Understanding the trend of last few years in Oscars, it would be safe to place your bets on smaller Davids of the industry rather than the gargantuan Goliaths. Smaller but more difficult to make are the pictures that have outdone their behemoth counterparts. 2011: “The King’s Speech” trumped bigger competitors …
Read More »7 inspiring movies ‘they’ don’t want you to see! Links to full movies in the article!
‘They’ is a very ubiquitous term which can mean the government, the society, the corporations, organized religion, authoritative figures that abuse their power & spoon-feed you like your nanny about what you should consume & what is too much (read, too truthful) for you to digest! However, here the pronoun …
Read More »Books VS Movies- It’s a tie!
A number of discussions can be found online on the eternal question of ‘books vs movies-which is better’. The opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of books, but that is a bit unfair. I would like to present the arguments favouring books that seemed to be the most logical ones: 1) …
Read More »How the ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ made me wonder (wander)?
“Psychedelia is wandering”- THC Baba 1) “I’m not a concept Joel”: The movie changed my idea of love. I used to think that there would be a set of criteria, a checklist if you might, which will need to have a required number of ticks and this part of life …
Read More »In Cinemas Now #1: Why ‘Inside Out’ should explode your head
Inside Out (2015) IMDB 8.8 Rotten Tomatoes 98% Metacritic 93% It all begins with, “Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head?” Well, after a PIXAR-short titled ‘LAVA’ that is, which by the way was wonderful – watch a preview here. Getting back …
Read More »Movies with Spiritual Undertones: Part-1
Movies are one of the most influential mediums through which people all over the world are trying to put across messages and hints that point towards the truth; the unspoken paradigm which exists around us and within us, which we are the creators of. In layman terms (lot of “laymen” …
Read More »Coraline says we’ve all been programmed!
Coraline (2009) 100 min | Animation, Fantasy IMDb: 7.7, Rotten Tomatoes: 90% “Not just a children’s movie, Coraline goes beyond to subtly raise important questions for adults as well. Let us analyze it in an offbeat context of how everyone is being constantly programmed & how setting free is yet another …
Read More »The Understated Brilliance of Hugo Weaving
You might not know him by name, but you definitely know this fine actor. Here’s a clue: More nerdy enthusiasts might immediately recall his portrayal of ‘Lord Elrond’ as well, in the ‘The Lord of the ‘Rings’ franchise: Or you might even have spotted him as the ‘Red Skull’ in …
Read More »Script to Screen – I
“Every Oreo was once a grain of wheat”- Madhur Oza You might see this when you google (or preferably DuckDuckGo) idioms and maxims someday. Well maybe not, cause it is garbage! This was just an attempt to open this article with a beautiful line, say ‘Life is like a box …
Read More »Exploring World Cinema #1: Themroc
Themroc (1973) | France IMDb: 7.2 Director: Claude Faraldo 100 min | Comedy “A roller coaster ride in to examining human sexism, sexuality, modernism, exploitation, abuse of power, banal rat-race & other cultural/societal limitations which restrict our experiences.” Themroc is an unbelievable film. Firstly, it has no language, and secondly, …
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