Anurag Kashyap, the enfant-terrible of contemporary Indian cinema, is back with his latest offering ‘Choked- Paisa Bolta Hai’ on Netflix. Set in 2016, it’s based on a bank employee’s discovery […]
Mythology, is some way or the other, is connected to facts. Perhaps, distorted facts. Some say mythology was the brainchild of the sages. For a layman, it was far more […]
The race has been over for weeks folks, all that is needed is the handing out of the awards. There might be a couple of surprises, but the Oscar race […]
The Academy Awards are just hours away but frankly, it is the most anti-climatic year in recent memory. The big news will be ANY surprises, but given the earlier awards […]
There were nine films nominated for the coveted Academy Award for Best Picture this year, though there was room for one more given this silly rule of increasing the nominees […]
Divorce is a difficult act to go through, punishing, the death of a union, often the passing of a love that was once so intense, the couple could not imagine […]
As a man, I will never know what it is to be sexually harassed. I suppose there is a slim chance of being so harassed by a woman or a […]
In a year filled with great achievements in acting, narrowing down ten for each gender was no easy task. When creating this list, I grouped together lead roles with supporting, […]
In a year filled with great achievements in acting, narrowing down ten for each gender was no easy task. When creating this list, I grouped together lead roles with supporting, […]
2019 will forever be remembered and celebrated as the year Netflix revolutionized the industry. I begin the top ten in what was an exciting, strong year at the movies. I […]
Did I ever think I would discuss Adam Sandler in the same sentence as the Academy Award? Did I ever think I would be comparing Sandler’s jittery, electrifying performance to […]
Nominated for ten Academy Awards, ‘Gangs of New York’ was thought to be the film that was finally going to land Martin Scorsese his long-overdue Academy Award for Best Director. […]
Jack Ryan’s back, peeps! The reluctant analyst turned super-spy, created by Tom Clancy, is back to save the world from doomsday, with some superbly shot action sequences that get the […]
In 1976, I was aware of Martin Scorsese as a filmmaker having seen Mean Streets (1973) and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), and certainly a fan of the actor […]
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