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Movie Review : Everything Everywhere All at Once

This is gloriously weird, and maybe just right for the ardent sci-fi fan. Continue reading

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Movie Preview : The Girl On The Train (releases February 26th, 2021)

Yes, The Girl on The Train is based on the book by Paula Hawkins, except that here, the characters are all desi. Parineeti plays Mira Kapoor, a woman who thinks she saw something out of a window of a moving … Continue reading

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Movie Review : The White Tiger (2021)

Rating : 4/5 Genre : Drama Year : 2021 Running time : 2 hours 5 minutes Director : Ramin Bahrani Cast : Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao, Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, Manish Asharya, Kamlesh Gill, Mahesh Manjrekar, Swaroop Sampat Kidwise : PG-13 The … Continue reading

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What To Watch on Netflix and Prime Video – Edition #38

– The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives (Netflix Series, 8 Episodes) Yes, I admit it. When I first started watching this series – the 1st episode that is – I almost gave up. It seemed frivolous and name-droppy, designer-spouting – … Continue reading

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What To Watch On Netflix Instant – Edition #30

Suburra (Italy, 2015) This engrossing film stars Pierfrancesco Favino, among a huge star cast. Set around a plot involving Ostia, a real estate development of a Las Vegas style town, this stylish neo-noir thriller has local mafia bosses, corrupt politicians … Continue reading

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Movie Preview : The Martian (releases October 2nd 2015)

If you are a reader of my Book Blog, “Review Room”, you already know that I LOVED “The Martian”, and that it dethroned Ender’s Game as my favorite sci-fi book of all time. Combine that with the fact that I … Continue reading

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Mission Impossible : Rogue Nation

MI:Rogue Nation is the 5th in the MI series, and you’d think that it would get hackneyed and jaded, but amazingly it doesn’t. Tom Cruise looks older of course, but he is still in fine fettle as an action hero. … Continue reading

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What To Watch On Netflix Instant – Edition #23

[amazon_link id=”B0069IZHTQ” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]- The Heir Apparent : Largo Winch (“Largo Winch”, France, 2008) If this were not in French, I could almost mistake it for a Bollywood movie, so masala-packed is this film. Billionaire Nerio Winch is … Continue reading

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What To Watch On Netflix Instant – Edition #22

[amazon_link id=”B00IIUATDM” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]- The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) Based (loosely, I assume) on Wall Street conman Jordan Belfort, this is a 3 hour long ride, featuring lots of over-the-top sexual situations and Leonardo DiCaprio in his … Continue reading

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What To Watch On Netflix Instant : Edition #21

[amazon_link id=”B00H86UD4M” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]- In a World (UK, 2013) Carol Solomon is a vocal coach who’s constantly being told by her father that she is not good enough for her chosen field, that she should leave the big … Continue reading

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