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Jailer 2 - Movie Review

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Director Nelson Dilipkumar has once again delivered a blockbuster. Jailer 2, the second instalment of the super successful Jailer series, arrives over three years after the first film. The film opens on a surprisingly quiet note. Tiger Muthuvel Pandian (Rajinikanth) is working peacefully as a supervisor at a supermarket in a small town. Grandson Ritvik (Rithvik) leaves for school and daughter-in-law Shweta (Mirnaa) heads to work, while wife Vijaya (Ramya Krishnan) packs the lunch and runs the house. That calm does not last. Varman's best friend is searching for Tiger, and his men eventually land up in Muthuvel's town. The moment they identify him, the clashes begin. Only then do they realise that Muthuvel is also searching for their top boss. This mutual search leads to Goa and the Kalpak family. At the top sits Kalpak Bodhi (SJ Suryah), the big boss behind Varman and his men. Family patriarch Chakri Kalpak (Mithun Chakraborty), sister Kantha Kalpak (Vidya Balan) and brothers S...
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Runner - Movie Review

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Maia, how can I be like you? How do I build your patience, persistence and perseverance? How do I outthink a rival who plays dirty, as you did?  And how do I keep running non-stop, though I keep boasting that I own "Miles To Go" more than Robert Frost ever could have, had he been alive? These thoughts chased me through the brisk 84 minutes of Runner on Amazon Prime Video. We meet Maia Marten (Gal Gadot) , a sharp London lawyer and single mother. Her morning begins like any other, with a school drop-off and a run. Her day's work is to escort a key witness to court, someone who can finally nail the killer of two young women. Next comes her son, Noah (Rory Wilmot) , the centre of her world. He waves goodbye at the school gate. That ordinary moment is what the film later makes you ache for. Then the phone rings. The unseen voice belongs to The Caller (Damian Lewis) , who tracks her every step with chilling calm. His terms are brutal. She must cover 11 miles in 60 minutes ...
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Unabomber: The Hermit in the Woods

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I went in cautious about this one—true crime dramas about real-world violence can so easily tip into exploitation, turning tragedy into spectacle.  But what struck me within the first hour was how quiet this movie is.  It doesn't dramatize the hunt for theatrical effect. Instead, it sits with something far more unsettling: the slow unraveling of a mind that believed it had solved the world's problems. The script doesn't rush to the bombings. It spends time in the cabin—Ted Kaczynski's philosophical universe, his sense of betrayal by institutions, his conviction that technology itself was the enemy.  Director Sam Esmail lets us see the logic, however twisted, that led him there. This isn't moral relativism; it's ethnographic.  We understand without being made to sympathize, which is the hardest and most important distinction to make. What gets me about the performances—particularly Paul Bettany's Kaczynski and Holt McCallany's FBI profiler Jim Fitzgera...
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