As you have probably guessed, ‘The Water Diviner’ is an exercise in sentimentality, mostly to a fault. This reflects, no doubt, on Crowe’s past choices like ‘A Beautiful Mind’ and ‘Cinderella Man’. Except, those films had the measured hands of experienced filmmakers, and Crowe’s first attempt at direction mostly generates fake mawkishness rather than genuine emotion.

How does one define a good horror film? It is a film which transcends the clichés of the genre, or renders fear without cheap scares or gore, has well defined characters backed up by good acting, and a plot that holds your interest from beginning to end, and makes you talk about the film with your friends long after it is over. The new film ‘It Follows’ ticks every one of those checkboxes.

Dharam Sankat Mein had quite an uphill task of balancing comedy and the religious sentiments of its audience. It succeeds fairly well – the jokes are in good taste and the film presents the hypocrisy in blind belief, rather than faith per se. Both Hindu and Muslim customs, two polar opposite sides of the spectrum, are made fun of with equally measured, over-careful restraint. Gujarat’s ban on alcohol gets a subtle dig.

This Sunny Leone starrer is soft porn without any actual porn…From outrageous and caricaturist gay characters to outright gay bashing, Ek Paheli Leela offers the whole platter.

Once a year we get an animated film that comes out of nowhere, takes us completely by surprise and goes away without causing much of a ruckus. This year the Dreamworks Animation’s ‘Home’ takes that slot. Overall this is a cute little film that’s short and sweet, built specifically for kids. Adults may skip it, but they’ll score brownie points if they get their kids tickets.

What really matters are the stunts and action, and they deliver by the truckloads. Whether it is driving a car through Middle Eastern skyscrapers, or pounding a truck through forested hills of Azerbaijan, or squirming a convertible through the bylanes of an American metropolis, it’s a dollop of entertainment.

…is ultimately a wicked cocktail of clues, images, sounds, emotions and sensations. From start to end, you’ll be firmly affixed to the edge of your seat. Hopefully this is the start of a franchise and the dawn of a bold new era for Yash Raj Films.

There’s nothing as such in the film that’s commendable, save for Penn’s physique at his age. But his character seems like he belongs in an ‘Expendables’ movie rather than the super serious drama in this movie.

The film could have been entertaining had the filmmakers not treated the subject matter with such seriousness and just embraced the ludicrousness of the whole thing. It’s what the Jason Statham ‘Crank’ movies did and they’re far more interesting than Neeson’s recent output, including this one.

It’s kind of fascinating to watch really, because you get to witness the birth of a new kind of cinema, the Chinese War Epic that will eventually catch up with Hollywood’s superhero films in the near future.