All We Imagine as Light is a hushed, luminous film that lets emotion surface through atmosphere rather than plot. Set in Mumbai, Payal Kapadia follows the quiet lives of three women, capturing loneliness, intimacy, and resilience in moments that feel almost overheard. The film’s strength lies in its restraint: gentle performances, dreamlike imagery, and a soundscape that blurs memory with the present. It’s less a conventional narrative than a mood you slowly sink into—tender, political without being didactic, and deeply human. A film to be felt as much as watched.

Reviewers say ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ is celebrated for Al Pacino’s compelling performance and Sidney Lumet’s direction. It explores themes like crime, media influence, and social issues. The film is praised for its realistic depiction, strong characters, and blend of drama and humour. However, some find it overly long and uneven. Despite mixed opinions on pacing and length, it is generally regarded as a significant work in American cinema, capturing the 1970s spirit.

Some people felt that Mike Leigh’s films Mr. Turner and Peterloo represented the best in his career in cinema. He finally had a high budget and his artistic craft met them perfectly.  Hard Truths is a step back from this scale back into the social dramas he used to make, although this feels totally new for him at the same time.  If you have a dark sense of humour, you will find it extremely funny when she is nasty and yelling at everyone. They put her in one environment after another, almost like Mr Bean but she causes mayhem everywhere she goes. The furniture store, the doctor, the grocery store. I loved these scenes because the fouler she gets, the funnier the movie becomes.  It is such a simple and ingenious idea.  Yet outside of these comic vignettes, the film is extremely bitter.   It is so well acted and well staged. The supporting characters around her bring the depth in their reaction against her forming a film where we are drawing our own meaning. It is another solid classic in his filmography that it is worth revisiting.

Often movies have a magical quality as you’re viewing them. Some will demand your undivided attention, others will hypnotize your senses, leaving them to simply wash over you with their exuberance and classic filmmaking procedures. In the case of John Crowley’s “Brooklyn,” the latter is certainly the case. There comes a moment in the film when you are taken in by the film’s classic style filmmaking, and tenderly thought-provoking performances from its cast. Director Crowley, in partnership with Oscar-nominated scribe Nick Hornby, create a beautiful and sensitive love story that is everything a Nicholas Sparks film adaptation wishes it could be. With a vibrant turn from Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan at the helm, “Brooklyn” utilizes all of its tools in its arsenal to convey a potent message of love and family.

Every day life, however ‘real’ and gritty it may be, is rarely portrayed on film and was certainly a rarity in the 1950’s. In Europe however, there was a movement in film-making that embraced this realism and searched for the deeper meaning in the ‘here and now’. This is about the most basic and miniscule portion of the meaning behind the French New Wave of the 1950’s – films that explored the filmmaker’s surroundings, and eventually became an inspiration for filmmakers around the world. Francois Truffaut’s ‘The 400 Blows’ is one of the most well-known films of this movement, and has been embraced and hailed as one of the greatest films of all time.