Ask someone who has seen The Queen’s Gambit and the reply will include chess, addiction and style. Released on Netflix late in October 2020, it also has included some striking records- within a few weeks it has become the most-viewed… Continue Reading
Gabbeh or a magic carpet in the oriental imagination is the traveller’s joy, the means to navigating the far and unknown. In Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s film released in 1996, it is a Gabbeh that an old couple stumble across, floating on… Continue Reading
In Roger Ebert’s review of Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (2012), the storied film critic seems beleaguered in even attempting to pan the film. “I can’t keep this up” notes Ebert in his final paragraph, “Describing the movie is… Continue Reading
Throughout the last three seasons of The Crown, the acclaimed Netflix show has managed to portray the British Monarchy with clear-headed proximity and consciousness. The latest 10 episode season continues its dramatisation of the Queen Elizabeth II, taking off from… Continue Reading
When Kim Ki-duk made his films, he envisioned life in its most abrasive sensations, humans at their most vulnerable- a world weighed down by inexplicable complexities and an explicable isolation, the profundity of which, though colossally dramatic, is never exaggerated.… Continue Reading
Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, the Spanish horror, ‘The Platform‘ (2019), serves as an act of symbolism, foregrounding the unjust class system through an extended metaphor which I personally think is presented throughout the film. From the outset, Goreng, played by… Continue Reading
Czech New Wave was a film movement in Czechoslovakia of films made in Czech and Slovak languages. The movement began in the beginning of 1960’s and ended officially after the Prague Spring of 1968, though films which shared the themes,… Continue Reading
With the new digital freedom, the Indian audience gets to present to the smart on hand anytime dose of entertainment. While Steaming leaders like Netflix and Amazon present and created a great buzz around the web-series format with sacred games… Continue Reading
One of the elements of the cinema is bringing out the story that we are not aware of; not only it takes us to the mindset of that story but also gives us needed insight into it; the recently released… Continue Reading
Cinema is one of the most effective mediums that can engage and at the same time, make one understand the subject you’re unaware of or uninterested. Especially story that centers around a character study of real or fictional characters. One… Continue Reading