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Wag the Dog (1997)

How Wag the Dog (1997) Predicted Our Age of Manufactured Wars and Media Spectacle

May 23, 2025
Arijit Paul
Paul Thomas Anderson's Psychological Prowess through the Lens of his Most Problematic Picture

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Psychological Prowess through the Lens of his Most Problematic Picture

May 15, 2025
Hector Levya
Billy Wilder’s ‘Double Indemnity’

The Birth of the Blonde Femme Fatale of Cinema in Billy Wilder’s ‘Double Indemnity’

May 11, 2025
Bharat Bhoite
Helena and Helly R: The Fractured Self at the Heart of ‘Severance’

Helena and Helly R: The Fractured Self at the Heart of ‘Severance’

May 7, 2025
Bharat Bhoite
When Life Gives You Tangerines

The Pearl Necklace in ‘When Life Gives You Tangerines’: An Ode to the Enduring Spirit of Mothers, Seen Through the Eyes of a Daughter —and One Day, a Mother Herself

May 6, 2025
Sanjida Samrin Rahman
The Avenging Woman: The Politics and Aesthetics of Female Rage in Rape-Revenge Cinema 
Essay · Featured

The Avenging Woman: The Politics and Aesthetics of Female Rage in Rape-Revenge Cinema 

Anju Devadas May 5, 2025May 5, 2025
The Holdovers (2023)
Column

Hal Ashby’s Enduring Legacy: How ‘The Holdovers’ Echoes the Spirit of a 1970s Master 

Bharat Bhoite April 30, 2025May 5, 2025
Reasons & Debates: Revisiting the Goopy-Bagha Saga
Essay

Reasons & Debates: Revisiting the Goopy-Bagha Saga

Soumalya Chatterjee April 29, 2025May 5, 2025

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Wag the Dog (1997)
Column

How Wag the Dog (1997) Predicted Our Age of Manufactured Wars and Media Spectacle

Arijit Paul May 23, 2025
Billy Wilder’s ‘Double Indemnity’
Column

The Birth of the Blonde Femme Fatale of Cinema in Billy Wilder’s ‘Double Indemnity’

Bharat Bhoite May 11, 2025May 11, 2025
Helena and Helly R: The Fractured Self at the Heart of ‘Severance’
Column

Helena and Helly R: The Fractured Self at the Heart of ‘Severance’

Bharat Bhoite May 7, 2025May 7, 2025

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Kicking and Screaming
Article · Essay

How Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming explores Post Academia Tedium and Meaning of Life

August 28, 2019
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Baahubali Prabhas and Rana war
Essay

Baahubali: A Mass of Clichés Cloaked Under The Label “Magnum Opus”

August 10, 2019
Lakshmi Muthiah
Apocalypse Now
Article · Essay

40 Years of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now

July 30, 2019
David Morgan Brown
A Man Escaped
Article · Essay

Lookback at Bresson: A Man Escaped [1956]

July 24, 2019
Shikhar Verma
Article · Essay

How “There Will Be Blood” and “Requiem For A Dream” Explore The Rotten American Dream

July 22, 2019
Theodore Gercke
Article · Essay

What exactly is Under the Silver Lake?

July 21, 2019
David Morgan Brown
Postmodernity in Films
Article · Essay

Postmodernity and the city: Blade Runner, Dark City, Akira

July 18, 2019
Nivedita Nair
Internet Piracy
Article · Essay

Internet Piracy Prevents Censorship

July 11, 2019
David Morgan Brown
Cinema Mon Amour 3 Why Do We Love Movies Shawshank
Article · Essay

Cinema Mon Amour // Why Do We Love Movies?

June 26, 2019
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Pulp Fiction
Article · Essay

How Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction Condemns American Nihilism

June 26, 2019
Aqueb Safwan Jaser

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The Grief in Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity
Article · Essay

The Grief in Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity

Shikhar Verma February 24, 2021

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Mise-en-scène in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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Mise-en-scène in Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Purusharth Chawla February 24, 2021

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How the 2019 Malayalam film Ishq showed a middle finger to toxic masculinity
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How the 2019 Malayalam film Ishq showed a middle finger to toxic masculinity

Jeeva Pitchaimani February 24, 2021

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The Artist Versus The Technocrat
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The Artist Versus The Technocrat

Jeeva Pitchaimani June 24, 2021

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Revisiting Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par after reading Carl Honoré’s In Praise of Slowness
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Revisiting Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par after reading Carl Honoré’s In Praise of Slowness

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How Masaan (2015) Divorces Women’s Desire From Shame
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How Masaan (2015) Divorces Women’s Desire From Shame

Kudrat Wadhwa January 6, 2025

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The Weaker Sex in Breaking Bad
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The Weaker Sex in Breaking Bad

Jeeva Pitchaimani February 24, 2021

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Songs From Far Away Land (2020) Short Film Review: A Mournful Recollection
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Songs From Far Away Land (2020) Short Film Review: A Mournful Recollection

Ashwani Kumar July 17, 2020

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How Bacurau Creates a Political Narrative Through Archetypes and Self-Awareness
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How Bacurau Creates a Political Narrative Through Archetypes and Self-Awareness

João Victor Montuori February 24, 2021

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