Depiction of feminism and equality in recent media is regarded as both a courageous cultural movement and an illogical attempt to use political correctness to empower what does not need…
I am pleasantly surprised that a movie made 44 years before my birth has influenced and pierced me so fully. And I guess it’s because this movie tackled the theme…
The Invisible Man is a perfectly harrowing and positively hard-to-look-away horror sci-fi, and, might I add, psychological thriller. Starring the amazing Elizabeth Moss as Cecilia Kass, this is yet another…
It is often said that in moments of one’s glory and triumph, another must suffer. I don’t really know if that’s said, but it sure does fit with my misfortune…
“Orwell as prophet” is an idea widely accepted by literary enthusiasts over the years. Now again it is highlighting itself, in a conflict too close at home. It happened in…
What can be stated to be the PG-13 version of Orwell’s 1984 has actually stood on its own grounds through the years. This is because George Orwell used something so…
Freedom Writers is a 2007 biographical drama based on the true events of an actual school teacher, Erin Gruwell, and her 150 students in Woodrow Wilson High School in Long…
Death. It’s always depicted as having many faces. But more complex than death, I think, are the dimensions before it. Death itself is finality; it is the totality of possibility…
The era of Bollywood that makes movies on Indian history and Indian history-making people, has been a bittersweet success; bitter because facing history, from whichever narrative true or false, is…
Guy Ritchie’s “The Covenant” is one of those almost classic American action war films that traverses all the conventional routes of cinematically capturing the action, emotion, and drama of a…
