Ramayana: Rise of a Legend Review: Sacred Duty Needs a Human Cost
Ravana’s dance of worship gives Yash something the virtuous characters in Ramayana: Rise of a Legend seldom receive: an opportunity...
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The original Joe & Mac gets considerable mileage out of keeping its stages short. Pick up a projectile weapon, work through the cavemen and dinosaurs ahead, and a large boss soon gives the action a new focus. Revisited in Joe & Mac Retro Collection, the SNES version of Caveman Ninja still benefits from that compact rhythm. Bones, boomerangs, fireballs, and rolling stone wheels extend your reach beyond the club, changing how closely you need to approach enemies. There is enough variety to keep this simple routine entertaining without stretching each stage until its ideas wear thin. Playing with a second...

Scarlett and Adam respond to the cameras in their borrowed Stockholm home by covering some of them. There is one in the bedroom, which gives the arrangement a peculiar understanding of hospitality. The couple have exchanged their Sicilian villa for this sleek island property through a house-swapping website; its owners, Carl and Helene, are already settling into the Italian accommodation. In A Couple of Lies, domestic privacy is something even these affluent holidaymakers cannot take for granted. The surveillance equipment makes that insecurity explicit before anyone has to confess to anything. The Sicilian villa exposes its occupants through messier means....

Bhavani and Mutthakka’s conversation about biological children and adoption makes the family politics of Akka briefly feel intimate. These women belong to a ruling order that has abolished marriage while retaining female succession, so a discussion of motherhood carries questions about who may inherit and how belonging is established. Keerthy Suresh and Tanvi Azmi give the exchange a welcome ease. The absence of a husband from this arrangement leaves plenty of expectations intact, and the scene allows affection and dynastic obligation to occupy the same conversation without turning either woman into a mouthpiece. Nanda, Bhavani’s lover, brings a different understanding...

Ravana’s dance of worship gives Yash something the virtuous characters in Ramayana: Rise of a Legend seldom receive: an opportunity to express several desires through the same action. Addressing Shiva, he makes devotion physically forceful, allowing reverence and the appetite for power to occupy one body. The sequence has the scale of a star entrance, yet its musical form does useful dramatic work. We can see why this man commands attention before the narrative asks us to condemn what he does with it. Worship establishes the intensity of his attachment to divine power; his conduct will determine its moral value....

Pryce Cahill wants Santi Wheeler to take the golf scholarship. At eighteen, his protégé has time to get an education and prepare for professional competition; the money and attention can wait. It is sensible advice from a man whose own career fell apart. It is also advice that lets Pryce remain the experienced adult in somebody else’s story. Owen Wilson’s former golf star found purpose through mentoring Santi in Stick’s first season, following the death of his son and the collapse of his marriage. Giving the boy guidance has become easier than deciding what he wants for himself. The second...

A frightening film still has to earn its place on a Halloween list. Halloween customs should matter to the story, or the film should offer a macabre world that makes sense for the occasion. Autumnal atmosphere counts; being frightening alone doesn’t. These 13 choices each have that connection and a defined viewing commitment, from a sitcom episode to a complete miniseries. They’re grouped by the kind of evening they offer, not ranked by quality or arranged into an age-suitability ladder. Start with the chooser, particularly the reasons to pass. Tonight’s chooser The mood labels and reasons to pass are editorial...
Ravana’s dance of worship gives Yash something the virtuous characters in Ramayana: Rise of a Legend seldom receive: an opportunity...
Read moreDetailsPryce Cahill wants Santi Wheeler to take the golf scholarship. At eighteen, his protégé has time to get an education...
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Read moreDetailsInde Navarrette used her “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut to take a pointed shot at Shane Gillis, turning his controversial gym joke into a punchline on Halloween night. Navarrette, the “Obsession” star who joined Marvel’s first “X-Men” film as Rogue this summer, joked in her opening monologue about the workouts...
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Read moreThe original Joe & Mac gets considerable mileage out of keeping its stages short. Pick up a projectile weapon, work through the cavemen and dinosaurs ahead, and a large boss...
Scarlett and Adam respond to the cameras in their borrowed Stockholm home by covering some of them. There is one in the bedroom, which gives the arrangement a peculiar understanding...
Bhavani and Mutthakka’s conversation about biological children and adoption makes the family politics of Akka briefly feel intimate. These women belong to a ruling order that has abolished marriage while...
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The original Joe & Mac gets considerable mileage out of keeping its stages short. Pick up a projectile weapon, work...
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