The Gorilla's Lament
Thumbs all opposed and nowhere to go.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
A shaggy fish story.
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You might think that Maara (2021) is a movie about finding love, or the strength of a found family, or learning from the past in order to f...
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Ten hours of plot in a two hour movie.
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Bada Dil Wala (1983) is the story of Amrit (Rishi Kapoor), a kind and trusting hotel singer, who is sent to prison for a crime he did not c...
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Lemony Snicket's "A Fistful of Dollars."
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Avane Srimannarayana (2019) starts with a murder. Bandit leader Rama Rama (Madhusudhan Rao) has captured a band of traveling religious pag...
Saturday, January 9, 2021
I am slapsticked out.
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I like to watch a wide range of Bollywood and related cinema, but I have to admit that the nineties and early oughts are really my era. I l...
Saturday, January 2, 2021
Charlie's Shiny New Year
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If 2020 has taught me anything, it's that life is a lot like Bollywood: the genre can change completely, right when you least expect it....
Saturday, December 26, 2020
John Woo presents Jane Austen's 'Persuasion'
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If you're looking for a Bollywood Christmas movie, pickings are decidedly slim. There's Bada Din , which is fantastic and which I ...
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Actors never stay in the jeep.
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Sometimes you can just look at a character in a movie and see that they're doomed. In Main Khiladi Tu Anari (1994), that character is...
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