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Lives of the Others

The growing popularity of movies about demonic possession, ever since The Exorcist, has firmly planted this genre as one of the most significant within the horror cannon. And in light of the release of the new horror film Possession, a Jewish take

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Cinema Spellbound

The film series based on J. K. Rowling’s award-winning novels that have appealed to both adults and children; consist of eight fantasy films, starting with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) and ending with the finale in 2011, putting this

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Being Nora

“Do not go gentle into that good night… Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” These iconic words of Dylan Thomas come to mind with the passing away of iconic figure, Nora Ephron on June 26, 2012. She effortlessly

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Who’s the fairest of them all?

Hollywood’s latest offering from the fantasy film genre, Snow White & the Huntsman, makes it clear that filmmakers and producers have, of late, been extremely mesmerized by the power of fairy tales as their source of inspiration. This 2012 British-American film, based on

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The Anderson Limited

In the late 1990s, Wes Anderson achieved what most young filmmakers only dream of: he proved that he could work within a rigid studio system like Hollywood and still be able to create distinctive, quirky films with an independent sensibility that

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Fatal, Predestined, Precognisable

The Final Destination horror film series has turned FDFs (Final Destination Fans) like me, into paranoid freaks; obsessively staring at wobbly ceiling fans and peering into every nook and cranny, for lurking danger. Some people might judge me for getting

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Speed+Fury

Check this dialogue sequence out: Girl: Are you one of those boys who prefers cars to women? Vin Diesel: I appreciate a good body regardless of the make. ……… Girl: What do you look for in a woman? Vin Diesel:

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The Girl with the dragon tattoo- How Fincher delivered again

The “feel-bad movie of the season” – that’s how one of the early trailers accurately advertised the movie: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Hollywood director David Fincher’s finely honed drama-thriller adaptation of the award-winning crime novel by Stieg Larsson.

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The Adventures of Tintin: The secret of the Unicorn

The Tintin comic books created by Herge (Belgian artist Georges Remi) has more than 350 million copies of the books sold to date, and has been translated in more than ninety nine languages. Who better than Steven Spielberg, to create