Movie Reviews

  STORY:  Based on Roald Dahl’s 1983 novel by the same name, ‘The Witches’ is about an orphaned boy whose encounter with the Grand High Witch turns into a dramatic tale of courageous rescue and revenge. REVIEW:  Following the death of his parents in a horrific car accident, a young Hero Boy (Jahzir Kadeem Bruno) is taken in by his grandmother (Octavia Spencer), who lives in a dusty old town of Alabama. ‘I am sad for you, but I am not sorry for you,’ his grandma tells him, egging him on to start living his life again. Soon the old lady’s infectious energy and love pulls Hero Boy out of his grief. He even gets a pet mouse and names it Daisy. One day Hero Boy encounters a strange lady, who offers him a candy but he spots a snake crawling out of her clothes. The boy freaks out and runs to his grandma, who later explains him that the lady was indeed a witch. She even narrates her own witch encounter during her childhood. The incident had left her deeply shaken because the witch had turned h

  STORY:  Five young mutants, unaware of their full potential are held captive at a secret facility to ‘cure’ them of their immense powers. But all hell breaks loose once they begin to question the motive behind their captivity. REVIEW:  Danielle Moonstar aka Dani (Blu Hunt) survives a tornado attack in which her father William (Adam Beach) is killed by an unseen entity. She wakes up in a hospital run by Dr. Cecilia Reyes (Alice Braga) who explains a distraught Dani that she is a mutant and needs to be under her care to survive. But Dani is not alone. There are four other young mutants with distinct superpowers in the facility. None of them truly know who and what they are up against until one of them begins to question the status quo. Living under one roof also leads to a bit of infighting between the mutants, especially between Dani and a powerful Russian mutant Illyana Rasputin (Anya Taylor-Joy), who can manifest the Soulsword and use teleportation discs to travel. Thankfully for Da