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Movie Review: ‘Greenland 2: Migration’ is an unmemorable sequel with a memorably newsy title

Movie Review: ‘Greenland 2: Migration’ is an unmemorable sequel with a memorably newsy title

Let’s get the obvious thing out of the way first, shall we? There may never have been a better week in the history of the modern world — or at least recent cinema — to release a movie with “Greenland” in the title. Movie Review: ‘Greenland 2: Migration’ is an unmemorable sequel with a memorably newsy title Just in case you’re reading this from another era or galaxy, you’ll see what we mean if you Google “United States” and “Greenland.” Otherwise, not much more needs to be said. Except that “Greenland 2: Migration,” a serviceable but rather low-key, even grim affair starring a sturdy, understandably melancholy Gerard Butler, would make anyone want to get the heck out of Greenland — not find a way to own it. That’s because the movie, Ric Roman Waugh’s sequel to his comet-disaster film of 2020, presents a Greenland that, like most of the world, has been reduced to an unlivable mess of radioactive ash, with life only possible in a dank underground bunker. And that’s before things get even …

Ae Watan Mere Watan Review: Neither Consistently Riveting Nor Memorably Rousing

A still from Ae Watan Mere Watan. (courtesy: saraalikhan95) With history and politics increasingly serving as vehicles of blatant propaganda in the hands of some Mumbai filmmakers, it is with trepidation that one approaches Ae Watan Mere Watan. Mercifully, it turns out that the historical thriller produced by Dharmatic Entertainment and Amazon MGM Studios does not have agenda-tinged blinkers on. Streaming on Amazon Prime Video and featuring Sara Ali Khan as a khadi-clad freedom fighter taking on the might of the British, Ae Watan Mere Watan does not fall prey to excess as it brings to the screen a little-known but important chapter of India’s independence movement. While the freedom fighters in the film shout slogans, express unwavering anti-colonial intent and resist a brutal regime, Ae Watan Mere Watan is anything but given to shrill posturing. The restraint that the film demonstrates in peddling patriotism is commendable but it does not sadly translate into something bigger than the sum of its parts. Ae Watan Mere Watan, directed by Kannan Iyer who debuted a decade ago …