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Annabelle, Review: Baby, Doll and the Possession
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Left Behind, Review: Vital stuff left behind
Left BehindA reboot of Left Behind: The Movie, Left Behind is an apocalyptic film, based on the New York Times’ bestselling novel, that brings biblical prophecy to life in the present day world--and on...
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What If, Review: The F Word is a Fun Watch
What IfWhat If (alternate title The F Word) is the story of medical school dropout Wallace, who's been repeatedly scarred by bad relationships. So, while everyone around him, including his room-mate...
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Stratos: Can a film about a contract killer with a dozen killings be slow and dragging? It is Greek and called Stratos, it can be; amazing faces and impeccable casting, lead character hardly speaks,...
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Festival diary, MAMI’s Mumbai Film Festival (MFF), Part I
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MAMI’s MFF, Diary, Part II: 7th IFFM
MAMI’s MFF Diary, Part II: 7th IFFM, Jan. 6-13, 2005, Mumbai, IndiaIFFM was into its 7th year when I returned from Singapore for good, and made got the first opportunity to attend the festival....
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Honeymoon, Review: Obsessed groom, possessed wife
Honeymoon, Review: Obsessed groom, possessed brideHoneymoon is a horror film directed by Leigh Janiak, and her feature film directorial debut. It...
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Ouija, Review: Oui et Ja? More like Non and Nein
Ouija, Review: Oui et Ja? More like Non and NeinIt’s a Hasbro game. Hasbro is an American company that began as Hassenfeld Brothers. It makes toys and owns...
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Fury, Review: What war does to you
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Nightcrawler, Review: Run for it!
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Gone Girl, Review: Come guys, meet the murderous, disappeared, kidnapped,...
Gone Girl, Review: Murderous, disappeared, kidnapped, psychopathIt’s not a bird, it’s not a plane, it’s not Superman; it’s a scheming, vengeful, plotting, suicidal, murderous, ‘gone’ wife.Gone Girl,...
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The Best of Me, Review: Trials and Tribulations alias Love v/s Bullets
The Best of Me, Review: Trials and Tribulations alias Love v/s BulletsAuthor-producer Nicholas Sparks is on a nine-hole course as his ninth novel is shaped into a film by William Hoffman. The Best of...
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Review, Fireflies: Time doesn't
Fireflies, Review: Only flieting meritTwo brothers, one married and a social climber, the other a drifter, are at the focus. The married brother had an old flame who reappears...
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Big Hero 6, Review: Disney Marvel in San Fransokyo
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Interstellar, Review--Gravity of the situation: Galactic Wormhole or Earthy...
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Rang Rasiya/Colours of Passion, Review: ‘Playboy’ painter and the pin-up...
Rang Rasiya/Colours of Passion, Review: ‘Playboy’ painter and the pin-up prostituteAt last, the much-talked about and mired in censorship issues, director Ketan Mehta’s Rang Rasiya/Colours of...
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Beauty and the Beast, Review: Beauty LIVES in the eyes of the beholder
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IFFI diary, Part I: Delhi's gain, IFFI's loss?
In mid October 2014, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, started calling for accreditations from media-persons. Soon after the...
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IFFI, Festival Diary, Part II
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Sulemani Keeda, Review: NOde to Fellini, Tarkovsky and out-of-the box thinking
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