The Gorilla's Lament

Thumbs all opposed and nowhere to go.

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Count the snakes.

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 Monica, O My Darling (2022) begins as it means to go on, with murder.  Factory worker Dev (Shiv Chauhan) barely has time to announce his e...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Fool me once . . .

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 Avatara Purusha 2 (2024) begins as the previous movie ended, with a magical battle re-imagined as a martial arts duel lifted straight from ...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Passing the torch.

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 Deewana (1992) isn't a romantic comedy, it's a romantic drama, a grand sweeping tale of love and tragedy starring veteran actor an...
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Saturday, June 8, 2024

One ring to rule them all.

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 Despite the title, Jab Harry Met Sejal (2017) has nothing to do with When Harry Met Sally .  If anything, it owes a debt to It Happened On...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Evil Vampire Jumanji

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The board game Ludo is a "cross and circle" game, one of the many variants of the ancient Indian game of Pachisi; probably the mos...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Lootere

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  Lootere (1993) was one of three movies starring Juhi Chawla and Sunny Deol that came out in 1993.  The most famous of these movies was Da...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

Wrestling with love.

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 Sword and sandals movies, also known as the peplum genre, were big in Italian cinema in the early Sixties.  It's a very simple formula:...
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