Do Revenge Provides an Entertaining Take on The Mayhem and Mischief of High School
Have you ever wished to utterly destroy someone who has wronged you? A former boyfriend? A bully? Have you considered ways of ruining their lives completely but refrained from really carrying them out because, well, you gotta be the bigger…
Poran: An Intoxicating Love Triangle that has Bangladesh on edge
When a filmmaker makes a movie, the question "is the movie a success?" arises. “A good movie makes you cry/ laugh/ jump out of your seats” doesn’t seem to be the norm anymore. To me, it’s a matter of fundamentalism,…
Delhi Crime Fails to Live Up to its Legacy in its Second Season
The latest season of Delhi Crime, albeit shorter than the first, is nowhere near as excellent as the first. Season 1 focused on a national issue that had caused widespread agitation in the country in 2012. The 2019 season of…
The Sandman introduces Netflix to Neil Gaiman’s world of Grand Fantasies in its First Season
The Sandman, based on the Neil Gaiman and Sam Keith comic released by DC Comics' now-defunct Vertigo brand, is one of Netflix's most anticipated graphic book adaptations this year. The Sandman world spans seven years and 75 issues, following The…
Darlings is a Dark Comedy that Touches on a Delicate, But All-Too-Real Issue for Married Women in the Sub-Continent
For the first movie released under her production company, Alia Bhatt has selected a delicate subject like domestic abuse. The activist-style film urges women to confront violence head-on rather than attempting to bargain with the scorpion, the antagonistic husband in…
Understanding the James Webb Space Telescope (and Why it’s a Breakthrough for Astronomy)
The James Webb Space Telescope is an infrared observatory orbiting the Sun about 1 million miles from Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope – also called JWST or Webb – is NASA’s largest and most powerful space science telescope so…
Jersey is a Decent Sports Drama That Goes On a Bit too Long
Last seen in Kabir Singh, Shahid Kapoor returned to the big screen with Jersey three years later. Adapted from a Telugu film of the same name that was released in 2019, the movie was written and directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri,…
The Narsingdi Railway Station Incident Shows Us Why Trying to be the Good Girl is a Dangerous Fallacy
Sure, being a girl has its perks; however, nowadays, many women think of it as a curse. Why, may you ask? Here are some examples: since childhood, we girls are told to behave 'like a lady'- don't laugh too loud,…
How I Met Your Father Gets Off to a Rocky Start Before Salvaging Itself in First Season
Everyone who watched How I Met Your Mother will know what it feels to spend nine seasons building up to the introduction of a character only to kill her off unceremoniously. Why break up everyone's favorite couple on the show…
Turning Red is a Coming-of-Age-Story about a Troubled Chinese Pre-Teen
For an extended period, we've only seen werewolves and the Incredible Hulk as colorful metaphors for mood swings and angry outbursts, which represented boys' mood swings. But what about the girls? We also have mood swings, yet nobody has ever…
