Nostalgia is a Scam: Why We’re Addicted to Reboots, Remakes, and Retro Filters
Nostalgia isn’t harmless—it’s a billion-dollar trap. From sitcom reboots to pixel games, corporations repackage your past, charge admission, and call it “new.”
Tag: Essays
From Auteur to Algorithm: Who’s Really Directing Our Movies Now?
Who’s really directing our movies now? This interactive report explores the seismic shift in filmmaking, from the singular vision of the auteur to the data-driven directives of streaming giants.
CTRL+ALT+CANCEL: A Modern Guide to Digital Damnation – A Deeper, Satirical Examination of Moral Outrage Cycles, Social Media Mob Justice, and How Apology Videos Became a Genre
Welcome to the internet’s most dramatic stage! This satirical exposé pits “Cancel Culture” against “Consequence Culture,” unraveling the dizzying dance of online outrage, mob justice, and the bizarre evolution of the apology video into its own theatrical genre. Find out who’s really winning the digital popularity contest – and at what cost.
The Syncopated Heart of Mumbai: From New Orleans to Bollywood – The Unsung Story of Jazz in India
Delve into India’s rich jazz history, tracing its arrival in the 1930s and the influential figures like Teddy Weatherford and…
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s: Three Colours: Red (Trois Couleurs: Rouge)
The grand and majestic conclusion the Three Colours Trilogy, Red takes loosely connected lives and creates a masterful web of…
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s: Three Colours: White (Trois Couleurs: Blanc)
Considered an anti-comedy, and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s most straightforward and mainstream film, Three Colours: White, which deals with equality, is the…
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s: Three Colours: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu)
Three Colours: Blue is the first of last and finest of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski’s works, the Three Colours trilogy.…
Cinema and Eastern Culture/Identity in a Globalized World.
Such is the state of representation of eastern cultures, that while western world may admire typical aesthetics of these films,…
Film Review: L’Age d’Or (1930)
This surrealist film, directed by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, made in 1930, continues to shock, repel, scandalize cinema…
Give me “MAGIC”!
Many of us consider ‘serious cinema’ or ‘reality cinema’ as good and the commercial mainstream productions that Bollywood churns out…