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Period drama movies are for me the most addictive kind of movies. You watch one or two period dramas on Netflix and then you only look for more options like them on your OTT. The appeal of historic recreations is unmatched in any other kind of movie. Dramatization of historic events and their romantic presentation... Continue Reading →
Leo Tolstoy’s worlds are beautiful and elaborate, and pick out on the minute details of Russian high society. More so the pretentious and elite shenanigans of the same. How he is that efficient at pin pointing the entitled details behind the elite behaviour, he alone knows. Anna Karenina is one example for the same, making... Continue Reading →
I picked a random feel good movie on the Netflix suggest list and landed on the 2011 comedy Bridesmaids. And then I looked into what the internet had to say about it because the cast was interesting and it came out at an interesting time (just about the time Hangover came out). There’s some fuss... Continue Reading →
If you are a fan of rom-coms, you always know what to expect. We can list out the traditional must-have elements of a rom-com that include a boy and a girl falling in love (well duh), a rather simple inconvenience that causes some temporary distance between them, a hearty family or a group of friends... Continue Reading →
The Tourist on Netflix is one ‘big brand’ movie where you possibly cannot ask for a better setup. With a cast like Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, with Oscar winning Director Florian Henckel Donnersmarck, an outrageous plot and an aesthetic backdrop of Paris and Venice, The Tourist actually could have been a mind-blowing blockbuster that... Continue Reading →
All that hype around 50 Shades of Grey being a sensually extreme treat has done well in expanding its audience. Fifty Shades franchise has been one of the most successful and there is no denying that the sensuality of its stories has a major role to play. Other than that, however, there are a few... Continue Reading →
There’s a natural, innate quality about some love stories – they manage to melt even the hardest of hearts. Even the ones those aren’t usually appreciative of love stories. The Notebook definitely is one such love story between Allie and Noah, portrayed beautifully by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling. It isn’t conventional, Noah literally hangs... Continue Reading →
Having established a legacy in film making, Akira Kurosawa’s final years as a film maker has been rather mysterious in terms of his cinematic products. He went beyond what was conventionally acceptable as a film during the time and made ‘Dreams’, a compendium of his own dreams depicted in illustrative ways in eight different vignettes.... Continue Reading →
When you see Jennifer Aniston on a thumbnail on Netflix, you generally click because it promises to an entertainer. She’s mostly chosen scripts that reach just beneath the surface and end up delivering in terms of entertainment. Murder Mystery on Netflix, a 2019 film, categorizes in the same list. A rather mundane couple end up... Continue Reading →
You watch Now you see me and movies like that; you come up with phrases like ‘getting back to the boring old normal life after an awesome movie’. Now you see me and Now you see me 2 are mad movies that make you believe in alternate realities that we wish might exist amidst us,... Continue Reading →
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