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After 20 Years, Do We Need to Reevaluate The Matrix as a Queer Classic?

The humans in the titular matrix have no free will; their journeys are tightly scripted, shackled to the simulation’s code. The inability to narrate one’s own life story resonates heavily with queer audiences. We are Neo, all of us. The responsibility is our burden to bear and to share.

The Faunlet May 26, 2016

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Upstarts Review: A Start-up Drama that Fails to Fully Take Off

Upstarts, Netflix India’s latest offering from first time director Udai Singh Pawar, falls in the same category as shows Pitchers and movies like Rocket Singh. But while it attempts to differentiate itself by making a comment on the discrimination women entrepreneurs face, it fails to fully address the issue.

Pranay Dewani May 11, 2016

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Doctor G Review: A Breezy Watch Where the Women Shine

Doctor G is familiar Ayushmann Khurrana territory, but it is unique for the way it allows its women to shine.

Pradeep Menon May 5, 2016

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Liger Review: An Abomination that Can’t be Saved by Vijay Deverakonda’s Mass Appeal

Liger fails on almost all fronts as one giant incoherent mess of a film, that can’t even do bare clichés right, let alone suggest it has the scent of originality.

Pradeep Menon May 3, 2016

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Jurassic World and the Dawn of Dinosaur Dosti

With pet raptors and human cloning stretching believability in an already unbelievable series too far, the Jurassic Park franchise has become a badly written fan fiction version of itself, and The Fallen Kingdom is the franchise’s worst entry.

Dushyant Shekhawat April 25, 2016

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Tumhari Sulu and the Real Housewives of India

The solitary afternoon of the homemaker is a deeply interesting space. And that is what Vidya Balan’s Tumhari Sulu delves into. It’s the only time of the day most housewives acknowledge the loneliness they harbour.

Poulomi Das April 23, 2016

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Good Luck Jerry review: Janhvi Kapoor Anchors a Delightfully Airy Crime Caper

Good Luck Jerry is anchored by a career-best performance by Kapoor and though it isn’t deep or particularly inventive, the film is charming, entertaining and ludicrously simple, but in a good way.

Pradeep Menon April 19, 2016

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix Bids Goodbye to Silver Medalist of Superhero Franchises

The X-Men series wasn’t always playing catch-up to its cooler Marvel cousins. But in a post-MCU entertainment landscape, can the longest-running active superhero franchise recapture the magic of its earliest instalments?

Dushyant Shekhawat April 14, 2016

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HIT: The First Case is a Return to Form for Rajkummar Rao

Rajkummar Rao plays Vikram Jaisingh, a detective suffering from PTSD in a film that though weak in its plotting , is rescued by its performances, foremost of that by Rao.

Pradeep Menon April 13, 2016

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Rocketry: The Nambi Effect is a Middling Biopic Bar Madhavan’s Commitment

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, thanks to a committed Madhavan is one of those films that you don’t really feel like criticising too much, and yet there’s little about it that outlasts its runtime.

Pradeep Menon April 12, 2016