Padatik [1973] Mubi Review – The Solitude of a Young Revolutionary
Padatik (The Guerilla Fighter aka The Foot Soldier, 1973) is the final part in Mrinal Sen’s ‘Calcutta Trilogy’: movies that…
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The Measure of a Man [2015] Review – A Subtly Affecting Humanist Drama
In Stephane Brize’s quietly devastating drama The Measure of a Man (‘La loi du marche’, 2015) French star Vincent Lindon…
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12 Monkeys [1995] Review – An Intriguing Dystopian Tale by a Masterful Fantasist
“12 Monkeys unfolds in an episodic manner, the composite parts doesn’t smoothly get unified as a whole. Yet the precision…
Spielberg (2017): A Modest Storyteller vs The Spectacle
Spielberg (2017): Modest Storyteller vs The Spectacle: Let us begin by talking about Duel (1971); I feel Duel is a…
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The Disciple [2020]: ‘TIFF’ Review – A deeply moving character drama about the arduous journey of a failed artist
Chaitanya Tamahe’s meditative sophomore feature ‘The Disciple,’ opens with a small-scaled concert where a veteran Indian Classical singer is performing…
Kiss the Ground (2020) Netflix Review: A Groundbreaking Nature Manifesto On Reversing Global Warming
Narrated by Woody Harrelson, featuring Ian Somerhalder, Gisele Bündchen, Patricia Arquette, David Arquette, Rosario Dawson, and Jason Mraz, Kiss the Ground is a game-changing docu-film on the rich history of soil, a necessary eye-opener that can help solve the Earth’s age-old climate-change puzzle.
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Tiny Tim – King for a Day [2020]: ‘Fantasia’ Review – Documenting the Odd Star
Before watching this documentary, I had been somewhat familiar with Tiny Tim because I had seen some of his live…
Top 20 Criminally Underrated Films Of 2015
Everyone saw films that surfaced well on whatever platform their boat sailed to. But there were some rather unfamiliar films that never saw the light of the day. These films need your instant attention, here goes our list of top 20 criminally underrated films of 2015.
15 Must-see Surreal Films of 2015
In Manifesto of Surrealism, André Breton defined cinema as ‘Three cheers for darkened rooms!’ There is a dreamlike quality to cinema watching experience itself. When an adventurer enters the darkened room and encounters a series of flickering images that projects dazzling visions of life, surrounded by complete strangers, the experience of cinema can be equated with that of dream. What moviegoers seek from cinema is the experience of otherness. Movie watching is and will always be a mystical ritual that teeters on the edge of reality. This strange analogy between film viewing and dream state is the foundation of surrealist cinema.