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Continue reading →: Easy A – Fun Madonna-Whore Critique With A Literary Edge and Social Commentary
John Hughes is in fashion now-a-days isn’t he? Especially his movies. Since the directors who grew up with his movies starting from the 80s are all grown up and are making films now with homage after homage its practically spot the reference. This seems like one of the earliest homages…
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Continue reading →: Demi-Gods – Mortal Lives, Immortal Attraction
I picked up this book at my local bookstore because it caught my eye. I saw that it had won a prize and the cover was reminiscent of the 1950s, looking back at the synopsis it seemed interesting enough and so I bought it. It was a whim buy and…
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Continue reading →: Anastasia (1997) – A Journey to Past Nostalgia
We all have our favourite animated movie that isn’t Disney. This was mine as I remember watching this on TV and even remember that it was recorded on Video, then as time went on I forgot the name of this movie but I remembered what sorta happened in it (specifically…
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Continue reading →: A Foreign Affair (1948) – A Love Triangle Amongst Berlin’s Ruins
Love triangles are hard and they have to be done well, this is such a movie where it is done well, with Billy Wilder’s classic touches as well as heart. I love Billy Wider’s work, from Sunset Boulevard (1950) to Some Like it Hot (1959) and to see this early…
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Continue reading →: Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding
Royal weddings are the best! The fairy tale, the guests, the dresses, the music and everything else that makes the papers on what is to be part of royal weddings. But there is also a lot of work to make it so beautiful, from cooks to seamstresses to etiquette that…
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Continue reading →: Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte – Star Pairs Through the Decades – Part IV
‘Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte’ is a song from the 2008 Hindi film Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (A Match Made By God). The songs title means We Are Travelling The Love Lane (according to the subtitles). There Shahrukh Khan encompasses different movie stars of the decades with an ever-changing second-lead…
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Continue reading →: ELKDTAL Character Analysis – Chatro – Living for Oneself
I am doing character analysis for some of the characters of the movie Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga along with some other analysis to come. I have A LOT to talk about this film and I just want to let it all out in these posts, because a…
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Continue reading →: Beware The Slenderman
Slenderman is a fictitious creation of the internet originating from Creepypasta, an internet site where pictures are uploaded along with stories that supposedly happened in relation to that place or being shown. They range from actually horrifying to downright silly, they are urban legends created from the minds of creative…
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Continue reading →: Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart
True crime is a captivating subject for documentaries, its overused in fact, but if the subject is done well then it will never stop being fascinating. There will always be an audience for it and there will be people who exploit to it so everyone can see and hear the…
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Continue reading →: Cliché Valentine Post: Rose – By Any Other Name?
The ROSE is the Western symbol for true love, desire, the obligatory gift for finishing school, passion and whatever artists want it to be. Different Symbolism for the Rose In Different Religions Past and Present In ancient Greece the rose was considered a symbol of Aphrodite. In her…
