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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

June 17, 2025
Ishani Routh
When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

June 17, 2025
Ajay Rahul Raja
The Crime Behind The Curtain: Looking Back at โ€˜Yavanika,โ€™ a Cinematic Masterpieceย 

The Crime Behind The Curtain: Looking Back at โ€˜Yavanika,โ€™ a Cinematic Masterpieceย 

June 16, 2025
Vaishnavi S
Stolen (2025) movie

Can HOPE Survive Between TWO INDIAS? Karan Tejpalโ€™s โ€˜Stolenโ€™ Brilliantly Attempts To Find Out

June 15, 2025
Ayan Dawn
Characterising the Space: The Cinematic Space as the Protagonist in โ€˜Laila Aur Satt Geetโ€™

Characterising the Space: The Cinematic Space as the Protagonist in โ€˜Laila Aur Satt Geetโ€™ (The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs, 2020)

June 15, 2025
Sahil
The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame
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The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame

Gentrit Miftari June 9, 2025June 10, 2025
Popular Cinema in India: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Indian Cinema and Its Cinematic Tropes
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Popular Cinema in India: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Indian Cinema and Its Cinematic Tropes

Santosh Kumar Mamgain June 7, 2025June 8, 2025
What โ€˜Havocโ€™ Tells Us About Losing the Feel in Filmmaking?
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What โ€˜Havocโ€™ Tells Us About Losing the Feel in Filmmaking?

Ritesh Sharma June 7, 2025June 7, 2025

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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced
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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

Ishani Routh June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™
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When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

Ajay Rahul Raja June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
Stolen (2025) movie
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Can HOPE Survive Between TWO INDIAS? Karan Tejpalโ€™s โ€˜Stolenโ€™ Brilliantly Attempts To Find Out

Ayan Dawn June 15, 2025June 15, 2025

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Exploring Black Male Queerness and Notions of Masculinity in Moonlight

May 30, 2017
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[WATCH] Video Essay Explores The Generation Gap in Two Mike Nichols’s Classics

May 12, 2017
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The Overrated Phenomenon: Art of bashing the Popular

May 6, 2017
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Meta-Humor: A gift or a curse?

April 11, 2017
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Into the wild
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April 5, 2017
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The Sexual Ambivalence of Brandon Sullivan In Shame

February 24, 2017
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A Love Letter to La La Land

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Joker in Cinema: Infinitely elastic yet extremely constricted

Ashwani Kumar July 15, 2024

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The Film Industryโ€™s Gender Parity, Ending Unsubstantiated Discrimination
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David Morgan Brown February 22, 2021

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Ser Brienne of Tarth: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
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David Morgan Brown July 15, 2024

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David Morgan Brown February 21, 2021

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Arun Kumar October 31, 2021

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The Unspoken Diversity Deficiency at the Oscars: Amount of Films & Foreign Films
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David Morgan Brown February 21, 2021

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Itโ€™s Okay If You Donโ€™t Like Alfonso Cuaroฬn’s Roma
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Deloret Imnidian July 15, 2023

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