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…
Movies & TV
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Holidays are time to catch up on the classics, whether it’s re-watching Christmassy movies like Home Alone for the 100th time or finally watching that Oscar-winning film from decades ago. Considering that a remake of The Color Purple is anticipated for 2023, we thought it was a good time to catch up on the original, famous movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. Now before we talk about the movie, a refresher that The Color Purple is an award winning novel which…
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Once upon a time there was a girl in Iran and Persepolis is her story. Based on the autobiography of Marjane Satrapi, this quirky animated movie is about the coming of age of young Iranian girl amidst the volatile political climate of the country in 70s and 80s. Plot Summary In 1979, at the start of the Iranian revolution, Marjane was living with her parents in in Tehran. Her grandfather was in prison for being a communist and unsupportive…
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This 2008 BBC production gives its own unique twist to the legend of Arthur and Merlin; but the tale of Arthur and his knights has always been mired in myth, and so we really can’t hold it against this show. The Concept of ‘Merlin’ In this interpretation of the story, Arthur’s father, Uther Pendragon(played by the excellent Anthony Head) is alive and kicking, as the King of Camelot. He is a stern and a wise…
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The pandemic has forced us all indoors, and the best way to avoid the piling house work is to curl up in front of the television. We are surely spoilt for content, and sometimes it is hard to pick up what to watch from the new releases every week. Sometimes it’s easier to just re-watch an old classic. The 1957 movie adaptation of Agatha Christie’s short story “Witness for the Prosecution” ends with the following…
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Sidewalls (Medianaras) is a quirky indie Argentinian movie that explores the explosive and divisive nature of today’s metropolises on our lifestyles. Directed by Gustavo Toretto, the film uses Buenos Aires, as the setting of the general delineation of the human culture. At the center of the movie are two millennials, Marian, an architect and Martin, a web designer, leading lonely lives in the megapolis. It is through their eyes we see the beauty of the architecture…
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‘Planet of the Apes’ is often considered to be one of the top films of all time and with good reason. Plot Summary The plot, in brief, is that somewhere in our distant future, a spaceship with three passengers lands on an unknown planet. The human inhabitants of this planet are not as sophisticated as their distant genealogical cousins from the spaceship: on this world, the apes have evolved to be the more intelligent race,…
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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…
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