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• Oscars for Best International Feature

  by malika sss August 18, 2022
  Before the cultural phenomenon Anita came along, Zero to Hero was the success story of the Hong Kong film industry last year. A biopic of Hong Kong’s Paralympic sprinter and multi-medallist So Wa-wai, the film was released right during last year’s Olympic craze and grossed almost HK$30 m...

• makes for awkward interviews

  by malika sss August 14, 2022
  “Want to make $200 in an hour?” reads the anonymous text, and Emily (Aubrey Plaza) absolutely does. On her own, in her thirties and out of options, Emily is struggling to repay $70,000 in student loans by working a punishing food-delivery job with no protections or a reliable schedule. A...

• Thomas More and official chronicl

  by malika sss August 9, 2022
  Decades of Tudor propaganda (by Sir Thomas More and official chroniclers such as Raphael Holinshed) furnished the ready-made image of a scheming “crookback” for Shakespeare’s fertile imagination a century after King Richard III’s death on Bosworth Field. Thanks to the drama t...

• B V S Ravi and directed by Vikram Kumar

  by malika sss August 8, 2022
  Thank You, with the story by B V S Ravi and directed by Vikram Kumar, rides on a one-line premise — of a successful man being compelled to reminisce his journey thus far and express his gratitude to friends and foes who have shaped his life. It is a simple, straightforward story and holds no m...

• Thomas Jefferson that even the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has

  by malika sss July 15, 2022
  Alas, the woke Left has become so successful at trashing the reputation of Thomas Jefferson that even the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has joined the misguided mob against its own namesake. Its character assassination and revisionist history must not go unanswered. A recorrection of the record is ne...