#CelluloidCritic

Critic No. 312 Director: Gerard Johnstone Written by: Akela Cooper, James Wan Produced by: Blumhouse Productions, Atomic Monster Productions, Divide/Conquer Casts : Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Amie Donald Music: Anthony Willis Language: English Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror SYNOPSIS:  A robotics engineer, Gemma (Allison Williams) builds a life-like doll, M3GAN, that begins to take on a life of its own. REVIEW: In this tech driven world now, it’s every parent’s buy their child a self-aware A.I. companion that comes equipped with empathy, weird silicone skin, eyes like surveillance cameras and hands that can either hug like a sister or grip like a vice? A doll for the generation of social media and internet-saturated culture, M3GAN is the toy to replace all toys - responsive to a child's immediate needs, an instant playmate that's always around and one that can come up with infinite ways to entertain.  M3GAN is almost a social commentary on what horrific consequences that this t

Critic No. 311 Director: Siddarth Ananad  Written by: Siddarth Ananad, Abbas Tyrewala Produced by: Yash Raj Films Casts : Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham, Dimple Kapadia, Ashutosh Rana Music: Vishal-Shekar, Ankit Balhara Language: Hindi Genre: Action SYNOPSIS:  An Indian spy, Pathaan (Shah Rukh Khan) takes on the leader of a group of mercenaries, Jim (John Abraham) who have nefarious plans to target his homeland. REVIEW: ‘Pathaan’ expands Yash Raj Film’s spy universe (previously led by Salman Khan’s Tiger & Hrithik Roshan’s Kabir), and presents the origin story of an ex-army man turned undercover agent Pathaan (Shah Rukh Khan) and his arch nemesis, Jim (John Abraham). From the word go, the film celebrates the presence of the celebrated super star of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan and sets the tone that everything that happens on the screen will be doubled or tripled from realism.  The film almost feels like a superhero film after one point of time and we know that Pat