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Inside Llewyn Davis - The Cycle of Pain and Art

31/10/2015

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by Luv Mehta
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“I’ve always found that art only comes through great inner pain.”
-another Coen character, two decades earlier

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5 Ways To Dominate The Pink Floyd Master Race

30/10/2015

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by Srijon Mukherjee
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You’ve decided. You’re a Pink Floyd fan now.

Not just any Pink Floyd fan, you're THE Pink Floyd fan.

You’ve heard or pretended to have heard, or read up on all their tracks, and now you need the world to know. Who cares if the world doesn’t really care? You’re better than all them dirtass plebs, and you need them plebs to know.

So here’s how to go about it:


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Submarine:  The Kids All Dream Of Making It, Whatever That Means

24/10/2015

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by Amrit Paul
Every man is an island, we’ve been told.

Metaphors are easy when they make sense.
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A Case Study In Space Films: Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian

23/10/2015

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by Rick Mazumdar
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Well, we as a generation are quite familiar with the genre of film. It is a potential box office money maker. Every year a new Science Fiction/Space film comes out and "blows everyone's minds".

But what is this genre that appeals to so many of us?

Is it one about exploration?

Is it about discovering new worlds?

Is it about finding a world where humans can find a new home ?
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Or is it about blowing some muthafuckin' alien brains out?

From an early age I was always intrigued about space, about space travel and one day conquering the vast unknown (yes, big dreams). 

But what is it about space that manages to intrigue us and how do big production houses capitalize upon this need? 

In this article we will talk about a select few films and try to establish what I'm what I'm trying to say. Let's just go into a little detail.

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Write Scripts, Not Novels - Analyzing Why True Detective Season Two Failed

23/10/2015

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by Luv Mehta
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Last week, we talked about the thematic complexities of True Detective's first season and why they made the show so great. With yang comes yin, however, and True Detective has unfortunately been victim to a hugely scrutinized and highly derided sophomore slump.

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While it may have been a disappointment, though, it makes for a highly interesting case study. So let's look at what worked in season two, and, of course, what went wrong.

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The Greatest Love Letter To Rock and Roll - The Boat That Rocked

17/10/2015

 
 by Srijon Mukherjee
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It’s the sixties.

​The rock ‘n’ roll revolution is just starting. The Beatles are all set to rule the world, The Rolling Stones have just started gearing up, The Kinks are already ruling parts of it, and you want to be the person broadcasting this wonderful new rage and spreading it to the rest of the world.

Only one problem. BBC, the single superpower at the time, enjoys supreme government aided monopoly, and will have none of this madness.

What do you do?

Why, set sail, and broadcast over international waters, of course!

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True Detective, And The Toxicity Of Testosterone

17/10/2015

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by Luv Mehta
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There's been a bit of a backlash against True Detective because of the recent lackluster second season (which itself deserves a whole other article), but as a result, people have started doubting whether the first season itself was worth it. Did Nic Pizzolato pull the wool over our eyes, with McConaughey's drawling, Cary Joji Fukunaga's expert direction and the tantalizing Twin Peaks-y promise of a lurking supernatural blinding us to bad dialogue and an absence of thematic focus?

Hopefully, by the end of this article, I'll be able to put those fears to rest. Not only does True Detective Season 1 (hereafter referred to as True Detective, because it's the true True Detective) have a couple of proper themes encircling the plot and the characters, one in particular (and I'm not talking about the one dealing with the constant nature of plots either) grows organically from the characters and the plot.

​Full spoilers follow.

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The Postal Service - When Poetry Met Electronic Pop

12/10/2015

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​by Amrit Paul
Did you ever find an album with songs so sterling that you don’t listen to all of them at once, just so you don’t finish it too soon?
I did.
But, it's too soon always.
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