Category: reviews

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Furious 7

While I don’t think Furious 7 is the best film in the franchise because that honor probably goes to either the first or sixth film, I’d still give it an extra quarter star for how it handled Paul Walker’s exit from the franchise in an unexpected way with class.

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Dolly Ki Doli

Bunty aur Babli meets Dawaat-e-Ishq meets Runaway Bride with a flare of Queen as the Looteri Dulhan (aka. The Plundering Bride) cons men wanting to marry a young and beautiful (sometimes docile, sometimes wild) bride by stealing everything valuable they own on their wedding night.

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Elizabeth Hand – Wylding Hall

Windhollow Faire, an acid-folk group recovering from the suicide of their lead singer, spends the summer of 1972 at an old English estate called Wylding Hall. Their stay will produce both a timeless album and an eerie, enduring mystery.

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Court (Indian Film)

Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of the Indian judicial system and everything it stands for.

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Episodes – Season 4

Matt LeBlanc’s downfall continues, but it involves money now. Sean and Beverly have a new show to develop in the States. Also, we get to see a new head of the network in Helen Basch, who has past history with Merc Lapidus and Carol Rance.

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Focus (2015)

In Focus, Nicky and Jess cross paths, which leads them into a romantic relationship and Nicky leading Jess into the business of swindling and pick-pocketing, with special attention on the art of misdirection and the power of suggestion.

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Chappie (2015)

When his quest for a true free-will conscious program is over, engineer Deon Wilson secretly tests it on a police robot that’s been recently damaged on the field, resulting in the child-like Chappie.

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Kreditis Limiti

In this comedy of manners, a woman from a former bourgeois family tries to keep up appearances by relying on unsavory financial practices.

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Fresh Off the Boat – Season 1

A first generation Taiwanese-American kid Tupac fan in the mid-90s moves to Florida where his family has recently purchased their very own steakhouse to make their American dream come true.