Tag: cinema
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Best Films of 2025: Personal Top Picks
2025 was a beautiful year for cinema, especially for Malayalam viewers. Here are a few films that stayed with me. My top picks this year were Homebound, Train Dreams, and Feminichi Fathima. Homebound is a poetic expression of the pain and angst of the sub altern classes of India. A tale of love and companionship […]
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Babylon (2022 Film)
Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” offers a bold exploration of Hollywood’s metamorphosis in its earliest years. Weaving together the lives of film stars and production executives from the silent movie era to the age of talkies Babylon offers much to history buffs through its narration of possibly fictional events intertwined in the wild tales of creators of […]
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Life Lessons from a Father: Through Movies and Comics
I grew up watching movies with my dad. And those are the memories I hold close to me. Movies are an education on the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s an education no child should be denied along with Enid Blyton, Tarzan or Superman. Allowing him or her to grow and create his own […]
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The Stunning Cinematography of Lawrence of Arabia in the Age of Netflix
I am watching Lawrence of Arabia on YouTube on an ultra-high-definition television in my living room. As I watch the protagonist crash and die on a motorbike, I realise true cinephiles would call out this crime. The crime of watching a 70 mm epic on a digital platform and on YouTube nonetheless, home to an […]