Tag archives for Anil Kapoor

“Fighter” (2024): Howard Hawks’s Hollywood with a B

★★★ Nationalism has a place in movies.  Indian cinema proves it. No American movie today would have a scene like the flag wave-off in Fighter.  To understand why it’s there is to appreciate something about borders.  America’s most unfriendly neighbor is a country whose government would never openly declare war, but would happily create a […]

V’s Ten for Ten: #8 – “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” (2011)

★★★★ “If the Secretary wanted me out of there, it must be pretty bad out here.” – Ethan Hunt As a rule, the longer a franchise runs, the more stale it gets, and the easier it is to spot the moment where it peaked. Even with exceptions, the rule remains.  Harry Potter peaked with the […]