When Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen teamed up for The Good Liar, their first movie together, I was waiting with bated breath to witness this rare cornucopia of talent on the screen. When you put such power-packed artists together in a frame, the result is going to be explosive without a doubt. Then, I watchedContinue reading “‘The Good Liar’, on Amazon Prime Video, isn’t as explosive as its stellar cast”
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 has a minimalist background score that intensifies in just the right scenes
The 2020 film The Trial of the Chicago 7 (director: Aaron Sorkin), available on Netflix, is making headlines and sweeping nominations and awards galore, most recently receiving a nod from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in as many as six categories. None of these categories, however, recognizes the brilliant scoring provided byContinue reading “The Trial of the Chicago 7 has a minimalist background score that intensifies in just the right scenes”
The Perils of Hollywood Depictions of Mental Health
Countless films in Hollywood and across the world – some of them quite acclaimed – have woven stories around one or the other mental health problem. From depression to schizophrenia, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, obsessive compulsive disorder, amnesia and autism, Hollywood has hardly left any mental illness untapped. The problem with many of these films isContinue reading “The Perils of Hollywood Depictions of Mental Health”
The Roaring Kotzilla 