Beef, the latest series on Netflix, created by Lee Sung Jin, is a dark comedy that tells the story of a feud between two characters, Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) and Amy Lau (Ali Wong). The two protagonists first meet while navigating the parking lot of a Lowe’s-like home improvement store, where they both react in the same explosive manner to a minor spat over exiting a parking spot, leading them on a chase across the suburban San Fernando Valley, then through 10 episodes of increasingly out-of-hand emotional warfare ..read more

“The White Lotus” is a darkly humorous and thought-provoking series that explores the lives of guests and staff at a luxurious Hawaiian resort. The show is a masterclass in nuanced storytelling, weaving together themes of privilege, power, and the human condition to create a deeply compelling narrative. Season 1 of the show introduces us to a group of guests staying at the White Lotus resort, each with their own secrets, desires, and personal demons ..read more

It’s said that animation is something that creates a link between the reality and your imagination. Many of us love watching animated movies irrespective of our age, but have you ever thought that these animated flicks carry profound meanings. Yes, whether its Cinderella or Cars, Lion king or Frozen, every movie had a deeper meaning which you may or may not have realized ..read more

‘Audition’ by Takashi Miike, ‘Kaun’ by Ram Gopal Verma and ‘Ek Hasina Thi’ by Sriram Raghavan are the pioneers of introducing a feminist twist in psychological thrillers. In these films the female protagonists are introduced as naïve, innocent and submissive. They pay the price for it until the roles are reversed as the story continues. The dark or grey shade of the main character is revealed as a twist that changes the power dynamics between the oppressor and the oppressed ..read more

There is a famous quote in Abbas Kiarostami’s film ‘The taste of cherry’ where the main character justifies that he wants to end his life and why the latter cannot understand his misery because he has not gone through the similar life experience as him: “It is not because you don’t understand but you can’t feel what I feel’, you comprehend my pain but you can’t feel it, you suffer and so do I, I understand you.” Short Term 12 ignites an intimate and emotional understanding among individuals who have gone through similar kind of life experiences through an understated realism ..read more

Shoplifters is a film about unique human connections. If poverty affects humanity? What is a family? Does giving birth automatically makes one a mother? Shoplifters break these barriers created by society and embraces it with connections made from love and empathy. Hirokazu films are trademarked for exploring unconventional family bonding of complex people. His previous films like Our little sister, nobody knows and Like father, like son have explored the similar topic of human connections beyond blood relation ..read more

Bollywood is a place for the Hopefuls. There’s always a happy ending and everything falls into place by the end of the film, and we all know that if it doesn’t toh vo the end nahi, picture abhi baki hai mere dost! Hence, whenever people want to watch something that would make them feel optimistic about life, they could always turn to a nice Bollywood movie. And what’s better than a feel-good Bollywood movie with a happy ending, you ask ..read more

The indie director who keeps a prolonged human connect with her protagonists as they excur on a road of self-discovery. Moselle uses diverse mediums for storytelling from a documentary, short film, a full-length feature film to TV series. Her non-fiction or semi-fictional work line mainly focuses on real-life individuals who share unique idiosyncrasies as they thrive in a metro subculture, tribe, or family packs in the bustling streets of New York. The Wolfpack Her award-winning documentary ‘The Wolfpack’ portrays the personal journey of six likable siblings who were cut off from the outside ..read more

The wind will carry us is a 1999 Persian drama directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It is a visual meditation on the depths of life and death portrayed through a simple plot. Kiarostami emphasizes the beauty of mundanity in a primitive lifestyle. The film starts with the end of the journey of its protagonist as he reaches his destination (a Kurdish village alien to the complexities of modern life). The filmmaker came to the place with his unseen companions to capture a death ritual ..read more

Mommy is a coming-of-age French Canadian movie directed by Xavier Dolan. This film makes emotions appear aesthetic by framing the film in a 1:1 frame. The emotions look more dominant and the subject more human in the square frame. The screen widens eventually in happier moments as the characters are healing in the company of each other. Diane is a widowed single mother struggling to tackle her newly released ADHD son. She is hoping for a better future and life for her son ..read more