Long Day’s Journey: The best short films have to fill in the few minutes of their run time with either charming simplicity or a complexity that leaves the viewer affected…
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Secrets & Lies: Karin Slaughter’s bestselling novel, Pieces Of Her, has quite a few familiar thriller elements—a person’s past suddenly springing up and unending the present; a feckless young women, coasting through life,…
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As Russia invades Ukraine and the world is on the brink of another major war, what could be a worse manifestation of patriarchy than the killing of innocents. Still, popular…
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Classic Forever: The 1957 stage musical, West Side Story, was made into a much-lauded, much-awarded film by Robert Wise in 1961. It was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet, set in…
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Murder, He Wrote: The publishing industry is going through tough times, and Anthony Horowitz’s novel Magpie Murders captures the end of that glorious era, when writers of bestselling whodunits could make millions…
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When the cops finally caught up with the conman, Ramesh Kumar Swain, who had married and defrauded 27 women across the country, they were surprised by his ordinary appearance—he is…
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Gotta Gun: The title of Behzad Khambata’s A Thursday is obviously a hat-tip to the sleeper hit A Wednesday (2008– Neeraj Pandey) in which an angry citizen takes it upon himself to slap the…
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The list of Best Actress nominees for the 2022 Academy Awards were announced, and it is an eclectic bunch of characters and performers vying for the coveted Oscar statuette. It…
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One Of A Kind: Jack Reacher is a fascinating character, created by Lee Child, who wrote about 26 novels starring the six-foot five giant of a man, ex army intelligence,…
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Science To Go: The timing of this web series could not have been better. Rocket Boys, comes at a time when the country seems to be regressing into memories of a…