Tag: adventure
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27. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
*This review contains spoilers which may be skipped* Often times, filmmakers excel at one type of films and rarely venture outside of their forte. They tend to stick to a tried and tested formula which has brought them success and choose to explore nuances within the genre itself. Some of the famous examples include Alfred Hitchcock (suspense), Sergio…
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22. Interstellar (2014)
Climate change has been one of the most commonly discussed topics in the last decade or so. Despite the severe warnings of the dangers this phenomenon possesses to the very existence of humanity, the general public doesn’t seem to be very worried about it. The reason could be partly attributed to its overuse in the…
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9. The Lord Of The Rings – The Rings Of Power : Season 1 (2022)
*This review does not contain any spoilers* If you have been an ardent fan of “The Lord Of The Rings” anthology and movie series for as long as I have, I bet you can’t have enough of the mythical world created by J. R. R. Tolkein. For most of us, the books piqued our interest and fueled our imagination of Middle…
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5. Stagecoach (1939)
For most people, the Western genre is synonymous with Clint Eastwood. But before him, there was John Wayne. Over a career spanning 5 decades, John Wayne acted in some of the finest Westerns of all time – The Searchers, Rio Bravo and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. But the movie that brought him fame…
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1. The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey (2012)
This prequel to J.R.R. Tolkien’s most famous work – The Lord of the Rings – is in fact a smallish book featuring a children’s fantasy adventure – with tales of dwarves, elves, hobbits and a dragon. Tolkien started writing this book well before the LotR as a story to tell his grand-kids and this explains…
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