Revelations of a hedonistic week

A fair amount of movies suffer from the ''realisation syndrome'', where the book is far superior to the movie. Alexander Pickett, who wrote the screenplay for t...read more

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Reminiscences of a native son

''Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with...read more

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Ein Volk. Ein Reich. Ein Fuhrer. Ein News Channel

''Making Joe Goebbels proud'' was the title of my friend's paper for his journalism class. No, it does not deal with the extremely efficient propaganda machine ...read more

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A casualty of the ideology war

A lot of material both political and moral has been said and written about that day in the year 2001 when a few jetliners irreversibly acquainted themselves wit...read more

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Songs which redefined Cacophony

Having initiated and participated in various arguments about that genre of music called rock, I have a very opinionated list of what songs can ruin my day. I ha...read more

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Trans-religious soul stirrings among the ruins

''Mr. & Mrs. Iyer'' is a movie made by Aparna Sen, featuring Rahul Bose, Konkana Sen among others. Having been suckered by my friend into watching a supposedly ...read more

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A perspective on the vast right wing conspiracy

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a documentary by Michael Moore, who's previous documentaries include the very successful ''Bowling for Columbine'', ''Roger and Me'' along wi...read more

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The romance of illegality

''Green Card Fever'' is a movie made by Bala Rajashekaruni starring Vikram Dasu, Purva Bedi, Deep Katdare among others. What does an expatriate do when he/she i...read more

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India's very own Sears catalog

Before I write a review I would like to apologize to all fans of the magazine for being such a classless representative of the oppressive sex who has nothing bu...read more

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How I decided to dumb down and vote for Bush

A ritual that I follow every morning is to open up my Hotmail account. Invariably when I sign out of the account I am dutifully forwarded to the MSN homepage. T...read more

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The Church with no bells

Breaking the waves is a movie by the Danish director Lars Von Trier. It is his first English movie after making several very successful and thought-provoking fi...read more

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Insipid adaptation of the Illiad

Troy, is a movie based on the epic, The Illiad by Homer, a Greek poet. It tells the story of the Trojan war, fought between the Trojans led by Hector and the Gr...read more

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007 with silver bullets and wooden stakes

Van Helsing is a movie made by the creator of the ''The Mummy'' series, Stephen Sommers. It stars Hugh Jackman as Van Helsing, Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious...read more

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Beauties of today

Hi people. Being my first review on this website, I want to choose a beautiful topic. Could there possible be anything better than this??? ---------------------...read more

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Cryptography for Dummies...

Dan Brown, the author of the acclaimed ''The Da Vinci code'' has written another book of the same quality ''Digital Fortress''. Neither of them are superlative ...read more

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Microsoft's vision or lack of it

Microsoft Longhorn.... the next big thing touted by Microsoft as the OS to end all OSes. The hype about this operating system has been so much of late that I wa...read more

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Musings of a celluloid junkie

The spectre of the top 10 lists haunts me again. It is heart-wrenching to leave some unparalleled movies out, for to be eclectic with the works of genius is to ...read more

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Reflections on Death

I've heard a Zen philosophical statement saying ''All of life is a preparation for death''. Although I don't want to subscribe to the pessimistic nature of that...read more

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Songs I would play before Ragnarok

It's a very difficult choice to make for me, to pick twenty songs because it's like making a list of the most beautiful things in life(ever wonder why beauty co...read more

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Of a macabre murder, a choir boy and an attorney

The movie ''Primal Fear'' is based on the book by William Diehl. Gregory Hoblit directs this movie with screen play by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman. The cast f...read more

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