On April 10th, Finding Phong film screening was hosted by University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH) Cinema Club. The film screening attracted the attention of many lecturers and students from both inside and outside the school. Continue reading “Finding Phong” film screening by USSH Cinema Club: bring new look at transgenders
Netflix’s latest portrait of teen life blends raucous sex farce with empathy for the young adult experience and is anchored by fine performances from Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson. Continue reading ‘Sex Education’
Starts off as Propitious Romantic Melodrama and Ends up as Long Fashion Show! Continue reading Silsila (1981): not the typical Bollywood
Disclaimer: This was one of my favorite films as a kid, and reviewing it as an adult, I found very little to fault it for! The Secret Garden is based on the Frances Hodgson Burnett book of the same name, with the screenplay by Caroline Thompson, who also wrote many screenplays for Tim Burton — Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Corpse Bride. The film follows Mary Lennox … Continue reading THE SECRET GARDEN (1993) – FINDING THE MAGIC IN EVERYDAY LIFE
The ‘Game of Thrones’ star has launched a charity to provide treatment for people recovering from strokes and brain injuries. Continue reading Emilia Clarke Reveals She Survived Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms
1. People who love Westerns Tierra de Lobos, roughly translated as Land of Wolves, is a western set in 19th century Spain. Antonio Lobo is a wealthy landowner who runs the town until a robbery in Portugal goes wrong. Like most westerns, there’s plenty of horseback riding, rifle shooting and swordplay. The townspeople gather at the saloon to complain about and hatch plans against Lobo’s … Continue reading The 5 types of people who are already obsessed with “Tierra de Lobos”
It’s pecs v poetry, fab abs v the gift of the gab as the new Cornish-set series goes up against Love Island for Sunday-night viewers Continue reading Poldark review – a tricky love triangle with passion, politics … and bare chests
Netflix just dropped the second part of the crime thriller ‘Money Heist’ – and it’s seriously riveting stuff Continue reading Netflix’s ‘Money Heist’ Will Steal Your Heart and Your Weekend
”Where can you find someone more handsome than me?” he asks the children, leaping onto a desktop. ”Look at the perfection of this ear!” When he waves his hands, he declares, ”They dream about these!” Mr. Benigni clowns so nimbly that he gets as far as celebrating his navel before having to beat a hasty retreat from the room. Continue reading ”Life Is Beautiful” (La Vita è bella): Giving a Human (and Humorous) Face to Rearing a Boy Under Fascism
Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs. The animating force in Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy — incarnated on screen first by Noomi Rapace and now, in David Fincher’s adaptation of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” by Rooney Mara — Lisbeth is an outlaw feminist fantasy-heroine, and also an avatar of digital antiauthoritarianism. Continue reading “THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO”: Tattooed Heroine Metes Out Slick, Punitive Violence
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