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Continue reading →: A New Year – A Slow Start
So, I have neglected this blog for a while. It’s just what happened when the Christmas season came, my sister came from Scotland, then it was birthday and now I am enrolled in an online history course. A lot has happened, things needed to be organised and there have been…
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Continue reading →: I saw CATS (2019) or How to completely misunderstand the source material and travel to the Uncanny Valley
I sit in my comfortable seat in my local theatre for the first showing where the tickets were available, it is a comfortable lounge style room with reclining large seats and pillows. At least I am going to see this disaster of a movie in the best seats in the…
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Continue reading →: So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India – An Intimate Honest Portrait
This is the memoir of the author and Verve magazine writer Vivek Tejuja and his experiences growing up gay in India, a country who repealed Section 377 last year- a law from the era of the British Raj – that was against gay sex of any kind, and thus the…
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Continue reading →: Othello: We too have our Othellos (2014) – Shakespeare Turned on its Head
What better way to start a venture in to regional cinema than with a bit of Shakespeare, yet not really an adaptation of one the Bard’s plays, but rather a mix of all of them in a flowing narrative. Summary: Three characters come together as they come in and out…
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Continue reading →: The Great God Pan – A Short Horror Classic
A short horror book review for Halloween! And what better way to start it then with a not well known Halloween classic! I mean, it’s called the scariest horror story written by Stephen King himself. And it sure is that, I just wished it was written in modern prose instead…
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Continue reading →: Latcho Drom (1993) – A Musical Journey of the Romani People
The title means Safe Journey in Romani. And this film is a journey with no other plot than the show of travel of who would become the Roma from Northern India to Spain. There is dialogue and sentences in the language of the real Roma speaking in their respective countries…
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Continue reading →: Loving Vincent (2017) – A Masterpiece of Both Art and Cinema
A big statement for a film that might be too, dare I say, Art House for some, even if it is an Independent Film. Which is now on Netflix and I can’t recommend it enough. Mind you, this review ended being more personal than I intended, but I will keep…
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Continue reading →: Cupid and Psyche: A Play in Blank Verse (2009) – How I love Thee, Tale as Old as Time
Now this one was a discovery I am ever so thankful for! A search for something mythological, with the addition of one of the oldest tales ever told, told anew in this play that is so exquisitely made with such prose (Blank verse for those who don’t know) that it…
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