One of the joys of global streaming apps is the sheer exposure to worldwide content. With a click of a button, I can be deep in the world of emotional Korean dramas, on the battlefields of historical Turkish soap operas or spend the afternoon with familiar Bollywood fare. I love that I get to watch some new and some my decade old favorites from back when I was in India.So, if you are looking to…
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After an excruciatingly painful first half of 60 minutes, which could have been shorter or craftier, the film really kicks in. KCK is the story of Karthik (duh), a timid man, bullied around by everyone who gets much-needed help by therapeutic phone calls from himself. As bizarre as it may seem to get calls from himself, which have no existence on his phone records, he goes with the flow and trusts the caller. His life…
300 is based on the true story of the ‘Battle of Thermopylae” in which a group of a few thousand men of Sparta and Greece stood against the Persian attack of demigod Xerxes I. Read More…
I am not entirely sure how I stumbled upon Who Rules The World (WRTW) except Netflix kept pushing this up on my recommendations list. Additionally, the male lead is extremely good looking (honestly have you seen how symmetrical Yang Yang’s face is?!). Since I’ve never watched a Chinese drama before and costume period fantasy is a favorite genre of mine, I decided to give it a try. So, what’s it about? The curtain opens on…
In a fictional town somewhere in England, Mark, Danny, Pru, and Slade go playing in the woods. Mark’s 5-year-old brother, Jesse, tags along. The friends decide that he is too young to come along and ask the little boy to go home. The cherubic boy implores his brother with tear-stained eyes, but his brother walks on guiltily. Jesse runs away into the woods and never seen again. Twenty years later, a woman is found brutally…
I wouldn’t usually put the words gorgeous and zombie in a sentence together, but that is what Kingdom is. A gorgeous zombie horror drama that also doubles up as a political-period thriller. So much in just one show. What It’s About? Kingdom is set in the Joseon era, a few years after the Japanese invasions of Korea at the end of the 16th century. The countryside is struggling with poverty and famine. The king has…
“Are we there yet?” That dreaded question that parents fear the most on road trips! A question that leads to other questions – ‘How much longer? Can I watch more videos? I am bored, what do I do? ’ Let’s face it, you can’t really blame your kids for their impatience. Long road trips are hard – sitting in one position, in a small confined space with fast-flying views (which they don’t really care about)…
Revolutionary Road is not a movie that you watch for entertainment. Based during the 1950s, this story of the suburban couple April and Frank Wheeler hits you below the belt. Revolutionary Road is based on a novel by Richard Yates that did pretty well for itself on the award circuit. I saw this years ago but stumbled on it again on Netflix recently and I decided to rewatch it. The Plot April Wheeler, a desperate housewife, yearns to run…