Movie with Shane: Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is a pass time and will pass through timeContinue Reading
Pedong Express pens her run with Roshni
C.M. Paul Darjeeling – From the Mountain to the Ocean – Run with Roshni is Roshni Rai’s inspiring story, about how she started running marathons and about her 2012 project ‘Run with Roshni’ to support underprivileged but very talented young Gorkha Runners from Darjeeling to run marathons in different cities ofContinue Reading
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Shane J Alliew Running at 133 minutes, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them in a prequel to the Harry Potter Series; directed by David Yates based on J K Rowling’s book of the same name. Incidentally Rowling is also the producer of the film marking her screenwriting debut too.Continue Reading
Movie with Shane: Dangal
Dangal is no mean treat; it’s perfection personified and an enormous kick to women empowermentContinue Reading
Doctor Strange
Shane J. Alliew The one vital question you may ask yourself at the end of 115 minutes of Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange is whether one likes Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange or would you rather like him more as Sherlock (BBC Series). The verdict is split; my favourite beingContinue Reading
AR Rahman weaves magic again for OK Jaanu
Shaad Ali’s ‘OK Jaanu’ is an intense romance drama and AR Rahman‘s score for it is just that — romantic and dramatic. The film is a remake of the Tamil hit ‘O Kadhal Kanmani’, and the composer has reused some of the tunes from the original for this one. TheContinue Reading
The Dressmaker
Shane J. Alliew “Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d,” William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (Act III Scene 2). Sometimes I am tempted to compare popular Bollywood so-called feminist based cinema to films like The Dressmaker; yet I refrain fromContinue Reading
Movie with Shane: Inferno
Shane J. Alliew Post Angels and Demons, Dan Brown churning out similar thrillers, not only for the sake of bestselling but also, most importantly the multi-million dollar film translation, comes as no surprise with Inferno. The Three Investigators, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys hooked teenagers and Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks)Continue Reading
This One’s for You
By: C.M. Paul “What are we without stories? What are we without aspirations? Without stories, it’s a life spent to attend its vague purpose. My purpose in life was to speak. I knew I wasn’t good in literature still I had many thoughts; many stories to tell but had noContinue Reading