Tag: based on a book
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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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24. The Irishman (2019)
There is as much passion amongst fans about the sports they follow as there is about the movies they watch. As someone who follows both, I sit at the intersection of these two fan bases. Although the level of love for your favorite sportsperson or artist may be the same, there are a few differences.…
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14. Beasts Of No Nation (2015)
*This review contains mild spoilers and description of violence* The two decades following the World War II saw the release of several war movies that are now considered classics. The Guns Of Navarone (1961), The Great Escape (1963), The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Where Eagles Dare (1968) are a few examples where the underlying theme celebrates the heroic acts of…
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12. Out Of The Past (1947)
When you think of ‘Film Noir’, you think of classics such as ‘The Third Man‘, ‘Double Indemnity‘, or more recent ones (neo-noir) like ‘Chinatown‘. Big names like Orson Welles (‘The Lady from Shanghai‘, ‘The Third Man’, ‘Touch of Evil‘)and Humphry Bogart (‘The Big Sleep‘, ‘The Maltese Falcon‘, ‘Dark Passage‘) symbolize the golden era of ‘film…
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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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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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