Category: TV & Movies

  • Homebound shows how oppression teaches us to hate ourselves

    Homebound shows how oppression teaches us to hate ourselves

    Recently, I took myself to watch Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound, whose storyline I can describe as not only heartbreaking but also defiant, considering the current political climate of India.  Of course I had to watch this film, not because I heard good reviews, but because it is based on Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer’s NYT piece A…

  • Rape myths and other issues: A Broadchurch review

    I am a sci-fi girl. I love my Doctor Who, Westworld, Stranger Things, and a whole bunch of Marvel and other sci-fi movies. Not that I delve too deep into the ‘nerdiness’ of things though because I have no idea what really happens in the comic books. I am just guilty of enjoying the overly…

  • Sherlock finale: episode review and highlights

    *SPOILER ALERTS BELOW* “You see but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.” ~ Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia, p.3. Every Sherlock Holmes fan – of both the books and/or the TV series Sherlock has repeated this line to seem smart and intelligent in a sexy kind of way, even though he or…

  • Bring yourself back online

    Do you question your reality? Humans-from the greatest philosophers to the craziest conspiracy theorists-have always questioned and delved deep into the ‘why’ of human existence. Why indeed. This one-word question is so powerful it caused the birth of religions and several spiritual and philosophical traditions. Some have asked if we really are human beings or…

  • Of Demogorgons and the Upside-down

    Okay. Let me get this straight out of the way. I did not grow up in the ’80s. There is a long list of horror movies from that era that I have always wanted to watch – mostly because I wanted to seem relevant to my older peers. Somehow I always failed to be so.…