Bollywood films have been mentioned before on this blog, with some commentors feverishly supporting them, and some treating them with indifference… Mira Nair is an Indian director with a keen eye for portaying human emotions, and while her films are proud to show Indian traditions and customs, she doesn’t shy away from social problems like […]
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I recently finished reading the Ultimate Spiderman, a ‘remake’ of The Amazing Spiderman series, slingshotted into the 2000s by updating the era to make it accessible to a younger generation. The original Spiderman was published in the 1960s, where high school ‘jocks’ took cheerleaders to the school dance to do the Cha-Cha; now, Peter Parker
It is one of my favourite films, and one of the best to have come out of China in recent times. I’m not much of a romantic in fact, you could say that I’m an anti-Romantic, protesting flowers, fancy dinners, and rehearsed pleas of love. Fake romance. our culture is rife with commercialized ways to
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When I first saw the trailer for Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, I wasn’t interested at all. Not at all. Usually, college style stoner comedies make fun of visible minorities, poking fun at the accents, the peculiar behavior, the awkward attempts to meet girls Asian and Indians are the butt end of jokes,
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Yesterday, I criticized Guardian film critic, Ron Bergan, for being too pretentious about the ‘art of cinema’. Though reading his posts is similar to being reprimanded by your father for throwing dirt in the street, he does have a wide knowledge of film, and his recommendations are probably worth watching. Bergan recommended The Story of
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