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The Breadwinner: A Dad Era Comedy That Plays Safe

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Good Heart, Familiar Script Nate Wilcox (Nate Bargatze) sells Toyotas, and he is very good at it. He has won Salesman of the Year several times, and the dealership still throws him a party each time. For him, the maths is simple: he earns, and Katie does everything else. Katie (Mandy Moore) runs the house like a military operation. She knows who needs toiletries, who needs food and who will not touch vegetables. She handles the tantrums, does every school drop-off and keeps three daughters on schedule, all by herself. Nate never sees any of it. Then comes her own big moment.  Katie has built the Star Minder, an invention she first made for her daughters. She takes it to Shark Tank and lands a deal.  A financial backer comes on board, and production begins in South Korea, two weeks away. Nate takes leave and steps into her shoes.  The three girls are where the film truly lives. Gracie (Stella Grace Fitzgerald), a Gen Z teenager, is old enough to read the situation. With Mu...
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Newton's 3rd Law - Movie Review

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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Debutant Rajesh Karna turns that law of physics into a law of karma, and builds a Telugu thriller on it. The film opens in Zuluk, Sikkim, in 2026. David (Srinivas Avasarala) is reading a book titled Newton's 3rd Law. Its pages mirror real events from 1999 Hyderabad, and the film takes us back there. In 1999, Jyothi (Neha Pathan) hears of her husband's death and dies soon after in a road accident. Her little daughter Shravya (Abhinayana) is left orphaned. Neha also plays the grown Shravya, so one face carries both the loss and its echo. It is smart casting. Then Vinay (Trinadh Varma), an engineering student, falls from a rooftop at night. Inspector Vasudev (Sumanth) smells murder. His probe takes in Vinay's parents, Gangadhar (Ravi Varma) and Parvathi (Shelly N Kumar), a suspicious friend, Karthik (Gowtham Pandit), and finally the ruthless smuggler Stephen Mercury (Jagapathi Babu). How does a college boy land in the underwo...
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Reporting Live - Movie Review

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Good Intent, Slack Script A bridge collapses in Visargaon and children die. Sandhya Yadav (Parineeti Chopra), a reporter with the Mumbai news channel Azaad Bharati, rushes to cover it with her cameraman Vinod Sharma (Deven Bhojani). Shiva kaka (Amol Palekar), a villager whose son died in sand mining, points them to the real story: an illegal sand mafia. Debutant director Dhruv Tripathi, who co-wrote the film with Mihir Jadhav, picks a subject Indian cinema rarely touches. Sand is called "brown gold" here, and the film makes you see why. At 1 hour 56 minutes, it moves briskly. Sandhya is fearless and hungry for the truth, and Parineeti plays her with conviction. Vinod is the pragmatic anchor, and the warmth between the two is the best thing in the film. The newsroom politics are its sharpest idea. Vidur (Adil Hussain), Editor-in-Chief of Azaad Bharati, represents the spirit of journalism and is the most dependable presence on screen.  Shyam (Shekhar Suman), the channel owner, ...
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