Davin Arul

4 days ago | thestar.com.my | Davin Arul

Come for the apocalypse, stay for the allegory. The Eternaut, Netflix's latest science fiction series, is an adaptation of a late 1950s Argentinian comic by the writer Hector German Oesterheld and artist Francisco Solano Lopez. The initially apolitical Oesterheld "rebooted" the story in 1969 with artist Alberto Breccia at a time of rising political tension in his home country and inserted stronger allegorical themes into the story.

1 week ago | thestar.com.my | Davin Arul

The world has certainly come a long way from the days when entertainment involving cannibalism was made on ultra-low budgets, shot in some "exotic" Asian locale (our own rainforests being a location choice for one notorious example with a certain ex-Bond girl), and drew hordes of the curious to cinemas. All of them looking kind of sheepish or guilty as they lined up for tickets, to be sure. If we lived in cooler climes, most of us would have been queueing in trenchcoats with upturned collars.

1 month ago | thestar.com.my | Davin Arul

One thing my makan buddies and I agree on, if not always on the choice of eatery or the taste/quality of its offerings, is that the term "hidden gem" has been overused to the netherworld and back by reviewers on social media. Hidden? The joint is usually right there in plain view, only we choose not to notice it. Prime Video's Hindi thriller series Paatal Lok (Netherworld) qualifies as a hidden gem then, in my case. It was always right there on the listings each day, but I just ...

2 months ago | thestar.com.my | Davin Arul

Is this the season for ER veterans to pop up in our living rooms again? While Eriq LaSalle traded his scrubs for police blues in Prime Video's On Call, his Cook County General Hospital screen colleague Noah Wyle is back in the emergency room in The Pitt. The ER DNA is strong in this one. Wyle not only stars in it but he's also listed as an executive producer alongside that series' showrunner John Wells and The Pitt creator R.

Jan 29, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Davin Arul

It is appropriate, arriving on the heels of the just-concluded third (and for now, final) season of What If...? from Marvel Animation, that the studio's latest offering has a fair bit of DNA from that show. For one thing, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man features actor-musician Hudson Thames winningly giving voice to Peter Parker aka Spidey, as he did on What If...?