Category Archives: pop culture
The Hunger Games
Jennifer Lawrence is brilliant. The movie is not. Oh, it’s fine if you need a big screen and comfy seats to rest in for 2.5 hours(!), but it will likely disappoint many hard-core fans.The fact that my seats were 10 … Continue reading
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The book is excellent and so is the movie, which glosses over the very small parts where John le Carre bemoans (through his characters, principally his villain, thereby never actually betraying the thought incontrovertibly as his own) the passing of … Continue reading
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Flash Reviews
Limitless: Never watch this film sober. Not because it’s a bad film, but because a certain level of disorientation greatly enhances your ability to appreciate the basic premise of this movie (Bradley Cooper gets hold of a “super-intelligence” drug that … Continue reading
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In defence of Chetan Bhagat
So the man isn’t really a good writer, all right? I mean, he can string sentences together in a perfectly competent manner, but you would never read a passage from his books and think it came from Rushdie or Roy, … Continue reading
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Black Swan, abridged.
Black Swan: The Abridged Script VINCENT CASSEL Natalie, you are perfect as the White Swan, but terrible as the Black Swan! Meanwhile, Mila Kunis is the ideal Black Swan, but she’s no White Swan! If only there were any way … Continue reading
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Totally True
Ten catch phrases you swore you’d never use (and when you used them) 1. “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” What it’s from: Princess Bride When you say it: Twenty minutes after you … Continue reading
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Manhattan
…past midnight on the coldest night in November. This is the main component of my hostel’s entry to the inter-hostel (lit-soc) creative writing contest here in college, written by Slicer and me. For the full pdf with all the frills … Continue reading
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Disillusioned with Discworld
I just don’t like Granny Weatherwax that much as a main character. She is, first of all, a leader who does not know how to lead. For someone who is described in the text several times as someone who has … Continue reading
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Mad Men
I’m watching the pilot of Mad Men as I write this and all I can think is…yes, he’s ruggedly handsome, and yes, he has a way with words, but god, Don Draper’s a bit of an idiot. He pointlessly takes … Continue reading
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