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443. Dhurandhar (#250)

Posted on March 21, 2026 by Darren

Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest Siddhant Adlakha, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This week, Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar.

In the wake of a horrific terrorist attack, India initiates the top secret plan “Dhurandhar”, sending a highly skilled operative to infiltrate the Pakistani criminal underworld in the hopes of identifying and stopping potential terrorist attacks before they happen. What follows is a brutal story of betrayal, violence and romance against the backdrop of the political and social turmoil of twenty-first century India.

At time of recording, it was ranked 250th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

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Torchwood: Miracle Day – Rendition (Review)

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Darren

Rendition serves as a demonstration of the flaws with Torchwood: Miracle Day. While some of those flaws – the flaws inherent to the production between the BBC and Starz, the difficulty with scale – were built into The New World, Rendition hits upon quite a few more. Most obviously, it’s an entire episode dedicated to filler. Pretty much the only plot line that advances in a meaningful way is that involving Oswald Danes. Otherwise, Rendition feels like a bit of a holding pattern, a time-wasting exercise designed to pad out the season to ten episodes.

Dead on arrival?

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Non-Review Review: The Apartment

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Darren

The Apartment is a classic romantic comedy, and deservedly so. Reuniting director Billy Wilder with actor Jack Lemmon, it’s a wonderfully dysfunctional look at life in the big city, and the compromises the people find themselves forced into. While I think the movie probably works better as a romantic drama than as a comedy – with some outstanding moments of bleakness, including a serious suicide attempt and another false alarm towards the end – Wilder and Lemmon do an exceptional job keeping the movie just light enough that the darker elements don’t overwhelm the film. It is a piece of cinematic history, and one that holds up as well today as it ever did.