Leading or Misleading?
There are these characters we see all the time in movies - they aren't the protagonists, nor the second-level characters. They [...]
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10, 2015
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07, 2015
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12, 2014
House in India
I was talking to another House M.D. follower recently. (Note that we're his followers and not fans. Calling us House's fans [...]
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10, 2014
The Kutners and others who are forced into suicide
Lawrence Kutner is dead. Long live Lawrence Kutner.Though it happened over five years ago in the U.S, the news reached [...]
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07, 2014
Things Hollywood tells us about America
(Forgive us, America. Hollywood is to blame.)Men help with the dishes after dinner.If you see trainloads of Indian women flocking to [...]
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05, 2014
Apocalypse and Monsters
And thus Godzilla saved the world.Then it (he?) got up, ignored the crowd of bipeds who were firing at it [...]
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01, 2014
9 Things I Learned from Movies This Week
1. The hero's / heroine's parents always die when he/she is around ten years old, in a car accident. (The [...]
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01, 2014
“And so it goes with God.”
Except for the fact that Irrfan, when he speaks these words, looks profoundly enigmatic and proud, like a man who [...]
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06, 2013
Damsels in Distress
Why are all the women in our movies projected as damsels in distress whereas the men get to be superheroes?The [...]
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03, 2013
Mentor
There was this Russian movie I watched about a million years ago. That was the time the Indo-Soviet collaboration was [...]