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Ashton Kutcher donates $4 Million to the Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund

If you have ever heard of Ellen DeGeneres ( you've never heard of Ellen? Where have you been for the last couple of years... living under a rock?), there are a million reasons...

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Movies You Wouldn’t Want To Miss This Summer

I always look forward to summer, mainly because of the summer break. I list down the unexecuted tasks which I promised myself to complete the previous summer, which were actua...

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Overpopulation is Hollywood's Concern Too

I, just like everybody else, walked out of the theatre confounded after watching Avengers: Infinity War. As phenomenal as the film was, little did I focus on this detail: The ...

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How Classics Define Today’s Hollywood

While looking back into the history of cinema isn’t the preference of youth today, it's no doubt that classics have shaped the Hollywood that we watch in the present tim...

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Questioning Society’s long history of Villainizing Women

Amanda Knox knows all too well what it’s like to be made into a villain. The 30-year-old writer-activist's years of headline-making began in 2007, when she was arrested ...

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Finally, Television get REAL with the Portrayal of Single Women

Most female leads in most TV series face troubles in their relationships. But in the end when their boyfriends get down on one knee, propose them in the most lavish settings w...

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Did Critics go easy on the Phantom Thread?

Phantom Thread, the lush gothic romance from auteur Paul Thomas Anderson was the art-house film of the moment. For all his critical acclaim, Anderson’s films have never ...

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'The Rider': Probably One of the Best Films of 2018

In Chloé Zhao's second movie, The Rider, which debuted at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, we see Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), the protagonist. He was a rod...

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Celebrating the Women behind the Camera

In this age of Netflix, Hotstar and Amazon Prime, there's a unique streaming service called MUBI which I am sure not many would have heard in India. Unlike the other streaming...

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Spielberg Knows How to Hit the Nostalgia Bone Just Right

Steven Spielberg is an extraordinary director. For anyone whose actual childhood has been marked by Steven Spielberg films about childhood—who has watched it emerge and ...

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MOVIES: FAIRY TALE FALTERS IN AJOGYA

"Despite the charm of a fairy tale reference, Kaushik Ganguly's Ajogya struggles with a ...

June 11 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: SHYAM BENEGAL’S MANTHAN

Thanks to the efforts of the Film Heritage Foundation, Shyam Benegal’s masterpiece...

June 9 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: SILENCE IN THE FACE OF OPPRESSION

In an era of unprecedented division, the gap between mainstream and alternative opinions...

June 8 2024