Allen. You can call him the funniest man you have come across in the movies, or you can talk about the variety in his oeuvre or you can talk about his profound dialogue or share some of his Nietzschean views […]

By G Waugh Disclaimer: This is not intended to be a hagiography of the subject of this essay. பொறுப்பு திறப்பு: இந்த கட்டுரையின் மையப்பொருளை துதி பாடும் நோக்கத்தோடு எழுதப்பட்டது அல்ல இந்த கட்டுரை. 2009. என் தலைவன் படம் கந்தசாமி வெளியாகி ஊரெல்லாம் பரபரப்பை கிளப்பிக்கொண்டிருந்தது. எனக்கு பெரிதாக படம் பிடிக்கவில்லை என்றாலும் மற்றவர்கள் என் தலைவன் படம் பற்றி என்ன நினைக்கிறார்கள் என்று தெரிந்து கொள்ள ஆர்வம் […]

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Although still low New Zealand’s unemployment figures today registered an increase of 0.1% to be at 3.4%. The labour market is still tight but there are signs that the reduction in job ads and monthly filled jobs are putting less… Continue reading →

Spoilers ahead… Shah Rukh Khan carries forward both the “Yash Raj Spy Universe” and his own career in a rooted action movie. It’s probably too early to say this, but on the basis of War and now Pathaan, writer Shridhar Raghavan, dialogue-writer Abbas Tyrewala, and director Siddharth Anand have revitalised the Indian action movie. I […]

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