Movies That Highlight Gambling Addiction
Gambling Addiction, also termed compulsive gambling, is a progressive addiction that can have negative repercussions which are social, economic, and…
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Beginning (2020): Dissent Against the Logic of Patriarchal Order
Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature Beginning (2020) revolving around the oppressed religious sect brings together quite a number of references from antic mythology, mystical tradition, social issues of contemporary Georgia, Renaissance art, and mostly the imagery of the acclaimed masters of cinema.
The Walking Dead – From One of the Most-Watched TV Series in the World to an Online Slot Game
There are many television series in the United States, and each one of them offers a different kind of allure…
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Profile [2021] Review: An Interesting, Though Clichéd, Hypermediated Experiment
Whenever a film offers an experiment that veers off traditional filmmaking methods, I tend to stay away from those, as…
A Study of Fragmentation in the Aftermath of World War II in Christian Petzold’s Phoenix (2014)
Phoenix (2014) opens at night, and we follow a car carrying two Jewish women past a military checkpoint into Berlin,…
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The Sadness [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – An Interesting Gore Fest that Never Takes Off
It would be too straightforward to brand ‘The Sadness’ as a zombie film. Despite the lack of official word, the…
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Shankar’s Fairies [2021]: Locarno Review – A Beautifully Nostalgic Film Which Also Talks About Indian Class Structure
It’s 1962, the time when Indian borders were witnessing the Sino-Indian war. Bureaucrat IPS Rajesh Kumar Sinha is typically busy…
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Too Late [2021] Review: Uninspired horror-comedy lazily presents a showbiz metaphor
Bosses can be real monsters. They can suck the life out of you and do their best to not lead…
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Shadows [2021]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – An Uninventive Thriller that barely flares
Shadows traverses difficult thematic terrain; director Glenn Chan is primarily playing with the suggestion of the essential and intrinsic depravity…