Telugu movies
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The premise is the equivalent of a clickbait headline. A boy with anger management issues is told by his mother to hold it in for 6 days of the week, and then if he still finds himself angry about the same things on the seventh day, he can give it full rein. He grows up
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An intrguing premise – elements of the Mahabharata are reconfigured into a dystopian sci-fi story – is let down by an underwhelming film.
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On the WTFiness of my experience of watching Spyder
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This isn’t a review. I am not going to provide a critical analysis of the buried subtext and reflexive postmodernism inherent in the film. (No, I don’t know what reflexive postmodernism is, and quite honestly, I don’t even know if the term makes sense. Why the eff are you even asking?) I am simply going
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When I posted my first trivia challenge some weeks ago, PV asked me to do one on desi movies. So here it is: 1. You know what, I think the really good Govinda movies of the nineties (the best of which is undoubtedly Coolie No. 1) deserve comparison with some of the frothiest entertainers of
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Shiva is a late-80s action movie about one man taking on an organized crime syndicate. Considering how many such movies get made regularly even today, it’s amazing that it still holds up so well. Some scenes come across as tacky, and the lighter material is of the hit-or-miss variety, but the intensity of the movie
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Another sub-genre of film songs that I am very fond of is – for want of a better term – the relay race song. These are songs where one singer falters somewhere in the middle for whatever reason, and someone else picks up from where he/she left off and completes it. Here’s my top three
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