Each story in Unpaused is beautifully designed, minimal and effective in rendition, affirming a singular, universal truth about life with sensitivity and refreshing insights. A hypochondriac with a voice bot as a companion falls in love with a virus warrior. Dialectics at work. A woman on the verge of suicide decides to stand up for women preyed ...
Each story in Unpaused is beautifully designed, minimal and effective in rendition, affirming a singular, universal truth ...
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What The Crown S4 lacks in flamboyance and drama, it makes up with its business-like efficiency and clinical unravelling. Season 1 Claire Foy’s class act makes you fall in love with Elizabeth II. She makes her come alive as a gentle but firm monarch who, aware of her limitations, grows into her destined role and ...
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First Reformed. Is this a film? Or a peek into our many insanities, our dark recesses, our deep despairs and our longing for hope, our clinging to straws of light. “How easily they talk about prayer, those who have never really prayed.” What happens when you cling to despair for long, when it sucks on ...
First Reformed. Is this a film? Or a peek into our many insanities, our dark ...
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Mirzapur Season 2 is explosive and a triumph of cinematic art. It is a show in which the script sits on the bloodied throne and the direction is a crafty wazir. *Spoiler Alert* The season opens with a scorpion walking on a towny road with its tail slung high in the air and therein hangs a ...
Mirzapur Season 2 is explosive and a triumph of cinematic art. It is a show ...
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Emily in Paris’ fun and humour elements, stylish production design and endearing storyline work as an antidote to stress in these challenging times. An American marketing specialist lands in Paris for her dream job and has an experience of a lifetime. Phil Collins’ daughter Lily Collins stars in this lighthearted, breezy romcom about a smart ...
Emily in Paris’ fun and humour elements, stylish production design and endearing storyline work as ...
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I think the title Ratched is deliberately chosen for this psychological thriller. It is closest to ratchet which means ‘a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.’ Or retched which means ‘to vomit.’ Whichever proximation you may choose, it is compelling drama stylishly designed with gothic overtones to grind your senses as if on a ...
I think the title Ratched is deliberately chosen for this psychological thriller. It is closest ...
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Baby Netflix: Fed up with their families and classmates, two teen girls from a wealthy part of Rome are drawn to the city’s underworld and start leading double lives. Baby is a poignant and disturbing story of two teenage girls in a posh Rome school who get sucked into a vortex of sex and abuse. ...
Baby Netflix: Fed up with their families and classmates, two teen girls from a wealthy ...
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“You have no control Who lives Who dies Who tells your story?” This is, indeed, a story well told. An orphan, bastard, ‘son of a whore’, an immigrant from the Caribbean island of Nevis played a critical role in the American War of Independence and rose to become one of the founding fathers of the ...
“You have no control Who lives Who dies Who tells your story?” This is, indeed, ...
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The adaptation of the novel may not be without faults but Anne With An E is a must see for the child in you. “It’s not what the world holds for you, it’s what you bring to it.” An orphan girl gets adopted by an aging brother-sister duo in the idyllic fictional town of Avonlea ...
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Paatal Lok is an intense, grounded, compelling, and in some ways, pathbreaking attempt to showcase the workings of India’s dark underbelly. ‘A man who loves dogs is a good man.’ Even the hellraisers of the netherworld are redeemed by their love for the canine. This outstanding series, coming after a surfeit of pedestrian Hindi shows, ...
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Loosely translated as happy-go-lucky, Hasmukh is indeed a lucky bloke. He is a small-town comedian who needs to kill to get ‘the feel’ before he can set the stage on fire. And he kills without a care and with innocent abandon, and gets away with murder every time. A bipolar rustic laughter machine with a ...
Loosely translated as happy-go-lucky, Hasmukh is indeed a lucky bloke. He is a small-town comedian ...
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(Updated: February 25, 2020) Netflix houses some excellent, critically-appreciated documentaries across varied subjects — from true crime to sports. We’ve pulled out some of the finest, streaming as of February 25, 2020: 1. RBG (2018) In the 1970s, a petite Jewish woman, educated at Cornell, Harvard and Columbia, decided to change, one step at ...
(Updated: February 25, 2020) Netflix houses some excellent, critically-appreciated documentaries across varied subjects — from ...
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Sacred Games is back with Season 2. The revolution has eaten its child. After the ultra-promising season 1 with its Tarantinoesque overtones, Sacred Games S2 turns out to be a dud. And what a vapid, foul-mouthed, grating dud at that. While there are some fine performances especially by Surveen Chawla and partly by Kalki Koechlin, the ...
Sacred Games is back with Season 2. The revolution has eaten its child. After the ultra-promising ...
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Film critic Saibal Chatterjee’s review of Bahubali 2 is a masterclass in analytical thinking. It examines the warts and strengths of this fantastical cinematic extravaganza with aplomb and scholarship. The review’s logical thinking resonates with me. It does. Yet, I am in absolute awe of the Bahubali adventure, the scale and magnificence of its production ...
Film critic Saibal Chatterjee’s review of Bahubali 2 is a masterclass in analytical thinking. It ...
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Brace up, winter is coming! Sexposition, blood, gore, mutilation and decapitation apart, Game of Thrones is most impressive, expansive, imaginative, explosive and overwhelming television drama that I have seen so far. One runs out of words to describe the magic and the majesty of this medieval fantasy hyperdrama. I don’t think I can even attempt ...
Brace up, winter is coming! Sexposition, blood, gore, mutilation and decapitation apart, Game of Thrones ...
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