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Loving and Letting Go of Alicia Florrick
The Good Wife and the great partner came into my life at the same time. One got better with time, one worse.
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Ananya Birla and the Music of Mediocrity
Ananya Birla is a purveyor of “brat pop”, attempting to gain legitimacy using the resources at her disposal. It’s a principle Bollywood has worked with for decades.
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Never Go Full Tubelight
In Tubelight, Salman Khan’s Laxman believes he can actually move mountains, but all he manages to do is move the audience to yawns.
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Bad Sansa to Rule Them All
It looks like the showrunners of Game of Thrones are investing a lot of time and energy into making Sansa Stark badass, and they don’t do that without good reason.
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Why Bringing Back Ramayan During the 21-Day Lockdown is a Good Idea
Long before hipsters gathered at pubs to watch the Battle of Winterfell, millions of people came together every Sunday to watch the Battle of Lanka and the Battle of Kurukshetra. With Ramayana and Mahabharata, Doordarshan gave us sprawling epics filled with kings, queens, monsters, magic, and intrigue decades before Ned Stark ever lost his head.
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Les Misérables Review: A Searing Portrait of the Cyclical Nature of Violence in an Increasingly Divided World
Narrated as a slow-burn police procedural, Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables is a commentary on the pervasive, lingering stain of social injustice. The masterful filmmaking evokes the extent of powerlessness that the marginalised are forced to internalise.
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Can We Please Cancel No Shave November?
It’s Movember, the time of year when people on social media begin rabbiting on about moustaches. The campaign’s money-raising bit, however, is completely lost on desi hipsters.
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The Gawker-Hulk Hogan Smackdown
Why has Gawker shut down? We tell you in our main event for the evening - 1,000 words of nitro-fuelled, power-packed entertainment.
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The World According to Joker: The Dark Knight Predicted the Future a Decade Ago
Ten years ago, a movie made sense of the chaos around us. Its most astute character was not the hero Batman, but the film’s arch-villain, The Joker. When he said “The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules,” you know he was prophesying the future.
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Pokémon vs Aliens: 2016’s Cultural Milestones
Our selection of 2016’s cultural moments brings home an uncomfortable awareness of who we are and the world we live in.