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Movies and Series About Losing a Loved One
If you have lost a loved one, hold on and keep living. This list of movies and series explore the theme of loss and coping with such grief.
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Movies Inspiring Academic Excellence
A great education is the surest way to a stable career and success in your life goals and ambitions. It builds a strong foundation upon...
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Wolfs Movie Review: This Snarling Wolf Doesn’t Bite at All
Wolfs is a movie about a botched murder with a great cast but a bad plot and terrible execution. You can go ahead and skip this dud.
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Carry-On Netflix Movie Review
The Netflix movie Carry-On is an average action movie released as part of Christmas-themed content with bad casting.
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The Substance Movie Review
The Substance movie is about people wanting to cling to their youth and success despite it being unnecessary and harmful to them.
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Movies that Explore the Dynamics of a Cult
Explore the dynamics of a cult by exploring the plots of these movies that delve deep into the mystery of cults.
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Brothers Prime Video Movie Review
Brothers movie on Prime Video is a fun adventure where career criminals who are family reunite for one last big score leading to hilarity.
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Jackpot! Prime Video Movie Review
Jackpot! on Prime Video is a short and sweet action comedy with a clear plotline, brilliant execution, and brilliant performances.
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Deadpool & Wolverine: Strap in For A Fun Ride
Deadpool & Wolverine is a fun movie with action-packed sequences, unlimited jokes, cameos, and team-ups. Watch it!
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Film Critique as a Writing Exercise
Film Critique as a writing exercise can enhance your perspective of movie making while enhancing your writing skills.
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F Movie Review
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is big on nostalgia and fan service but low on plot complexity, jokes, and even good execution.
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The Fall Guy Movie: A Fun Action Flick
The Fall Guy 2024 movie is a great action romedy that is worth a watch if you are looking for something light and with a happy ending.
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Hit Man Netflix Movie Review: Richard Linklater's Hilarious Dark Comedy
Hit Man Netflix Movie is a dark comedy with Glen Powell as the lead . This flick has good direction and a great cast and is worth a watch.
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Past Lives by Celine Song: A Love Letter to Her Past
Past Lives by Celine Song is a semi-autobiographical movie about her experience with a childhood sweetheart - a great watch.
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Alex Garland's Civil War: His Final Directorial Venture
Alex Garland's Civil War movie shows how the public generally is clueless about national conflicts and pays the highest price.
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Anatomy of a Fall Movie Review
I Google translated a French sentence as a message to Ariane Castellanos the lead in the Canadian French movie Richelieu only to receive...
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Knox Goes Away: Michael Keaton is not Slowing Down
I was watching The Other Guys starring Michael Keaton as a police captain before I went to watch Knox Goes Away and man, does Keaton have...
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15th Biffes 2024: Richelieu - The Temporaries
A clear example of capitalism mowing down basic human decency, Richelieu or The Temporaries highlights the plight of immigrant workers...
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My Favorite Retrofuturism Movie Genres
Retrofuturism is a vision of a future that never was from a past that has passed us by. It includes an aesthetic that blends old-school...
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15th Biffes 2024: Terrestrial Verses - Life in Iran
The first thing you'll think of when you see this title is Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Terrestrial Verses is about life in Iran and...
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Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg's Nightfall Novel
One of the best Science Fiction books I've read to date, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg's Nightfall shines an all-too-bright light on...
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Evil Does Not Exist: A Tale About Greedy Capitalism
The first few minutes of Evil Does Not Exist are brutal, to say the least - I'm not talking violence or gore here, but just dialogue-less...
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Oscar Winner 2024: American Fiction for Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction is a movie about a writer who struggling to get his work published and noticed. Hmm, wonder what that's like. Jeffrey...
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15th Biffes 2024: Yannick Directed by Quentin Dupieux
The first movie I watched at the 15th Bangalore International Film Festival ( Biffes ) 2024 was called Yannick and it was brilliant. The...
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Oscar Nominees 2024: Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon is a movie that is based on a true story and directed by legend Martin Scorsese. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio...
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Oscar Winners 2024: Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos
Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos is a masterclass in storytelling for everyone from writers and actors to directors.
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7 Scariest Movies on Netflix to Watch Right Now
Netflix, the popular streaming service, has much to offer when it comes to the horror genre. Indeed, its supernatural movie collection...
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The Marvels: An Unexpectedly Fun Ride
The very first thing you notice when you start watching The Marvels is that it isn't a glaring disappointment like most other Marvel...
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More Sci-Fi Movies I Like
In a continuing series, I discuss more sci-fi movies that I think are objectively awesome. These movies are mostly before 2000 except...
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Types of Sci-Fi Movies: Take Your Pick
Exploring the Multiverse: A Guide to Types of Sci-Fi Movies Science fiction, the genre that dares to imagine worlds beyond our own,...
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Aquaman 2: The Lost Kingdom Struggles to Find a Plot
Jason Momoa looks like he is having a ball in Aquaman 2: The Lost Kingdom, and not in a good way, while Patrick Wilson's performance...
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The Streaming Era: OTT Platforms and TV Content
We are no longer in the soap opera era where ad companies had a large say in what we watched and when. The streaming era is transforming...
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My Top 5 Favorite Sci-Fi Movies
My Top 5 Favorite Sci-Fi Movies I was going through my hard drive and found that some movies I had stored there needed a dedicated...
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Forbidden Planet: Futurism at its Best
The Original Lost in Space Series by Irwin Allen got me interested in a Robot named Robby whom I saw in one of the episodes. I had seen...
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The Ritual Horror Movie (2017) - A Halloween Must Watch
Don't you hate it when your friends leave you behind? The Ritual horror movie is one whose plot revolves around four friends who are...
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Classic Paul Verhoeven Movies To Celebrate Halloween
Paul Verhoeven is a non-conformist, satirical filmmaker who likes to make movies that make the audience sit up and take notice. His...
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SRK Jawan Movie Review: A Tale That Crumbles Under Its Own Weight
SPOILER ALERT! The review ahead might have spoilers. At the outset, let me clarify that I didn't watch Jawan's trailer before heading to...
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El Conde: A Quirky and Fun Chilean Film on Netflix
Directed by Pablo Larraín, El Conde is a quirky take on the erstwhile real-life Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet still surviving as a...
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Top 5 Movies about the Sun to Celebrate the Aditya-L1 Mission
ISRO has done it again, sending out the first Indian space-based mission to study the Sun, the Aditya-L1 mission . L1 stands for a...
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Top 10 Moon Movies With Plots Revolving around the Earth's Moon
We Indians have a lot to celebrate with the Chandrayaan 3 mission being a success. Now that we have got the world thinking about the Moon...
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Aachar & Co. Depicts the Middle-Class Family as the Comedy Lead
First it was Kanthara , then it was Raghavendra Stores, both by Hombale films, yet both films were done to perfection. Next, it was,...
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1
Caution: Mild Spoilers ahead. At this point, I can't talk to the cashier at the supermarket without hearing a mention of AI. Its saving...
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The Mission Impossible Franchise So Far
What's common between Jackie Chan, Buster Keaton, Keanu Reeves, and Tom Cruise? They all stake their lives on the movies they make, quite...
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Why Does Kantara Strike An Emotional Chord?
Kantara is a great movie by Rishab Shetty about manifest destiny, divine intervention and the eternal fight between good and evil. Watch it!
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Examples of Mindfulness and Emotional Awareness in Movies
In these days of uncertainty and negativity, we can use every ounce of focus and positivity possible. While researching health and...
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Watch Movies and Series to Learn Conversational English
Most people want to learn a language other than their native tongue, and some would love to be a polyglot - rattling off Spanish, French,...
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Marvel's Morbius Could Have Been Saved: Here's How
Marvel's Morbius is a character with a lot of depth in Marvel comics as an anti-hero torn between good and evil. Michael Morbius...
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - Nicholas Cage's Comeback?
The other day I managed to convince one of my friends to go to a screening of this Nicholas Cage movie that was weird right from the...
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Netflix Movie Review: Don't Look Up
There has never been a better time to address the gravity of climate change than right now. The seasons are not irregular, temperatures...
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The Shadow (1994) - An Underrated Movie
The Shadow 1994 was an inspiration for The Batman conceptually. It is an intense movie that is highly underrated and packs quite a punch.
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