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By Sreejith Kamalanayanan The kid from Kingsman franchise is playing legendary pop star Elton John in Rocketman . When I first saw Kingsman, I didn't give much importance to Taron Egerton even though he was the lead. Kingsman: The Secret Service had heavyweights like Michael Caine and Collin Firth. It was Firth’s performance that elevated the movie to a watchable experience. And who can forget the villain played by Samuel L Jackson? So I didn’t care for the kid named Taron Egerton in Kingsman. He was just another kid, I thought. Now, Egerton is playing Elton John in Rocketman movie and that’s interesting. As per reports, Rocketman will be focusing on Elton’s life in the rehab. It will also pay attention to his love and sex life. Rocketman will be a musical. And Elton is reportedly pleased with Egerton’s singing. The movie will  not shy away from showing intimate scenes. Rumours suggest that there’s even a gay sex scene in Rocketman .

I have not been waiting eagerly for Aquaman movie, as it comes from the DCEU. Compared to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, DC movies always sucked, except for one time thanks to Wonder Woman. It is in this background that Conjuring , Insidious franchise director James Wan made Aquaman with Jason Momoa playing the titular character. Today, surprisingly, a flurry of positive words have come from people who saw a preview of movie. They praised both Momoa and James Wan. The critics who saw Aquaman preview describe it as an underwater Star Wars. Well, I am not a great fan of Star Wars either. Anyway,  let's see if critics' downpour of positive reviews may resurrect the DCEU from sinking.

By Sreejith Kamalanayanan The political paranoia prevalent in the 70's, after the Watergate scandal, seeped into the early 80's resulting in Blow Out (1981), a suspense thriller by Brian De Palma. The film is marked by the stylistic influence of Alfred Hitchcock and thematic influence of 1966 film Blow-Up directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Another influence is Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974). Like the paranoia thriller, The Parallax View (1974), Blow Out also features an assassination of a presidential candidate, which forms the focal point of the narrative. Blow Out's protagonist is a sound effects technician named Jack Terry (John Travolta), who works in sleazy B-movies. Terry gets an assignment from his director. He must find a realistic 'scream' sound to be used in a horror movie. Terry sets out into the night recording various sounds near a bridge. On a sudden, a car careen off the road and drown into the creek. Terry c...

By Sreejith Kamalanayanan McCabe&Mrs Miller (1971) is the second straight Warren Beatty film I watched recently. Though Beatty impressed me with his performances in Parallax View and McCabe , he wasn't the reason I watched McCabe&Mrs Miller --it's for Robert Altman, the maverick director. Before starting to talk about the revisionist western McCabe and Mrs Miller, I feel impelled to look at the style and vision of Altman. The first Altman movie I ever watched was The Long Goodbye (1973). I bought the DVD thinking it's a detective movie. Yes, It was a detective movie, but I didn't get the kind of pleasure that I was expecting from a detective movie. It doesn't  mean The Long Goodbye disappointed me, but I got a different kind of enjoyment out of it. Director Robert Altman This first experience with Altman precisely sums up what to expect when you go to watch an Altman movie , "EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED." If you give a script of a g...