On December 2nd 1942, Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prize winning American-Italian physicist, announced the world’s first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in a makeshift Nuclear Reactor called the Chicago Pile – 1 (CP-1). Getting its name from Fermi’s amusing description of it as – “a crude pile of black bricks and wooden timbers”, CP-1 was…
Month: May 2019
HBO’s GOT documentary The Last Watch makes the show’s ending even more tragic | Opinion
The last ever episode of Game of Thrones aired on the 20th of May in India and we just can’t cope. After a maniacal week of discussions, dissecting the events that took place, the could-have-beens and the should-have-beens, the bones have been buried to rest for now. GOT Season 8, despite its lacunae, was undoubtedly…
Brightburn | Movie Review
A kindly couple in a rural setting, unable to bear children, take in an alien child hurtled into their lives from space. Sounds familiar? Of course it does. Because we all know what happens next. The child grows up to be a righteous paladin of the world and is christened Superman for his extraordinary strength….
‘To Let’ beautifully portrays the dramatic mundaneness of life | Review
When Jerry Seinfeld pitched his concept of televising the everyday life of a stand-up comic, revealing with glee that it would be about “nothing”, it might have sounded like the mad ravings of a lunatic. Why would people watch something that had no protagonist, no story, no purpose ? What the TV networks didn’t realise…
John Wick 3 may be the best action flick since Mad Max: Fury Road | Review
If you are wary of mindless bloodbath and fast-paced fight sequences, you are not alone. Action movie fatigue is a real thing. After the first half, you really stop caring about what anyone’s motivations really are, who is supposed to kill who, and “why is this dude still alive again?”. If you search for the…
Game of Thrones Series Round-up
In association with India Film Project
Does the GOT petition really matter ?
We are just a single episode away from the end of Game of Thrones, and yet closure is far from reach. As the buildings of King’s Landing crumbled, so did the final vestiges of the restraint that fans had been exercising since the infamous Episode 3 when the Night King and his army were decimated….
Student of the Year 2 vs Kota Factory
A black and white palette, the timorous voices of teenagers trying to adjust to the rigours of the coaching centre and a brewing friendship between three confused souls trying to make it into few of the most prestigious colleges in the world, the Indian Institute of Technology, makes up the brilliant new series from the…
The Mad Queen | GOT Season 8 Episode 5 Roundup
Since the very moment Cersei decided to sit on the Iron Throne, her fate was sealed. It was only a matter of time when she would face Dany in battle that would decide the ultimate victor, the winner of the prize everyone had been clamoring for since Season 1 – the Throne. This is when…
Detective Pikachu is not the Pokémon movie you wanted but it’s still a ton of fun | Review
Let me get this out of the way. Even though I am a 90s kid, I have never followed the Pokémon phenomenon. When the mobile phone AR game Pokémon Go was released by Niantic in 2016, I was invariably among those people who picked up their noses and judged the hordes that came out onto…
The True Heir | GOT Season 8 Episode 4 Roundup
The long night left a lot of collateral damage in its wake including two of the most misunderstood characters in the series. We lost Jorah of House Mormont and Theon of House Greyjoy, both of whom had had a tumultuous journey from hell and back, dying, finally, in a sweep of glory while fighting to…
